I think open source is important (it was literally the subject of a bunch of my pre-AI academic research). I also think that closed frontier models have a current lead with sustaining forces for now. And that more intelligent models can do more. Not sure we disagree on that much.
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ByteDance’s iLLaDA 8B diffusion model rivals autoregressive LMs
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"Improved Large Language Diffusion Models" ByteDance just made bidirectional masked diffusion on-par with autoregessive LM! This paper iLLaDA trains an 8B Transformer from scratch on 12T tokens, then keeps the same denoising objective for SFT on a 25B-token instruction corpus.
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Deep vibe research: even crazier paths than vibe coding
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If you think that vibe coding can lead you down some crazy wrong paths, try deep vibe research!
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Sakana AI’s Fugu dynamically routes queries to multiple models
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Sakana Fugu Technical Report Instead of training one larger model, Sakana AI trains an orchestrator that reads each query and dynamically routes or composes GPT-5.5, Gemini-3.1-Pro, Claude Opus 4.8 and other agents into query-specific workflows. With Fugu being the fast router,
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NVIDIA SOLAR automates speed-of-light performance analysis from PyTorch/JAX
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NEW paper from NVIDIA. (bookmark it) Speed-of-light performance analysis tells you the theoretical floor of a workload, but teams still derive it by hand and freeze it. SOLAR automates the whole thing straight from PyTorch or JAX source. An LLM frontend translates arbitrary
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More companies falling behind frontier models, early RSI acceleration
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More companies are falling behind the frontier than keeping up with it (Mistral, Grok, etc.) & we are in the era of early RSI where there is acceleration. I haven’t seen any evidence of sudden frontier models emerging, but interested in seeing what you are hinting at.
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GAP fixes hidden mismatch in multimodal AI visual evidence generation
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Why do multimodal AI models struggle to “think” visually without external tools? Alibaba, University of Waterloo, and the Vector Institute present GAP—a new method that fixes a hidden mismatch in how models generate internal visual evidence. Instead of feeding raw decoder
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Open source harness advances depend on model intelligence from few firms
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Lots of advances coming from the open source harness movement (including Moltbook, RAG approaches back in the day, etc.) but they depend on the intelligence of the models created by a small handful of companies & the more intelligent those models, the more others can do with them
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Anthropic uses moral language to justify opaque and anti-competitive behavior
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Anthropic is a company wrapping a business model in moral language, then using that language to justify opaque model behavior, anti-competitive access rules, regulatory pressure, and a future where builders, startups, researchers, and Opensource communities stay downstream of a
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Snorkel AI at aiDotEngineer World’s Fair with booth and events
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We'll be at @aiDotEngineer World's Fair next week! Find us at Booth L-G12 and join us for:
— Snorkel AI (@SnorkelAI) 27 juin 2026
🧋 Side event: Research & Boba with the creators of Agents' Last Exam – June 29, 4:00 PM (10 minutes from the conference)
🎤 Session: How a 4B Model Outsmarted a 235B Giant – June 30, 3:45… pic.twitter.com/0uPiTRl3J6We'll be at @aiDotEngineer World's Fair next week! Find us at Booth L-G12 and join us for: Side event: Research & Boba with the creators of Agents' Last Exam – June 29, 4:00 PM (10 minutes from the conference) Session: How a 4B Model Outsmarted a 235B Giant – June 30, 3:45