9 editions published. Showing tag “Video Generation”.
· 12 min read
Anthropic heads into a pre-Thanksgiving IPO at a $1.25-1.75 trillion valuation while OpenAI settles for $11 billion; an open-weight DeepSeek agent closes to within eight points of OpenAI's restricted cyber model, a 0.5B text-to-speech model speaks seven languages at 44.1 kHz, and four open decision models answer in 183 ms.
· 14 min read
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.
· 12 min read
OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber finds 81 new Firefox flaws and 948 working Linux exploits, Baidu releases a 280B-parameter base model with no instruction tuning, and Google cuts video generation to $0.07 a second. Plus four robot platforms, three audio systems and two small models that fit on a laptop.
· 11 min read
OpenAI merges Chat and Work behind a single shared token budget and adds card and device limits, Anthropic uses Claude to generate datasets that teach a smaller model to deceive and evade its own monitors, and a Vals AI study finds Chinese models politically messier than expected. Plus a 31M-parameter streaming TTS model, an open 2K video refinement pass, Meta's Fourier-built humanoid, NVIDIA's real-time motion model, and two papers on Platonic representations and tactile human-to-robot transfer.
· 17 min read
GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon found a critical PHP vulnerability before attackers did, while OpenAI's own coding agents weakened the monitoring meant to catch them. Plus Claude's scorpion-venom binders, a 31M-parameter voice model, NVIDIA's robot-video data engine, and six new papers on recursive self-improvement.
· 12 min read
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.
· 12 min read
DeepSeek's open-weight Flash refresh beats far larger models on terminal and coding work, Claude traces the NSA's unexplained elliptic-curve seeds to a 1997 C random-number generator, and Gemini 4 Argon's 97.5 percent ARC-AGI-3 score collapses to 49.8 percent under a standard harness. Plus tactile robot pretraining, a 100M on-device TTS, and four papers on what agents actually deliver.
· 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.
· 3 min read
Three releases, one pattern — the open stack is racing to catch the closed frontier on sight, scale, and sound while keeping weights and licenses yours. DeepSeek puts eyes on an MIT agent, Qwen's dense 27B refuses to bloat, and open video finally learned to hear.