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Addy Crezee

Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief at thehype. Addy is a serial entrepreneur building products and communities since 2014. In 2024, he founded /function1, one of the largest AI conferences in the world, scaling from 0 to 10k attendees in its first year.

ARTICLES BY Addy Crezee

Factory press stamps an "OPUS" box on a conveyor belt of price-tagged crates with "CN" graffiti, neon-lit industrial scene

openrouter is basically chinese now. 9 of the top 10 models by token volume

Addy Crezee 27 Jul 2026 1 min read

Suited executive handing a key to a glowing holographic figure across a neon-lit desk with financial charts

5 rounds, 5 layers of the agent stack: payments to the ai ceo seat

Addy Crezee 26 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustrated developers holding books, diagrams, and tablets near a neon Harness Layer sign with graffiti

ai-agent-book pulls 17k stars in a week – the harness layer keeps eating github trending

Addy Crezee 25 Jul 2026 1 min read

Comic-style man holding a giant hourglass marked JUL 21 draining glowing tokens, symbolizing a free AI model promo ending.

chinese models own openrouter's top 5. two are free – one promo ends today

Addy Crezee 21 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustration of an F1 driver in red racing suit beside a robotic arm in a garage, on ex-red bull engineer funding factory robots

a red bull racing engineer quit formula 1 to teach factory robots how to do human jobs. this week he raised the largest seed round germany has ever seen

Addy Crezee 21 Jul 2026 1 min read

Comic illustration of a relaxed trader leaning back as a small robot types on his keyboard, green buy charts glowing behind him

top 5 github repos by weekly star growth:

Addy Crezee 17 Jul 2026 1 min read

Muscular OpenAI runner grips a green keypad at a graffiti track start line, outpacing Meta and rival lab sprinters.

openai codex micro keypad breakdown

Addy Crezee 16 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustrated turbine engine emitting energy spirals above four old monitors showing error and retry screens

hy3 vs mimo-v2.5 vs deepseek v4 flash vs minimax m3

Addy Crezee 15 Jul 2026 2 min read

Illustration of a server in uniform serving silver cloches labeled Free and $0.07 to a crowd of developers

tencent opensourced hy3 a week ago. it already has more tokens routed than any other model on openrouter

Addy Crezee 13 Jul 2026 1 min read

Butler presenting silver platters with tech gadgets and a $2.255B price tag in neon-lit room

meta and snap put cameras on smart glasses. this week $150m went to the version without one.

Addy Crezee 12 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustrated figure holding a glowing GitHub gem surrounded by golden stars in a dark server room

top 5 github repos by weekly star growth: agents get meetings, pentesting, and office suites

Addy Crezee 11 Jul 2026 1 min read

xAI worker in jumpsuit between neon bedroom and kitchen blueprints, messy garage with dead code newspapers

grok 4.5 vs fable 5 vs gpt 5.5 vs glm 5.2

Addy Crezee 9 Jul 2026 2 min read

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