In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

Anybody who’s Googled themselves lately is aware of that it doesn’t fairly hit the way in which it used to. Certain, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, however there’s additionally an inescapable feeling that net search isn’t the canonical supply of data that it was, with simply as many individuals studying about who you and I could be from chatbots.

Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn had the same feeling, main them to create In the Weights. The “weights” in query are the numerical parameters that form an AI mannequin’s coaching and output, so the web site purports to measure how properly “a mannequin is ready to recall somebody with out utilizing instruments like net search.”

“Being within the weights means your existence was deemed vital within the course of of making superhuman synthetic intelligence,” the web site says.

To realize this, Within the Weights supposedly queries totally different fashions (together with Grok, Gemini, a number of variations of GPT, Claude, and Llama, plus lesser recognized fashions) with a query much like, “Who’s ? Give as much as 10 outcomes, every with a brief description and confidence.” It then “cluster[s] comparable descriptions collectively and assign[s] a power rating.”

For instance, this humble tech blogger obtained a power rating of 641, putting me within the prime 6% of names. I used to be feeling fairly good till I noticed that multiple TechCrunch colleagues scored even larger. And the leaderboard has been shifting as I write this put up, with “Dwelling Alone” star Macaulay Culkin at present within the prime slot with a power rating of 988, neck-and-neck with opera singer Luciano Pavarotti.

The outcomes additionally present which fashions returned which solutions for a given title, they usually spotlight potential hallucinations — apparently GPT-5.4 Mini says that Anthony Ha is an “ambiguous title kind that might check with a number of folks with the initials A.H.A.”

Requested why he constructed Within the Weights, Dimson instructed TechCrunch by way of e mail that he and Flynn have been trying to “get the inventive juices flowing once more” after leaving OpenAI (which they each joined via the acquisition of their design startup Global Illumination). 

Dimson mentioned he was serious about how “Google self-importance searches are the improper goal in 2026 as extra site visitors strikes to LLMs” and about the truth that “so many lives are encoded by some means in a bunch of floating level numbers contained in the AI mind.” He additionally mentioned the path of the location was “sealed” by a tongue-in-cheek blog post riffing on AI weights and Terry Bisson’s basic quick story “They’re Made Out of Meat.”

“Reception has been insane thus far, we thought this may be a light curiosity but it surely looks as if it has struck a nerve of eager to see when you reside ceaselessly within the tremendous intelligence (the comparability issue doesn’t harm both!)” Dimson added.

Whereas I’m not as satisfied that being “remembered” by a chatbot is a assured ticket to immortality, I can’t deny that I discover the outcomes each intriguing and jealousy-inducing, particularly since they’re codified in an easy-to-compare rating. (AI critic Anthony Moser scoffed that that is “actually the identical as asking 13 chatbots to let you know about your self.”) Additionally serving to: The truth that the location includes a cute, Nintendo-inspired retro design.

Dimson mentioned he plans to dig in additional into why totally different fashions in the identical sequence return totally different outcomes, which fashions are biased in the direction of various kinds of folks, and which individuals “ought to have a Wikipedia article however don’t.”