Another day goes by and another new open-source model that improves on the previous one! Qwen3-Coder steps onto the scene, surpassing the beloved Kimi K2, 256k tokens of context window expandable to 1M, trained for agentic tasks and hand-in-hand with a new Qwen CLI. Epic
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Voxtral Technical Report Released: Open Science AI Research
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In our continued commitment to open-science, we are releasing the Voxtral Technical Report: https://
arxiv.org/abs/2507.13264 The report covers details on pre-training, post-training, alignment and evaluations. We also present analysis on selecting the optimal model architecture, which -

PhD-Level Benchmark Tests Advanced Reasoning in LLMs
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Not all benchmarks are created equal. We built a PhD-level multiple-choice test across 1,000+ subdomains, STEM, humanities, pro fields. Top LLMs? Scored <20%. This is what it takes to test advanced reasoning. Built with Snorkel’s Expert Data-as-a-Service. #LLM #GenAI
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Qwen Unveils Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
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Qwen has released the new Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct model along with an open-source Qwen Code tool (a fork of Gemini CLI).
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Subintelliphobia: Fear of Limited Access to Advanced AI Models
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I propose a new term ‘subintelliphobia’: the anxiety or fear of not being able to access the highest available intelligence, e.g. when hitting a rate limit for the smartest model
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Gemini-2.5-flash-lite now available in llm-gemini plugin
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The new gemini-2.5-flash-lite model ID is now available in my LLM CLI tool / Python library via the updated llm-gemini plugin https://
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OpenAI Reports ChatGPT Energy Consumption Per Prompt
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(OpenAI reported 1/15 teaspoon in a blog post for a typical prompt for ChatGPT) Here is the report:
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Sudden acceleration: understanding exponential AI advancement patterns
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Slowly at first, and then suddenly.
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AI Products and Soullessness: Ethics and Quality Concerns
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@micsolana nailed it. You can feel the soullessness of a lot of ai products. Not evil, just empty. (although i think xAI companions are evil, and plenty of applications of AI (if not AI applications) are incredible). Luckily, there are a lot of uncommonly clear discussions of
