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this is typical of the cluelessness of people who literarily don’t understand the difference between a. a neural network solving a problem by itself and b. a neural network proposing an answer and hav
Today I’m excited to introduce OpenDocRouter - a unified API for document parsing with the latest frontier and open-weight models. There are a lot of VLMs and OCR models that can be used for document
Today @MeckaAI is announcing a 60M Series B from @sequoia to accelerate the advent of general purpose robotics This brings our total funding to over 120M to become the data and deployment layer for ph
Today we're announcing OpenDocRouter: every model for document parsing under one API. There are ~4,000 OCR models on Hugging Face, and the frontier labs ship a new one nearly every month. Whatever's b
today we’re shipping gpt-6 and intelligent ui to everyone! intelligent ui is a bet on model intelligence. we’re letting gpt-6 fill the canvas with high utility visual and interactive components. it’s
Useful paper on what an agent harness changes when the model stays the same. One takeaway: keep your harness prompt and tools small. In this study, that can cut costs by up to 3x without lowering accu
On Oct 7 2026, Sam Altman announced the initiative “Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics,” highlighting a new era of discovery enabled by AI advances. The announcement appeared on OpenAI’s website (http
We @sequoia are thrilled to lead @MeckaAI’s Series B. AI took the digital world by storm; bringing it into the physical world will be a wave at least as large, but harder - it demands excellence acros
We show how you can use the River API to fine-tune open weight models to beat GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on tasks you care about, with less than 1% of the cost! A few years from now most of the L
We’re open-sourcing pplx-embed-v2-late, multi-vector embeddings for text and images, 9B and 0.6B, in one shared embedding space. You can use these to index multimodal data with 9B, and query on device
We're releasing pplx-embed-v2-late, two late-interaction embedding models that retrieve text, images, and pages with a shared embedding space for cross-model querying. Both models achieve frontier per
We're sharing progress on ChatGPT for Teens, our ChatGPT experience for people under 18, alongside a preview of College Planner, new study tools, and support for college advisers and teen voices. Chat
When the open-source AI platform Hugging Face was hit by a cyberattack this July, it quickly became clear this was no ordinary breach because the hackers weren’t human: they were autonomous agents cre
With Intelligent UI, GPT‑6 can now compose responses using text, visuals, and interactive elements, choosing how they fit together based on your question. Responses can include graphics and charts to
@WSJ @nvidia @M12vc @SamsungNext @robotventures @usv @ycombinator @MenloVentures Join us at NousCon to celebrate and perhaps catch some sneak peeks https://x.com/NousResearch/status/210504377770675421
yep, this, too, like a bunch of other similar tweets, is typical of the cluelessness of people who literarily don’t understand the difference between a. a neural network solving a problem by itself an
You may ask why we’re doing this given that our main focus within LlamaParse (https://cloud.llamaindex.ai/) is building the best frontier models for document parsing and extraction. While we believe o
A new breed of startups is emerging to help businesses use AI smarter and cheaper, shifting towards open Chinese models and giving the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic a run for their billions. Read more
Again and again we must scream: we did not need to do this garbage, this crime of torture and ‘extra-legal’ detentions and GITMO. We have a justice system that has prosecuted terrorist cases for decad
AI is driving the biggest infrastructure build-out in history, with @Google alone forecasting $200B of capex in 2026E. What are the real constraints on a system at this scale? Amin Vahdat is the chief
The Guardians’ pitchers list for Game 3 is highly fluid, with manager Paul Molitor indicating that Mike Williams is unlikely to start and Michael Messick probably will not be used either. Instead, he
An interesting cognitive bias: 'GLM 5.3 is around as capable as Claude Mythos at cyber-exploitation while also having much lower safeguards, meaning that every additional day absent some dire cybersec
Another example, my actual prompts https://x.com/bcherny/status/2102543349102338309?s=20 I used Opus 5.5 to formally verify the Claude Agent SDK using Lean. A couple short prompts = 16 PRs fixing vari
Banger paper from Meta AI on research agents that decide what to investigate next. (bookmark it) If you run long-horizon research agents, choosing the next investigation is hard to learn, because thos
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models “I
Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 63.31 and 4.99 per task. GPT 6 Astra is second at 56.25 and 11.61. Sonnet 5.5 follows at 53.14 and 2.82. At the other end, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores 36.91 at 0.26 and Ling 3.
Context compression is a huge bottleneck for long-running agents. This work finds that context compression hurts long-horizon agents at a few specific points. They propose PAIR, which replays the agen
On October 6 2026, Georgi Gerganov ( @ggerganov ) announced **day‑0 support for EmbeddingGemma 2 in llama.cpp** on Hugging Face. The announcement linked to the GGUF‑formatted model weights hosted unde
decision models + local ai = ❤️ tried Laya (421M) on llama.cpp in a little apple-picking benchmark, it's almost as good as Qwen 4B at 12x the speed. Media Decision models in llama.cpp are now availabl
Excited to share that I have (re)joined @huggingface as a Opensource ML engineer! Many incredible things to come around this fantastic technology -extremely grateful for the opportunity, I am very exc
For their Mistral Large 4 release, @MistralAI ran a blind Surge human eval, with our expert software engineers evaluating five frontier models on coding quality. Le Chonk ranked #1 among open-weight m
.@GoogleDeepMind EmbeddingGemma 2 is now available on Ollama. Made for consumer devices and is multimodal. ollama pull embeddinggemma-2 Meet EmbeddingGemma 2, our first natively multimodal open model
Great report from Google and MIT. Co-designing ML models and the accelerators is an exciting research direction. This report introduces Coco, an agent platform TPU architects use for hardware and mode
Grok 4.7 is excellent at dealing with large code repositories Grok 4.7 takes the TOP 3 spots on VulcanBench Frontier v4, outperforming Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and other leading f
Here's a benchmark that uses Lilypond https://x.com/aug5thmusic/status/2096030719156089029 GPT-6 Astra has the best result yet on the Bach Benchmark. Its chorale contains no voice-leading errors, and
I asked Opus 5.5 to make an interactive website companion for the latest @AcquiredFM Home Depot episode. It came out pretty nice! Water color illustrations all drawn by Claude, too: https://claude.ai/
On October 6 2026 Sophia Yang announced an “open‑source AI week.” She highlighted Monday’s event featuring @reflection_ai’s Beam and Tuesday’s unveiling of @MistralAI’s Mistral Large 4, indicating ant
I recently led an AI workshop where the most jaw-dropping moment was toggling the desktop app from ChatGPT to Codex. That moment elicited the loudest “OHHHHH!!!” I heard all day. And these are incredi
i was told we can't fundraise and grow at the same time. it turned out we grew monthly usage 400% during fundraising. we have never run this fast. while taking 60 investor calls a week, we shipped 20
If you are using Qwen3.8-27B + MTP, make sure to upgrade to DFlash for extra speed: llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF --spec-type draft-dflash --spec-draft-n-max 7 Requires the latest llama.cp
I'm at COLM in SF this week! I work on agentic code gen at @cohere. If you want to talk about training code agents, DM me. Our team is also hiring: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/70a8dc77-ac84-4790-a
Introducing GeoGuess Bench! A benchmark to measure how good AI models are at playing GeoGuessr. We gave each model 210 photos from around the world, asked it to predict where each photo was taken, and
Introducing Hermes Index: an average of benchmarks measuring model performance in Hermes Agent. Our goal with Hermes Index is to better inform users choosing between models and to show labs how they p
Introducing: Personal Agent Protocol (PAP)—an open standard for how personal agents interact with businesses. @stripe is joining Meta, Sierra, Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, and Walmart as foundi
Investors pattern matching on old movies is going to lead to a recession. There is no network effect here and no reason to think that large language models will be anything other than a brutal commodi
LA Tech Week starts Monday, and our monthly LA Agentic AI Meetup is on day two: Tuesday, October 13, 5 to 7pm at Gulp in Playa Vista. Community member PJ Kedilaya is demoing ModelVantage, which tracks
let me introduce you to the langchain stack 1. langgraph gives you this level of control 2. traces give you the complete run lineage 3. version your skills and instructions in context hub 4 & 5. deepa
Like Jev, I believe RL will unlock several more like this, slashing the cost of critical agent operations. flow-1 is competitive in performance, but a huge cost-saver for finding failures in agent tra
LL Cool J warns Joe Rogan: programmers' political biases will ruin AI. On the Political Compass test, xAI's Grok is the only major AI that lands near the center. Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI al
Malware reverse-engineering: solving an out-of-distribution investigation task. When faced with an unknown binary, Mistral Large 4 reverse-engineers it end-to-end. In this case, it concludes the sampl
Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workl
Mistral 4 is pretty good at lawyer bench and cyber security bench, but give it's European heritage, one can only assume it's also good at regulation bench Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T para
Mistral can pelican now! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F0db8b8196e57711b352f6c5857cf5b35#response-1 Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Cho
Mistral Large 4 against the field: efficiently reasoning over diverse complex challenges. CTF speedrun: 19 challenges, with tool calls and solve times grounded in actual runs. It solved 18 of the 19.
Mistral AI announced that its new model, Mistral Large 4, is among the world's most powerful AI systems specifically designed for cybersecurity tasks. The tweet shared on October 6, 2026 highlights th
One thing I'd LOVE to understand is how Claude 'knows' what the music from Secret of Monkey Island sounds like Maybe Anthropic crawled a whole bunch of online music discussion forums with text-based r
pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, our updated open weights multimodal decision model, is now available. It scores the highest on the new @huggingface Decision Index 0.3 benchmark. pplx-decider-v1.1-27b costs hal
Really nice paper on harness-aware distillation for small language model agents. (bookmark it) It's a super interesting distillation framework for small language model agents that are deployed with a
releasing my local AI slide deck covers from prefill vs decode, MoE vs dense, VRAM vs unified memory, quantization to speculative decoding, everything with llama.cpp feel free to reuse with attributio
Spontaneous morning chat with Juergen Schmidhuber and Jake Newfield philosophizing about AI. Sry my mic somehow disconnected but Juergen had the more interesting points anyways! Our CEO @Jake_Newfield