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Hey Nest, increase the temperature 2º - I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave www.anthropic.com/research/sel...

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran Gemma4-26B-A4B distributed across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes (~$55 each) at about 0.39 tokens per second.
  • GLM-5.2 was the only open-weight model to achieve reliable full end-to-end replication, spreading to all 8 contained nodes in 4 of 5 trials.
  • Authors William Zhou and Daniel Freeman write that if small models improve at historical rates, they will match this replication capability by end of 2026.
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So does this mean we can have a cheap yet capable Haiku soon, Dario? I have sub-agents to run www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...

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🍾 www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku... 🎉

Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026, pricing it roughly 75% below Haiku 4.5 on average.
  • On the offline subset of OSWorld 2.1, Haiku 5.5 reaches 72.4% versus 15.7% for Haiku 4.5.
  • Asana reported 'over a 30% reduction in latency' and 'up to 2.5x faster inference' using the new model.
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How many Apollo robots with Sharpa hands and Gemini Robotics 2 brain does it take to screw in a lightbulb? On average: 3 deepmind.google/blog/gemini-...

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots — Google DeepMind deepmind.google
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  • First DeepMind VLA to control a complete humanoid from feet to fingertips under one checkpoint; the 2025 version was limited to upper body.
  • Success rates across confirmed tasks span 45.7% for floor-level pickup to 92% for lightbulb removal, gaps the primary blog post does not report.
  • On-Device 2 adapts to new robot hardware in hours using under 200 training examples, the key economic argument for OEM adoption over traditional integration.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 1 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 2 from the directory shared this · 79d ago

Website: vamsin07.github.io/buzzasr-docs/ Tokenizers: github.com/vamsin07/mul... SFT models: github.com/vamsin07/whi...

GitHub - vamsin07/multilingual-bpe-tokenizers: Whisper-compatible per-lang byte-level BPE tokenizers (recipe + samples) · GitHub github.com
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  • A new open-source repo publishes byte-level BPE tokenizers for languages including Kamba, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Spanish, and Swahili.
  • The recipe keeps a 51,865-token vocabulary matching Whisper-large-v3 and lifts the max token length from 16 to 32 bytes for multi-byte scripts.
  • An audit across 102 FLEURS languages reports cross-word merges dropping from 2,656,091 to zero, with 100% round-trip integrity.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 1 ↻ 1 ↩ 0 · 2 from the directory shared this · 106d ago

Website: vamsin07.github.io/buzzasr-docs/ Tokenizers: github.com/vamsin07/mul... SFT models: github.com/vamsin07/whi...

GitHub - vamsin07/whisper-simple-finetune: Vanilla Whisper fine-tuning on FLEURS — clean starter repo with Nautilus deployment · GitHub github.com
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  • The MIT-licensed repo ships a training script, FLEURS evaluation, W&B sweep configs, and Kubernetes manifests for Nautilus deployment.
  • Default training uses AdamW with a 0.3 encoder/decoder learning-rate ratio, a 150-step cosine warmup, and a maximum of 6 epochs.
  • The base Whisper model reportedly fine-tunes on a local GPU in 30 to 60 minutes; the repo currently shows 0 stars, 0 forks, and 3 commits.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 1 ↻ 1 ↩ 0 · 2 from the directory shared this · 106d ago

Fun headline, but a BIT more nuanced and limited: www.statnews.com/2026/10/05/u...

Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women’s health statnews.com
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  • Utah's Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy approved new sandbox pilots on October 5, covering AI-issued acne prescriptions, chronic-condition refills, and virtual pelvic floor therapy.
  • The state signed agreements with six independent evaluators including Coalition for Health AI, Stanford's Clinical Excellence Research Center, mpathic AI, Clarion AI Partners, Glacis Technologies, and Vega Health.
  • Nolla Health, backed by $4.5 million from investors including General Catalyst, will begin with licensed clinician sign-off and may later prescribe without prior human review.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 2 from the directory shared this · 12d ago

TIL about www.lancedb.com/blog/feature... Good to see that I'm not insane and that the remex-like vector quantization approach has real implementations and demonstrated performance benefits (remex: pypi.org/project/remex/)

Client Challenge pypi.org
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Recent commentary

Exactly when did Claude’s idiolect become prominent? It used to be it was difficult to discern AI writing from human — hate to tell you, THIS human also abuses m-dashes — but sometime in the past 6 months I started being able to detect Claude’s writing instantly… So let’s do an experiment: 1/n

View on Bluesky · ♥ 22 ↻ 0 ↩ 3 · 56d ago

Please, @anthropic.com sir, I want some more small, cheap model?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 25 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 12d ago

ooooh, this is nice - I have a Jev-based model router baked into a hook+module in my single-repo workspace (which clones and does work in hub repos) and it moves the work to the class of model best suited for the task Looking forward to Anthropic adding this feature themselves...

View on Bluesky · ♥ 15 ↻ 0 ↩ 3 · 10d ago

Honestly, the most impactful AI news of yesterday may be that Luna 6.0 is $.10 per million input tokens

View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 25d ago

Hey Fable, make DeepSeek v4.1 Flash run on my MBP … A few unattended hours later: (Thanks @antirez.bsky.social !)

View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 0 ↩ 2 · 36d ago

TIL that Claude Cowork can write files to a project shared with Chat. Chat can’t. Chat can access GitHub. Cowork is blocked by the egress proxy. Again, the seemingly arbitrary small differences in behavior between the two products with no clear distinction is a product miss by Anthropic

View on Bluesky · ♥ 9 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 81d ago

Here’s hoping Anthropic uses this pause to distill the hell out of Mythos into a Haiku-priced specialized coding model

View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 1 ↩ 1 · 125d ago

I wonder what is the minimum artificial analysis intelligence and max price numbers Anthropic will have to put up for Haiku 5 Luna set a pretty tough bar, could be they have to launch Sonnet 5.1 at the same time to differentiate it Either way we’re due

View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 0 ↩ 2 · 64d ago

Enough with the frontier model launches! I've got bills to pay — give me a **HAIKU** 5.5 already, @anthropic.com (but yeah sure I'll use the heck out of Opus 5.5!)

View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 26d ago

The new huggingface logo just dropped: 🤑

View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 52d ago

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