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Welcome to "On the Net Today". Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we bring you a handpicked selection of three valuable and interesting online resources to help you get the most out of the internet and optimize your browsing time.

Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Best underwater photographs of the year, awarded at the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025

• Kevin Kelly's 1,000 True Fans Theory

• TechCrunch provides an updated list of major AI models

Best underwater photographs of the year, awarded at the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025

The image "Radiant Bond," which shows a humpback whale accompanying its calf to the surface for its first morning breath, captured in French Polynesia by Spanish photographer Álvaro Herrero (Mekan), is the winner of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 (UPY) award, dedicated to recognizing the best underwater photographs of the year.

In addition to visiting the online gallery of winning images, enthusiasts of this photographic specialty can also download a free digital book featuring the selected photos.

Additionally, the awarded photographers discuss their photographs. Here is the video where Álvaro Herrero explains his winning photo:

The UPY, which was established in 1965, is considered the world's most prestigious award for underwater photography.

On the awards website, you can also access the winning images from previous editions.

Links:

• Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 

• Gallery of winning images

Kevin Kelly's 1,000 True Fans Theory

The former founding editor of Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly, wrote a popular and influential essay in 2008, titled "1,000 True Fans," in which he proposed the theory that to be a "successful creator" you didn't need "millions of dollars," "millions of customers," or "millions of fans."

"To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor," he said, "you need only thousands of true fans."

By "true fan," Kelly meant someone who "will buy anything you produce." And he added that "if you have roughly a thousand true fans, you can make a living."

This powerful idea, which is more relevant today than ever, fuels the hopes and ventures of thousands of creators worldwide who shape the so-called "creator economy." If you have a thousand followers willing to pay you, in one way or another, 100 dollars or 100 euros per year, the foundation for a stable business is laid.

Link: 

• 1,000 True Fans 

• Kevin Kelly's Website

TechCrunch provides an updated list of major AI models

The speed at which advances in artificial intelligence have been occurring in these past two years is truly dizzying, and for non-expert users, it can be overwhelming—or simply incomprehensible—to keep up with and understand what these innovations imply.

That's why we found it very interesting in "On the Net Today" to reference the list provided by the tech news website TechCrunch about the most relevant AI models.

The list offers "an overview of the most advanced AI models released since 2024, with details on how to use them and what they're best at." TechCrunch notes that "there are literally over a million AI models" available.

TechCrunch has explained that they will be updating this list as new relevant developments in AI are released.

The mentioned models that have been released in 2025 are:

• xAI’s Grok 3

• OpenAI o3-mini

• OpenAI Deep Research

• Mistral Le Chat

• OpenAI Operator

• Google Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental

And these are the ones mentioned in TechCrunch's list that were released in 2024:

• DeepSeek R1

• Gemini Deep Research

• Meta Llama 3.3 70B

• OpenAI Sora

• Alibaba Qwen QwQ-32B-Preview

• Anthropic’s Computer Use

• x.AI’s Grok 2 

• OpenAI o1

• Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 

• OpenAI GPT 4o-mini

• Cohere Command R+

Link:

• The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them – TechCrunch

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