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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

Super excited about this and I know weights are coming (https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Large-4.0-1T05-A52B) but just to be fair, you can't be the best open-weight model if you're not open-we

Surprising AI life hack for email management that will save you from inbox overwhelm. You can give your AI agent its own email address (Instinct does this automatically) and use that email address for

That one took some groundwork. Trained and served on our own compute, and RL shows no sign of saturation Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the

The Claude Startups program is expanding to more founders. Members can get a year of Claude Team, API credits, special offers on the tools a startup runs on, and office hours with Anthropic’s Applied

There's a party on Friday night that most of SF Tech Week will only hear about on Saturday. So, we made a vintage film to announce it. In the 1920s, inventions were rewriting everyday life and nobody

There's one question you should ask before you build an agent. Most people skip it (and pay for it in compute). Over a year of agent research at @AI21Labs across deep research, RAG indexing, agentic s

Today on AI:AM, @swyx is back. Astra is 'a fully capable AI Engineer' for $6/hr, so what's left of the job he named? Plus Cursor → SpaceX, whether agent labs survive, and a preview of @aidotengineer N

Today, we are launching a preview of our new model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), aka le Chonk 🐈. ML4 is a 1T-parameter model with 49B active parameters, trained natively with multimodal capabilities. It is

On October 6, 2026 Microsoft promoted a live announcement schedule featuring upcoming releases from Windows, Surface devices, and NVIDIA’s RTX Spark suite. The event was set to air at 10:00 AM Pacific

Turns out you don't need a frontier lab budget to build a solid decision classifier. Our Head of AI Developer Education @prof_oz fine-tuned a 9B Jev-style classifier on Fireworks using plain SFT, publ

We analyzed a year of agent research across 4 tasks: deep research, RAG indexing, agentic search and coding. Found that first asking ‘Is this task verifiable?’ exposed inefficiencies in the agent arch

We are releasing the only Western OSS LLM that is competitive with the best Chinese OSS models for coding tasks! Mistral Large 4 preview, AKA le Chonk 🐈 is SOTA OSS on cyber and human evals. Check 🧵 b

We just raised $7.7M to kill every subscription for agents. Introducing http://monid.ai, the openrouter for agent tools. Your agents can now: > discover, run, and pay for tools at runtime > use 2,500