AUTHOR

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

Comic sprinters in colored suits race while a crouching mechanic in "hy3" coveralls holds a cable — an ai coding-model race.

hy3 vs fable 5 vs opus 4.8 vs sonnet 5

Addy Crezee 7 Jul 2026 2 min read

alibaba restricted its employees from using anthropic's claude code and all claude models

Addy Crezee 5 Jul 2026 1 min read

Comic-style man reviewing printed art samples fading from detailed to blurry, bar chart showing #2 on screen behind him

reve 2.0 ranks #2 but can't match nano banana or mai on real prompts

Addy Crezee 3 Jul 2026 1 min read

Boxing ring illustration with a large fighter punching a smaller fighter labeled Lite, with Speed up and Quality down signs

nano banana 2 lite vs nano banana 2 vs gpt image 2 vs mai image 2.5

Addy Crezee 2 Jul 2026 1 min read

Comic-style man in purple suit shaking hands with glowing holographic figures over a contract at a neon-lit desk

product hunt june 2026: agents are the new end user

Addy Crezee 30 Jun 2026 1 min read

Auctioneer with gavel presents metallic owl on pedestal in neon-lit auction hall with #4 display and OpenRouter graffiti

meituan's stealth model exposed: longcat vs qwen in 3 coding tasks

Addy Crezee 29 Jun 2026 1 min read

Gloved hands open a metal container under surgical light, revealing tangled wires with terminal, browser, and phone screens

qwen-agentworld: fake environments built real agent skills

Addy Crezee 25 Jun 2026 2 min read

Conductor wielding baton over holographic code screens in an empty grand theater, illustrating AI model orchestration

we tested sakana fugu: 4 builds, zero retries, one prompt each

Addy Crezee 23 Jun 2026 1 min read

Scale with glowing 127 diamond outweighing servers and cash, symbolizing z.ai's small team vs Google's resources

z ai with 127 employees surpassed google on agent arena

Addy Crezee 20 Jun 2026 1 min read

openai's 7 pre-ipo hires reveal the company it's building

Addy Crezee 19 Jun 2026 1 min read

Comic-style man holding a balance scale with glowing crystals labeled GLM, Minimax, and Moonshot against a purple backdrop

glm 5.2 beats opus 4.8 as chinese labs sweep hugging face

Addy Crezee 18 Jun 2026 1 min read

Illustration of a man signing contracts under a spotlight as silhouetted figures queue behind him in a dark corridor

deepseek raised $7.4b – investors got no votes, only the state did

Addy Crezee 17 Jun 2026 1 min read

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