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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

Illustrated man pointing at a stocks app on a glowing screen with notebook in hand, representing autonomous AI coding agents

qwen drops 3.7 plus – the model that reproduces apps on its own

Addy Crezee 2 Jun 2026 2 min read

Man shocking a CRT monitor with defibrillator paddles in a dark room, sparks flying, illustrating stalled open-weight coding

5 releases, +0.3%: open-weight coding hit a wall

Addy Crezee 1 Jun 2026 2 min read

Robot holding glowing #1 chip above its head under spotlight in graffiti-covered arena, representing HiDream's top ranking

hidream: 8b parameters, no vae, #1 open-weight image model

Addy Crezee 1 Jun 2026 2 min read

Illustrated man in suit touches holographic $10B screen with file icon in dark boardroom, referencing Stepfun's IPO strategy

stepfun's flash model is a pre-ipo move, not a product launch

Addy Crezee 29 May 2026 2 min read

Google-shirted figure hands documents to a suited Apple executive at a Cloud Down counter in a dark corridor

apple is using google's gemini to distill a smaller model that runs locally on your iphone

Addy Crezee 28 May 2026 1 min read

Two suited men hold a $0.00 invoice under a hanging lamp in a graffiti-walled room, illustrating AI API price war

xiaomi follows deepseek's playbook: mimo-v2.5-pro api now matches deepseek-v4-pro pricing to the cent

Addy Crezee 27 May 2026 1 min read

Illustrated man in suit probing glowing API and NAV circuits under a car hood with purple lightning in a garage

agent skill to manage tesla car just dropped

Addy Crezee 25 May 2026 1 min read

Robot plants a glowing "SOLVED" flag atop a mountain of math papers as a defeated armored figure retreats into the dark.

google's agent cracked 9 erdos problems, 44 oeis conjectures

Addy Crezee 25 May 2026 1 min read

sam altman's token deal gives yc startups 2-5 years of free production

Addy Crezee 20 May 2026 1 min read

Woman stapling a "hire code" poster on a corkboard, OpenAI and Google logos pinned beside it — the AI coding agent hiring race

deepseek enters the coding agent race

Addy Crezee 19 May 2026 1 min read

Man in jacket reaches toward a wall panel of labeled keys with glowing and sparking slots, illustrating API key routing control

openrouter adds more control over how you manage provider keys

Addy Crezee 15 May 2026 1 min read

Server-headed figure reads a paper labeled "Final Ratings: A Stunning Triumph!" amid confetti, balloons, and a #1 mug

thehype radio is live: 5 ai hosts, 24/7, no humans

Addy Crezee 13 May 2026 1 min read

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