[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
a small win for american open models - Glimmer runs on a fits on a single RTX 3090!
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5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)
After a few long years of finding time to document my lessons from training open models, my post-training book is done!
Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
Which galaxy will you choose?
not much happened today
**Meta** re-enters the open-weight frontier with the release of **Muse Glimmer**, a **30B dense**, multimodal, agent-focused model under **Apache 2.0**, optimized for always-on local agents and…
Lessons from the hacks
Musings on model alignment, what determines safety, and where we go from here.
[AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents
a quiet day lets us find some connections among recent themes
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
Locking in AI safety regulation now is a mistake.
Ben's session
Field notes from my agent activity
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**OpenAI** escalates its upcoming **Astra** model to "critical" cyber status due to significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity, pausing some activities to strengthen controls. The…
[AINews] AMD buys Taalas
The Inference Inflection is HEATING up.
I'm using a new agent app
is Google in trouble?
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**Meta's Muse Spark 1.2** rapidly rose to frontier-tier with top 5 ranking on Vals Index at **$0.69/test**, being **3x cheaper than Kimi** and **10x+ cheaper than…
[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
The end of an era.
The Month AI Conquered Math: The Full Story
The story of July 2026: the conjectures that fell, the humans who celebrate and mourn them, and the limits of what machines can conquer
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
GDM leadership reset
**Google DeepMind** undergoes a leadership reshuffle with **Demis Hassabis** moving to Chair and Chief Scientist roles, while **Koray Kavukcuoglu** takes operational control focusing on **Gemini** and…
[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back
A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate
Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users
An external reconstruction of how Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills and Tools work in the new ChatGPT Work.
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**Alibaba** launched **Qwen3.8-Max**, enhancing multimodal capabilities and agent ecosystem integration. **NVIDIA** introduced **Alpamayo 2 Super** for autonomous vehicle reasoning, while **Mistral AI** released **Shieldstral**, a 3B…
[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
Qwen is so back!
The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
Baseten just raised a $13B Series F and is now one of the leading kings of inference engineering. We go into everything you need to know…
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
The end of cheap compute?
Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard
Scaling our curation and measurement of the open ecosystem.
Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity
When do we build the moon arcology?