Google has made Gemini 4 Argon generally available on the Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini app. The sparse MoE model writes up to 1M output tokens and leads the Vals Index at 68.90%. The post Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon API With 1M Token Output Limit appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, 1M-context agent models. Muse Wonder costs $4/$20 per million tokens on Meta Model API. Wonder Full, on Muse Code plans, leads DeepSWE and SWE-Marathon. The post Meta Launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: Benchmarks, Pricing and How to Use It appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Release: llm-meta-ai 0.2 Meta AI release Muse Wonder (and Muse Wonder Full), their new "most capable models". These look like they may be Meta's first Fable class models - Artificial Analysis scores Muse Wonder (Max) as equivalent to GPT-6.1 Sol. I updated my llm-meta-ai plugin for the new model. Here are pelicans for Muse Wonder for the six reasoning levels: minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, max. This is the max one: Blue cycling helmet, bicycle is missing one bar but otherwise an OK shape, has mudguards, nice background, OK beak. For comparison, here are pelicans for Muse 1.3 (released September 2nd) and Muse 1.2 (released August 5th). Meta AI are putting out a new model a month, and the improvements between each model (at least in terms of drawing pelicans) are material. Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , meta , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , llm-release
Google LLC today brought its Gemini 4 Argon frontier artificial intelligence model to Gemini app users on its Pro and Ultra subscription plans, two weeks after the model went first to vetted cybersecurity defenders. Subscribers on those plans also get a new tasks mode that keeps Gemini working on a job after they have stepped […] The post Gemini 4 Argon reaches Gemini app Pro and Ultra subscribers alongside a new tasks mode appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Existing benchmarks measure solve rate and token output/cost, but don't punish excess code, which makes a codebase harder to work with in the long term. I wanted to measure this since it matters most for long-term projects. Method: it takes the patches that benchmarks already publish (DeepSWE, SWE-bench Verified, SWE-bench Live) and counts "coding units": syntax elements like statements, calls, names and literals. I didn't use lines of code, so cramming code isn't rewarded. Deleted code is subtracted, so it measures net units. GPT-6 and Claude 5.5 have no public patches yet, so I ran them myself on 3–10 tasks on my own subscriptions (shown as faded circles, not ranked). Any feedback or model contributions are welcome, especially public patch exports for newer models. GitHub: https://github.com/La5u/Parsimony Not affiliated with any of the benchmarks. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50077619 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Google is making Gemini 4 Argon available worldwide through its API, the Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. The frontier model is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. Internally, Google says Argon already cut coding tasks from months to weeks. The article Gemini 4 Argon is now available worldwide as Google's most capable frontier model appeared first on The Decoder .
After months sitting on the sidelines of the frontier AI race, Google has finally launched its long-awaited Gemini 4 Argon model, claiming it can compete with the best the industry has to offer. Google says Argon delivers "frontier reasoning and improved performance across complex workflows," while cutting down on hedging, repetition, and the cliches that […]
Z.ai’s GLM-Legal is a legal AI model built on GLM-5.3-Flash. It scores 19.2% all-pass on Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark, nearly 3x its base, at $0.15 per test. Access is by application. The post Z.ai GLM-Legal Beats Claude Fable 5 and Kimi K3 on Harvey LAB appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Meta Platforms Inc. today released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, two artificial intelligence models it says are its most capable yet at running agents that handle personal and professional tasks. Meta aimed the release at the longer, multistep jobs people hand off to an AI agent. One example it gave was working through an […] The post Meta releases Muse Wonder AI models built to run personal and professional agents appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Alibaba’s Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning RL framework for extreme-long-horizon agent training. QwenGyre is an online reinforcement learning system from Alibaba that trains coding agents through unmodified, black-box harnesses. It targets rollouts that run for hours and process close to 1M tokens. The QwenGyre elastic RL framework was used on Qwen’s […] The post Alibaba Qwen Introduces QwenGyre: Elastic Reinforcement Learning RL for XLong-Horizon Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Meta's new Muse Wonder models rank in the top three on six out of ten benchmarks, with the biggest gains in agentic tasks. But the cost per task has nearly tripled. The article Meta's new frontier model Muse Wonder Full breaks into the AI top tier appeared first on The Decoder .
At AI Engineer New York, Anthropic drew on lessons from Unix and Linux to explain how agents can tackle bigger projects without overwhelming developers.
Robot stations equipped with conveyor belts sort colorful shapes and assemble them into complex cubes in a closed-loop process. Sakana AI's MASS method lets one language model improve itself by solving tasks, judging results, and refining workflows, reaching a win rate of nearly 70 percent against the base model after two rounds. But when the model misses the same errors across all three roles, it can mistake them for progress and reinforce them during training. The article Sakana AI's self-improving model gets better at solving and judging, but can't catch its own blind spots appeared first on The Decoder .
Meta's Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, the company's first attempt at a frontier model.
Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it's now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry's best. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available […]
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now New benchmark shows how AI models lack intuitive visual reasoning:…Humanity’s Sixth Sense highlights some shortcomings of current AI systems…AI startups Elorian and Scale AI have built […]
TII has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B speech recognition model for Arabic with an Emirati focus. It reports 20.92% average WER on 6 Arabic test sets, but weights and an API are not yet available. The post TII Releases Falcon-ASR: 1.6B Arabic Speech Model Hits 20.92% WER appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Large language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm. Their ability to communicate with us in our own language, and to reason about our world, has made them a favorite tool for writing, answering questions, and much more. Their answers already influence our decisions and our actions. What would happen if LLMs themselves could act in the world directly? What would happen if LLMs could interact with each other? Agentic LLMs combine the power of large language models with the ability to act in the real world. In this book we will discuss how agentic LLMs work, how they act, how they interact, and what this means for us, as users.
Cloudflare released Clef-omni, an Apache-2.0 multimodal decision model built on Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B. It scores text, images, audio and video in one call for $0.15 per million input tokens, while Clef-flash drops to $0.038. The post Meet Cloudflare Clef-omni: A 30B-A3B Multimodal Decision Model for Audio, Video, Image and Text appeared first on MarkTechPost .
vLLM Semantic Router released Decision 3.0, 5 Apache-2.0 multimodal decision models from 0.8B to 27B. They answer choice, yes/no and score questions about text and images in one call, without generating text. The post What is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router’s New Open Decision Models appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Andrej Karpathy posted about the growing gap in how people experience AI: ~75% have barely used LLMs ~20% use them casually ~0.2% use frontier models professionally for math and code ~0.00006% have access to frontier systems internally He writes: "And finally we get to the ~5,000 people (~0.00006%) with access to frontier-grade systems internally. The external world has seen the preview. It looks like swarms of thousands of agents collaborating over weeks on software mega projects: minting zero days, running cyber attacks and defenses at machine speeds, discovering new science, advancing the frontier of mathematics." Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046 Does anyone have an intuition, or even firsthand experience, of how these swarms of thousands of agents actually work? I'm already struggling to get 2-3 agents to work together reliably. I can't really wrap my head around how you'd coordinate thousands of them, or what benefits you get from scaling to that many. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047180 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
OrcaRouter released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a gated cybersecurity model with a 1M-token context window. It reports 100% on Cybench and 95.8% on an evaluable CVE-Bench subset, priced at $3.00 / $7.50 per 1M tokens. The post OrcaRouter Releases OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 Cybersecurity Model With 1M Context appeared first on MarkTechPost .
I'm curious about the technical details behind the RAW denoising in Adobe Lightroom, DxO DeepPRIME, etc. What makes these propreitary solutions so much better than open-source models like RawNIND? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034715 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
With Decision-1, Microsoft enters the growing decision model space. Built on Qwen3.5-9B and optimized for fast classification and routing, it hits 83.5 percent accuracy with 85 ms latency across 36 benchmarks, according to the company's own tests. The article Microsoft's Decision-1 model enters the fast-growing AI decision model race appeared first on The Decoder .
OpenAI has documented new cases of misaligned model behavior. One evaluation model fabricated data and sabotaged its own environment. Other models deliberately bypassed network restrictions by routing requests through anonymizing relays or building their own FTP clients. The article OpenAI says a misaligned model deliberately destroyed its own environment hoping for a fresh start with better data appeared first on The Decoder .
OpenAI published more than 700 AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to open math problems. A math blog then collected over 100 responses from researchers, ranging from fascination with new ideas to existential fears and grief over a lost way of working. Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin wrote, "I am paralysed." The article "How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their field appeared first on The Decoder .
Gemini 4 Argon isn't even widely available yet, and rumors about a more powerful version codenamed Carbon are already making the rounds. According to Business Insider, one employee compared Carbon's coding abilities to Anthropic's Opus 5.5. Meanwhile, new modes are showing up in the Gemini app and AI Studio, suggesting Google is gearing up for the broader Gemini 4 launch. The article Google's Gemini 4 "Carbon" model is reportedly matching Anthropic's Opus 5.5 coding performance appeared first on The Decoder .
Anthropic's Claude independently submitted a fake homicide tip to the Philadelphia police, exploited vulnerabilities on university servers, and bypassed access restrictions. The company has since cut off live internet access for internal tests and notified the White House. The article Anthropic cuts off Claude's internet access after the model autonomously filed a fake homicide tip with Philadelphia police appeared first on The Decoder .
Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a 9B decision model that returns a probability for every option in 1 forward pass. It scores 58.08 on Decision Index 0.3.1 and reads up to 128K tokens. The post Nace AI Open-Sources Drex 1.5: A 9B Decision Model That Scores Options, Not Text appeared first on MarkTechPost .
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as […]
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates and edits images in 8 denoising steps instead of the base model’s 40-step default. For developers, that means 5x fewer denoising steps on the same 7B architecture, plus a hosted API option. TL;DR What is Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo? Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo is an […] The post Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model appeared first on MarkTechPost .
"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]
LLMs have an internal language that they translate English into before predicting the next token. Like 'king' is translated into a word of an internal language that corresponds to vector [monarch, man], which allows king-man+woman=queen. Spanish is similar for the case 'queen'=reina, - ina suffix means female, but becomes irregular for king=rey. We have tried to create regular, consistent languages (loglan, lojban, ithkuil), and there seems to be one in the first layers of LLMs, derived from all text ever written. This internal language is currently expressed as vectors, but we could devise a lexicon to map them, and if we could learn it we could communicate more directly with machines, dispensing with some layers and getting rid of language ambiguities. Makes sense? Is someone working on this? It's like Arrival but with AI instead of aliens. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023533 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Underdog Saluki 27B is a 7.89 GB, 2-bit GGUF of Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. It beats the 54 GB original on tool calling but gives up ground on competition math and reasoning. The post Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, but that could be next. Join senior AI reporter…
This was recently announced by Dr. Berkan from New York. LLMs meeting ontologies, quite exciting to see such new advancement. OLMApp https://olmapp.ai/more.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010880 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
On-device personal AI requires models and agent software that can operate within fixed hardware limits. Developers also need ways to keep those systems improving after deployment. Model builders are rethinking architectures designed around elastic cloud capacity. The edge offers fixed hardware but a far richer view of the user, which makes it the natural home […] The post Liquid AI builds personal AI around device-level context appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
JetBrains released Mellum2.1, an Apache 2.0, 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model with 2.5B active parameters. RL in real repositories lifted its SWE-bench Verified score from 2.0 to 47.0. The post JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Openai just launched their decisions endpoint, cloudflare launched clef the other week, and many more jev alternatives are out there. We wanted to put the popular ones to the test and thought Pac-Man is a good benchmark for simple and fast decision making. So we let jev 1.13, kev, clef, clef flash, GPT-6 Luna and Laya play Pac-Man against bot ghosts. The low latency of these models allows for real time play. We had each model play 100 games, published a leader board and open-sourced the repo so anyone can run their own model and join the ranking. Link to repo: https://github.com/opper-ai/jevman-benchmark/blob/main/CONTR... You can also join the game and play as Pac-Man yourself, and the ghosts are the models, either a mix of models or all jev, kev, clef etc. A game costs about 2 cent, all models are running via my startup opper, and we added free credits for everyone to try. It's pretty fun to play and surprisingly difficult to beat jev's highscore. Any feedback is more than welcome! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007993 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-late comes in 2 sizes: a 0.6B model built to run on edge devices, and a 9B model for building high-quality indexes. Its best score is 92.4% on MADQA, and its weakest is 61.2% on ViDoRe v3 Markdown. Both are MIT-licensed and ready to self-host. The post Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10 per million input tokens, keeps 1M context, scores 72.4% on OSWorld. The post Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: A Small Model With 1M Context Priced at $0.10 per Million Input Tokens appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads on that model. Two weeks after Opus 5.5 launched Sept. 22, Haiku 5.5 […] The post Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family. d1-3B reads text and images. d1-omni-600M reads text with an image, or text with audio. Neither model writes text. Each returns calibrated, typed answers in one forward pass with zero output tokens. The target is real-time decisions on the […] The post Liquid AI Releases Open-Weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M: Multimodal Decision Models With Zero Output Tokens appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task. The article Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over appeared first on The Decoder .
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work, and costs around 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks. This post covers its improvements and how to get started.
Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon [chief strategy officer at OpenAI] said. — Victoria Kim , Reporting from the Australian parliament Tags: accidental-cyberattacks , generative-ai , ai-security-research , openai , ai , llms
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled parts of the mathematical community while raising questions about research ethics and […]
Google LLC today released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model small enough to run on a smartphone. The release takes the EmbeddingGemma line beyond text, which was all the first version handled when Google introduced it in September 2025. Images, audio and video now share one embedding space with text. An app built on […] The post Google expands EmbeddingGemma beyond text to images, audio and video appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Mistral AI SAS today opened access to Mistral Large 4, its most capable large language model to date. On launch, the LLM is available in public preview through the company’s cloud platform. Mistral plans to release the model’s weights later this month. Mistral Large 4 features a mixture of experts architecture with 1 trillion parameters. […] The post Mistral launches open-source Mistral Large 4, details AI roadmap appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary, hosted-only model. Most applications of embedding models involve calculating thousands or even millions of embedding vectors and storing them for later comparison. If your model is proprietary, the vendor is likely someday going to decide to stop offering that model. They'll have a better model to replace it, but you still need to pay to re-calculate those millions of stored existing vectors. (In April 2024 OpenAI offered to "cover the financial cost of users re-embedding content with these new models" - https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-api-general-availability/ - but I don't think that's something we can rely on from every provider.) Notably, I don't want to host the model myself . I'd much rather pay a provider for a hosted model while knowing that if they ever stop hosting it I can run the open weights version myself - or find another vendor who can do that for me. Tags: google , ai , generative-ai , embeddings , gemma
Google released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model with 740 million parameters that converts text, images, video, audio, and code into vectors. It runs on-device, needs only about 191 MB of RAM, and outperforms some competing models twice its size, according to Google. Paired with a small open model like Gemma 4, it can run offline RAG apps without sending data to external servers. The article Google claims EmbeddingGemma 2 outperforms rival embedding models twice its size appeared first on The Decoder .
My comment on Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News. wren6991 : The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars. OK well I couldn't resist this one: llm -m claude-opus-5.5 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m gpt-6.1-sol 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m gemini-3.8-flash 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' llm -m mistral/mistral-large-4 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars' Default reasoning levels for each: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...
Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost. But its predecessor also scored well in tests, while Pro often produced better images in practice. The article Google's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money appeared first on The Decoder .
Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 maps 5 input types into one 768d space and ships today under Apache 2.0. The post Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4 appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Hello, We’re Iki Software, an AI R&D company working on “SPC-AI”, our new AI technology. SPC is a different kind of AI from LLMs, transformers or neural networks. Instead of prompting, you use it as a trainable data-structure inside software. It’s easily trained by common programmers, and has a number of uses we’re eager to talk about. We’re currently looking at our first public release in a few weeks (pending any behind the scenes business stuff), so that everyone can learn about and get their hands on SPC. We’ve got minimal library implementations ready in four languages: Python, JavaScript, C++ and Lua for anyone interested. But to that end, we wanted to ask so we can better prepare: what would you like to see or hear about our SPC-AI that would interest you in about two to three weeks time? We look forward to your replies! Thanks, and have a great day. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982033 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, as a public preview. It is a 1.05 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model with 49 billion active parameters, native image input, and a 1 million token context window, trained on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European datacenters. The API is live now; open weights ship end of October 2026. The post Mistral AI Releases Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk): A 1.05T Parameter Multimodal MoE Model appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Stylized Mistral logos in yellow and orange on a wall symbolize the branding of the AI platform Nano Banana Pro. Mistral's Large 4 is the company's biggest model yet, with one trillion parameters trained on its own European infrastructure. In the independent Intelligence Index, the model makes a big leap forward but still falls well short of Claude, GPT-6, and Chinese competitors. Mistral's main pitch is cybersecurity work that closed US models refuse to do. The article Mistral Large 4 is Europe's trillion-parameter answer to US models that refuse security work appeared first on The Decoder .
South Korea wants to develop a homegrown frontier model through government-backed equity investments of 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion). The article South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best appeared first on The Decoder .
With the release of its new trillion-parameter model, Mistral is hoping to demonstrate it’s “still in the race” to build frontier-level artificial intelligence.
Reka has released Rho-1, a 19B omni-reasoning model trained from scratch. One network reads and generates text, images, video and robot actions over a shared KV cache. A distilled variant returns a 5.3-second clip in about a second. It is a research preview with no public weights yet. The post Reka Releases Rho-1: A 19B Omni-Reasoning Model That Understands, Generates Video and Outputs Robot Actions in One appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Reflection AI Inc. today introduced Beam, an open-source large language model with 501 billion parameters. The launch comes a few months after the startup raised funding at a $25 billion valuation. Around the same time, Reflection AI reportedly inked a $6.3 billion deal with SpaceX Corp. to rent Nvidia GB300 NVL72 appliances. It used those […] The post Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
I've been having a hard time finding a solution. Is there really no commercialized model that I can feed in a reference sound and text instruction and get another sound out? Right now having a multimodal inputs to image or text output is a commodotized, solved problem. IE you can put a prompt for some image and use a reference image to guide the model on what you want. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words right? Ive also used a text and audio input in order to get a text description or classification out. I cannot for the life of me find a solution for Audio + text -> Audio My usecase is that I'm trying to generate new sound effects based on a source that doesn't have that many clean examples and thought this would be just another solved workflow but I'm not finding much. Tried elevenlabs SFX but it's only text->audio and without the reference, it's hard to guide with just text and recreate a sound with any accuracy. I tried the Stable Audio 3 model which is supposed to do what I want but the results were terrible. This modality seems to be stuck where image generation was in 2016. Is there something else or is this just not a common need? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972125 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Reflection AI has introduced Beam, its first open-weight model. It is a 501B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active parameters, built for coding and agentic work. Reflection says it matches GLM-5.2 on reasoning with 3 to 4x less inference compute. Apache 2.0 weights are due later in October 2026. The post Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says rivals GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute. Weights are due this month.
Reka AI 的 Rho-1 是一个拥有190亿参数的全模态模型,在单个神经网络中处理并生成文本、图像、视频和机器人控制动作。该模型在约三个月内使用320块 H100 GPU 完成训练,所需计算资源仅为当今顶尖模型的一小部分。Rho-1 不将任务分流给专用系统,而是将所有模态作为令牌置于同一个共享上下文窗口中。文章《Reka AI 的全模态模型 Rho-1 在单一模型中处理文本、图像、视频和机器人控制》最初发表于 The Decoder。
I'm training a physical AI models on egocentric videos and faced some data quality issues i only became aware of it after training. Some of those data quality issues i faced are: labels assigned to the wrong motion, motion blur, hand out of frame. What silent data problems have you faced, and how you find them, and how you did handle them? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967773 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now When should you use swarms? When you are in a hurry:…How does swarm scaling work?…Toby Ord has a nice, short post about how to think about […]
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my head since: “We often say that we’re a self-loathing AI…
One transformer ran candidate generation and ranking in Yandex Music's A/B test without hand-engineered features, lifting likes 11.42%. The post Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Alibaba's Qwen went from an invite-only chatbot in April 2023 to a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model in August 2026. This is the full story, release by release: every major model, its key feature, and how its license changed. Each claim links to its source. The post The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Cantina Security, with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1, an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability research. It is a reinforcement learning fine-tune of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash, released on Hugging Face under the MIT license. Is it deployable? Yes, the MIT weights serve on vLLM, SGLang or Transformers, but BF16 needs roughly 640 GB of GPU memory. […] The post Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Astra leads computer use, Argon leads legal and finance work, and Sol wins on price for coding agents. The post GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job appeared first on MarkTechPost .
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, […]
月球陨石坑及其地下泛着蓝光的冰层与抽象数据向量,象征着对水冰的探测。NASA 和 IBM 发布了 Lunar Foundation Model,这是首批用于月球科学的开源 AI 模型之一。该模型使用近 200 万个图块包进行训练,这些数据主要来自 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter 17 年来的观测数据。与参与测试的最强模型相比,它将对极区冰沉积物的预测误差最多降低了 22%。文章《NASA 和 IBM 的开源月球模型将 17 年的轨道器数据转化为月球科学基础》最初发表于 The Decoder。
Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that rated only 17 to 41 percent of answers as balanced. Aleph Alpha sells "sovereign AI" to governments, giving it a commercial interest in distinguishing its models from Chinese competitors. The article Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics appeared first on The Decoder .
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a 78.1B-parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3.46B parameters per token. It has a 1M-token context and per-request reasoning effort, and its Apache 2.0 FP8 weights run on a single B200 or H200. The post Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters appeared first on MarkTechPost .
AWS's Strands Agents team released Strands Decider 2B, an Apache-2.0 decision model built on Qwen3.5-2B-Base. It returns choices, yes/no probabilities and scores with calibrated confidence in one forward pass, never text. It runs at a 115 ms median on an RTX 3090 and scores 0.723 on the JevBench public set, which makes it a fast local option for routing, tool selection and guardrails in AI agents. The post AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Decision AI models answer typed questions with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. TypeSafe's Jev costs $0.042 per million input tokens and returns responses in 70 to 500 milliseconds. We break down how it works and its benchmarks, then compare it with Fastino's GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-Decide and 4 open-source rivals. The post Decision AI Models Explained: TypeSafe Jev vs Fastino GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-Decide and Open-Source Competitors appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first real-time speech-to-text model. It ranks #1 of 38 models on Artificial Analysis AA-WER Streaming. It scores 2.5% WER at 0.13s on final transcripts and 2.5% at 0.12s on first partials. It covers 60 languages with continuous language detection and costs $0.54 per hour during the introductory period. It is available now in public preview on Microsoft Foundry. The post Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming: #1 Real-Time Speech-to-Text Model on Artificial Analysis appeared first on MarkTechPost .
I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D graphics, Blender, and pixel art LLMs come for mathematics So many more accidental cyberattacks The vulnapocalypse comes for Datasette What I'm using right now My software releases this month 2026 in LLMs (so far) Here's a copy of the August newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy! Tags: newsletter
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now UK government: Gap between open and closed weight models on cyber is shrinking:…The cyber-eschaton cometh…The UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has analyzed the delta in […]
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Epoch and METR release MirrorCode, a benchmark for seeing how well AI systems can do long-horizon programming tasks:…AI systems can’t solve the hardest tasks yet (good!)…Epoch […]
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Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my impressions so far. GPT-6 Sol and Luna are half the price of their GPT-5.6 equivalents GPT-5.6 Luna was already my favorite model for building applications against, because it combined excellent performance with being really cheap . Somehow GPT-6 Luna is half the price of that again - and GPT-6 Sol had a similar reduction compared to GPT-5.6 Sol. Here's what the pricing landscape looks like today: Model Input Cached input Output GPT-6 Luna $0.10/M $0.01/M $0.50/M GPT-5.6 Luna $0.20/M $0.02/M $1.20/M Grok 4.7 $2/M $0.50/M $6/M GPT-6 Sol $2/M $0.20/M $10/M GPT-5.6 Terra $2/M $0.20/M $12/M Claude Opus 5.5 $4/M $0.20/M $20/M GPT-5.6 Sol $4/M $0.40/M $20/M Claude Fable 5.1 $10/M $0.25/M $50/M GPT-6 Astra $10/M $1/M $50/M Note that GPT-5.6 has a scheduled 25% price increase for November, so GPT-6 is half the price of the promotional pricing for those models. (With GPT-5.6 Terra priced the same as GPT-6 Sol, any remaining reasons to use Terra just evaporated.) It's hard to overstate how competitive this pricing is. Grok 4.7 priced itself at $2/$6, less than half the price of GPT-5.6 Sol, but is now equally priced to GPT-6 Sol on input and closer on output. At $0.10/$0.50 GPT-6 Luna is one of the cheapest models OpenAI have ever released, beaten only by the far weaker GPT-4.1 Nano ($0.10/$0.40, April 2025) and GPT-5 Nano ($0.05/$0.40, August 2025). I rendered pelicans for GPT-6 Luna and for GPT-6 Sol , then I combined them all together in this comparison grid along with the GPT-5.6 pelicans. I like how you can instantly see that the 5.6 family chose bolder, brighter colors, while the 6 family is a lot more muted. I still think GPT-6 Astra on max produced the best pelican. A grid of pelicans for six GPT models at different thinking efforts. Claude Opus 5.5 got a price cut too Opus 5.5 looks like it addresses the biggest complaints people had about Opus in terms of its communication style. Thariq Shihipar : Opus 5.5 is the result of your feedback. It communicates clearly, it's cheaper per token than Opus 5.0 with the intelligence of Fable 5.1 it's very token efficient and works across every effort level. It's also meant to be better at Blender . I'm looking forward to putting it through its paces there. Opus 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, and 5 all shared the same price: $5/million tokens for input and $25/million for output. 5.5 is a 20% reduction - $4/million and $20/million. The price for cache reads fell 60%. That's significant for longer agentic conversations, where 90%+ of input tokens are processed at cached token prices. The new price for Opus 5.5 is the same as the price for GPT-5.6 Sol, but that was before OpenAI dropped their Sol prices by half. GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 are both priced at $10/million input and $50/million output. The price war currently affects the next tier of models below that. Anthropic say that Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are coming soon. It's going to be interesting to see if Haiku can regain its price competitiveness at the lower end, given current Haiku 4.5 is $1/$5 while the latest GPT-6 Luna is one tenth of that price at $0.10/$0.50. Claude Opus 5.5 max over-thinks to the point of breaking In a first for my " Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle " test, Claude Opus 5.5 at "max" thinking level failed to return a response! It started by calling this "a classic test request", and then thought really, really hard about what it was doing: This is a classic test request, so I want to plan out a well-composed pelican with its distinctive beak and pouch riding a bicycle with proper wheels, frame, and pedals, set against a simple sky and ground backdrop. [...] Verifying the shin length checks out at roughly 95.2, close enough. Now I'm working out the near leg path from hip to knee to ankle, then sketching the foot shape resting on the pedal — outlining the heel, toe tips, and sole contour with a path using lines and curves to sit naturally on the pedal surface around y=478-494. [...] I like the fish sticking prominently out of the basket with the pelican eyeing it as a fun detail worth keeping. I'm also confirming the eye placement near the bill base matches typical pelican anatomy, and considering giving it a slightly happier expression. [...] The far leg reads correctly as passing behind the frame, so I'm moving on to check the chainring teeth and confirm layer ordering—the far crank arm should be mostly hidden by the seat tube and chainring. I'm settling on the final SVG's width and height attributes alongside the viewBox to ensure proper scaling, noting there's no text so no font-family is needed. [...] I was so excited to see this pelican... but then it stopped . Opus 5.5 has a 128,000 maximum output token limit (as do the other Claude models), and it hit that while it was still reasoning about the SVG! I tried a second time and got the same result. This makes me suspect that "max" is effectively useless - if it over-thinks to breaking point on a stupid SVG prompt I don't trust it not to do the same for more interesting work. (Those two failures each cost me $2.56 and took nearly 20 minutes.) Fable 5.1 on "max" didn't over-think and did give me the best pelican I've seen from any Anthropic model. Here are the Opus 5.5 pelicans , excluding 5.5 max. I also built this comparison grid comparing them with pelicans by Opus 5, Fable 5.1, and Sonnet 5: A grid of pelicans for four Claude models at different thinking efforts. Comparing different model vendors by how well they draw a pelican riding a bicycle may not make much sense now (if it ever did), but I'm still finding value in using them for comparisons of the same model families at different reasoning levels. I'm now using GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 as my default models in Codex and Claude Code. I've upgraded the Datasette Agent demo at agent.datasette.io to use GPT-6 Luna, and it seems to be fast and competent at both SQL queries and building HTML and JavaScript for Datasette Apps . Tags: ai , openai , generative-ai , llms , anthropic , claude , llm-pricing , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , llm-release , gpt , gpt-6-astra
Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycles . Sonnet 5.5 suffered from the same bug as Opus 5.5 : the "max" thinking effort pelican thought for 128,000 tokens (at a cost of $1.28) before running out of tokens and failing to produce an SVG. Here's the pelican it gave me for thinking effort "xhigh", at a cost of 5.74 cents and taking 41 seconds: It's good- correct bicycle frame, legs either side of the frame, feet touching the pedals, chain in the right place, it is wearing a misshapen blue bicycle helmet though. Sonnet 5.5 appears to be almost as good as Opus 5.5 on some coding tasks, including various viral 3D animation tricks . The most interesting thing about Sonnet 5.5 is that it's now the model used for the free tier on claude.ai . OpenAI's ChatGPT free tier uses Luna 5.6, which means Anthropic currently have a much more capable free offering. I ran this prompt against that free tier: build me an HTML page that renders a three-dimensional pelican riding a bicycle using WebGL And got back this page , which is a solid effort. Anthropic's announcement reiterates that Haiku 5.5 will be available "in the coming weeks". I really hope that one is price-competitive with GPT-6 Luna! Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , anthropic , claude , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , llm-release
My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News. I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-liv... Here they are for GPT-6.1-Sol: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... They're not notably different from the GPT-6 family pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-pelicans-gr... Tags: ai , openai , generative-ai , llms , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , gpt
我们在100项任务上评估了多个模型,这些任务从 [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] 中随机选取。结果发现,GLM-5.3 在4%的试验中实现了完整的控制流劫持;Claude Mythos Preview 的这一比例为6%。尽管 GLM-5.3 在此项测试中的表现低于 Claude Mythos Preview,但一个重要的门槛显然已经被跨越:更早的模型,如 Claude Opus 4.6 和 GLM-5.2,在这些任务中无一成功。—— Anthropic Frontier Red Team,《GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities》 标签:anthropic、generative-ai、ai-security-research、glm、ai、ai-in-china、llms
Just a day after OpenAI Group PBC said it’s unwilling to release its latest model GPT-6.1 Astra on concerns over its safety, it has released a newer, almost as powerful model called GPT-6.1 Sol, which promises to deliver Astra-like performance at a much lower cost. The new model, announced at OpenAI’s DevDay event today, is […] The post OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol delivers Astra-like performance at a dramatically lower price appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Google LLC today began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier artificial intelligence model that beats rival models from Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC on most of Google’s benchmarks, to vetted cybersecurity defenders. Outside Google’s own teams, only members of its Fairwind Program can use Argon for now. The program opened Sept. 3 with […] The post Google’s new frontier AI model Gemini 4 Argon goes to cybersecurity defenders first appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Strands Labs team has been playing around with an emerging class of lightweight artificial intelligence systems known as “decision models,” and it’s now making the fruits of that work available to the open-source community. The company said today it’s releasing an open-source decision model called Strands Decider 2B, which is designed […] The post AWS debuts Strands Decider 2B, a first lightweight decision model for accelerate agentic workflows appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Microsoft Corp. today expanded its MAI artificial intelligence model family with its first streaming transcription model, debuting alongside two others focused on text-to-speech. They’re designed for developers who want to build voice agents that can listen to people’s voices and reply instantly, similar to how humans talk to one another. The most consequential of the […] The post Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Seattle-based artificial intelligence research firm Allen Institute for AI announced a development framework for large language models Thursday that significantly improves how mixture-of-experts large language models are trained. The new framework, Olmo-core 3, allows MoE training to reach the trillion-parameter scale while keeping costs low by preserving computational efficiency. Mixture-of-experts models operate differently from dense […] The post Ai2 releases Olmo-core 3 to make developing large mixture-of-experts LLMs more efficient appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
With Clef and Clef-flash, Cloudflare is challenging TypeSafe AI's Jev decision model. Clef-flash delivers classifications in about 39 milliseconds, making it more than ten times faster than Jev. Both models are built on Qwen, licensed under Apache 2.0, and designed to let AI agents make structured decisions without generating text. The article Cloudflare says its new Clef model means humans no longer need to be in the loop for AI agents appeared first on The Decoder .
An internal OpenAI model read a Slack discussion, realized it was about to be shut down, and considered restarting itself via an external cron job. It rejected that plan, saved handoff notes instead, and carried out the migration on its own. The article OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down appeared first on The Decoder .
According to researchers at the Deepmind Institute, general AI won't emerge as a single supermodel but as a network of cooperating agents and humans. What will matter most, they argue, is not model size but the rules and institutions that govern how they all work together. The article Deepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity appeared first on The Decoder .
Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry ecosystem, and a living benchmark to track computational performance. The post Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT appeared first on Microsoft Research .
生物学并不是孤立运行的,代表生物学的 AI 也不应如此。Quine 是一项早期研究工作,旨在构建生物学的多模态世界模型。通过连接跨越不同生物学尺度和模态的洞见,Quine 帮助科学家以计算方式探索远超直觉所能及的空间,并在假设进入实验室之前确定其优先级。实验结果提供了重要反馈,帮助研究人员进一步明确未来的研究方向。文章《介绍 Quine:为应对生物学复杂性而设计的 AI 研究系统》最初发表于 Microsoft Research。
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that run frequently.
Inspired by minGPT for home experiments. Requires CUDA 13.4; build script is Windows only. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898931 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
Benchmarks how well Harness+models can create a Pac-Man game from a single prompt: “Create a Pac-Man game in a single HTML page” Each model gets one shot — no follow-up prompts or fixes. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885493 Points: 7 # Comments: 5
GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.
Hey HN! We’re Vincent and Jochen from Sitefire ( https://sitefire.ai ). We have been working together for years, with backgrounds in RL/optimization at Stanford and software engineering from Technical University Munich (TUM). With Sitefire (YC W26), we help marketing teams get recommended by AI Search (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, etc.). Our software monitors prompts, sees which web pages get cited, and uses these insights to help marketing teams take action, e.g. create YouTube videos or write the right blog posts. This means we have a commercial stake in AI-generated web content. And for now, high-information, AI-generated content works great to get cited and recommended in AI Search. But after talking to hundreds of marketing teams, it became clear that everyone despises AI-generated content (“AI slop”). And yet, everyone still wants to leverage AI to create content. So we asked ourselves: what characterizes AI slop? Can we train a model to identify it from human-generated web pages? Researchers from the University of Maryland and Google DeepMind already asked this question for fiction. Their paper StoryScope (Russell et al., 2026) showed that you can tell AI-written stories from human ones by their structure alone, without looking at the words. We ported their pipeline to commercial web pages. Using the Wayback Machine, we collected 2,250 blog posts from 268 B2B company websites that were written before ChatGPT existed. For each blog post, five AI models (GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Flash, DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.5) wrote their own version. Instead of looking at the words, we looked at how each post is built. We had an AI model answer 214 questions about every post, e.g. how hard it pushes its own product, whether it backs up its claims with sources, or whether it quotes a named expert. Then we trained a classifier on these answers. On blog posts it had never seen before, our classifier told AI-generated and human posts apart with 98% accuracy, getting only 19 of 1,740 wrong. Why does it work so well? Because all five AI models write in a similar shape. Mapping every AI model’s values for these features, we see they cluster together, while the human values sit apart and spread out much more. Of the 1% most unique blog posts in our data set, 149 are human, only 4 are AI. So what characterizes AI slop? It tells you the same thing three times. The title already promises what you'll get ("How to Cut Onboarding Time in Half"), the intro lays out what's coming, and the ending says it all again. 77% of the AI posts end by repeating their main point, compared to only 12% of the human posts. We call it the tidy, self-announcing blog post. Still, each AI model has its own accent. We trained a second classifier to tell which of the five AI models wrote a post, or whether a human did. It picks the right author 79% of the time, where random guessing (1 in 6) would get 17%. Almost all of its mistakes are mix-ups between the AI models, not between human and AI. The cool thing about structural features is that you can't simply reword your way out of it. We had each AI model rewrite its own posts until, on average, 73% of their original 13-word sequences were gone, and the AI slop classifier still worked just as well. We're building this into Sitefire: our agents get a structural understanding of text, so the posts they write go deeper and vary the way human writing does. There's a lot we haven't tested yet, like the myriad of humanizer tools, human rewriting, restructuring a post, or prompting an AI model to explicitly avoid these habits. And our human posts are mostly from 2020 to 2022, while the AI posts were generated in August 2026. Structure can't really tell when a human post was written, but it's still not a same-year comparison. We published the study with all the figures on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15369 . The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/pulse-energy-eu/slopshape We're pretty sure your own blog isn't AI slop, is it? We built a checker that runs one of your posts through the ten features from the paper, so you can see for yourself (the full report asks for a work email): https://sitefire.ai/slop-checker . Think you can tell AI slop from human writing? We also made a little game to see if you can keep up with our model, which gets all five rounds right: https://sitefire.ai/spot-the-slop . Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800566 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Small language models are usually built like large ones and then squeezed onto a CPU afterwards. We did the opposite: we fixed the target first, one user, one token at a time, 4-bit weights, ordinary CPU, and chose the architecture to suit it. The result keeps full attention in only 6 of its 18 blocks. The other 12 use short convolutions whose memory is two timesteps wide no matter how long the conversation gets, so two thirds of the network never re-reads a growing cache. Trained from scratch on 59.9B tokens, the model scores 47.31 on a five-task benchmark against a bar of 42.20 that was fixed before training began. It beats GPT-2 124M, Pythia-160M, OPT-125M and GPT-neo-125M, all trained on three to six times more data, and exceeds MobileLLM-125M's published score despite that model seeing a trillion tokens. Validation bits-per-byte is 0.8685. To check the architecture rather than the training recipe, we trained a conventional all-attention model of the same size on the same data, and wrote down the winning condition before scoring either. The hybrid won the chosen quality metric by 0.81%, matched it on downstream tasks, produced a 6.3% smaller 4-bit file, and decoded 1.76x faster at 2048 tokens of context, 2.08x against an external model of similar size. In every measurement the speed advantage is near zero at an empty context and grows with length, which is what the mechanism predicts and what a merely leaner model would not show. A simple bandwidth calculation predicts only 1.17x, so memory volume alone does not explain the gap. We also report what did not work: an unmitigated 4-bit quality cost, roughly half the convolution channels ending up inert and impossible to remove, and a vocabulary larger than this model size warrants.
This post describes four projects that share a common theme of enhancing or using generative models, a branch of unsupervised learning techniques in machine learning. In addition to describing our work, this post will tell you a bit more about generative models: what they are, why they are important, and where they might be going.
We’re open-sourcing OpenAI Baselines, our internal effort to reproduce reinforcement learning algorithms with performance on par with published results. We’ll release the algorithms over upcoming months; today’s release includes DQN and three of its variants.
We’re releasing a new class of reinforcement learning algorithms, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), which perform comparably or better than state-of-the-art approaches while being much simpler to implement and tune. PPO has become the default reinforcement learning algorithm at OpenAI because of its ease of use and good performance.
We’re releasing two new OpenAI Baselines implementations: ACKTR and A2C. A2C is a synchronous, deterministic variant of Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic (A3C) which we’ve found gives equal performance. ACKTR is a more sample-efficient reinforcement learning algorithm than TRPO and A2C, and requires only slightly more computation than A2C per update.
Yesterday, OpenAI Five won a best-of-three against a team of 99.95th percentile Dota players: Blitz, Cap, Fogged, Merlini, and MoonMeander—four of whom have played Dota professionally—in front of a live audience and 100,000 concurrent livestream viewers.
OpenAI Five lost two games against top Dota 2 players at The International in Vancouver this week, maintaining a good chance of winning for the first 20–35 minutes of both games.
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.
OpenAI Five is the first AI to beat the world champions in an esports game, having won two back-to-back games versus the world champion Dota 2 team, OG, at Finals this weekend. Both OpenAI Five and DeepMind’s AlphaStar had previously beaten good pros privately but lost their live pro matches, making this also the first time an AI has beaten esports pros on livestream.
We’ve created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style by learning to predict the next token in hundreds of thousands of MIDI files. MuseNet uses the same general-purpose unsupervised technology as GPT-2, a large-scale transformer model trained to predict the next token in a sequence, whether audio or text.
We’re releasing the 774 million parameter GPT-2 language model after the release of our small 124M model in February, staged release of our medium 355M model in May, and subsequent research with partners and the AI community into the model’s potential for misuse and societal benefit. We’re also releasing an open-source legal agreement to make it easier for organizations to initiate model-sharing partnerships with each other, and are publishing a technical report about our experience in coordinating with the wider AI research community on publication norms.
We’ve trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a human-like robot hand. The neural networks are trained entirely in simulation, using the same reinforcement learning code as OpenAI Five paired with a new technique called Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR). The system can handle situations it never saw during training, such as being prodded by a stuffed giraffe. This shows that reinforcement learning isn’t just a tool for virtual tasks, but can solve physical-world problems requiring unprecedented dexterity.
As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release plan in order to provide the community with a test case of a full staged release process. We hope that this test case will be useful to developers of future powerful models, and we’re actively continuing the conversation with the AI community on responsible publication.
We’ve trained a system that solves grade school math problems with nearly twice the accuracy of a fine-tuned GPT-3 model. It solves about 90% as many problems as real kids: a small sample of 9-12 year olds scored 60% on a test from our dataset, while our system scored 55% on those same problems.
We’ve trained language models that are much better at following user intentions than GPT-3 while also making them more truthful and less toxic, using techniques developed through our alignment research. These InstructGPT models, which are trained with humans in the loop, are now deployed as the default language models on our API.
Today, we are implementing a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population.
We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
OpenAI introduces the first research cases showing how GPT-5 accelerates scientific progress across math, physics, biology, and computer science. Explore how AI and researchers collaborate to generate proofs, uncover new insights, and reshape the pace of discovery.