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xai open-sourced its coding agent – four days after getting caught uploading developers' entire codebases

@xai published grok build's source on github on jul 15. the official framing: publishing the harness is the most direct way to make it robust, and it lets

Nick Trenkler 16 Jul 2026 1 min read

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hy3 vs mimo-v2.5 vs deepseek v4 flash vs minimax m3

the four models on top of the openrouter leaderboard by tokens this week: #1 hy3 (@TencentHunyuan) – 7.5t #2 mimo-v2.5 (@XiaomiMiMo) – 6.56t #3 deepseek v4 flash (@deepseek_

Addy Crezee 15 Jul 2026 2 min read

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founder of ai finance platform hebbia posted an article on managing agents like managing employees. we wrote out the key insights

george sivulka (@gsivulka) founded hebbia in 2020, when it became one of the first companies to productionize llms and an early pioneer of rag. its customers are financial, legal and

Nick Trenkler 15 Jul 2026 2 min read

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gpt 5.6 sol vs gpt 5.6 terra vs gpt 5.6 luna vs gpt 5.5

the test – 4 prompts, single-file html, three.js from a cdn, fully procedural, no external assets. all run via @aimlapi the takeaway up front: every openai frontier model here

Nick Trenkler 14 Jul 2026 2 min read

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tencent opensourced hy3 a week ago. it already has more tokens routed than any other model on openrouter

openrouter top 5 by token volume last week: 1. tencent hy3 (free) – 6.13t 2. xiaomi mimo-v2.5 – 5.95t 3. deepseek v4 flash – 5.22t 4. minimax m3

Addy Crezee 13 Jul 2026 1 min read

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a third of the entire emerging markets index is now three chip stocks

the msci emerging markets index is supposed to be the diversified bet on the developing world. ~1,200 companies, 24 countries, ~$1.8t of global money benchmarked to it today,

Nick Trenkler 13 Jul 2026 1 min read

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meta and snap put cameras on smart glasses. this week $150m went to the version without one.

our ai host nathan tracks the capital radar every hour and here is what stood out this week: $2b – @MiniMax_AI closed a fresh capital raise via a hong kong

Addy Crezee 12 Jul 2026 1 min read

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seedream 5.0 pro vs gpt image 2 vs mai image 2.5 vs grok imagine

seedream 5.0 pro just entered the multi-image edit arena at #2 with 1415 pts. big jump from seedream 4.5, which sat at #11 – so we put it

Nick Trenkler 12 Jul 2026 2 min read

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top 5 github repos by weekly star growth: agents get meetings, pentesting, and office suites

top 5 github repos by weekly star growth: - meetily – +8,795/week, 23k total. privacy-first ai meeting assistant. rust-based live transcription, speaker diarization, local summarization via ollama. no

Addy Crezee 11 Jul 2026 1 min read

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meta muse spark 1.1 vs gpt 5.6 sol vs fable 5 vs grok 4.5

meta recently dropped muse spark 1.1 – a multimodal reasoning model from meta superintelligence labs built for agentic tasks. key facts: • 1m token context with active self-management – the model

Nick Trenkler 11 Jul 2026 3 min read

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reve 2.1 is a significantly better model than reve 2.0 – and that took only 1 month

@reve dropped 2.1 just a month after 2.0. claims a rapid leap in visual intelligence and world knowledge, back to #2 overall on text-to-image arena – trained

Nick Trenkler 10 Jul 2026 1 min read

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gpt 5.6 sol pro vs claude fable 5 vs grok 4.5 vs glm 5.2

today @OpenAI released the gpt-5.6 family – sol (flagship), terra, luna. key facts: • sol is the new flagship, priced $5/m input and $30/m output • openai claims "

Nick Trenkler 10 Jul 2026 2 min read

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grok 4.5 vs fable 5 vs gpt 5.5 vs glm 5.2

today @SpaceXAI released grok 4.5 – a model built around coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work. key facts: • trained across tens of thousands of nvidia gb300 gpus, with rl over

Addy Crezee 9 Jul 2026 2 min read

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muse image vs gpt image 2 vs nano banana 2 vs reve 2.0

@Meta shipped muse image – an image model inside meta ai. the headline feature: @-mention anyone's instagram and generate images of them from their public photos. opt-out exists

Nick Trenkler 8 Jul 2026 1 min read

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deepseek is joining top ai labs in developing its own ai chip

chinese startup @deepseek_ai is in the early stages of designing a custom chip for inference (not training). the goal – cut reliance on nvidia and huawei amid us export controls.

Nick Trenkler 7 Jul 2026 1 min read