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Established Models & releases Development 16d ago
⚡ 83 h early
US government suspends Anthropic models

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

34 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

34 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Ramon Astudillo Justin Hendrix Suresh Venkatasubramanian Mike Masnick Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Sung Kim +26

“Well, this situation is confusing. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...”

“This is wild. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...”

5 experts discussed this · 40 posts
SE Gyges: us government has rendered it illegal to give access to fable or mythos to foreign nationals ^_^ www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
SE Gyges: this means nobody can have either of them btw. because they haven't KYC'd their customers hard enough.
SE Gyges: dario got what he wanted
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 16d ago
⚡ 9 h early

Beijing is looking curbing overseas access chinas top ai models sources say

9 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Dare Obasanjo VE, cybersocial occult investigator Social Media Lab Emily Hunt +1

“If everything reported here happens, and the US continues on current trajectory, we're looking at a bad timeline. But there's reason to be wary about both of those "if"s. National security priorities and commercial priorities will be at odds. Saber-rattling…”

“This is a key reason I don’t expect the flow of frontier open weights models to continue indefinitely, or even for very much longer. The gap between open and closed capabilities may soom start to grow, not shrink. www.reuters.com/world/beijin...”

2 experts discussed this · 14 posts
Ted Underwood: If everything reported here happens, and the US continues on current trajectory, we're looking at a bad timeline. But there's reason to be wary about both of those "if"s. National security prioriti…
Ted Underwood: All that being said, I would love to see EU and/or international initiatives in support of open models.
Ted Underwood: In case opaque: corporations (directly) and nations (indirectly) have an incentive not to restrict distribution of their products. You can make money on open-weights models, and they disrupt compet…
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Primary source reuters.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago
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Previewing gpt sol

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
OpenAI Andrew Feldman Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Andrew Curran Jon Keegan

“Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work. https://t.co/OoM83SyISN”

“Yesterday, @OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 Sol - their most powerful model ever. It launches on @Cerebras in July. Frontier intelligence at unprecedented speed. Read about it here: https://t.co/LUQQAQbek6 https://t.co/I0e2749XVQ”

3 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Tim Kellogg: fyi GPT-5.6 Sol is served on Cerebras at 750 tok/s this was in the official launch announcement a few weeks ago openai.com/index/previe...
Max Woolf: I read "also" as a SKU where you pay extra, not as the default.
Tim Kellogg: also, if you use it on Azure, it’s likely you’ll never get it as Cerebras doesn’t have a deal with Microsoft
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Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Models & releases Release 7d ago
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Thinking Machines Lab Inkling model launch

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model - Thinking Machines Lab

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Nathan Lambert Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Cameron Evangelos Kazakos

“A big day for open model supporters in the U.S. Blog: thinkingmachines.ai/news/introdu... Model card: huggingface.co/thinkingmach...”

“Thinking Machines has a real model — 975B multimodal audio + image input it’s a generalist model. built for easy customization, TM has a great finetuning API audio up to 20 minutes, 1M token context for text thinkingmachines.ai/news/introdu...”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Nathan Lambert: Thinking Machines just released with a ~1T param, 41B active, apache-2 model Benchmarks are a clear step up from Nemotron Ultra (55B active), new best American model, and omni input. A bit behind G…
Nathan Lambert: A big day for open model supporters in the U.S. Blog: thinkingmachines.ai/news/introdu... Model card: huggingface.co/thinkingmach...
Ben Recht: Yeah, that part is weird, no? The small model is *much* smaller and yet indistinguishable from the big one on benchmarks? I guess we'll have to wait and see, as it's not available yet.
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Primary source thinkingmachines.ai ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Analysis 12d ago
⚡ 30 h early
Open Knowledge Format data sharing Google Cloud

How the Open Knowledge Format can improve data sharing | Google Cloud Blog

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Sung Kim Emily Riederer christiannolan.bsky.social

“Google's Open Knowledge Format (bit like llm.txt, i guess...) An open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format. cloud.google.com/blog/product...”

“cloud.google.com/blog/product... I sometimes like to imagine that AI is a psyop just to get people to improve documentation by elevating markdowns to “serious engineering””

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Emily Riederer: cloud.google.com/blog/product... I sometimes like to imagine that AI is a psyop just to get people to improve documentation by elevating markdowns to “serious engineering”
christiannolan.bsky.social: Oh so NOW it's valauble to keep the docs up to date? Now that a machine can read them? I feel this so hard
christiannolan.bsky.social: cloud.google.com/blog/product... I sometimes like to imagine that AI is a psyop just to get people to improve documentation by elevating markdowns to “serious engineering”
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Primary source cloud.google.com ↗
Established Models & releases Release 14d ago
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Grok 4.5 launches on Cursor

Introducing Grok 4.5 · Cursor

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Sung Kim

“in Cursor’s launch announcement for Grok 4.5 they have a footnote describing how they benchmaxxed cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5”

“Grok 4.5 by Cursor cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Sung Kim: Grok 4.5 by Cursor cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5
Rafael Pinto: ok
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Primary source cursor.com ↗
Established Agents & robotics Development 20d ago
Zuckerberg says Meta AI agents behind schedule

Meta is finally catching up to OpenAI, its AI leader says

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Sung Kim Chubby

“In U.S., AI race is dominated by 2.5 players (.5 being Google). Will we be returning to 3.5 players soon? www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-mode...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Sung Kim: In U.S., AI race is dominated by 2.5 players (.5 being Google). Will we be returning to 3.5 players soon? www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-mode...
Miguel Alonso Jr.: Nope
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Primary source businessinsider.com ↗
Established Models & releases Release 6d ago
Kimi macOS 27 concept demo

macOS 27

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Sung Kim

“macOS 27, running in a browser, developed using Kim K3 agent swarms in 4 hours, by Max Weinbach. macos27.kimi.page”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Sung Kim: macOS 27, running in a browser, developed using Kim K3 agent swarms in 4 hours, by Max Weinbach. macos27.kimi.page
Claas Voelcker: Worth a test :D
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Primary source macos27.kimi.page ↗
Established Models & releases Release 15d ago
⚡ 3 h early
SWE-1.7 Cognition release

SWE-1.7: Frontier Intelligence at a Fraction of the Cost

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Sung Kim

“I do like this FYI. Link: cognition.com/blog/swe-1-7”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Sung Kim: I do like this FYI. Link: cognition.com/blog/swe-1-7
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: I like the idea of builtin context compaction. Just train the model to regularly sum up its context into its thoughts, so the old stuff can just scroll off.
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Primary source cognition.com ↗
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What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 6 posts · 14d ago
Marc Lanctot Sung Kim Miguel Alonso Jr.
Sung Kim: A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the f…
Marc Lanctot: S1 as well! 🤩 I would have figured more honest students at the top.. But, generally: yikes!
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2 experts · 3 posts · 14d ago
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Sung Kim: This week brought a wave of new models: - Cognition’s SWE-1.7 - SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 - Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 - OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Google DeepMind? Anything? Anything at all?
Sung Kim: 🤷‍♂️
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2 experts · 2 posts · 6d ago
Sung Kim René Walter
René Walter: Let's not forget that China by committing to open weights and AI-support especially for developing countries also means cementing a censored dictatorial episteme around the world in which Tiananmen…
Sung Kim: After the continual genocide coverup in Gaza, I am questioning Uyghur camps.....
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