Ah, covered in my newsletter but the weights came out after :) Minimax H3 model plus spaces for trying it:
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Lynn Cherny
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Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
What they're sharing
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 · Hugging Face huggingface.co
EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model blog.google
AI Economics for Dummies mcsweeneys.net
Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident youtube.com
IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
google.com
Exploring new frontiers of AI and games research — Google DeepMind deepmind.google
Jev Decision Index - a Hugging Face Space by multimodalart huggingface.co
google.com
Apply for Anthropic’s AI for Science rare disease research grants anthropic.com
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arxiv.org
Science Workflows - Conversing with antiquity — Google DeepMind deepmind.google
Articles & links
EmbeddingGemma 2, a tiny multimodal mobile ready embedding model
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter multimodal embedding model built on Gemma 4 and licensed under Apache 2.0.
- The model has an 8K token context window with 768-dimensional outputs truncatable to 512, 256, or 128 via Matryoshka learning.
- Quantized on a Pixel 11 Pro, memory is roughly 191MB text-only and 567MB multimodal; MTEB Code reaches 78.68 versus 68.76 for v1.
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Blood Sacrifice Fridays… lol -mcsweenys on AI finance www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
Everyone I follow who is a credentialed, serious AI researcher (and model trainer) is shaken by the alignment security breaches as that count goes up. All are sharing this Eric Wallace talk as a must watch
are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
- The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
- Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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DeepMind is hiring a gameplay engineer in London. They have also hired an excellent narrative designer.
Google DeepMind article on 15 tears of Ai game research
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Google DeepMind announced a research partnership with Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online, to probe frontier AI capabilities inside the 20-plus-year-old space MMO.
- The four capabilities in scope are named plainly: continual learning, memory, long-horizon planning, and complex multi-agent dynamics.
- SIMA 2, powered by Gemini, now operates as an interactive companion across No Man's Sky, Valheim and Hydroneer, with an Aura Guidance system inside EVE.
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Fantastic benchmark of Jev vs its "clones" from HuggingFace: DecisionIndex huggingface.co/spaces/multimo...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- The Jev Decision Index scores decision models against a frozen suite of 132,422 requests across 37 benchmarks.
- Nineteen benchmarks form the scored panel across five equal-weight areas, with a 0-100 mean-of-areas metric.
- House rules ban prompt tuning, truncation, and option filtering; abstained and errored requests score zero before chance normalization.
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Also a game designer role:
Lynn Cherny reposted
We're offering grants of up to $50,000 in Claude usage credits to researchers accelerating cures for rare diseases. This is our first focused call within AI for Science, our program supporting scientists using Claude to speed up discovery. https://www.anthropic.com/news/rare-d…
People are studying this problem :). arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26492
@dmimno.bsky.social might interest you deepmind.google/science/work...
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Recent commentary
Two talks from software devs (react three fiber, gsap) saying community input, convo has died while installs go up - AI is user now, but how do they improve the libs without useful feedback? And a morale problem for open source devs.
I asked Claude for an explainer on the paper that inspired Emily St John Mandel for Exit Party and it was quietly scathing. (It would be crazy not to have the best LLMs critique your research these days.)
Bizarre NYT headline on this HF case — "OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library"
This season of Silo — I find I don't care at all about the historical backstory of how this happened; it's too easily imaginable that a bunch of dumb assholes in power fucked up the world and made underground slave cultures with drugs and AI
Weekend AI overload - got into the World Labs Atlas preview (no idea how to use it but trying), summarizing fiction (so hard), and building a three js game
Hah I rec’d a good recent AI based novel in my media recs nl post and gained a new sub (the author) 😄. Anyway, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein is a fine 10-minutes from now AI read.
today was a solid morning of AI industry wtf
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