The US now likely has the leading open weights models (or close to it)… … but the real question is whether this is a one-off situation from OpenAI, in which case the lead will evaporate quickly as others catch up. But also unclear what their incentives are to keep updating.
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OpenAI Open Weights Models Rival Chinese AI Labs
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Here's the concluding section of my write-up of the new OpenAI open weights models – they're really impressive, and I think they hold their own (or even beat) the models we've seen come out of the various Chinese AI labs over the past few months
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Meta Integrates AI Features into Metaverse Worlds Desktop Editor
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Meta is actively integrating AI into their "Worlds" desktop editor for Metaverse builders.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 5 août 2025
New features include:
– Creator Assistant
– Style Reference
– Texture Generation
– Typescript Generation
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Superintelligence for VR 👀 pic.twitter.com/4bUiNxnEaOMeta is actively integrating AI into their "Worlds" desktop editor for Metaverse builders. New features include: – Creator Assistant
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Google Rolls Out Guided Learning Feature on Gemini Web Interface
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Google started rolling out "Guided Learning" on the Gemini web to some users, according to several reports! Did you get it too?
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OpenAI’s Open Weight Models Now Available on Replicate
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OpenAI's open weight models are on Replicate, day 0!
— Replicate (@replicate) 5 août 2025
gpt-oss-120b: https://t.co/Xq6gupjErK
gpt-oss-20b: https://t.co/Htwem1Yy3G pic.twitter.com/3taGGU6leSOpenAI's open weight models are on Replicate, day 0! gpt-oss-120b: http://
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OpenAI Open Source Models 120B and 20B MoE Tested
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A quick test of the @OpenAI new open source models: 120b and 20b MoE models. With the @FeatureCrewPod planet generation prompt
— Peter Gostev (@petergostev) 5 août 2025
The comparison is to the best one I've seen – a yet unreleased OpenAI model, but then Sonnet 4, Kimi K2, Qwen 3 Coder and GLM-4.5 for comparison. The… pic.twitter.com/a4bh1WclKVA quick test of the @OpenAI new open source models: 120b and 20b MoE models. With the @FeatureCrewPod planet generation prompt The comparison is to the best one I've seen – a yet unreleased OpenAI model, but then Sonnet 4, Kimi K2, Qwen 3 Coder and GLM-4.5 for comparison. The
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GPT-5 Release Imminent as OpenAI Open-Source Model Launches
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Étant donné la sortie du nouveau modèle GPT-OSS ce soir, je pense qu'Altman a un plan de secours. Il ne l’aurait pas autorisé sinon. Ça sent l’arrivée imminente de GPT-5. Des fuites commencent aussi à émerger. Un important partenaire d’OpenAI, Flowith qui héberge leurs
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OpenAI Releases Open-Source Reasoning Models for Agentic Tasks
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OPEN-SOURCE MODELS FROM OPENAI! OpenAI has remembered where the 'open' part came from and has just released its new reasoning models designed to perform agentic tasks > A 20B model for PCs and laptops
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Confirmed Release Dates for GPT-5 and Teased Gemini 3.0 Flash
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BREAKING : GPT-5 release date confirmed to be August 7 by flowith! Gemini 3.0 Flash has been teased as well but “not this week”! x.com/flowith/status…
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Google DeepMind Announces Genie 3 World Model for Interactive Environments
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Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model by @GoogleDeepMind that can generate dynamic, interactive environments with a single text prompt.
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) 5 août 2025
World models are AI that understand facets of the world (like Veo's knowledge of intuitive physics or Genie's mastery… pic.twitter.com/JTqLIbDuy4Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model by @GoogleDeepMind that can generate dynamic, interactive environments with a single text prompt. World models are AI that understand facets of the world (like Veo's knowledge of intuitive physics or Genie's mastery