The inevitable need for an open model consortium
And yes, I hate consortia too.
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics
The Batch AI News and Insights: As AI agents accelerate coding, what is the future of software engineering?
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
Another dance around fears of open-source.
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin
Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting
How much could AI revolutionize the economy?
Components of A Coding Agent
How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Hint: it's not benchmark scores.
Claude Code’s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference
The Batch AI News and Insights: Voice-based AI that you can talk to is improving rapidly, yet most people still don’t appreciate how pervasive voice UIs…
LWiAI Podcast #238 – GPT 5.4 mini, OpenAI Pivot, Mamba 3, Attention Residuals
OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 mini and nano, faster and more capable but up to 4x pricier, DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video…
Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces
We often lack the tools for the job, even if the AI is capable enough
Latest open artifacts (#20): New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others
New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others
Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?
Nvidia’s Open Salvo, OpenAI’s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models
The Batch AI News and Insights: The anti-AI coalition continues to maneuver to find arguments to slow down AI progress.
Import AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks
How will timeless minds value time?
Last Week in AI #339 – DLSS 5, OpenAI Superapp, MiniMax M2.7
DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video games, OpenAI Reportedly Pivoting to a Focus on Business and Productivity Only, and more!
A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs
From MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architectures
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”
Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek’s Huawei Play, Apple’s Multimodal Tokenizer
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity.
ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
Will AI cause a political interregnum
LWiAI Podcast #237 – Nemotron 3 Super, xAI reborn, Anthropic Lawsuit, Research!
Nemotron 3 Super: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE for Agentic Reasoning, Another XAI Cofounder Has Left, Anthropic Sues Department of Defense
Last Week in AI #338 – Anthropic sues Trump, xAI starting over, Iran AI Fakes
Anthropic sues Trump administration in AI dispute with Pentagon, ‘Not built right the first time’ — Musk’s xAI is starting over again, again, Cascade of A.I.…
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago
LWiAI Podcast #236 – GPT 5.4, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, Supply Chain Risk
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions, Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at 1/8th the cost of Pro, Where things stand with the Department…
GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI’s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple’s Diffusion Research
The Batch AI News and Insights: Should there be a Stack Overflow for AI coding agents to share their learnings with each other?