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Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.
Model releases reset developer expectations, competitive pressure, and the capabilities builders can immediately put into products.
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Why reproducible evaluation reporting matters What AISI is sharing Contribute to the shared mission About the EvalEval Coalition About the UK AI Security Institute Further reading The EvalEval Coalition is thrilled to share that the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) is using EvalEval's infrastructure to openly share...
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What is the GGUF file format? Load GGUF with transformers Serve GGUF with your preferred interface Benchmarking against llama.cpp transformers and llama.cpp Beyond GGUF: ggml kernels for more models Fast local inference with Python and PyTorch Reusing ggml's Metal kernels Keeping the CPU and GPU working together...
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OpenAI on Tuesday announced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, which it describes as cheaper and faster models in the GPT-6 Astra family. The company said that the new models show significant improvements compared to their predecessors, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.6 Luna, in areas like professional work,...
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Software firms and cloud providers including Amazon, Microsoft, Figma and Workday are dangling new discounts on AI products to clients and consulting partners exhausted by shifts in pricing.
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China’s internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged both companies had been routing sensitive user data to Claude models, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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Alibaba on Tuesday unveiled a powerful new AI chip for training and running models, highlighting the rapid progress in China’s domestic semiconductor capabilities. During its annual Apsara tech conference, Alibaba said its new AI chip, Zhenwu V900, delivers three times the performance of its...
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To the investors at Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy, the coming wave of electrification will make data center energy demands look quaint by comparison. Here's how they're preparing.
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MiMo-V2.6 is "simply" the best (for now). Despite its simple architecture design it's currently No.1 in the open-weight benchmarks (weighted average). With "simple," I mean a classic Grouped Query Attention (GQA) with Sliding Window Attention (SWA) at a...
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dhhWe have now secured $21.7 million in pledges for Omacom Foundation to fulfill the Linux prophesy. Lots more is in the pipeline. What an incredible list of backers for an audacious and ambitious mission. The age of agents demands it!
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dhhThrilled to announce @alibaba_cloud as a Founding Corporate Patron for the Omacom Foundation! $3 million in funding, collaboration on Omarchy China, and bringing Omarchy to the newly announced Qwen Book. Agentic computers need a native agentic OS!
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__tinygrad__There's something missing from benchmarks. Kimi K3 often writes much better code than GPT-6 Astra. It doesn't write useless verbose tests, it doesn't give confusing explanations. To be a good software engineer, you have to be able to communicate well, and...
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ProfBuehlerMITFascinating AI swarm dynamics: a few agents spontaneously emerge as highly connected hubs, while most remain locally connected. The swarm develops a strongly heterogeneous interaction topology with a long-tailed degree distribution - an emergent...
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menhguin+1 to my theory that the frontier labs are soon pivoting to automated research labs, bc Fable+ models are too expensive for most usecases but highly positive ROI for autonomous research
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TencentHunyuanThe AI says the site is done. Then the homepage errors, the buttons overlap, and it added a login flow you never asked for. 🙃 Introduces WebCraftBench: agents actually use the live app, coverage-guided exploration finds what never got reached, then we...
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OrcaRouterLaya already open-sourced the implementation + weights.
We spent the last few days testing JEV internally. We tried to reproduce it, break it, and improve it. 5 things we learned: 1. JEV’s core insight is simple - and probably right. If the answer space is bounded, don’t generate the answer token by token....
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tom_doerrRuns the 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model on a single CPU using 8 GB of RAM without a framework or GPU.
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__tinygrad__~200 tok/s MiMo-V2.6-Pro on MI300X brought up by GLM-5.3
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deedydasXiaomi just dropped Mimo 2.6 Pro which claims to be the best open source model. I played with it, and was pretty impressed: - Insanely cheap: With some standard assumptions, its 15x cheaper than Kimi K3, 6x cheaper than GLM 5.3 and 2x cheaper than DeepSeek...
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OllamaOver the last few hours, some requests to the DeepSeek-v4.1-flash model on Ollama were charged at an incorrect rate, leading to higher usage consumption than expected for certain users. Sorry about this. For anyone effected: - Usage (monthly, or weekly +...
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@theahmadosman1000s of tokens per second of self-hosted MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s slow and nerfed frontier intelligence by miles btw
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Kimi_MoonshotKimi K3 is now on Amazon Bedrock! Run coding, document analysis, and extended agent workflows with Bedrock's access, encryption, and auditing controls. Explicit prompt caching supported. Start building with K3 on AWS 👉
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ns123abcGrok TRIPLED on Terminal-Bench 4.0 in only two months (12.4% -> 38.0%), overtaking GPT-5.6 Sol
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kunchenguidDay 1 observations for Grok 4.7 ignore the reports that say “it’s terrible” and the only thing they reference is a public benchmark. the same benchmarks told us opus 5 was better that fable - they are useless also ignore the reports that compare models...
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ns123abc🚨MAJOR Anthropic OUTAGE Anthropic status page reports Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1, and Opus 5 all down Claude app, API, Claude Code, and Cowork are all suffering ‘partial’ outages Only Claude for Government 100% Operational
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__tinygrad__And they want you to believe the US labs are worth trillions. So much respect to @Xiaomi for doing this. Commoditize the model training!
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TheAhmadOsmanThis is why Anthropic wants to ban Opensource AI btw, their “frontier intelligence” becoming possible to match on 8x RTX PRO 6000s makes their $2 Trillion valuation crazy nonsense
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emollickAI can be a really wonderful tool for exploring topics far from coding. I had Claude Fable 5.1 put together an annotated guide to Eliot's poem "The Wasteland," with multiple pathways through the poem, recordings, scholarship, etc. I am quite impressed.
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Pricing Ollama
ollama says some deepseek-v4.1-flash requests on Ollama in the last few hours were charged at an incorrect rate causing higher usage; apology posted but remediation text is truncated.
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Dev tool SGLang
Author alibaba_qwen states SGLang-Diffusion now serves Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image, multi-image editing, and transparent RGBA output. Single ecosystem support claim; tool maintainer authority is not established in supplied text.
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Dev tool ZCode
@louszbd: ZCode open sourced the code for community review. From now on improvements will be visible along the way. The security issues raised have been fixed. Now an independent review is underway. We followed up with ZCode team after learnt what ha
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Dev tool Qwen
Alibaba Qwen says Qwen-Image-2.1 is now supported in ComfyUI and invites users to try it and share creations.
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Dev tool vLLM
Alibaba Qwen thanks the vLLM project for day-0 support, saying Qwen-Image-2.1 can generate, edit and produce transparent output ready to serve.
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Model release Qwen-Image-2.1
alibaba_qwen announced Qwen-Image-2.1 as open weights, describing it as a unified model for image generation and editing in a lightweight package.
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Multiple sources report new model families emphasizing lower operating cost and faster output alongside capability updates.
Capital and consolidation -3.2Funding rounds, IPO filings, and shifts in software spending indicate ongoing capital reallocation around AI firms.
AI infrastructure and compute -6.7Sources point to data center buildout, chip staffing, infrastructure filings, and workload scheduling as active constraints.
AI policy and governance -8.4Multiple items cover third-party safety testing, lawsuits over model use, and government scrutiny of AI labs.
AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Arm Holdings plc +2.38%, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing +1.39%, Amazon.com -1.20% leading the tracked basket.
| Ticker | Company | Move |
|---|---|---|
| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | +2.38% |
| TSM | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing | +1.39% |
| AMZN | Amazon.com | -1.20% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | +1.12% |