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The Daily AI Espresso — the links the most-followed people in AI actually shared, curated every morning. Edited by Alexis · Live updates →
One development clears today's highest-consequence bar.
Reflection introduced Beam, a 501B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model with 23B active, trained on 23.8T tokens via 10.5K Nvidia GB300 GPUs over four weeks. Weights, technical report and developer artifacts land later this month.
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DeepSeek is finalizing at least $12 billion (80 billion yuan) with Tencent and battery giant CATL among the biggest backers, Bloomberg reported, as the Chinese lab readies a Hong Kong IPO targeted for Q1 2027. Final tally could near 100 billion yuan.
Inference-chip startup Etched is fielding bids at $40 billion to $50 billion, double the $21 billion mark set in September when Jane Street led a $700 million round, TechCrunch reported. Only in July, Sequoia had led a $300 million round at $10.3 billion.
A Defense Department official told the BBC on October 5 that the Pentagon 'has ceased the use of Anthropic products.' Sources said Claude was still running inside Palantir's Maven Smart System as recently as last week, including on US operations against Iran.
HackerRank made Chakra, its AI interviewer, generally available October 5 after a six-month beta of 500,000 interviews. Snowflake, Snorkel and Capgemini were early customers. CEO Vivek Ravisankar says Chakra scores candidate reasoning, collapsing screen, take-home and panel rounds into one sitting.
Rest of World reports Q2 sub-$100 phone shipments fell nearly 60% year over year, with new models priced ~25% higher as memory makers divert supply to AI data centers. Price hikes hit 21% in India, 19% across Asia-Pacific, 18% in MEA versus 5% in the US.
Useful releases, methods, and workflows worth trying.
RemoveMacAI, a new CLI tool from developer Om Lahore, disables Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 Golden Gate and reclaims 12 to 30GB of disk space, reversibly. Apple removed the system-wide toggle in macOS 27, leaving models in place even when users disable features one by one.
SemiAnalysis estimates Anthropic's $200 Claude plan delivers roughly five times the API-equivalent value of OpenAI's comparable $200 tier on mid-tier workloads, comparing Opus 5.5 to GPT 6.1 Sol. Subscriptions make up ~10% of Anthropic revenue but consume over 40% of inference compute.
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Nieman Lab reports ChatGPT is attaching real New Yorker cartoonists' pen names, like Brendan Loper's 'BLOPER,' to AI-generated images users request in the magazine's style. One Dolly Parton cartoon drew 25,000 likes on a single tweet; Loper did not draw or sign it.
That’s today’s shot. — Alexis · AI Weekly
