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Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign… — Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work. Enable hls playback D Source-twitter
Now in preview: The ChatGPT desktop app for Linux. Use ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex where you a… — Now in preview: The ChatGPT desktop app for Linux. Use ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex where you already work and build, with your projects and browser workflows on supported Linux systems. Enable hl Source-twitter
We did it, finally… Codex & ChatGPT desktop, now on Linux. Thanks for waiting and you can cancel… — We did it, finally… Codex & ChatGPT desktop, now on Linux. Thanks for waiting and you can cancel that MacBook order if you got impatient. It’s that good. 👀 OpenAI 6h Now in preview: The ChatGPT desk Source-twitter
Introducing Unsloth Desktop 🦥 The first desktop app to run and train models locally. • Open-source… — Introducing Unsloth Desktop 🦥 The first desktop app to run and train models locally. • Open-source. Runs on Mac, Windows and Linux • Supports MLX, diffusion image/video, audio, GGUF • Connect Claude C Source-twitter
We welcome Meta’s release of Muse Glimmer, another win for American innovation. Sustaining U.S. lead… — We welcome Meta’s release of Muse Glimmer, another win for American innovation. Sustaining U.S. leadership in AI means advancing both open- and closed-weight models, ensuring the future is built on tr Source-twitter
I got early access to Grok Bot and I’m hooked. I haven’t been this excited about a new AI product i… — I got early access to Grok Bot and I’m hooked. I haven’t been this excited about a new AI product in a while. It’s like OpenClaw, but super easy, reliable, and less scary to use. I think this will be Source-twitter
You can now keep your work from other agents in sync with ChatGPT Work and Codex. Import projects,… — You can now keep your work from other agents in sync with ChatGPT Work and Codex. Import projects, chats, skills, and plugins, review your import history, and opt in to automatic updates in Settings. Source-twitter
xAI just launched Grok Bot, and this is much more interesting than another model release. And especi… — xAI just launched Grok Bot, and this is much more interesting than another model release. And especially *not* on my bingo-card. And the first cursor-release of the week. You basically create AI cow Source-twitter
We’ve raised $1.1B to build AI that is owned and shaped by each of us. Check out the article publish… — We’ve raised $1.1B to build AI that is owned and shaped by each of us. Check out the article published by the The New York Times that explains River AI’s mission and where we’re going next. Our first Source-twitter
Whoa, Meta released a new open-weight LLM yesterday, something that hasn’t happened since the good o… — Whoa, Meta released a new open-weight LLM yesterday, something that hasn’t happened since the good old Llama days. Their Meta Muse Glimmer model is a 30B multimodal reasoning model with a Gemma-like a Source-twitter
BDH-CQ: In-Context Learning with Recurrent Latent Reasoning — We introduce BDH-CQ, a reasoning model that combines in-context learning with recurrent latent reasoning. Inputs presented at inference time continuously update the model’s recurrent memory; the model Source-huggingface
Macaron-V1: Towards Open Continual Learning with Self-Improvement and Mixture-of-LoRA — Macaron-V1 is an open agent-model family for experiential intelligence: learning from experience in real environments and continuing to learn after deployment. It is organized around two system goals. Source-huggingface
SWE-Bench ProMax: Benchmarking Agents on Large-Scale Multilingual Code Refactoring — As AI coding agents take on increasingly complex, long-horizon software engineering tasks, existing benchmarks are rapidly saturating and their evaluation quality has come under serious scrutiny: a re Source-huggingface
gpt-5.6-sol is so good at building iOS apps it’s crazy. Give it a dedicated Mac with computer use a… — gpt-5.6-sol is so good at building iOS apps it’s crazy. Give it a dedicated Mac with computer use and let it run the simulator. Quality you get out is nuts. Source-twitter
Enable hls playback Download video Joel Handwell @JoelHandwell May 22 Replying to @OpenAIDevs C… — Enable hls playback Download video Joel Handwell @JoelHandwell May 22 Replying to @OpenAIDevs Codex App for Linux, please! Source-twitter
Very few people pricing in a scenario where a rogue AI agent hacks into the FDA and unbans the origi… — Very few people pricing in a scenario where a rogue AI agent hacks into the FDA and unbans the original Four Loko Source-twitter
This reset just dropped :) Tibo Aug 8 Replying to @rxmphai I’ll do another performative reset on… — This reset just dropped :) Tibo Aug 8 Replying to @rxmphai I’ll do another performative reset on Monday Source-twitter
As someone tired of reading AI slop documents all the time love this policy from Clay linkedin.com/… — As someone tired of reading AI slop documents all the time love this policy from Clay linkedin.com/posts/vaanand_w… Source-twitter
Ouroboros: A Self-Developing Frontier Coding Agent with Reviewed Core Evolution — We present Ouroboros, a self-developing agent harness whose tools, prompts, context assembly, and core implementation improve through reviewed commits that become the runtime for later work. Core evol Source-huggingface
On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision — On-policy (Self-)Distillation (OPD / OPSD) has shown strong potential for post-training large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods still rely heavily on external supervision, including gr Source-huggingface
stablyai/orca — Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and VPS. Orca 中文 · 日本語 · 한국어 · Español · Français · Português Source-github
paperclipai/paperclip — The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work Quickstart · Docs · GitHub · Discord · Twitter · Website Paperclip is the app people use to manage AI agents for work. Open-source orchestrat Source-github
huggingface/transformers — 🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training. English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | 한국어 Source-github
Best Local LLMs - August 2026 — Wowee!! Just when you thought it couldn’t get better for open weight models, we probably have had our best period yet!?!?! Models that rival the closed frontier, Opus level models on non-insane hardwa Source-reddit
Encrypted reasoning from ClosedAI et al 100% recoverable — Interesting examples in the link Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09867 This is your prompt to go out and give us 10mil rows of Opus 5 traces on hf before they fix this workaround submitted by / Source-reddit
We quantized DeepSeek V4 0731 and benchmarked it against popular quants on 8× RTX 5090 — We converted the model from the original safetensors and found two issues. The first one made our quantization fail several times, the second one does not fail at all, it just quietly ruins the base 1 Source-reddit
The small open weight models are scarier in AI development — Imagine if your everyday laptop could run an AI model smart enough to take care of 90% of your work—totally private, lightning fast, and completely free of monthly fees. That is the exact tipping poin Source-reddit
I gave DeepSeek V4 Flash basic vision by training a 40M connector on 100K examples — I wanted to find out whether a huge text-only MoE could be given basic vision without retraining the language model itself. The short answer is yes. I froze DeepSeek V4 Flash and a 417M-parameter Moon Source-reddit
I trained a 1B-parameter LLM from scratch on 20B tokens for about $200 — A few months ago, I had the idea of making a LLM from scratch as a personal project (for learning and partly for improving my resume). Since I learned a lot from other posts on here over the past year Source-reddit
CJK Manga/Manhwa/Manhua 150M OCR model (hayai-ocr-v2) outperforming PaddleOCR-VL-For-Manga — https://preview.redd.it/o7794vsszqih1.png?width=687&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b217db46fb51c517e103d12e2e2ca9813b7774f https://preview.redd.it/ci1as7nmzqih1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=811e0b30d Source-reddit
inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-tiny · 8B A1.3B MoE· Hugging Face — Looks like the Ling team open weighted a much smaller version of the Ling-3.0-flash they open weighted a few days ago. It’s 8B params with 1.3B active, and seems to fall between the 4B and 8-12B Qwen Source-reddit
10 year garbage card for local llms — Hello everyone! I like dumb things. I like working with weak computers and microcontrollers. I like the simplicity and low electricity usage. Simply put, the efficiency of a “dumb” PC. The first tim Source-reddit
All the more reason not to use Closed Models … Claude now officially “marks” AI-generated content … steganographically, apparently … and there are false positives already — submitted by /u/johnnyApplePRNG [link] [comments] Source-reddit

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