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AI models are the systems behind chatbots, coding assistants and tools that work with text, images, audio and video. Follow new language model releases, open-weight models, local AI and benchmark results. Our coverage looks at capabilities, context limits, access, pricing and evaluation methods so you can compare the evidence behind a launch, not just the claims in its announcement.
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Cybersecurity companies are taking sharply different routes into AI, from purpose-built defender models to frontier systems wired into existing security platforms. The practical problem is that buyers are being handed metrics measured in different units, making the next big security purchase rather harder to compare than the marketing…
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Former US antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter says frontier AI labs do not need an antitrust exemption to cooperate on safety. In a Decoder interview, he argues that companies can share threat intelligence lawfully, while any pact to slow competition could trigger the very rules they want waived.
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An AI system has reportedly designed, verified and deployed a small inference-chip design from a written specification, with Architect Labs saying the flow took under two weeks. The practical significance is not that a chatbot has magically become a semiconductor foundry, but that hardware and software optimisation may…
AMD Watch
AMD has published a fuller set of benchmark claims for its upcoming EPYC Venice server CPUs, including a result that puts its 256-core flagship well ahead of NVIDIA Vera in one SPEC CPU 2026 throughput test. The useful story is both the scale of AMD’s claim and the…
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TypeSafe AI's Jev is being pitched as a different kind of AI model: not a chatbot, not a reasoning engine and not a replacement for your main LLM. Theo Browne describes it as a fast classifier for structured decisions such as routing, ranking, tagging and escalation, where the…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft has a new playbook for what it calls the Frontier Firm, and its central wager is blunt: generic AI output is a convincing average of everything a model has seen, and averages do not make anyone distinctive. The edge, it argues, now lies in teaching AI the…
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Ramin Hasani, co-founder and chief executive of Liquid AI, has a number for the corporate AI graveyard: 80% of production-grade efforts never reach production quality. He draws it from roughly 200 Fortune 500 engagements over two and a half years, recounted in a Latent Space interview. His diagnosis…
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Ramin Hasani has put a number on the intelligence Mercedes-Benz plans to build into its cars: about 600 megabytes, small enough to reach the whole fleet as an ordinary over-the-air update. The figure came up on the Latent Space podcast, and its significance is less benchmark than business…
Cohere Watch
The story that Chinese AI progress is mostly borrowed homework has an official version in Washington and, as of Friday, a prominent sceptic inside the US industry itself. Cohere chief executive Aidan Gomez called Chinese AI models "world-class", said the advantage held by the leading American labs is…
AWS AI Watch
Amazon has published a year-to-date accounting of its SageMaker inference work, and it reads less like a launch post than a decision guide. Thirteen capabilities have landed in 2026 across two deployment paths, and the review's real contribution is putting the choice between them on a single page.
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic is letting outsiders through the lab door. The company announced on 18 September a partnership with Accenture to embed independent evaluators inside Anthropic with access comparable to an employee's, and each side expects to invest at least $1 billion in building that capacity over the next five…
Hugging Face Watch
Write code, run it, read the feedback, revise. A community article published on Hugging Face today argues that the loop which made coding agents useful is now being pointed at robots, world models and editing tools, with code serving as the interface between a model and the physical…
AWS AI Watch
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, and it turns up with a first to its name: per AWS, it is the first open weight model on the platform to support explicit prompt caching. It arrives with a 1-million-token context window, native vision and,…
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A Beijing startup called Naive AI has been valued at more than $1.4bn without releasing a model anyone can download. Founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor, the company has raised $400m across three funding rounds, with Tencent among the investors, and its first large language model…
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A model that cannot chat, cannot code and refuses to write a sentence has become the week's most argued-about release. TypeSafe, a San Francisco startup fresh out of stealth, has shipped Jev, a model with text generation stripped out entirely: hand it information and a predefined set of…
Zhipu AI / Z.ai GLM Watch
Zhipu AI has launched GLM-5.3-FlashX on its BigModel platform, with the API live and a headline claim of up to 200 tokens per second of output. The pitch is refreshingly narrow: the new model keeps the intelligence and pricing of GLM-5.3-Flash and simply generates faster, which is precisely…
DeepSeek Watch
DeepSeek open-sourced its agent execution framework, DeepSeek Harness, on 13 August, and per a 36Kr analysis published on 18 September it picked up nearly 100,000 GitHub stars within two days of its public open beta. The framework runs on a tidy equation, 'Model + Harness = Agent', with…
