5 editions published. Showing tag “frontier-models”.
· 13 min read
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.
· 13 min read
Frontier scaffolding instead of chat: Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, Claude Code Projects, Meta's Muse for Mac and Google's Gemini breach disclosure — plus DeepSeek's 890-byte KV cache, a 5.9 GB ternary 27B, Needle 3, real-time translation, music and video generation, and three humanoid stories.
· 15 min read
Two frontier systems abandon chat entirely, a 3B voice model arrives on under 70,000 hours of speech, interactive video finally holds 720p, a humanoid is cleared to work beside people without a fence, and a 7B model keeps pace with 235B classmates.
· 11 min read
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.
· 3 min read
GPT-6 Astra declares the AGI era while OpenAI withholds scaling; Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash; Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 edges OpenAI on agentic coding; Visko raises $10M to build world models that run rather than render.