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OpenAI's Releases GPT-6 Astra
The new LLM nearly saturates math and abstract reasoning tests, leads agentic science benchmarks, and arrives with a much higher risk profile.
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Google's New Gemini 3.8 Flash Hits 74% on DeepSWE
Google’s third Flash release in 43 days adds stronger coding, longer agent loops, and a restricted cybersecurity model for trusted defenders.
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Qwen3.8-Max Got Upgraded With 1M-Token AI Coding
Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE adds stronger agent coordination, multimodal handling, and cache rates as low as $0.17 per million tokens.
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Google Research Releases TimesFM-3
The 330-million-parameter foundation model forecasts related series and known future events together, producing the full horizon in one pass.
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MIT Built an AI that Predicts what You'll Say Next, Before You Open Your Mouth
MIT researchers used over 1,000 hours of smartwatch conversations to test whether LLMs can anticipate a person’s next communicative move.
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Tencent Hy4 AI Model Leaps From #31 to #5 on Code Arena
The open-weight 770B-parameter LLM posted a striking automated coding result, but independent hands-on evidence is still thin.
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GLM-5.3 Open Weights Come With a $10B Catch
Z.ai is letting developers self-host its flagship AI model while reserving a security gate for the largest model-service operators.
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Google Releases GlucoFM and Sets New AI Benchmarks for CGM
The lightweight dual-stream model learns from unlabeled glucose traces and improves metabolic prediction, post-meal forecasting, and cross-cohort transfer.
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Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash Brings 1M-Context AI for Less
The 320B-A18B open-weight model pairs native multimodality with a one-million-token context window and unusually low API prices.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is Here, and it Beats Claude
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and GLM-5.3-Flash bring recent Claude-class performance to downloadable models, but “local” still means server-grade hardware.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño AI Chip Beats Nvidia Blackwell
Early inference tests show major efficiency and latency gains, but production scale and realistic agent workloads remain important tests.
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OpenAI has Reportedly Finished Training “Bel” Model with 10 Trillion Parameters
The 10-trillion-parameter claim is unverified, but Stargate’s training advantage makes the underlying AI compute race worth taking seriously.
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Qwen3.8 Open Weights Target Local and Max-Class AI
The 27B dense model favors practical deployment, while the 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE brings Qwen’s largest foundation model to self-hosted infrastructure.
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How to Reduce AI Inference Costs: 5 Strategies That Work
Five practical ways to shrink your AI bill without sacrificing agent quality, from prompt caching and model routing to smarter retrieval and…
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Ox Alpha Nears 6T Tokens in a Day on OpenRouter
The free coding LLM has dominated OpenRouter’s rankings, while a cow-movie meme and GLM fingerprints fuel the hunt for its maker.
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OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing by 20% Ahead of Anthropic IPO Push
The temporary API promotion reduces output token costs by one-third while leaving ChatGPT subscriptions and included usage limits unchanged.
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A New Chinese AI Model Codenamed "Ox Alpha" Beats Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol at Coding
The anonymous 1-million-token AI model shows strong agentic potential, though benchmark caveats and unresolved ownership questions matter more than the hype.
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Meta’s WildArtifactBench Tests AI Agents on Real-World Deliverables
The new benchmark uses human and agentic preference judging to evaluate complex multimodal work that cannot be reduced to one correct answer.
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GLM 5.3 Turns Post-Training Into a Cybersecurity Leap
Z.ai’s 743B-class LLM improves coding and exploit-chain performance without a new base model, while its API arrives before the open weights.
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Qwen3.7-Plus Is the Multimodal Agent Model Alibaba Has Been Building Toward
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus unifies vision and language into one agent foundation that perceives, reasons, codes, and acts across GUI and CLI environments.
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MiniMax M3 Is the First Open-Weights Model to Combine Coding, 1M Context, and Native Multimodality
MiniMax released M3 on June 1, 2026, stacking frontier coding performance, a million-token context window, and native multimodality into a single open-weights…
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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8 With Sharper Judgment and Cheaper Fast Mode
Six weeks after Opus 4.7, Anthropic ships a faster, more honest flagship LLM with parallel subagent support and a 3x cheaper fast…
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Alibaba Released Qwen3.7-Max and It Can Run Autonomously for 35 Hours
Alibaba's new flagship LLM targets the agent era with a 1M-token context window, 1,000+ tool calls, and cross-framework compatibility.
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Google Gemini Omni Collapses Every AI Media Pipeline Into One Model
Announced at Google I/O 2026, Gemini Omni Flash unifies text, image, audio, and video generation inside a single natively multimodal LLM.
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