[24 Feb 2026] Lots of launches today. We found the one thread that ties through some of the major coding agent launches: everyone is working on closing their Outer Loop.
@latentspacepod
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Claude Code Now Writes 4% of All Code Globally
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Double pod with @fabknowledge of @SemiAnalysis_
! Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage https://
latent.space/p/valuemule One year ago today, @bcherny released Claude Code to the world as part of the Sonnet 3.7 launch. One year later, it is now writing 4% of all code -
Model companies raise capital and deploy AI models in one year
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"In the past if you raised money, you basically had to wait for engineering to catch up, which famously doesn't scale, like the mythical man-month that took a very long time. But that's not the case here.
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 24 février 2026
A model company can raise money and drop a model in a year and it's… https://t.co/jtAkbJwG6B pic.twitter.com/4njNfM4NKn"In the past if you raised money, you basically had to wait for engineering to catch up, which famously doesn't scale, like the mythical man-month that took a very long time. But that's not the case here. A model company can raise money and drop a model in a year and it's
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SWE-Bench Verified Deprecation: End of Major AI Benchmark
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The End of SWE-Bench Verified (2024-2026) https://
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… Today @OpenAIDevs is announcing the voluntary deprecation of SWE-Bench Verified! We're releasing a podcast + analysis in today's post. Saturation of SWE-Bench has been a community hot topic for over a year – -
Imitation Learning in AI: Beyond Mimicry to True Learning
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"I think that humans do need some form of imitation learning. I think everybody starts out by imitating.
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 31 janvier 2026
It's like sports. When you play sports, you start off by imitating but you cannot imitate forever because you need to learn."
Yi Tay talks more about the analogies of… https://t.co/EEfkmRSDb5 pic.twitter.com/kblSrPiwyr"I think that humans do need some form of imitation learning. I think everybody starts out by imitating. It's like sports. When you play sports, you start off by imitating but you cannot imitate forever because you need to learn." Yi Tay talks more about the analogies of
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Moltbook First Social Network for AI Agents
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[AINews] Moltbook — the first Social Network for AI Agents https://
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Grok Imagine API Launches as Top Video Model with SpaceX IPO
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[AINews] @Xai Grok Imagine API – the #1 Model, Best Pricing and Latency, merging with SpaceX for IPO
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AI-Generated Content Quality in Educational Tutorials Questioned
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i read thru dont understand. is this ai generated? why does your probability tutorial have a karma section
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Brex Podcast Finance AI Gains Strong Engagement With Reggio
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acquisition timing aside, the snip/share rate of our Brex podcast with @jamesreggio is 2x anything else we’ve done recently. super well received and thorough/open conversation.
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 29 janvier 2026
more in finance x ai soon https://t.co/wcoTph4kLY pic.twitter.com/qSYsTL6bAzacquisition timing aside, the snip/share rate of our Brex podcast with @jamesreggio is 2x anything else we’ve done recently. super well received and thorough/open conversation. more in finance x ai soon
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Andrew White: ChemCrow, ether0, PaperQA AI Breakthroughs
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@andrewwhite01 of @EdisonSci is cofounder and head of science at @FutureHouseSF
, known for many things incl ChemCrow (first LLM chemistry agent), ether0 (first reasoning model in a scientific domain), and paperqa (first superhuman literature agent).