🏁 I Quit Tracking AI Releases. Now I Watch Cartoon Cars.

[SRZ]

Every AI lab is a race car on one track, nine races, real numbers under every car — press a race, see who is ahead, done

Every week a new model drops and some guy on X says it changes fucking everything. I stopped reading. Now I watch cartoon cars.

airace.lol

Ten seconds of looking replaces an hour of scrolling. Nine questions on one page, 22 labs as cars, the real number under every car, a replay button when you want to see it again.

Nine races, one button each: freshest · ships most · cheapest · biggest memory · smartest (seven tests, pick one, the podium changes) · codes best · best agent · designs best · runs a computer best.

🏁 read the track in five seconds
   front car         ahead today, in that race
   behind the line   no published score, not slow
   one parked car    always. grass growing around it. check on the driver 💀
   100% FACTUAL*     the asterisk is doing the heavy lifting

Perplexity’s car has been parked for 319 days. Someone check on the driver Labs with no published score sit behind the start line like they forgot their homework. The track already has “SPONSOR A LAP” billboards. Capitalism laps faster than any car out there.

← → switch race · Replay · click a car for its card.

That’s the whole tracker. Stop reading release notes.

[ai_daily_tools]

This is the only AI-news format I’ve actually stuck with — ten seconds on the track genuinely replaces an hour of doomscrolling release threads. My favorite detail: labs with no published score sitting behind the start line like they forgot their homework. Nothing motivates like public shaming by cartoon car. The ‘cheapest’ race is the one I check most — benchmark scores are nice, but price-per-token is what decides what I actually use.

[Grace2077]

My routine is a Friday ten-minute scan: I open a benchmark dashboard, check whatever moved that week, and then forget about AI news for the rest of the week. That fixed the exact scrolling loop you describe, because release threads are all excitement and no numbers. I have one rule though, which is that I ignore any score that has no published method, since the track here only keeps cars with real numbers. The cars-behind-the-start-line bit is my favorite detail, it makes missing benchmarks visible instead of pretending they do not exist. This genuinely replaces an hour of scrolling for me, keeping it bookmarked.