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Smol AI News news-outlet 7mo ago
Z.ai GLM-5: New SOTA Open Weights LLM
**Zhipu AI** launched **GLM-5**, an **Opus-class** model scaling from **355B to 744B parameters** with **DeepSeek Sparse Attention** integration for cost-efficient long-context serving. GLM-5 achieves **SOTA on BrowseComp** and leads on **Vending Bench 2**, focusing on office…
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Qwen-Image 2.0 and Seedance 2.0
**OpenAI** advances its Responses API for multi-hour agent workflows with features like **server-side compaction**, **hosted containers**, and **Skills API**, alongside upgrading **Deep Research** to **GPT-5.2** and adding connectors. Discussions around sandbox design highlight…
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**OpenAI** launched **GPT-5.3-Codex** with a Super Bowl ad emphasizing "You can just build things" as a product strategy, focusing on builder tooling over chat interfaces. The model is rolling out across **Cursor, VS Code, and GitHub** with phased API access and is flagged as…
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**AI News** for early February 2026 highlights a detailed comparison between **GPT-5.3-Codex** and **Claude Opus 4.6**, with users noting **Codex's** strength in detailed scoped tasks and **Opus's** ergonomic advantage for exploratory work. Benchmarks on Karpathy's **nanochat…
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MoltBook takes over the timeline
**Moltbook** and **OpenClaw** showcase emergent multi-agent social networks where AI agents autonomously interact, creating an AI-native forum layer with complex security and identity challenges. **Karpathy** describes this as "takeoff-adjacent," highlighting bots…
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**AI News for 1/27/2026-1/28/2026** highlights a quiet day with deep dives into frontier model "personality split" where **GPT-5.2** excels at *exploration* and **Claude Opus 4.5** at *exploitation*, suggesting **OpenAI** suits research workflows and **Anthropic** commercial…
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**Anthropic** launches "Claude in Excel Pro" with enhanced features. **OpenAI** reveals upcoming **Codex** agent loop and cybersecurity measures. **Google** boosts **Gemini App** quotas and partners with **Sakana AI** for advanced AI Scientist projects in Japan. **Cursor**…
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**X Engineering** open-sourced its new transformer-based recommender algorithm, sparking community debate on transparency and fairness. **GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B)** gains momentum as a strong local inference model with efficient KV-cache management and quantization tuning…
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**AI News for 1/16/2026-1/19/2026** covers new architectures for scaling Transformer memory and context, including **STEM** from **Carnegie Mellon** and **Meta AI**, which replaces part of the FFN with a token-indexed embedding lookup enabling CPU offload and asynchronous…
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**OpenAI** launched **GPT-5.2-Codex** API, touted as their strongest coding model for long-running tasks and cybersecurity. **Cursor** integrated GPT-5.2-Codex to autonomously run a browser for a week, producing over 3 million lines of Rust code. **GitHub** incorporated it into…
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**Anthropic** tightens usage policies for **Claude Max** in third-party apps, prompting builders to adopt **model-agnostic orchestration** and **BYO-key** defaults to mitigate platform risks. The **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** is evolving into a key tooling plane with **OpenAI…
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**Stanford paper** reveals **Claude 3.7 Sonnet** memorized **95.8% of Harry Potter 1**, highlighting copyright extraction risks compared to **GPT-4.1**. **Google AI Studio** sponsors **TailwindCSS** amid OSS funding debates. **Google** and **Sundar Pichai** launch **Gmail Gemini…
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**AI News for 1/6/2026-1/7/2026** highlights a quiet day with key updates on **LangChain DeepAgents** introducing **Ralph Mode** for persistent agent loops, **Cursor** improving context management by reducing token usage by **46.9%**, and operational safety measures for coding…
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xAI raises $20B Series E at ~$230B valuation
**xAI**, Elon Musk's AI company, completed a massive **$20 billion Series E funding round**, valuing it at about **$230 billion** with investors like **Nvidia**, **Cisco Investments**, and others. The funds will support AI infrastructure expansion including **Colossus I and II…
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**AI News** from early January 2026 highlights a viral economic prediction about **Vietnam** surpassing Thailand, **Microsoft**'s reported open-sourcing of **bitnet.cpp** for 1-bit CPU inference promising speed and energy gains, and a new research partnership between **Google…
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**DeepSeek** released a new paper on **mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections**, advancing residual-path design as a key scaling lever in neural networks. Their approach constrains residual mixing matrices to the **Birkhoff polytope** to improve stability and performance,…
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**South Korea's Ministry of Science** launched a coordinated program with **5 companies** to develop sovereign foundation models from scratch, featuring large-scale MoE architectures like **SK Telecom A.X-K1 (519B total / 33B active)** and **LG K-EXAONE (236B MoE / 23B…
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**Z.ai (GLM family) IPO in Hong Kong on Jan 8, 2026**, aiming to raise **$560M** at **HK$4.35B**, marking it as the "first AI-native LLM company" public listing. The IPO highlights **GLM-4.7** as a starting point. **Meta AI** acquired **Manus** for approximately **$4–5B**, with…
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**MiniMax M2.1** launches as an **open-source** agent and coding Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with **~10B active / ~230B total parameters**, claiming to outperform **Gemini 3 Pro** and **Claude Sonnet 4.5**, and supports local inference including on **Apple Silicon M3 Ultra**…
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**GLM-4.7** and **MiniMax M2.1** open-weight model releases highlight day-0 ecosystem support, coding throughput, and agent workflows, with GLM-4.7 achieving a +9.5% improvement over GLM-4.6 and MiniMax M2.1 positioned as an OSS Claude-like MoE model with 230B total parameters…
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**Zhipu AI's GLM-4.7** release marks a significant improvement in **coding, complex reasoning, and tool use**, quickly gaining ecosystem adoption via Hugging Face and OpenRouter. **Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Flash** is highlighted as a practical, cost-efficient mixture-of-experts model…
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**Alibaba** released **Qwen-Image-Layered**, an open-source model enabling Photoshop-grade layered image decomposition with recursive infinite layers and prompt-controlled structure. **Kling 2.6** introduced advanced motion control for image-to-video workflows, supported by a…
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