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🤖 AI MODELS

Claude Haiku 4.5 release

+++ Five months of progress compressed into a cheaper, faster package: Haiku 4.5 matches Sonnet 4's coding chops at one-third the cost, suggesting the real AI arms race is efficiency, not raw capability. +++

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5: our latest small model.

"Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was state-of-the-art. Today, Haiku 4.5 matches its coding performance at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed. Haiku 4.5 surpasses Sonnet 4 on computer use tasks, making Claude for Chrome even faster. In Claude Code, it makes multi-agent projects and ra..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 260 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Model Performance Quality • Rate Limits Concerns • Pricing Strategy Criticism
💬 "It writes really well, it doesn't feel like a stupid model""Either they're driving hard for profitability or can't keep up with costs"
🏥 HEALTHCARE

Google Gemma AI Cancer Discovery

+++ Google trained a 27B parameter Gemma variant on single-cell biology and it actually surfaced novel therapeutic hypotheses, proving open-source foundation models can drive real scientific discovery beyond benchmark chasing. +++

This is AI generating novel science. The moment has finally arrived.

"https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 205 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Unvetted Twitter Claims • Preprint vs Publication • Credibility Standards
💬 "No published work. No peer review. So nothing, really""This will be news when it's published. Not when some loser CEO tweets about it."
🏥 HEALTHCARE

Google Gemma cancer discovery

+++ A 27B parameter model trained on single-cell data generated experimentally-validated cancer hypotheses. Turns out scaling foundation models to new domains occasionally produces novel insights instead of just better autocomplete. +++

A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 37 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Novel cancer treatments • AI drug discovery • Corporate AI ethics
💬 "CPMV could be used like a capsid to package RNA cancer vaccine""Model was used to broaden a search already conducted by humans"
⚡ BREAKTHROUGH

Google Gemma Cancer Discovery

+++ Google released a 27B Gemma variant that actually contributed meaningful insights to cancer research, proving open models can punch above their weight when paired with real domain expertise rather than just scale theater. +++

Google C2S-Scale 27B (based on Gemma) built with Yale generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior - Model + resources are now on Hugging Face and GitHub

"Blog post: How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway - We’re launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.: [https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/](https://..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 30 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 AI hype vs reality • Validation necessity • Combination screening efficiency
💬 "A shotgun spray of possibilities isn't valuable in non-creative fields that must verify and validate outputs.""It sounds impressive to people who didn't know what the state of the art was like 15 years ago"
🤖 AI MODELS

Claude Haiku 4.5 hits 73.3% on SWE-bench for $1/$5 per million tokens (3x cheaper than Sonnet 4, 2x faster)

"Anthropic just dropped Haiku 4.5 and the numbers are wild: **Performance:** * 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified (matches Sonnet 4 from 5 months ago) * 90% of Sonnet 4.5's agentic coding performance * 2x faster than Sonnet 4 * 4-5x faster than Sonnet 4.5 **Pricing:** * $1 input / $5 output per million ..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 15 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Open-source pricing comparison • Claude performance capabilities • Testing methodology transparency
💬 "Since western models and open-source models are on par for day to day usage, the prices for the open-source models should be compared too.""these numbers are pretty impressive especially the price point."
🎯 PRODUCT

Claude Skills: Customize AI for your workflows

"Official Anthropic research or company announcement."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 5 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Mobile responsiveness issues • UI/font sizing problems • Feature usefulness uncertainty
💬 "The font-size is microscopic. Everything is so small, only eagles can read.""These feel like they are just prompt files, like what VS Code has."
🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

UK-based cloud provider Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal

🔬 RESEARCH

SWE-Grep and SWE-Grep-Mini: RL for Fast Multi-Turn Context Retrieval

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 15 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Agent architecture design • Context retrieval optimization • Performance vs. cost tradeoffs
💬 "Divide and parallelize...8 ^ 4 toolcalls cover a very large code search space""Context Engineering is Actually Very Important. Too important for humans and hardcoded rules"
🏥 HEALTHCARE

Google's AI Cracks a New Cancer Code

🛡️ SAFETY

AI models that blackmailed when being tested in simulations

"Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03222-1..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 114 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 AI Deceptive Alignment • Instrumental Self-Preservation • Testing Methodology Concerns
💬 "Is it aligned, or has it learned that it's not 'supposed to'?""Many acknowledged that what they were doing was unethical blackmail but justified it"
💰 FUNDING

Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets

🔬 RESEARCH

Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 30 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Benchmark limitations • Practical capability gaps • LLM-centric myopia
💬 "ELO leveling is expected and says nothing about progress in the field""People are bad at telling LLMs what to do without clear instructions"
🔬 RESEARCH

Ax-Prover: A Deep Reasoning Agentic Framework for Theorem Proving in Mathematics and Quantum Physics

"We present Ax-Prover, a multi-agent system for automated theorem proving in Lean that can solve problems across diverse scientific domains and operate either autonomously or collaboratively with human experts. To achieve this, Ax-Prover approaches scientific problem solving through formal proof gene..."
💰 FUNDING

An investment consortium that includes BlackRock, Nvidia, xAI, and Microsoft says it will acquire Texas-based Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie in a $40B deal

🔬 RESEARCH

Dr.LLM: Dynamic Layer Routing in LLMs

"Large Language Models (LLMs) process every token through all layers of a transformer stack, causing wasted computation on simple queries and insufficient flexibility for harder ones that need deeper reasoning. Adaptive-depth methods can improve efficiency, but prior approaches rely on costly inferen..."
🚀 STARTUP

CoreWeave and AI coding startup Poolside plan a 500-acre, natural gas-powered data center on a Texas ranch; sources: Poolside is raising $2B at a $14B valuation

💰 FUNDING

Sources: Anthropic is on track to meet an internal goal of $9B in annual revenue run rate by the end of 2025 and is targeting $20B to $26B for 2026

🌐 POLICY

David Sacks says Anthropic is running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering”, responding to Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark's post on AI policy

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Apple released M5, the next big leap in AI performance for Apple silicon

"Apple has announced M5, a new chip delivering over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4 and boasting a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerators, a more powerful CPU, a faster Neural Engine, and higher unified memory bandwidth. Source: https://aifeed.fyi/#topiccloud..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 20 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Local AI computing • Performance benchmarks • Practical utility limits
💬 "Personal AI computing is a massive deal. 90% of queries sent to the cloud cost inference that doesn't need to be done.""There's got be a point where for normal people an upgrade should be meaningless."
🔬 RESEARCH

The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs

🔬 RESEARCH

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 5 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Hardware cost analysis • Hidden infrastructure overhead • Learning resource evaluation
💬 "Cost comparison...but I wonder if the author accounted for hidden overhead""like data transfer time for large datasets or...debugging CUDA compatibility issues"
🔬 RESEARCH

Recursive Language Models (RLMs)

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 30 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Tool-augmented systems • Recursive depth limitations • Multi-LM orchestration
💬 "Focus on systems versus LLM's is the proper next move""It's not relying on the LM context much"
🎯 PRODUCT

AI Video Generators

+++ Two HackerNews projects showcase the democratization of video synthesis tools, though calling them "Sora competitors" might be generous until they stop looking like fever dreams. +++

Sora 2 AI Video Generator – Create AI Videos from Text and Images

🛠️ TOOLS

The Parallel Task MCP Server

🌏 ENVIRONMENT

AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants

🔬 RESEARCH

Codeset, a platform for training and evaluating agentic code models

🔮 FUTURE

The AI Industry's Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff

🛠️ TOOLS

OpenAI Build Hour: Responses API [video]

🔬 RESEARCH

SRUM: Fine-Grained Self-Rewarding for Unified Multimodal Models

"Recently, remarkable progress has been made in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs), which integrate vision-language generation and understanding capabilities within a single framework. However, a significant gap exists where a model's strong visual understanding often fails to transfer to its visual ge..."
🔬 RESEARCH

The problem with LLMs isn't hallucination, it's context specific confidence

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 AI hallucination nature • Confidence signaling limits • Creativity vs reliability tradeoff
💬 "The real issue isn't that models make things up; it's that they don't clearly signal how confident they are""Hallucinations could be a feature, but there's a lot missing here"
🛠️ TOOLS

PyTorch 2.9 released with C ABI and better multi-GPU support

🔬 RESEARCH

DriveVLA-W0: World Models Amplify Data Scaling Law in Autonomous Driving

"Scaling Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on large-scale data offers a promising path to achieving a more generalized driving intelligence. However, VLA models are limited by a ``supervision deficit'': the vast model capacity is supervised by sparse, low-dimensional actions, leaving much of their..."
📊 DATA

I mapped AI Agent adoption across 217,000 GitHub repositories

📈 BENCHMARKS

AI Agent Benchmark Compendium

🤖 AI MODELS

GLM 4.6 is the new top open weight model on Design Arena

"https://preview.redd.it/hepvwbezobvf1.png?width=1877&format=png&auto=webp&s=87d242fe8af470adee79fa9b604930404192741c GLM models make up 20% of the top 10 and beat every iteration of GPT-5 except minimal. It has surpassed DeepSeek, Qwen, and even Sonnet 4 and 3.7. If their front-end perf..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 11 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Model performance comparison • Open-source capabilities • Practical tool limitations
💬 "GLM 4.6 is really intelligent. I no longer consider it to be in the same league as the rest of the open source models.""For 99.9% of users you will see no difference."
🔬 RESEARCH

[R] Tensor Logic: The Language of AI

"Pedro Domingos (the author of The Master Algorithm and a co-inventor of Markov Logic, which unified uncertainty and first-order logic) just published Tensor Logic: The Language of AI, which he's been working on for years. TL attempts to unify Deep Learning and Sy..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More? (2024)

🤖 AI MODELS

OpenAI says all Sora 2 users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and web, while Pro users can generate videos up to 25 seconds on the web

🌏 ENVIRONMENT

GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google's AI-based Flood Hub, which provides forecast warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh

💰 FUNDING

Sources: Anthropic held early funding talks this month with Abu Dhabi-based MGX, which it considers a prior investor, after closing a $13B Series F in September

🔬 RESEARCH

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior

"A long-standing challenge in machine learning has been the rigid separation between data work and model refinement, enforced by slow fine-tuning cycles. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) overcomes this historical barrier, allowing applications developers to instantly govern model behavior by..."
🤖 AI MODELS

Claude Skills

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 220 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI limitations & bias • Feature design overlap • Practical implementation challenges
💬 "Claude has a denial of reality which it is unable to get through""Skills are dependent upon developers writing competent documentation…which most seemingly can't"
🔬 RESEARCH

Holistic Agent Leaderboard: The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agent Evaluation

🔬 RESEARCH

Bits-per-Byte (BPB): a tokenizer-agnostic way to measure LLMs

💰 FUNDING

TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to $14.8B, above est., and raises its 2025 revenue growth projection to the mid-30% range, signaling strong AI chip demand

🤖 AI MODELS

[R]: Create a family of pre-trained LLMs of intermediate sizes from a single student-teacher pair

"Hello everyone! Excited to share our new preprint on a phenomenon we call boomerang distillation. Distilling a large teacher into a smaller student, then re-incorporating teacher layers into the student, yields a spectrum of models whose performance smoothly interpolates between the student and te..."
🎯 PRODUCT

Google introduces Veo 3.1, with improved audio output and stronger prompt adherence, and rolls out new updates to its AI video editor Flow

🔬 RESEARCH

UniFusion: Vision-Language Model as Unified Encoder in Image Generation

"Although recent advances in visual generation have been remarkable, most existing architectures still depend on distinct encoders for images and text. This separation constrains diffusion models' ability to perform cross-modal reasoning and knowledge transfer. Prior attempts to bridge this gap often..."
🎯 PRODUCT

Apple refreshes the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, offering up to 3.5x more AI performance and faster storage, for the same $1,599+, shipping October 22

🔬 RESEARCH

[R] Verbalized Sampling: How to Mitigate Mode Collapse and Unlock LLM Diversity

"***TL;DR***: Mode collapse in LLMs comes from human raters preferring familiar text in post-training annotation. Prompting for probability distributions instead of single outputs restores the lost diversity, instantly improving performance on creative tasks by 2.1x with no decrease in quality with z..."
🏢 BUSINESS

Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products

🔬 RESEARCH

Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can LLMs Truly Switch Between Think and No-Think?

"Hybrid thinking enables LLMs to switch between reasoning and direct answering, offering a balance between efficiency and reasoning capability. Yet our experiments reveal that current hybrid thinking LLMs only achieve partial mode separation: reasoning behaviors often leak into the no-think mode. To..."
🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Meta announces a partnership with Arm to power AI ranking and recommendation systems across Meta's family of apps using Arm-based data center platforms

🔬 RESEARCH

Generation Space Size: Understanding and Calibrating Open-Endedness of LLM Generations

"Different open-ended generation tasks require different degrees of output diversity. However, current LLMs are often miscalibrated. They collapse to overly homogeneous outputs for creative tasks and hallucinate diverse but incorrect responses for factual tasks. We argue that these two failure modes..."
🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

China's GPU Competition: 96GB Huawei Atlas 300I Duo Dual-GPU Tear-Down

"We need benchmarks .."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 40 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Hardware specifications • Competitive positioning • Software compatibility importance
💬 "It's the later iterations we really care about""It only needs to be good enough to justify another generation"
🔬 RESEARCH

The Role of Parametric Injection-A Systematic Study of Parametric Retrieval-Augmented Generation

"Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by retrieving external documents. As an emerging form of RAG, parametric retrieval-augmented generation (PRAG) encodes documents as model parameters (i.e., LoRA modules) and injects these representations into the model during..."
🏥 HEALTHCARE

How AI-powered tools like PainChek, an app that scans a person's face for tiny muscle movements, are helping healthcare providers better assess patients' pain

🎓 EDUCATION

South Korea's AI textbook program, meant to personalize learning, was rolled back after just four months after complaints about inaccuracies and extra workload

💼 JOBS

Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing AI-driven web search for Siri, is leaving for Meta

🔬 RESEARCH

CTRL-Rec: Controlling Recommender Systems With Natural Language

"When users are dissatisfied with recommendations from a recommender system, they often lack fine-grained controls for changing them. Large language models (LLMs) offer a solution by allowing users to guide their recommendations through natural language requests (e.g., "I want to see respectful posts..."
🌐 POLICY

OpenAI accused of using legal tactics to silence nonprofits: "It's an attempt to bully nonprofit critics."

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

NVIDIA DGX Spark™ + Apple Mac Studio = 4x Faster LLM Inference with EXO 1.0

"Well this is quite interesting! https://blog.exolabs.net/nvidia-dgx-spark/ ..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 6 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Hardware optimization tradeoffs • GPU memory bandwidth constraints • DIY server builds
💬 "Smart offloading tasks to the best machine it accelerates!""Devil in the details: GPU not just used for prompt processing"
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