for the third week in a row, andrej-karpathy-skills by @jiayuan_jy keeps its position among the most-starred github repositories with over 24k stars gained in the last
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should you spend $5K on a Mac Studio or an RTX 5090 for local AI? in this short guide you'll learn: 1. more memory vs more speed – what
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42 ai model releases in just 4 months all across 8 top labs. here's the breakdown: chinese labs: 24 releases us labs: 18 releases who shipped the most:
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tencent just open-sourced a translation model that fits in 440mb and beats models 500x its size how? they compressed a 3.3gb model by storing weights in basically 1
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openai researchers dropped some signals worth paying attention to sebastien bubeck and ernest ryu joined the openai podcast with andrew mayne. here's the trajectory they laid out: • 2
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codex is now built for long tasks. but not for users yet? we called it yesterday: openai is optimizing agents for long-horizon thinking. now thibault sottiaux, codex team lead
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Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) has had one of the most extraordinary careers in tech. He started as a chess prodigy and video game designer at 17 before getting a PhD in
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nvidia keeps dropping free models. they are just ads for their hardware nvidia shipped nemotron 3 nano omni opensource today. there's one thing worth flagging the target user
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7 ycombinator startups from the winter 2026 batch that raised beyond the standard $500k check – all niche @ycombinator sees it clearly: ai is maturing. building one-for-all ai tool
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china has blocked meta’s $2bn acquisition of ai group manus, saying the deal facilitated the illegal leakage of strategic technology to the us regulators said the transfer violated export
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they just slashed input cache prices to 1/10th of what they already were. and there's a separate 75% off promo on v4-pro running until may 5th.
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meta has been researching ai since 2013. xiaomi only started in 2016. meta spent $57.4b on r&d in 2025. xiaomi spent $4.8b – 12x less. meta released
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why is no big tech investing in xai? google just put $10b into anthropic. amazon is in both openai ($50b) and anthropic ($5b+). microsoft has stakes in both too but
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1,556 commits in 7 days. one of the most important hermes releases yet - full react + ink rewrite of the terminal ui makes hermes feel more like a real product,
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- top-1 on artificial analysis intelligence index, above opus 4.7, gemini 3.1, and gpt-5.4 - beats opus 4.7 on almost every benchmark. one exception: swe-bench
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