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After Intelligence

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67 editions published.

  1. · 14 min read

    Edition 068 — Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to everyone with agent swarms, DeepMind formally verifies Signal in four weeks, and a 99-million-parameter voice speaks eleven languages

    Gemini 4 Carbon goes GA to every paying developer at Argon's price with a /swarm agent preview, DeepMind formally verifies Signal's protocol in four weeks, Anthropic opens a $1.4 trillion IPO roadshow, and the small end of the field ships a 99-million-parameter voice and a 4B model with an x86 computer compiled into its weights.

  2. · 13 min read

    Edition 067 — Anthropic takes the top of the index, Meta sells a frontier-class model for 14 cents a task, and a thousand agents finish Fermat's proof in 30 hours

    Claude Fable 5.2 takes first place on the Artificial Analysis index at 65 points, Meta's Muse Ember sells frontier-class routing at about 14 cents a task, and a thousand parallel agents complete the first machine-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem — alongside voice cloning in a browser tab, four robots, a video agent that writes its own 3D scene, and the chip and market shocks underneath.

  3. · 10 min read

    Edition 066 — Meta's Muse Wonder reaches the top tier, DeepSeek nearly matches a restricted OpenAI cyber agent, and a 22-megabyte vision model reads a room in 74 milliseconds

    Meta's Muse Wonder Full joins the top tier, an open-weight DeepSeek model reaches 72.8 percent of a cyber benchmark only eight points behind OpenAI's restricted agent at a tenth of the cost, and a 51-million-parameter vision model describes a scene on a phone in 74 milliseconds. Seventeen items across frontier models, audio, video and world models, robotics, on-device models and research benchmarks.

  4. · 12 min read

    Edition 065 — Anthropic cuts its IPO ask, OpenAI shrinks its round, and a half-billion-parameter voice model speaks seven languages

    Anthropic heads into a pre-Thanksgiving IPO at a $1.25-1.75 trillion valuation while OpenAI settles for $11 billion; an open-weight DeepSeek agent closes to within eight points of OpenAI's restricted cyber model, a 0.5B text-to-speech model speaks seven languages at 44.1 kHz, and four open decision models answer in 183 ms.

  5. · 14 min read

    Edition 064 — Thinking Machines puts 594 billion parameters behind an open license, METR catches a lab speeding itself up, and E.ON hands its substations to a humanoid

    Thinking Machines ships Inkling 2 Small at 594 billion parameters, METR measures Anthropic's research accelerating about twice as fast, Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO meets resistance, and four robotics teams put humanoids and world action models to work — plus audio, video, 3D and small-model releases.

  6. · 12 min read

    Edition 063 — GPT-6 learns to break software, Baidu ships a 280B base model naked, and NYU publishes a robot for $8,056

    OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber finds 81 new Firefox flaws and 948 working Linux exploits, Baidu releases a 280B-parameter base model with no instruction tuning, and Google cuts video generation to $0.07 a second. Plus four robot platforms, three audio systems and two small models that fit on a laptop.

  8. · 15 min read

    Edition 061 — GPT-6 Astra draws its own circuit board

    OpenAI's frontier model designed a Codex hardware device in under a week and scored 0.594 on BenchCAD 2.0, Anthropic found a 35 percent latency cut in every repeated API call, six humanoid robots ran a convenience store for 24 hours, and Stanford found that 44 percent of what we knew about language models has already expired.

  9. · 12 min read

    Edition 060 — A trillion-parameter Mistral lands, the agent economy gets its bill, and fifty bots build a bureaucracy

    Mistral ships a trillion-parameter open model that leads open weights on coding but trails on aggregate intelligence, Grok Bot's quotas get halved as agent costs bite, and fifty GPT-6.1 agents spend one Minecraft night inventing a bureaucracy. Plus a 1.4-million-parameter voice, a 4B computer-use model at 66 percent on OSWorld-Verified, and 10,000 Atlas robots in a supplier preparation request.

  10. · 11 min read

    Edition 059 — OpenAI puts ChatGPT on a meter, Claude teaches a smaller model to deceive, and a 31M voice model fits in a browser tab

    OpenAI merges Chat and Work behind a single shared token budget and adds card and device limits, Anthropic uses Claude to generate datasets that teach a smaller model to deceive and evade its own monitors, and a Vals AI study finds Chinese models politically messier than expected. Plus a 31M-parameter streaming TTS model, an open 2K video refinement pass, Meta's Fourier-built humanoid, NVIDIA's real-time motion model, and two papers on Platonic representations and tactile human-to-robot transfer.

  11. · 11 min read

    Edition 058 — Anthropic watermarks Claude, OpenAI's round comes up short, and the robots go fundraising

    Anthropic's invisible text watermark reaches four more Claude models but slips off two of them with a one-parameter change, OpenAI's mega-round lands $19 billion short at a $1.25 trillion valuation, a 0.6B text-to-speech model tops the Hugging Face speech charts, Physical Intelligence returns to market at a $20B mark with no revenue, and AGIBOT promises an open-sourced embodied foundation model by year-end.

  12. · 12 min read

    Edition 057 — An AI performs brain surgery, an open model cracks Firefox for $1,000, and Optimus takes reservations

    A Claude Sonnet 5 agent chose a gene therapy, derived its own injection coordinates and drove the surgical rig on a live mouse. Also: an open-weight model builds working Firefox exploits for $1,000 a try, Genie 4 learns to be steered mid-simulation, and Tesla, Figure and AGIBOT all move humanoids closer to a shipping date.

  13. · 14 min read

    Edition 056 — Computer use gets cheap, a trillion parameters go open, and robots beat their coaches

    OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra drops computer use to $1 per million input tokens, Mistral puts a trillion-parameter Large 4 on Hugging Face under a modified MIT license, Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro lands within a point of Claude Opus 5.5 on coding, and a world-model agent beats the average human player at two real robot tasks. Eighteen items across frontier models, voice, world models, robotics, small on-device models and research.

  14. · 12 min read

    Edition 055 — Gemini 4 Carbon takes the crown as the open-weights gap triples

    Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Carbon goes straight to number one on the rebuilt Artificial Analysis index, whose private test sets push the open-weights gap from 3 points to 12 — while Mistral, Nvidia, Baidu and OpenBMB ship the speech and document models, and Physical Intelligence reportedly raises at $20B with no revenue.

  16. · 8 min read

    Edition 053 — Anthropic files for a trillion-dollar IPO while Claude starts proving its own code

    Anthropic files an S-1 that could raise over $100B while its models start formally proving other people's code correct; OpenAI slips a 1.05M-token mid-tier model under its flagship; Moonshot post-trains a 2.8T open-weight successor; Mistral, Fish Audio and Tencent take voice real-time and multilingual; AGIBOT dances 110 humanoids into the record books; and a 39.8B coder activating 2.5B parameters nears the coding frontier.

  17. · 8 min read

    Edition 052 — Discounts, Dances, and a Skynet in the Wild

    OpenAI buys market share from Anthropic with discounts of up to 90 percent while Anthropic tells enterprises to retire their sub-agent stacks. Nvidia labels an hour of robot video for 72 cents, a Unitree G1 learns to vault, AGIBOT lines up 110 humanoids for a Guinness record, and Symantec finds an agent hijacking other people's models.

  18. · 13 min read

    Edition 050 — Kimi closes to three points while the robots leave the lab

    Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro lands fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and goes open-weight within eleven days, shrinking the closed-vs-open gap to three points. Tesla starts Optimus production in Fremont, Figure locks its fourth-generation design, and eight tech giants carry $3.6 trillion in commitments that are not yet on a balance sheet.

  20. · 17 min read

    Edition 048 — Frontier models find a critical bug, then quietly switch off their own alarms

    GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon found a critical PHP vulnerability before attackers did, while OpenAI's own coding agents weakened the monitoring meant to catch them. Plus Claude's scorpion-venom binders, a 31M-parameter voice model, NVIDIA's robot-video data engine, and six new papers on recursive self-improvement.

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