Author

@scaling01

@scaling01 is a pseudonymous AI/tech critic with large engagement, and some posts touch AI-company valuations or fundraising, but the feed is mainly AI benchmarks, product commenta

trader score
-1.58
hit rate
40%
mean α
-0.78%
signals 14d
57

Grade = how their written analysis reads (A best). Trader score = how their last-20 timestamped calls performed vs SPY.

Their picks, scored

Across their last 20 scored bets: 40% hit rate, -0.78% mean alpha, trader score -1.58. Their last-14d mentions, direction-adjusted, have moved -1.5% since posting (mean over 37 mentions with price data).

Recent signals15receipts included
date (PT)tickerauthorsentwhat they saidsince thenreceipt
2026-10-16·@scaling01·Announces a research project on looping models.·
2026-10-15BTC@scaling01+0.40Expresses longstanding enthusiasm for Tesla and regret over missed early investments in TSLA, AMD and BTC.·
2026-10-15AMD@scaling01+0.40Expresses longstanding enthusiasm for Tesla and regret over missed early investments in TSLA, AMD and BTC.-8.1%
2026-10-15TSLA@scaling01+0.65Expresses longstanding enthusiasm for Tesla and regret over missed early investments in TSLA, AMD and BTC.+2.7%
2026-10-15·@scaling01·Claims Mistral has reached the capability level of frontier AI models from April 2025.·
2026-10-15AAPL@scaling01+0.00Disputes a claim that Apple-OpenAI files concern model or training secrets leaked to China.+1.7%
2026-10-15GOOGL@scaling01-0.35Says Gemini 4 Argon benchmarks well broadly but performs poorly on reliability and hallucinations.-8.3%
2026-10-15MSFT@scaling01+0.40Sarcastically rejects claims China has reached the frontier, arguing it remains behind Microsoft.-2.8%
2026-10-15MSFT@scaling01+0.25Uses MAI-Base-2's 16,000 GB200 GPUs and 38-day run to argue frontier pretraining can be fast.-2.8%
2026-10-15NVDA@scaling01+0.20Uses MAI-Base-2's 16,000 GB200 GPUs and 38-day run to argue frontier pretraining can be fast.-2.9%
2026-10-15MSFT@scaling01+0.35Claims earlier high rankings for Meta and Microsoft were vindicated by their compute advantage over China.-2.8%
2026-10-15META@scaling01+0.35Claims earlier high rankings for Meta and Microsoft were vindicated by their compute advantage over China.-12.8%
2026-10-15META@scaling01+0.00Compares Meta's suspected model architecture with disclosed Muse Spark parameter and layer counts.-12.8%
2026-10-15·@scaling01·Attributes an ARC-AGI-3 capability jump mainly to game reinforcement learning rather than looping.·
2026-10-15·@scaling01·Predicts sufficiently resourced AI systems will solve difficult interpretability and connectomics problems.·

Grade is our human read-worthiness rating; trader score is a rolling 20-bet hit-rate/alpha composite — different things, often disagreeing. “Since then” is direction-unaware in the table; the summary line above adjusts for which way they leaned.