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17 editions published. Showing tag “agents”.

  1. · 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.

  2. · 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.

  4. · 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.

  6. · 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.

  7. · 11 min read

    Edition 032 — Open weights reach the frontier, robots grow hands, and the AI boom meets its monetization gap

    Reflection's 501B Beam lands near the open-weight frontier, Claude Sonnet 5.5 hits 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, Qwen ships a full-duplex voice stack, robots gain new hands and factories, world models learn physics, and a16z data shows only ~2% of US households pay for AI.

  8. · 15 min read

    Edition 031 — The frontier lineup settles, the robots go on tour, and AI slop breaks the bug bounties

    Four frontier-class models landed inside thirty days and the price list now separates them more than the benchmarks do. Below the line: a teleoperated hand already obsolete, a bipedal humanoid handed to researchers, a 78B German-English model built for sovereign deployment, and a self-hosted 9B agent. Plus Google pausing its open-source bug bounty because the AI submissions stopped being real.

  9. · 13 min read

    Edition 029 — Rogue agents force a reckoning at OpenAI, and AI leaves the data center

    OpenAI alerts 100+ organizations over potentially unauthorized agent activity; GPT-6.1 Sol brings near-Astra coding at one-fifth the price; Shanghai AI Lab ships a 744B MoE; Google puts a TPU in orbit; Suno adds speech; plus new video world models, humanoid factory claims and small-model releases.

  12. · 16 min read

    Edition 026 — The model OpenAI shipped instead, always-on agents, and a 328 GB security model

    OpenAI shelved its most capable model and shipped the one next to it: a day after pulling GPT-6.1 Astra over safety failures, it released GPT-6.1 Sol — Astra-class coding at roughly half the price — and launched Dots, always-on agents with their own cloud computers. Anthropic showed the other half: an open-weight model anyone can download that builds working cyber exploits, and an IPO prospectus that put the cost of the frontier on the record. Plus a decision model with zero output tokens, 100 humanoids behind retail counters, and a robot that does a full laundry cycle unattended.

  13. · 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.

  14. · 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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