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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.