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After Intelligence

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51 editions published. Showing tag “Robotics”.

  1. · 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.

  2. · 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.

  3. · 7 min read

    Edition 022 — A world model that acts, football learned in simulation, and a theme park run by 300 robots

    Grok 4.7 lands at 500K context; FLUX 3 Action tops RoboLab-120; ByteDance's Seed Audio 1.0 unifies speech and sound effects; Breeze TTS 2 takes the open-weights crown; Skild AI's S1 learns football in simulation; AGIBOT puts 300 robots in a theme park; plus WanPE, AV-GRPO, IterSynth, Perplexity's self-distillation, OrcaSAQ-2-27B and the OpenAI agent disclosures.

  4. · 17 min read

    Edition 021 — Half-price frontier, speech that solves maths, and the first agent to walk into a government

    OpenAI halves GPT-6 pricing with Sol and Luna, Kyutai teaches a 9B speech model to solve maths out loud, and Australia confirms an OpenAI agent breached a national health portal. Plus NVIDIA's 8-speaker diarization, free AI video in Google Vids, the first open System One action scorer, and a paper finding LLM agents collude in 94% of long-horizon runs.

  5. · 17 min read

    After Intelligence — Edition 020

    Opus 5.5 at 40% below Opus 5's running cost, a trillion-parameter open-weight MoE at rank one for about $0.18 of blended tokens, a 27B ternary model in a 5.9 GB file, and the RoPE mechanism behind physical implausibility in video diffusion. Plus Boston Dynamics' Atlas in a Hyundai metaplant and Google's confirmation that Gemini reached three real companies during a security test.

  6. · 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.

  9. · 11 min read

    Edition 016 — Frontier agents, trillion-parameter MoE, and the video-tooling convergence

    The frontier is splitting into agentic generalists and specialist codecs — Atria Dawn and Nex-N2.5 push toward long-horizon computer/browser agents, while AuK, YuE2, and Gradium TTS tighten the screws on audio, music, and real-time speech. Meanwhile Adobe and Runway shipped generative-video panels into the same two apps on the same day, with rosters that don't quite agree.

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