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🤖 AI MODELS

Nvidia Vera Rubin Platform Launch

+++ Nvidia's new six-chip Vera Rubin platform cuts training costs and chip requirements by roughly 75% versus Blackwell, now in production, which means the economics of LLM infrastructure might finally stop resembling a venture capital death spiral. +++

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips are in “full production”; Nvidia says Rubin can train some LLMs with roughly one-fourth the chips Blackwell needs

🛠️ TOOLS

llama.cpp performance breakthrough for multi-GPU setups

"While we were enjoying our well-deserved end-of-year break, the **ik\_llama.cpp** project (a performance-optimized fork of llama.cpp) achieved a breakthrough in local LLM inference for multi-GPU configurations, delivering a massive performance leap — not just a marginal gain, but a 3x to 4x speed im..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 144 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Llama performance improvements • Developer collaboration • GPU scalability
💬 "consistent 2x prompt processing speeds""I hope someone more knowledgable will show what is the correct way to use NCCL"
🔬 RESEARCH

H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs

"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01797 Abstract: "Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate hallucinations -- plausible but factually incorrect outputs -- undermining their reliability. While prior work has examined hallucinations from macroscopic perspectives such as training data and objectives,..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 2 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Dealing with irritation • Relying on faith • Understanding AI behavior
💬 "I pray daily for Jesus Christ to impart His character into me""You'll be able to do the same if you follow Jesus Christ"
🏥 HEALTHCARE

Rentosertib … is an investigational new drug that is being evaluated for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis … the first drug generated entirely by generative artificial intelligence to rea

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
💰 FUNDING

xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training

🗣️ SPEECH/AUDIO

Achieving 30x Real-Time Transcription on CPU . Multilingual STT Openai api endpoint compatible. Plug and play in Open-webui - Parakeet

"Hi everyone, I’ve been a huge fan of Whisper Large V3 since it came out. it’s been my reliable workhorse for a long time. But recently, I found a new setup that has completely redefined what I thought was possible for local transcription, especially on a CPU. I’m now achieving 30x real-time speeds..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 23 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 CPU-based transcription • Language support • Accuracy vs. speed
💬 "30x real-time on CPU sounds almost too good to be true""Parakeet supports a lot more languages than listed, even with a lower WER than Whisper"
🛠️ TOOLS

We built an open source memory framework that doesn't rely on embeddings. Just open-sourced it

"Hey folks, wanted to share something we’ve been hacking on for a while. It’s called **memU** — an agentic memory framework for LLMs / AI agents. Most memory systems I’ve seen rely heavily on embedding search: you store everything as vectors, then do similarity lookup to pull “relevant” context. Th..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 14 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 LLM-driven Categorization • Memory Management • Scalability Concerns
💬 "Is it just a prompt that tells the ai to summarize concisely the most important parts?""We will not put all the files into the context, we'll only include files related to query."
🛡️ SAFETY

Action-taking AI is speeding ahead. Let's get some guardrails up

🤖 AI MODELS

Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything a user can on a computer, with impressive results

🔒 SECURITY

Continuously hardening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection attacks

🤖 AI MODELS

I started benchmarking Claude and other LLMs at doing real world tasks

"My job/company makes AI agents for companies, and we keep getting asked “which of Claude/GPT/Gemini is best for X” and I never had a very good answer, so I decided to create a benchmarking standard for “real” tasks.  For instance, so far, I’ve done:  * Data enrichment (given an email, can it find ..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 7 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Open-source LLMs • Agent platforms • Benchmarking LLMs
💬 "I've been balking at a lot of the benchmarks for a long time""Tell it to 'improve the runtime/some arbitrary metric"
🛡️ SAFETY

I built Ctrl: Execution control plane for high stakes agentic systems

"I built Ctrl, an open-source execution control plane that sits between an agent and its tools. Instead of letting tool calls execute directly, Ctrl intercepts them, dynamically scores risk, applies policy (allow / deny / approve), and only then executes; recording every intent, decision, and event ..."
🛠️ TOOLS

Unsloth-MLX - Fine-tune LLMs on your Mac (same API as Unsloth)

"Hey Everyone, I've been working on something for Mac users in the ML space. Unsloth-MLX - an MLX-powered library that brings the Unsloth fine-tuning experience to Apple Silicon. The idea is simple: → Prototype your LLM fine-tuning locally on Mac → Same code works on cloud GPUs w..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 9 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Model Naming • Model Performance • Model Compatibility
💬 "Dunno about using their name in your product name.""At least we know inference works…"
🔬 RESEARCH

Evolution Without an Oracle: Driving Effective Evolution with LLM Judges

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 15 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Autodiff in TypeScript • Porting from TensorFlow.js • Web GPU acceleration
💬 "the only decent autodiff implementation in typescript was tensorflowjs, which has been completely abandonned by Google""Coming from tfjs where you garbage collect with `tf.tidy(() = { ... })`, API in jax-js seems very low-level and error-prone"
🔮 FUTURE

Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 162 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI impact on jobs • AI-human collaboration • Limitations of AI
💬 "There's a whole lot of bullshit jobs and work that will get increasingly and opaquely automated by AI.""People using AI had a meaningful change when they joined the workforce in 2025."
🔬 RESEARCH

Placement Semantics for Distributed Deep Learning: A Systematic Framework for Analyzing Parallelism Strategies

"Training large language models requires distributing computation across many accelerators, yet practitioners select parallelism strategies (data, tensor, pipeline, ZeRO) through trial and error because no unified systematic framework predicts their behavior. We introduce placement semantics: each st..."
🔬 RESEARCH

You Only Need Your Transformer 25% of the Time: Meaning-First Execution for Eliminating Unnecessary Inference

"This paper argues that transformers are being overused as universal execution engines. I propose a meaning-first execution framework that decouples semantic proposal from model execution, allowing inference to be conditionally invoked only when needed. The result is that a large fraction of transf..."
⚡ BREAKTHROUGH

A 30B Qwen Model Walks Into a Raspberry Pi… and Runs in Real Time

"Hey r/LocalLLaMA, We’re back with another **ShapeLearn** GGUF release (Blog, Models), this time for a model that *should not* feel this usable on small hardware… and yet ..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 38 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Hardware optimization • Quant techniques • Community excitement
💬 "8.03 TPS at 2.70 BPW, while retaining 94.18% of BF16 quality""We learned what precision each tensor should use to maximize throughput"
🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: An open-source telephony stack for AI voice agents (Twilio alternative)

🔬 RESEARCH

Retrieval--Reasoning Processes for Multi-hop Question Answering: A Four-Axis Design Framework and Empirical Trends

"Multi-hop question answering (QA) requires systems to iteratively retrieve evidence and reason across multiple hops. While recent RAG and agentic methods report strong results, the underlying retrieval--reasoning \emph{process} is often left implicit, making procedural choices hard to compare across..."
🔬 RESEARCH

NextFlow: Unified Sequential Modeling Activates Multimodal Understanding and Generation

"We present NextFlow, a unified decoder-only autoregressive transformer trained on 6 trillion interleaved text-image discrete tokens. By leveraging a unified vision representation within a unified autoregressive architecture, NextFlow natively activates multimodal understanding and generation capabil..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation

🛠️ TOOLS

Cursor's agent now uses dynamic context for all models

"It's more intelligent about how context is filled while maintaining the same quality. This reduces total tokens by 46.9% when using multiple MCP servers. Learn about how we use the filesystem to improve context efficiency for tools, MCP servers, skills, terminals, chat history, and more. [https://..."
🔬 RESEARCH

An Agentic Framework for Neuro-Symbolic Programming

"Integrating symbolic constraints into deep learning models could make them more robust, interpretable, and data-efficient. Still, it remains a time-consuming and challenging task. Existing frameworks like DomiKnowS help this integration by providing a high-level declarative programming interface, bu..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Streaming Hallucination Detection in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

"Long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning improves the performance of large language models, yet hallucinations in such settings often emerge subtly and propagate across reasoning steps. We suggest that hallucination in long CoT reasoning is better understood as an evolving latent state rather than a on..."
📊 DATA

How People Actually Use AI (100 Trillion Token Study)

🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Local agentic coding with low quantized, REAPed, large models (MiniMax-M2.1, Qwen3-Coder, GLM 4.6, GLM 4.7, ..)

"More or less recent developments (stable & large MoE models, 2 and 3-bit UD\_I and exl3 quants, REAPing) allow to run huge models on little VRAM without completely killing model performance. For example, UD-IQ2\_XXS (74.1 GB) of MiniMax M2.1, or a REAP-50.Q5\_K\_M (82 GB), or potentially even a ..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 16 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Model performance • Model capabilities • Model preference
💬 "GPT-OSS-120B is a very strong model""The only models I use now are Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B and GPT-OSS-120B"
🔬 RESEARCH

The Reasoning-Creativity Trade-off: Toward Creativity-Driven Problem Solving

"State-of-the-art large language model (LLM) pipelines rely on bootstrapped reasoning loops: sampling diverse chains of thought and reinforcing the highest-scoring ones, mainly optimizing correctness. We analyze how this design choice is sensitive to the collapse of the model's distribution over reas..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Falcon-H1R: Pushing the Reasoning Frontiers with a Hybrid Model for Efficient Test-Time Scaling

"This work introduces Falcon-H1R, a 7B-parameter reasoning-optimized model that establishes the feasibility of achieving competitive reasoning performance with small language models (SLMs). Falcon-H1R stands out for its parameter efficiency, consistently matching or outperforming SOTA reasoning model..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Code for Machines, Not Just Humans: Quantifying AI-Friendliness with Code Health Metrics

"We are entering a hybrid era in which human developers and AI coding agents work in the same codebases. While industry practice has long optimized code for human comprehension, it is increasingly important to ensure that LLMs with different capabilities can edit code reliably. In this study, we inve..."
🛠️ TOOLS

We built an open-source AI coworker on Claude — 1,800+ employees use it daily

"Hey r/ClaudeAI, I work at KRAFTON (the company behind PUBG). For the past year, we've been running an internal AI system powered by Claude that handles requests like: \- "Analyze competitors and create a presentation" → actually does it \- "Review this code and export as PDF" → done It even sug..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 37 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Data Privacy • Open Source • Transparency
💬 "All data stays on your machine, — except it goes to Anthropocene via API""I think you are slightly misleading people."
🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: SpreadsheetMCP – Token-efficient Excel tools for LLM agents (Rust)

🔬 RESEARCH

Project Ariadne: A Structural Causal Framework for Auditing Faithfulness in LLM Agents

"As Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly tasked with high-stakes autonomous decision-making, the transparency of their reasoning processes has become a critical safety concern. While \textit{Chain-of-Thought} (CoT) prompting allows agents to generate human-readable reasoning traces, it..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Routing by Analogy: kNN-Augmented Expert Assignment for Mixture-of-Experts

"Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale large language models efficiently by employing a parametric "router" to dispatch tokens to a sparse subset of experts. Typically, this router is trained once and then frozen, rendering routing decisions brittle under distribution shifts. We address this l..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Probabilistic Guarantees for Reducing Contextual Hallucinations in LLMs

"Large language models (LLMs) frequently produce contextual hallucinations, where generated content contradicts or ignores information explicitly stated in the prompt. Such errors are particularly problematic in deterministic automation workflows, where inputs are fixed and correctness is unambiguous..."
🤖 AI MODELS

Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics models into Atlas robots, boosting their object-manipulation capabilities and more

🎓 EDUCATION

AI Tutors Now Outperform Traditional Classrooms - But Who Gets Access?

"Been following the AI in education space for a while and wanted to share some research that's been on my mind. Harvard researchers ran a randomized controlled trial (N=194) comparing physics students learning from an AI tutor vs an active learning classroom. Published in Nature Scientific Reports i..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 12 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Potential of AI education • Stratification of society • Challenges of remote education
💬 "I fully support AI teachers and tutors""We'll have people living in mud huts while on the other side of the world people will be using hypertubes"
🔬 RESEARCH

Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf]

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 13 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY
🎯 Impact of LLMs on scientific publishing • Concerns about signal-to-noise ratio • Need for new scientific communication models
💬 "the polished turd, and likely worse case of publish and perish""we are going to lose access to both the careers (to robot-weilding bullshitters) and even worse, the shared space where scientific communication took place"
🔬 RESEARCH

Geometry of Reason: Spectral Signatures of Valid Mathematical Reasoning

"We present a training-free method for detecting valid mathematical reasoning in large language models through spectral analysis of attention patterns. By treating attention matrices as adjacency matrices of dynamic graphs over tokens, we extract four interpretable spectral diagnostics, the Fiedler v..."
🛠️ TOOLS

Llama 2 inference from scratch in C++20 (No PyTorch/GGML, ARM NEON)

⚡ BREAKTHROUGH

A live blog of Nvidia's keynote with CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2026, where the company is showcasing AI, robotics, simulation, gaming, and more

🔬 RESEARCH

EverMemOS: A Self-Organizing Memory Operating System for Structured Long-Horizon Reasoning

"Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as long-term interactive agents, yet their limited context windows make it difficult to sustain coherent behavior over extended interactions. Existing memory systems often store isolated records and retrieve fragments, limiting their ability to..."
🔬 RESEARCH

DatBench: Discriminative, Faithful, and Efficient VLM Evaluations

"Empirical evaluation serves as the primary compass guiding research progress in foundation models. Despite a large body of work focused on training frontier vision-language models (VLMs), approaches to their evaluation remain nascent. To guide their maturation, we propose three desiderata that evalu..."
🔬 RESEARCH

CD4LM: Consistency Distillation and aDaptive Decoding for Diffusion Language Models

"Autoregressive large language models achieve strong results on many benchmarks, but decoding remains fundamentally latency-limited by sequential dependence on previously generated tokens. Diffusion language models (DLMs) promise parallel generation but suffer from a fundamental static-to-dynamic mis..."
🤖 AI MODELS

"I love you" "too": LLM Attention Explained

🤖 AI MODELS

Nvidia announces the Alpamayo family of AI models, tools, and datasets for AVs, and details a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on its first full-stack AV effort

🔒 SECURITY

I made Alignment Arena - an AI jailbreak benchmarking website

"I've made a website (https://www.alignmentarena.com/) which allows you to automatically test jailbreak prompts against open-source LLMs. It tests nine times for each submission (3x LLMs, 3x prompt types). There's also leaderboards for users and ..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 63 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Visual geolocalization • Potential for misuse • Boring product marketing
💬 "That picture they use with supposed keypoint matching is wrong.""Sounds more like 'vehicle recovery' for the repossession market first and foremost."
🤖 AI MODELS

Liquid Ai released LFM2.5, family of tiny on-device foundation models.

"Hugging face: https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm25 It’s built to power reliable on-device agentic applications: higher quality, lower latency, and broader modality support in the \~1B parameter class. > LFM2.5 builds on LFM2 devi..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 47 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Large language models • Model performance • Model optimization
💬 "A graph that's to scale""Can't do OCR, package ingredient texts result in looping"
🔬 RESEARCH

Beyond Full Builds: GPU Optimized LLM Framework with Minimal Executable Programs

🛠️ TOOLS

I spent few days mapping the context engineering landscape, here are the 5 main approaches

"I've been building AI agents pipelines for a few months now, and honestly, the context engineering space is overwhelming. RAG, vector databases, MCP servers... everyone's using different tools for everything. So I spent some time organizing it all. Here are the 5 main categories I found, with the t..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 13 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Open-source frameworks • Cognitive layers • Codebase health monitoring
💬 "It sets rules and boundaries, and is forcing AI to make notes on every step""I wish to construct a system that can work with human or AI and where you can actually see your codebase health & problems"
🤖 AI MODELS

Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to 'think like a human' | TechCrunch

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 13 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Open-Source AV Platforms • Autonomous Driving Capabilities • Competitive Landscape
💬 "The industry's first chain-of-thought reasoning VLA model""It provides realistic sensor modeling, configurable traffic dynamics and scalable closed‑loop testing environments"
🤖 AI MODELS

AMD teases its next-generation CDNA 6-based MI500 AI chips built on a 2nm node, claiming 1,000x performance gains over predecessors, launching in 2027

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