z ai with 127 employees surpassed google on agent arena
z ai's glm 5.2 – open weights, mit license – ranked #3. google's gemini 3.5 flash came in #4. only anthropic's claude fable 5
Addy Crezee
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Addy Crezee
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4 versions of glm, same 3 prompts – each one beat the last
glm 4.7 vs 5 vs 5.1 vs 5.2 – four models by @Zai_Org, same three tasks context: @elonmusk and @jietang (founder of z ai, the lab behind
Nick Trenkler
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openai's 7 pre-ipo hires reveal the company it's building
openai is powering up with employees before an ipo there were 7 notable hires since february 2026. here's the recap: • feb 15 – @steipete, creator of openclaw, joins to
Addy Crezee
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liquid ai ships two tiny search models beating rivals twice their size
liquid ai shipped two models perfect for fast, accurate search across languages, running on almost any hardware what they released: two tiny retrieval models (lfm2.5-embedding-350m and lfm2.
Nick Trenkler
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glm 5.2 beats opus 4.8 as chinese labs sweep hugging face
chinese labs dominate open weights minimax, moonshot, and glm all shipped in june and immediately took the top 3 trending spots on hugging face – and glm 5.2 isn'
Addy Crezee
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cursor launches origin to take on github in the ai agent era
cursor rivals github with its new project. here's why cursor – the ai coding startup spacex just agreed to buy for $60b – announced origin, a git platform built for
Nick Trenkler
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deepseek raised $7.4b – investors got no votes, only the state did
deepseek's funding round structure breakdown $7.4b raised at $50b valuation – but investors get no voting rights, can't sell for 5 years, and had their identities
Addy Crezee
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4 chinese models, 1 animation task: glm spent 21 minutes and won
glm 5.2 max vs kimi k2.7 code vs minimax m3 vs mimo v2.5 pro: making the moon go around the earth the top-3 open weight labs
Nick Trenkler
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every ai lab is building physical ai – except openai and anthropic
today alibaba dropped the qwen-robot suite – three foundation models, a full stack for embodied intelligence: • qwen-robotnav – mobility brain. one model, 5 navigation tasks, agentic tool interface • qwen-robotmanip
Addy Crezee
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spacex acquiring cursor. how we got here
today, june 16, 2026, spacex signed a merger agreement to acquire cursor (anysphere) in an all-stock deal valuing the company at $60 billion. cursor will become a wholly owned
Nick Trenkler
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skillspector grew 289% in one week – top github repos by stars
skillspector is the fastest-growing repo this week with 289.6% growth, while last30days-skill leads the pack with over 42k total stars and 9,676 new ones this week
Nick Trenkler
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moonshot shipped 4 kimi products in 8 days – right after a $30b raise leaked
moonshot released kimi k2.7 code highspeed – their 4th release in 2 weeks. here's the overview not just releases – product launches, a beta program, api quota bonuses, and
Addy Crezee
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satya nadella just proposed a new model of the firm. here's the breakdown
it's from his recent essay "a frontier without an ecosystem is not stable" – a piece on how companies should position themselves in an ai-driven economy
Nick Trenkler
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rio 3.5: a brazilian city hall just shipped a 397b open-weight model
brazil's government just shipped an open model and it already has 5,943 downloads on hugging face rio 3.5 open 397b – built by iplanrio, the municipal IT
Addy Crezee
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minimax m3 surges 198% – still priciest in a chinese-dominated top 4
minimax m3 just grew 198% this week on openrouter – the biggest jump in the top 10 worth noting: they're running a -50% sale. and even at half price
Addy Crezee
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