New models, papers, and benchmarks
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China's open-weights race just produced its most awkward win: Zhipu's GLM-5.3 landed Thursday with frontier-level coding and a cyber capability its own makers admit outgrew their expectations — and Moonshot AI is racing a closing window toward a Hong Kong listing. Zhipu released
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China's AI week keeps delivering: a social-commerce giant just opened the weights of the first model family to ace the International Mathematical Olympiad, and the country's top foundry is cashing in on AI demand like never before. Xiaohongshu's dots lab open-sourced dots3-
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Enterprise AI vendors are racing to answer the same question: how do you keep agents running without the bill running away? Writer's answer, out Thursday, is a cheaper flagship model wrapped in a more efficient agent harness — an open-source spin engineered for the cost column. Writer launched
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DeepSeek finished the job it started two days ago: the flagship's open weights are out, IBM bet its consulting army on OpenAI's stack, and the AI data center boom headed for the public market. DeepSeek has released the open weights for V4 Pro — build 0813, the
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Google's Flash line is now on a three-week release cycle, and its newest iteration arrives with meaningfully better coding scores and a price tag that undercuts its own predecessor by 50 percent. Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash,
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The speed wars just got a new front: OpenAI put its smartest model in a fast lane, Google shipped another Flash on a three-week cadence, and DeepSeek open-sourced the harness layer of its agent stack. Three moves, one theme — nobody is waiting. OpenAI is previewing Ultrafast, a new
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A morning of frontier math and agent reality checks: Claude just closed out every open Hadamard matrix below order 2000, Anthropic published its first deep study of what happens when agents interact at scale, and Qualcomm's $3.9 billion bet on AI software is officially complete. Anthropic mathematician
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The most mysterious lab in AI may finally be about to show its hand. On August 13, a post on X from an account called "Three Strawberries" (三只草莓) claimed Safe Superintelligence Inc. — Ilya Sutskever's famously silent startup — has been building a small reasoning engine around test-
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A context window is the amount of text a language model can look at at one time — its working memory. It is measured in tokens (roughly three-quarters of an English word each), and it caps how much of your prompt, your conversation, or your document the model can actually
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A 22-year-old open problem in numerical linear algebra fell this week — not to a tenured professor, but to a neurosurgery resident who let GPT-5.6 Sol run for 16 hours and went back to clinical work while it worked. The mathematician who posed the problem has checked
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Korean AI lab Upstage rounded out its 2026 lineup this week with Solar Pro 4, a closed-API flagship aimed squarely at document-heavy agent work, roughly a week after the open-weights Solar Open 2. It is the company's clearest bet yet that the next AI battleground
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A Chinese research team just published the blueprint for one of the more ambitious AI-for-science systems in the water: a single neural network that forecasts the state of the entire global ocean up to a week out. The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Oceanology has published