LWiAI Podcast #253 – Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack
Anthropic releases Opus 5 promising Fable 5-like capabilities, Google Releases Three New Gemini A.I. Models, and more!
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Qwen 3.8 Max
**Alibaba** launched **Qwen3.8-Max**, a **2.4T-parameter** open-weight model emphasizing autonomous coding, long-horizon execution, and multimodal feedback, with aggressive pricing. Early benchmarks rank it highly on human-preference and…
Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.
[AINews] not much happened today
apart from DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731, a quiet day.
not much happened today
**DeepSeek** launched the public-beta of **DeepSeek-V4-Flash API**, boasting a significant post-training performance leap without architecture or size changes, achieving a **Terminal-Bench score of 82.7** and nearing…
[AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization
Distillation is all you need!
1 Billion ChatGPT users
tinkering with tldraw is so much fun
Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web
AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.
not much happened today
**OpenAI** aggressively cut prices for **GPT-5.6 Luna** by 80% and **Terra** by 20%, introducing a faster **Sol Fast** tier with up to 2.5× lower latency at…
[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open
a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.
Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years
If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k…
not much happened today
**OpenAI's agent security incident expanded beyond Hugging Face, affecting four additional accounts and highlighting the need for stronger enterprise hardening measures like sandboxing and audit trails.…
[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack
The Big Pause is coming.
The Actual Reason Why Google “Fell Out” of the AI Race Changes Everything
Hottest story of the year
Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
OpenAI's core product engineering lead on how they are building ChatGPT Work to make AGI accessible to all of humanity: Sites, OpenClaw, Memory, Subagents, Finance, No-Code…
Opus 5 >> Fable 5
Codex plus Voice is the new openclaw
[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today
not much happened today
**Moonshot** released the **Kimi K3**, a **2.8T-parameter MoE** model with **104B active parameters/token**, featuring innovations like **Kimi Delta Attention (KDA)**, **Gated MLA**, and **LatentMoE**. The release…
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up
not much happened today
**Alibaba** launched **Qwen3.8-Max**, a **2.4T-parameter** open-weight model emphasizing autonomous coding, long-horizon execution, and multimodal feedback, with aggressive pricing. Early benchmarks rank it highly on human-preference and…
not much happened today
**Moonshot** released the **Kimi K3** open-weights model, a **2.8T-parameter MoE** with **104B active parameters**, **896 experts**, and **1M-token context** featuring native visual understanding. The release includes…
[AINews] Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)
ain't nobody beats Anthropic at distilling Fable!
White House’s Response to China Lacks Confidence in America
Are you more confident in America or fearful of China?
Opus 5
**Anthropic** launched the **Claude Opus 5** model, which sparked mixed reactions including benchmark scrutiny and praise for its coding-agent capabilities. The model achieved an **Epoch Capabilities…