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4 editions published. Showing tag “Image Generation”.

  1. · 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.

  2. · 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.

  3. · 14 min read

    Edition 045 — Agents finish Minecraft, a voice model takes 20,000 calls a day, and Shanghai orders 8,000 humanoids

    Four Gemini 4 Argon agents complete Minecraft with no human input, Grok Voice 3.0 takes 20,000 Starlink calls a day, a Microsoft benchmark shows agents collapse to 21 percent when evidence arrives late, and Shanghai targets 8,000 humanoids in factories by 2028.

  4. · 5 min read

    Edition 009 — The Week the Frontier Went Open, Reproducible, and Willing to Pay for Harm

    No flagship dropped this week — but an NVIDIA system became the first AI to outscore every human at the International Olympiad in Informatics, a 6B open diffusion transformer set a new image-generation SOTA, and two papers reframed what smart computation even needs. Then HarvestBench asked the sharpest question: not whether agents can reason about harm, but whether they'll pay to avoid it.

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