▶ ai·
Much ado about Open Weights
Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today
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▶ claude·
Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)
ain't nobody beats Anthropic at distilling Fable!
▶ gemini·
Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model
A HUGE win for BFL!
▶ deepseek·
"Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"
a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.
▶ ai·
Inside the Model Factory
Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model... and this is just the beginning.
▶ ai·
AI Cybersecurity becomes top of mind
Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend
▶ ai·
Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)
Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.
▶ claude·
Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing
a great week for open models continues.
▶ ai·
🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences
Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.
▶ ai·
Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
▶ ai·
5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026
At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.
▶ claude code·
Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code??
a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...
▶ gpt·
OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Codex becomes ChatGPT superapp
A big day for OpenAI.
▶ grok·
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, first Opus-class model post Cursor acquisition
SpaceXAI continues to move faster than any other frontier lab on earth.
▶ ai·
Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience
2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.
▶ ai·
Lilian Weng summarizes 35 papers on Harness Engineering for RSI
a quiet day lets us read some condensed insight
▶ ai·
The Field Guide to Fable
a quiet day lets us digest the world's most significant model launch... to date.
▶ ai·
AIEWF Daily Dispatch: The great loops debate and the state of AI engineering
The AI Engineer World’s Fair ended with a debate about loops, a report on the state of AI engineering, and closing keynotes focused on what to build next.
▶ ai·
Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software
The Vercel Chief of Software explains how its agent framework, eve, was created — and why skills, sandboxes and agent-readable websites now matter.
▶ ai·
The website of the future may assemble itself for every visitor
Adobe is experimenting with “agentic sites” that generate pages around an individual user’s intent. At AIEWF, we talked to Carlos Sanchez about the Web's future.
▶ ai·
Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI design
Paul Bakaus talks to us about Impeccable, human judgment in a 'loopmaxxing' era, and why agents still need people to steer them.
▶ ai·
AIEWF Daily Dispatch: Autoresearch and the tension between AI and human agency
The software factory vision met resistance today from speakers defending human understanding and control.
▶ ai·
Autoresearch: The feedback loop behind self-improving agents
Introspection co-founder Roland Gavrilescu explains autoresearch, agent “recipes,” self-improving loops, and why humans remain central to the software factory.
▶ cursor·
How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise
Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories.
▶ ai·
🔬 The Coolest Diffusion Research Isn't in LLMs — Evan Feinberg & Sergey Edunov, Genesis Molecular AI
Why the Llama lead left Meta for drug discovery, PEARL's zero-shot OpenBind win, and what becomes possible when co-folding finally crosses the accuracy threshold.
▶ ai·
Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on why software factories are the next phase of coding
Warp's founder thinks every major software project will soon run on an automated factory. He discusses why and how engineers should prepare for this shift.
▶ ai·
AIEWF Daily Dispatch: Loops, Software Factories & Forward Deployed Engineers
On Tuesday at the AI Engineer World's Fair, there was a lot of talk about loops, agent engineering, and the emergence of software factories. Also a hot topic: open models.
▶ claude·
Sonnet 5 today, and Fable 5 tomorrow
Everything is open again!
▶ ai·
Forward Deployed Engineers and the future of software engineering
Sierra's Natalie Meurer on why product engineers and forward deployed engineers are starting to converge.
▶ ai·
Ahmad Osman on why local AI is catching up
After two packed AIEWF workshops, Ahmad Osman makes the case that local AI is catching up fast — from laptops and phones to enterprise-grade infrastructure.
▶ gpt·
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna — restricted to trusted partners
Oddly tiered releases to both OAI and ANT on the same day.
▶ ai·
OpenAI reports median internal Codex output tokens grew 56x in Research, 32x in Customer Support, 27x in Engineering, and 13x in Legal since November 2025.
It's happening.
▶ ai·
It's Meta-Harness Summer
Move over, Harness Engineering, it is time for the harness of harnesses!
▶ ai·
Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open
In a rare double-interview, the Databricks technical leaders riff on what it will take for every company to build Agent Clouds
▶ claude·
Claude Tag: Multiplayer, Proactive, Persistent Agents in Slack
Claude finally gets a Slackbot upgrade
▶ ai·
SpaceX is already a $28B/yr Neocloud
a quiet day lets us reflect on some numbers from Jamin Ball.
▶ ai·
Red-Teaming after Mythos
OpenAI boardmember Zico Kolter and Gray Swan CEO Matt Fredrikson join swyx to explain why AI security is not just “cybersecurity with AI”
▶ ai·
$250 off AI Engineer tix til Monday
special offer for subscribers - $250 off AI Engineer tix til Monday
▶ ai·
GLM > GPT? GLM-5.2 passes vibe check; Z.ai forecasts Open Fable by December
With GLM-5.2 passing everyone's vibe check, the open models story finally becomes a real frontier story.
▶ ai·
The Professor of Outputmaxxing
We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!
▶ ai·
Midjourney Medical: scan your organs like you step on a scale
The only bootstrapped frontier lab announces its second product and second
▶ ai·
🔬 The Self-Driving Lab
Radical AI's Joseph Krause on why the moat in materials is the lab, not the model
▶ ai·
GLM-5.2: the top Frontend Coding model in the world, IndexShare for Speculative Decoding
We have a new top open model in the world!
▶ ai·
Satya on Loopcraft: Building Frontier Ecosystems
a quiet day lets us report on Satya's hit essay
▶ ai·
Fable and Mythos officially too dangerous to release
We are in the strangest timeline.
▶ ai·
Loopcraft: The Art of Stacking Loops
a quiet day lets us highlight a great concept from Peter Steinberger, Boris Cherny, and Andrej Karpathy
▶ ai·
Loopcraft: The Art of Stacking Loops
a quiet day lets us highlight a great concept from Peter Steinberger, Boris Cherny, and Andrej Karpathy
▶ ai·
Open Models, Model Labs vs Agent Labs, and What's Untrainable
a quiet day lets us reflect on a great essay
▶ claude·
Anthropic Claude Fable 5
The much anticipated launch of the Mythos-class model was marred by some controversial usage policies
▶ ai·
FrontierCode: Benchmarking for Code Quality over Slop
We made a thing!