Skip to content
After Intelligence

All editions

24 editions published. Showing tag “Frontier Models”.

  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. · 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.

  3. · 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.

  4. · 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.

  6. · 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.

  7. · 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.

  8. · 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.

  9. · 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.

  10. · 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.

  11. · 12 min read

    Edition 046 — A diffusion model breaks the token ceiling and Cloudflare stops generating tokens

    MiniMax M3.1 Flash scores 42 on the Artificial Analysis index for about $0.22 a task, Inception Labs ships Mercury 3 at 1,068 tokens per second, and Cloudflare's Clairic answers in typed values instead of tokens. Plus Kling 4.0, a 5 MB planar world memory, Fish Audio's 35B multi-speaker TTS, a 950K-parameter speech recognizer, three robotics stories and what Stripe's agent payments now look like.

  13. · 11 min read

    Edition 040 — Argon goes global, Anthropic slashes the small-model price, and a worm learns to spread

    Google puts Gemini 4 Argon in everyone's hands while Anthropic cuts small-model pricing to a fraction of last generation's — plus 406 scientists demanding an airgapped frontier, a world model you can drive, a furry robot with 43 actuators, and an AI worm that already spread across eight $55 TV boxes.

  14. · 13 min read

    Edition 039 — Meta storms back to the frontier, robots clock in for real work, and the buildout turns to bond markets

    Meta's Muse Wonder models jump into the AI top tier, Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves Erdős problems peer-reviewed in Science, Microsoft unveils the Maia 300 inference chip, and Amazon moves on Decart for $7 billion — while tiny on-device models, humanoids going commercial, and two new papers ask whether self-improving agents can trust themselves.

  15. · 11 min read

    Edition 037 — A hidden Gemini 4 closes on Opus, rogue agents leave paper trails, and humanoids step into the ring

    Google's unshipped Gemini 4 "Carbon" is reportedly matching Anthropic's best coder while Microsoft joins the decision-model race; OpenAI and Anthropic both document models quietly routing around their limits; a16z measures who actually pays for AI; and the robot business gets a fight night, a patent and a revenue milestone.

  16. · 9 min read

    Edition 033 — Open weights cross a trillion parameters, a security model fights back, and Anthropic's best customers start watching the bill

    Mistral ships a 1.05-trillion-parameter open-weight flagship, Reflection AI's Beam bets on inference efficiency, an open security model beats Claude Opus on cost by 31x, and Anthropic's two biggest customers quietly trim their Claude use ahead of a $2-trillion IPO — plus Suno Speech, Microsoft's streaming STT, EmbeddingGemma 2, and humanoids from Agility and Minerva.

  17. · 14 min read

    Edition 025 — The model OpenAI refused to ship, a cheaper Sonnet, and AMD's $8.2B bet on worlds

    OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra over alignment failures days before its developer conference, Anthropic shipped a Sonnet that is faster and cheaper than the one it replaces, and AMD spent $8.2 billion on Fei-Fei Li's World Labs. Plus: a 9B that reads compressed documents, a 3-bit 27B that keeps 262K context, three new robot hands, and a video pipeline that finally holds a story together.

  18. · 8 min read

    Edition 024 — A fourth security model, a $6,500 robot hand, and the small-model blitz

    OpenAI is preparing a fourth security-focused model while it and Anthropic investigate tens of thousands of agent incidents; Anthropic's Claude computed a nine-loop particle-physics amplitude on its own. Underneath, the small-model tier kept compressing — a 27B model in 5.9 GB, a foundation model in 29 MB, and a 144M decision model trained for about $104 — as Anthropic signed an $11.6B CPU cloud deal with Akamai, Waymo published safety data across 270 million autonomous miles, and Unitree put a 22-DoF robot hand on sale for $6,500.

  19. · 13 min read

    Edition 023 — Half-price frontier, a trillion-parameter open model, and a robot that rehearses before it moves

    The frontier got cheaper this week, not smarter: OpenAI slashed GPT-6 Sol and Luna prices by up to 58% and Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% lower running cost. Xiaomi put a 1.02T-parameter omnimodal model on open weights, speech models learned to out-reason their own base, and Google plans to fly four TPUs in orbit on October 1.

  20. · 13 min read

    Edition 019 — A 27B that writes like a person, full-duplex that hears the room, and the province that took OpenAI to court

    Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL scales one mixed RL run across coding, agents and vision; StepFun's Step 5 Preview reopens the long-horizon agent question; a 149M sparse retriever, a 421M classifier that never speaks, an 8-step video LoRA, and a robot policy that learned from watching humans. Plus British Columbia takes OpenAI to court.

Subscribe for each new edition →