Worked on some code this morning using Opus 4.8 and so far I'm really liking it. Much more cooperative than 4.7 and less "over agentic". Stops and asks for my input when needed in places 4.7 (and GPT 5.5) would just foolishly blast ahead. (Still WAY too expensive.)
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Potential OOM inefficiencies suspected in xAI’s training code
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i.e I wouldn't be at all shocked to hear that there are (were?) OOM inefficiencies in xai's training code base.
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Jax vs C: inefficient implementation comparison
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IIUC the previous training code at xai was super inefficient. Perhaps the 10x is comparing to that? So it's not really "jax vs C" but "crappy jax impl vs less crappy C impl"?
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Grok Build 0.2.7 Released with New Features and Image Understanding Improvements
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Grok Build 0.2.7 is now out, with /usage, /login, shared terminals across subagents, and improved image understanding See all updates at https://
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The Age of Async Agents: Devin’s Growth, AI Commits, and Cloud Engineering
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🆕The Age of Async Agents: Devin’s 7x PR growth, 80% AI commits, background agents, memory, testing, & Open-Inspect https://t.co/x5Hw5S3egc@cognition cofounder + CPO @walden_yan and Open-Inspect creator @_colemurray explain why engineering is moving from local IDEs to cloud… pic.twitter.com/fciT77nJNI
— Latent.Space (@latentspacepod) 28 mai 2026The Age of Async Agents: Devin’s 7x PR growth, 80% AI commits, background agents, memory, testing, & Open-Inspect https://
latent.space/p/cognition @cognition cofounder + CPO @walden_yan and Open-Inspect creator @_colemurray explain why engineering is moving from local IDEs to cloud -
Packt Workshop on Building Production-Ready AI Applications June 6
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Workshop hosted by @PacktPublishing @PacktDataML "Building Production-Ready AI Applications: Hands-On Workshop" on June 6 (2.5 hours) Register here for 40% OFF (my discount code automatically applied at checkout): http://
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Deep Agents v0.6 Introduces ContextHubBackend for Agent File Management
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New in Deep Agents v0.6: ContextHubBackend A versioned home for the files that power agent behavior, backed by LangSmith Context Hub, enabling context improvements from one run to the next.
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ByteDance Open-Sources Capable Multimodal AI Model BAGEL
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ByteDance just open-sourced one of the most capable multimodal models out there.
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 28 mai 2026
BAGEL does image generation, editing, style transfer, and visual understanding – all in a single 7B parameter model. Apache 2.0 licensed!
One model. No switching between specialized tools.
Amazing https://t.co/r4jj4QHTzMByteDance just open-sourced one of the most capable multimodal models out there. BAGEL does image generation, editing, style transfer, and visual understanding – all in a single 7B parameter model. Apache 2.0 licensed! One model. No switching between specialized tools.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8: Faster, Cheaper, and Smarter
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ANTHROPIC ACABA DE LANZAR CLAUDE OPUS 4.8
— Nico (@nicos_ai) 28 mai 2026
Y puede que sea su mejor modelo hasta la fecha:
→ 2.5x más rápido y 3x más barato con modo /fast
→ Trabaja SOLO como un ingeniero senior, sin que lo supervises
→ Lanza cientos de subagentes en paralelo para completar tareas complejas… https://t.co/QSIQ1rvfpo pic.twitter.com/2cNoRMTRDgANTHROPIC JUST RELEASED CLAUDE OPUS 4.8 And it might just be their best model to date: → 2.5x faster and 3x cheaper with /fast mode
→ Works ONLY like a senior engineer, no supervision needed
→ Launches hundreds of subagents in parallel to handle complex tasks on its own And