AI Watchtower Briefing — 2026-09-25

🔴 High Significance

Model Releases

🔴 💬 Qwengram-0.8B: I transferred Qwen3.8 Flash-Next’s n-gram memory into Qwen3.5-0.8B — 5.05% lower validation perplexity — score 87 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

I’ve been experimenting with whether Qwen3.8-Flash-Next’s pretrained PLE n-gram memory can improve a much smaller Qwen3.5-0.8B model. I trained the 0.8B setup with limited resources, mostly using free Kaggle notebook GPUs. The setup keeps both the Qwen3.5-0.8B backbone and the roughly **51B-para

🔴 💬 Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is phenomenal vs. base 3.8-Flash! — score 76 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

TL;DR - Swift Flash is a killer model that massively reduces excess reasoning. Try it out! If you haven't seen from my [previous comparison posts](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wp5vqr/thinkingcap_3827b_vs_swift_3827b_v

🔴 🏢 Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex — score 75 · 🏢 first-party Sources: lab_blog/OpenAI

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

🔴 🏢 Compass is coming to the cloud Gain access to our state-of-the-art search and retrieval engine, without worrying about the infrastructure Sep 25, 2026 5 min read — score 75 · 🏢 first-party Sources: lab_blog/Cohere

Product Launch AI for Developers

🔴 ✉️ I went to Legoland yesterday with the kids - very impressive to see all the cities they’ve built with lego. Who’s job is that?! — score 70 Sources: newsletter/Ben's Bites

Do option C, but I want the timeline to be scrubbable, where I can drag my finger left and right across the timeline, and that will change the device. And we need to make sure we find the exact dates for each of the devices when they were released, because right now we've got a bunch of devices that

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Developer Tools

🔴 💬 In just 100 days, AI crossed into real medical work. 37,000 agents searched 55,000 trials for new treatments, an AI-designed pulmonary fibrosis drug entered Phase III, and an autonomous medical agent beat doctors on ER diagnosis, 87.8% to 78.1% — score 72 · 🔥 engaged Sources: reddit/r/singularity

🔴 💬 Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition — score 70 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

Just saw this pop up. This might be a fun one for the folks in here!

🔴 ✉️ This week I built this fun site to see a bunch of popular devices from over the years. It only took a morning to make, started in Codex, finished withFactory. — score 70 Sources: newsletter/Ben's Bites

🔴 ✉️ Then I sawthis awesome timeline scrubbing demo by Colewhere you drag through the years and a Mac button changes under your cursor. So I thought I’d like to make the same kind of thing, and thought to — score 70 Sources: newsletter/Ben's Bites

Then I sawthis awesome timeline scrubbing demo by Colewhere you drag through the years and a Mac button changes under your cursor. So I thought I’d like to make the same kind of thing, and thought to resurrect the devices thread. Stick ‘em together.

🔴 ✉️ Designing AI Products And Features: Study Guide (6 Minute Read) — score 70 Sources: newsletter/tldr

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Infrastructure & Compute

🔴 ✉️ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put the odds of AI ending the world by 2030 at 0%, calling ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s viral warnings “irresponsible.” — score 70 Sources: newsletter/rundown-ai

🔴 ✉️ Forge by Fireworks brings together leaders building their own frontier on open models. Hear from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao, Microsoft EVP Jay Parikh, and more on Nov. 3 in SF. Apply to attend. — score 70 Sources: newsletter/rundown-ai

Business & Funding

🔴 ✉️ a16z’s new AI-driven college alternative — score 70 Sources: newsletter/rundown-ai

Enterprise Adoption

🔴 ✉️ Presidio Opens Enterprise AI Infrastructure Lab (3 Minute Read) — score 70 Sources: newsletter/tldr

Research Papers

🔴 🤗 Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs — score 75 · 🔗 ×2 Sources: huggingface · arxiv/cs.AI

While Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on highly non-linear components, in this work we demonstrate that they exhibit fundamental linearity: when inputs from distinct text streams are linearly combined, the model outputs a superposition of the individual next-token distributions. We term this the S

🔴 🤗 Parts-of-Speech as Emergent Categories in SAE Latent Space — score 72 · 🔗 ×2 Sources: huggingface · arxiv/cs.CL

Sparse AutoEncoders (SAEs) offer a promising way to inspect language model representations, but it is still unclear what kind of linguistic structure their latents expose. We use part-of-speech (PoS) categories as a controlled test case to study whether morpho-syntactic information is encoded by ind

Other Signals

🔴 💬 I can't think of anything that I would like less than that — score 85 Sources: reddit/r/artificial

🔴 💬 Do fallback models actually make AI coding setups worth using for free? — score 78 Sources: reddit/r/AIAgents

I've been seeing a lot of people talk about using multiple AI models and letting them switch automatically when limits are hit. Sounds great in theory, but I'm curious how it feels in real use. Do you eventually notice the quality difference and end up paying for a better model anyway? Or is the fal

🔴 💬 Pass the test or die — score 78 Sources: reddit/r/OpenAI

🔴 🧡 U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk — score 78 · 🔥 engaged Sources: hackernews

🔴 💬 Why have AI companies started getting scared now? — score 72 Sources: reddit/r/artificial

I don't understand how AI companies are now shouting about concerns and warnings to humanity about how AI will take over etc when they are the ones that created it? Not sure if I'm being stupid but why on earth would they build something they can't control or shut down? I've watched all the same fil

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🟡 Notable

Model Releases

🟡 💬 gpt is down for everyone right? — score 69 Sources: reddit/r/OpenAI

not seeing any official comms from openai about it, hopefully gets resolved quickly

🟡 🧡 Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models — score 69 Sources: hackernews

🟡 💬 4-5 days replacing Claude w Qwen 3.8 Next — score 58 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

Hi, human here with rambling thoughts to share. Feel free to skip Overall, I don’t feel like I’m missing much; if anything. On my hardware(M1 ultra w 128Gb) it’s probably not as fast as Claude but I’ve been using opencode for research and other business related tasks and it’s been getting the job do

🟡 𝕏 @AnthropicAI: New on the Science Blog: Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops. Theoretical physicists predict how particles behave using formulas called scattering amplitudes. These are notoriously hard to compute, so resea — score 55 Sources: twitter_rss

New on the Science Blog: Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops. Theoretical physicists predict how particles behave using formulas called scattering amplitudes. These are notoriously hard to compute, so researchers work with layers of increasingly fine corrections called “loops”—each added loop makes the an

🟡 💬 Introducing: GPT-6 Rock — score 50 Sources: reddit/r/OpenAI

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Developer Tools

🟡 💬 Oracle cut 21,000 jobs and paid $1.8B in severance while announcing record AI infrastructure spending. The layoffs aren't because of AI. They're funding it. — score 65 Sources: reddit/r/artificial

Something about the Oracle numbers has been bothering me and I think I finally put my finger on it. 21,000 cuts this year. $1.8 billion severance bill. Another 800 scheduled for November 13 according to WARN filings. All happening alongside enormous capex commitments for AI data center buildout. The

🟡 💬 I ran the actual break-even math on buying vs renting an H200 box, and it is not where I expected — score 64 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

Every rent-vs-buy thread I read has confident people on both sides, but not many actually show the numbers. So I finally ran the numbers for our own decision. Posting the working here in case it is useful, or feel free to point it out in case someone thinks it's wrong. An 8-GPU HGX H200 server lands

🟡 🐙 google/langextract — A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization. — score 64 Sources: github_trending

A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.

🟡 💬 A vision model describes a pet's stool, ear or gum. Whether that means "see a vet now" is a row in a table the model never touches. Why, the rules, and the bug that rated an obese cat ideal. — score 60 Sources: reddit/r/AIAgents

🟡 💬 Can't imagine getting rate limited on a $600 plan 🫪 — score 60 Sources: reddit/r/OpenAI

Just imagine what will the person even think when they will hit rate limit on a $600 plan, apparantly there will be a codex pro max plan out soon..

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Infrastructure & Compute

🟡 💬 AI alignment is the most important problem we will ever have to face. — score 52 Sources: reddit/r/artificial

Apologies in advance for this long post. I just wanted to put down my thoughts. AI Alignment is the single most important problem we face right now. Solve AI Alignment and you can safely enter RSI and I can't even imagine how amazing the quality of life humans will have in such an era: immortality,

🟡 💬 NeurIPS reject -> ICLR: How much reviewer feedback are you actually implementing ? [D] — score 47 Sources: reddit/r/MachineLearning

Welp, NeurIPS is a wrap for those of us who got rejected 😭 Off we go to ICLR or whatever the next venue is, hopefully after making some meaningful changes to the paper. For people who are resubmitting, I’m curious: how much of the NeurIPS reviewer feedback are you actually implementing? Did you

🟡 🐙 nobodywho-ooo/nobodywho — NobodyWho is an inference engine that lets you run LLMs locally and efficiently on any device. — score 44 Sources: github_trending

NobodyWho is an inference engine that lets you run LLMs locally and efficiently on any device.

Business & Funding

🟡 💬 Bill Gates warns AI is powerful enough to cause "a billion deaths" — score 58 Sources: reddit/r/artificial

Research Papers

🟡 🤗 Coding Agents for Generalized Task and Motion Planning Problems — score 65 · 🔗 ×2 Sources: huggingface · arxiv/cs.AI

Task and motion planning (TAMP) problems remain difficult even with full observability and object-centric states because discrete decisions are tightly coupled to geometric, kinematic, and dynamic constraints. Generalized TAMP addresses this difficulty by exploiting regularities across problem insta

🟡 🤗 Rufus-Air: An Open LLM Post-Training Recipe — score 65 · 🔗 ×2 Sources: huggingface · arxiv/cs.AI

Rufus-Air is an open and reproducible post-training recipe on GLM-4.5-Air-Base (106B-A12B), organized as a serial pipeline of eight stages: SFT, Reasoning RL, Coding RL, Instruction-Following RL, General Agent, Coding Agent, Search Agent, and RLHF. We document the data, reward design, infrastructure

🟡 🤗 RGBD20K: A Large-Scale Benchmark for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation — score 58 · 🔗 ×2 Sources: huggingface · arxiv/cs.CV

In this paper, we propose RGBD20K, a novel dataset for facilitating the development of more robust and general RGB-D semantic segmentation by encompassing abundant categories and high-quality annotations. RGBD20K possesses several attractive properties: (1) Expanded Semantic Space. In particular, it

🟡 🤗 Learning to Discover Interesting Mathematics — score 50 · 🔗 ×2 Sources: huggingface · arxiv/cs.AI

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly able to solve advanced mathematical problems, including many that have been open for decades. This opens the door to expansion of mathematical knowledge at unprecedented scale. Yet, while LLMs may be able to conjecture and prove more and

🟡 🤗 AV-GRPO: Modality-Anchored Decoupling Diffusion Reinforcement Learning for Joint Audio-Video Generation — score 50 · 🔗 ×2 Sources: huggingface · arxiv/cs.CV

Recent years have witnessed major progress in joint audio-video generation. Existing models still suffer from limited per-modality fidelity, insufficient text-modality alignment and weak cross-modal synchronization. While reinforcement-learning post-training offers a promising remedy, directly adapt

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Other Signals

🟡 💬 What's up with AAAI reviewers and organizers? [D] — score 67 Sources: reddit/r/MachineLearning

My paper advanced to the second round...but... Out of the papers I reviewed. One did not follow the AAAI template and was unblinded. My review was two lines. The other "human reviewer" gave a list of pros and cons that were similar to the AI review. One was incomplete (missing paragraphs, figures, c

🟡 💬 iclr 2027 de anonymization [D] — score 59 Sources: reddit/r/MachineLearning

Wyhy this keeps happening to iclr? https://openreview.net/forum/user%7Cstatement_regarding_iclr_2027_submission_exposure_to_program_committee_members

🟡 💬 Opus 5.5 cut out em dashes almost entirely — score 55 Sources: reddit/r/singularity

Source: ArenaAI / X

🟡 𝕏 @sama: Startups are naturally good at this; it is hard to keep a bigger company good at this and i think an underexplored space. — score 55 Sources: twitter_rss

Startups are naturally good at this; it is hard to keep a bigger company good at this and i think an underexplored space.

🟡 💬 How long can I expect to wait until the local ~30B A3B frontier catches up to GLM 5.3 Flash quality? — score 52 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

The jump from Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B to current-day Qwen 3.6 35B A3B is crazy, especially with all the fine-tunes, and that was around 6 months (I didn't care for local AI back then, or AI at all, apart from as a toy so I don't know). Is around a year until I will never need cloud without buying ridicu

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🟢 Incremental

Model Releases

🟢 💬 Claude Fable 5.1 completed a frontier nine-loop particle-physics calculation experts had worked toward for years, with researchers mostly just telling it “keep going” while it built, debugged and ran the entire workflow — score 38 Sources: reddit/r/singularity

🟢 🤗 Edge0/Audio8-ASR-Infinite (2,853 downloads) — score 32 · 🔥 engaged Sources: huggingface_models

Author: | Downloads: 2,853 | Likes: 551

🟢 🤗 XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL (42,062 downloads) — score 25 Sources: huggingface_models

Author: | Downloads: 42,062 | Likes: 498

Developer Tools

🟢 💬 NeurIPS Accept, but Confusing Final Justification, Is This Normal? [D] — score 36 Sources: reddit/r/MachineLearning

Just got an Accept at NeurIPS with initial scores of 5/5/4! The initial meta-review was pretty positive, but the final justification was entirely negative, raising concerns about AI use and suggesting further investigation and reconsideration of the recommendation. For context, one reference was fla

🟢 💬 Codex down? — score 32 Sources: reddit/r/OpenAI

🟢 🧡 Issues with Codex – Identified – Full Outage — score 32 Sources: hackernews

🟢 🐙 zhukunpenglinyutong/desktop-cc-gui — Multi-engine AI coding desktop client (Tauri). Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness and more in one GUI. — score 29 Sources: github_trending

Multi-engine AI coding desktop client (Tauri). Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness and more in one GUI.

🟢 💬 Is there a lightweight version of Hermes agent? — score 23 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

I have limited Context (usually around 64k) For local use I don’t only do coding But also want like a personal assistant with memory and such. What is the best option?

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Business & Funding

🟢 💬 The True Definition of a Bubble — score 38 Sources: reddit/r/artificial

In 2025, * Meta made $200B in revenue, OpenAI made $13B. * Meta's profit was $83B, while OpenAI made a loss of -$38B * Meta's valuation was $2T, while OpenAI $1T In one year, OpenAI made 7% of Meta's revenue. It has a difference of $100B profit. and is valued at 50% of Meta

Other Signals

🟢 💬 Niantic Spatial and the Singapore Land Authority: Working Together to Explore Creating Singapore's First National Visual Positioning System Map — score 38 Sources: reddit/r/artificial

🟢 💬 Make Volta Fast Again — score 34 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

For those who have V100 cards, I wanted to point you to 1Cat-vLLM, a vLLM fork that enables optimized serving for these cards. Showing stats for Qwen3.6-35b comparing a Strix Halo with a hughly optimized llama.cpp fork (pwilkin) and the V100 with 1Cat. It’s not apples to apples, but I decided to sho

🟢 💬 This is fun. I finally got to follow up on a RemindMe comment. Back on March 25 of this year, six months ago, no model was getting even 1% on ARC-AGI-3. A commenter asked if we could see 75% at $2 cost. Well, the cost is still high ($26.1k), but GPT-6-Astra-Max was able to get 62.7% (no harness!) — score 30 Sources: reddit/r/singularity

And the commenter did technically say "a year from now", so to me that makes the 62.7% less than six months later (Astra was released earlier this month, on September 3), even more impressive. And of course with a lightweight memory adapter*, the benchmark is simply saturated. Those saturation score

🟢 💬 Qwen3.8-27B: Using KV Cache Transplants to Boost Output Quality — score 29 Sources: reddit/r/LocalLLaMA

Since my last post, I've been thinking about different options for dynamic performance degradation, trying to squeeze as much high-quality inference out of my GPU as I can. Over the weekend I r

🟢 💬 What do you think about fully open review systems? [D] — score 28 Sources: reddit/r/MachineLearning

In the age of AI, I believe the era in which individuals can dominate others solely on the basis of background knowledge, theoretical expertise, academic affiliation, or reputation is coming to an end. If we move from a double-blind review process to a fully open review system, it would become signi

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📈 Trending Repos

Repo	Description	Stars Today	Language
google/langextract	A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.	154	python
mvschwarz/openrig	Multi-agent harness that runs Claude Code and Codex together as one system	86	typescript
nobodywho-ooo/nobodywho	NobodyWho is an inference engine that lets you run LLMs locally and efficiently on any device.	43	rust
zhukunpenglinyutong/desktop-cc-gui	Multi-engine AI coding desktop client (Tauri). Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness and more in one GUI.	12	typescript
rivet-dev/rivet	Rivet Actors are the primitive for stateful workloads. Built for AI agents, collaborative apps, and durable execution.	7	rust
CodeZeno/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor	Windows taskbar widget for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more. Track usage limits and reset times. Free and open source.	7	rust

📄 New Papers

Title	Category	Hotness	Link
Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs	research_paper	56	Open
Parts-of-Speech as Emergent Categories in SAE Latent Space	research_paper	11	Open
Coding Agents for Generalized Task and Motion Planning Problems	research_paper	7	Open
Rufus-Air: An Open LLM Post-Training Recipe	research_paper	7	Open
RGBD20K: A Large-Scale Benchmark for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation	research_paper	6	Open
Learning to Discover Interesting Mathematics	research_paper	3	Open
AV-GRPO: Modality-Anchored Decoupling Diffusion Reinforcement Learning for Joint Audio-Video Generation	research_paper	3	Open
Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures	research_paper	3	Open
DeltaWAM: Delta World Action Models for Bimanual Manipulation	research_paper	3	Open
When Should Forecasting Agents Reason? Behavioral Stress Tests for Reliability Routing	cs.AI	0	Open
TW3Cast: A Frozen Router of Lightly Fine-Tuned Foundation Models for Time-Series Forecasting on GIFT-Eval, Selected Entirely on the Training Split	cs.AI	0	Open
PAWS: Policy-driven Agentic World Simulation	cs.AI	0	Open
Pistis Technical Report	cs.AI	0	Open
BaseCamp --- An Agentic AI Framework for Automating DNA Sequencing Data Pipelines	cs.AI	0	Open
DEEPO: Dual-Entropy Enhanced Policy Optimization for Hallucination in MLLMs	cs.AI	0	Open

🏢 Lab Blog Posts

• OpenAI: Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
• Cohere: Compass is coming to the cloud Gain access to our state-of-the-art search and retrieval engine, without worrying about the infrastructure Sep 25, 2026 5 min read

🐦 Twitter/X Highlights

Account	Tweet Summary
AnthropicAI	New on the Science Blog: Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops. Theoretical physicists predict how particles behave using formulas called scattering amplitudes. These are notoriously hard to compute, so researchers work with layers of increasingly fine corrections called “loops”—each added loop makes the an Post
sama	There is an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation. We’ve been publishing summaries at the link below and will continue to. We have not been as fast as we would have liked but we are trying to balance our desire for transparency with Post
sama	Startups are naturally good at this; it is hard to keep a bigger company good at this and i think an underexplored space. Post

Newsletter

• Ben's Bites: I went to Legoland yesterday with the kids - very impressive to see all the cities they’ve built with lego. Who’s job is that?!
• Ben's Bites: This week I built this fun site to see a bunch of popular devices from over the years. It only took a morning to make, started in Codex, finished withFactory.
• Ben's Bites: Then I sawthis awesome timeline scrubbing demo by Colewhere you drag through the years and a Mac button changes under your cursor. So I thought I’d like to make the same kind of thing, and thought to
• Latent Space: We go deep on the product and distributionlessons behind OpenRouter: why model labs can spend billions training a checkpoint and still struggle to get it into developers’ hands, how Mistral helped pro
• tldr: Designing AI Products And Features: Study Guide (6 Minute Read)
• tldr: How Zapier's CEO Grades Pms On AI Fluency (74 Minute Video)
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• tldr: Jev Introduces A New Shape Of LLM—System One, Aka Decision Models (5 Minute Read)
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• tldr: Meta's AI Agent Has Been Blocked From Using Amazon.Com (2 Minute Read)
• tldr: Why Yet Another Agent? (10 Minute Read)
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• tldr: Open Data: A Dataset Hub For LLM Serving Research (Website)
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• tldr: The Designer's Toolkit For The AI Age (Website)
• tldr: AI Can Build Your UI. Now Figma Can Tell It When It Screwed Up (4 Minute Read)
• tldr: Jev Becomes Vercel's Fastest-Adopted AI Model (2 Minute Read)
• tldr: NVIDIA Launches Certification Program For AI Data Center Power And Cooling (3 Minute Read)
• tldr: Fastly Launches Runtime Controls For Enterprise AI (4 Minute Read)
• tldr: Presidio Opens Enterprise AI Infrastructure Lab (3 Minute Read)
• tldr: Your Best People Are The Worst Judges Of Your AI Pilot (3 Minute Read)
• tldr: Say Hello To Rathat, A New AI-Powered Malware Invading The Android Ecosystem (3 Minute Read)
• rundown-ai: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put the odds of AI ending the world by 2030 at 0%, calling ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s viral warnings “irresponsible.”
• rundown-ai: Meta launched Muse connectors for developers, allowing outside apps to plug into its AI agent and creating a directory for the approved connector options.
• rundown-ai: The U.S. FAA went live with SMART, a new AI tool that scans 200 data feeds to assist air traffic controllers with bottlenecks, starting with a limited rollout in Washington, D.C.
• rundown-ai: a16z’s new AI-driven college alternative
• rundown-ai: MiMo-V2.6 - Xiaomi’s omnimodal models on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol
• rundown-ai: Studio 4.0 - ElevenLabs’ AI editor to generate and edit video, music, SFX
• rundown-ai: Forge by Fireworks brings together leaders building their own frontier on open models. Hear from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao, Microsoft EVP Jay Parikh, and more on Nov. 3 in SF. Apply to attend.
• rundown-ai: Alibaba unveiled its next AI chip delivering 3x the performance of its predecessor, alongside plans for a 5-10T-param model and 20GW of data-center capacity by 2032.
• rundown-ai: British Columbia sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging the company failed to alert police after flagging the Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT use.

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