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Kimi K2‑0905 and Qwen3‑Max preview: two 1T open weights models launched
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Moonshot AI updated their Kimi K2-0905 open model with doubled context length to 256k tokens, improved coding and tool-calling, and integration with agent scaffolds. Alibaba released Qwen 3 Max, a 1 trillion parameter model with agent-oriented behavior, available via Qwen Chat, Alibaba Cloud API, and OpenRouter. The community highlights China's dominance in open models and debates around meaningful evaluation methods for code agents, emphasizing long-horizon and domain-specific evals. Influential voices like @swyx and @karpathy discuss the importance of practical evals and discriminator models for ranking outputs.
nano-banana is Gemini‑2.5‑Flash‑Image, beating Flux Kontext by 170 Elo with SOTA Consistency, Editing, and Multi-Image Fusion
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Google DeepMind revealed Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image-Preview, a state-of-the-art image editing model excelling in character consistency, natural-language edits, and multi-image composition, dominating the Image Edit Arena with a ~170-180 Elo lead and over 2.5M votes. It is integrated into multiple platforms including Google AI Studio and third-party services. Nous Research released Hermes 4, an open-weight hybrid reasoning model focused on steerability and STEM benchmarks. NVIDIA launched Nemotron Nano 9B V2, a hybrid Mamba-Transformer with 128k context, top-performing under 10B parameters, and released a 6.6T-token pretraining subset. InternVL3.5 introduced 32 vision-language models based on OpenAI's gpt-oss and Qwen3 backbones. Ollama v0.11.7 added DeepSeek v3.1 support with hybrid thinking and Turbo mode preview.
Figma's $50+b IPO
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OpenAI's stealth model horizon-alpha on OpenRouter sparks speculation as a precursor to GPT-5, showing strong reasoning and SVG generation capabilities, comparable to Gemini 2.5 Pro. Alibaba released the Qwen3-Coder family, including a fast Qwen3-Coder-Flash (30B-A3B) variant with agentic features and 1M context length support via UnslothAI. Cohere launched Command A Vision, a 111B parameter open-weights vision-language model outperforming GPT-4.1 and Llama 4 Maverick on enterprise benchmarks. Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX.1 Krea [dev], an open-weights photorealism model compatible with fine-tuning tools like diffusers and ostrisai. Zhipu AI unveiled GLM-4.5, a hybrid reasoning open model with agentic capabilities available on Together AI. Discussions highlight the rising importance of inference-time training and reasoning model generalization. Mistral AI released the technical report for Voxtral continuing its open science efforts.
Context Engineering: Much More than Prompts
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Context Engineering emerges as a significant trend in AI, highlighted by experts like Andrej Karpathy, Walden Yan from Cognition, and Tobi Lutke. It involves managing an LLM's context window with the right mix of prompts, retrieval, tools, and state to optimize performance, going beyond traditional prompt engineering. LangChain and its tool LangGraph are noted for advancing this approach. Additionally, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT connectors for platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, and Box, enhancing context integration for Pro users. Other notable news includes the launch of Vercel Sandbox, Cloudflare Containers, the leak and release of Gemini Code by Google DeepMind, and fundraising efforts by OpenRouter.
Claude 3 is officially America's Next Top Model
claude-3-opus claude-3-sonnet claude-3-haiku gpt-4o-mini mistral-7b qwen-72b anthropic mistral-ai huggingface openrouter stable-diffusion automatic1111 comfyui fine-tuning model-merging alignment ai-ethics benchmarking model-performance long-context cost-efficiency model-evaluation mark_riedl ethanjperez stuhlmueller ylecun aravsrinivas
Claude 3 Opus outperforms GPT4T and Mistral Large in blind Elo rankings, with Claude 3 Haiku marking a new cost-performance frontier. Fine-tuning techniques like QLoRA on Mistral 7B and evolutionary model merging on HuggingFace models are highlighted. Public opinion shows strong opposition to ASI development. Research supervision opportunities in AI alignment are announced. The Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) release raises workflow concerns for tools like ComfyUI and automatic1111. Opus shows a 5% performance dip on OpenRouter compared to the Anthropic API. A new benchmark stresses LLM recall at long contexts, with Mistral 7B struggling and Qwen 72b performing well.