Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are now within striking distance of the best US models. Western labs blame distillation, and there’s real evidence for it. But guilty…
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GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new tasks from a single demo
Robotics startup Generalist AI has unveiled GEN-1.5, an AI model that teaches robots new tasks from a single demonstration. The article GEN-1.5:…
KI-Pioneer Sutton calls synthetic data a “big mistake” in the face of an infinitely complex world
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton calls synthetic data a “big mistake” for scaling large language models. The world is infinitely complex, and any…
Anthropic’s most capable model, codenamed “Model 2,” is for internal use only
Anthropic uses an unpublished AI model internally that is more powerful than any publicly available version of Claude. The article Anthropic’s most…
China now has its own AI circular financing scheme
Unitree Robotics rose 460 percent in its Shanghai IPO, hitting a valuation of around $50 billion. But an FT report shows much of the demand for its robots…
Terence Tao says AI could trigger math’s biggest crisis since Gödel
In a new essay, Terence Tao warns that AI could push mathematics into a crisis on par with the foundational upheaval around 1900. What’s being tested this…
OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data
OpenAI plans to offer its most advanced AI models to corporate customers without storing their data, while still detecting misuse. The article OpenAI…
OpenAI says it’s “pacing model development” as AI cybersecurity risks grow too dangerous
OpenAI is deliberately “pacing AI model development,” partly because the upcoming “Astra” model may be close to gaining critical cyberattack capabilities.…
New benchmark ranks search APIs for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed
Artificial Analysis has released the “Search Index,” a benchmark that rates search API providers for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed. Of seven…
Stripe declares we’re living in the singularity and uses it as a reason not to IPO
In a letter to investors, Stripe declares January 1 the “beginning of the singularity” and uses that as a reason to stay private. Not that it needs one:…