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K2 Horizon just shipped as six new fully open models — developers aren't fully convinced
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (632+ words) Based in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) introduced K2 Horizon last week. This group of six AI foundation models, ranging from 0.9 billion to 375 billion parameters, is claimed to be the “largest fully open-source fleet of…...
DeepSeek is hiring 150 engineers, and none of them will touch a model
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (172+ words) DeepSeek announced 150 backend engineering roles to scale DSec, the sandbox system running hundreds of thousands of concurrent agent environments on a single cluster....
OpenAI's new model costs 2.5x more per token — and developers are saving money anyway
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (300+ words) OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra at low reasoning beats Sol at high — and can cost less per task despite 2.5x token prices. Here's what the benchmarks show...
DeepSeek's first vision model vs. Gemini 3.7 Flash: It comes down to spend vs. speed
1+ week, 6+ day ago (334+ words) DeepSeek matched Gemini on nine vision questions for a third of the price. The tradeoff: slower, less consistent responses that matter at scale....
Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”
2+ week, 2+ day ago (390+ words) Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash previews the architecture behind Qwen4 and outscores larger rivals on a key coding benchmark. It also runs on a single consumer GPU, one developer says....
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 goes open weight, but its new license aims at hyperscalers
2+ week, 2+ day ago (183+ words) Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license. Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review....
Shopify's CEO threatened to ban Claude Code. Anthropic had already closed the feature request.
2+ week, 5+ day ago (363+ words) Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke says Claude Code's refusal to read AGENTS.md creates a "complexity tax" for teams managing AI coding agents across large codebases....
Thomson Reuters trained its own AI model. Then it kept using Anthropic's anyway.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (726+ words) Thomson Reuters spent $40M training its own AI model on proprietary legal content instead of building from scratch, competing with OpenAI and Anthropic on domain benchmarks....
An industrial-scale distillation of models, or subtle benchmaxxing: What developers really think of GLM-5.3
3+ week, 4+ day ago (536+ words) Z.ai's GLM-5.3 claims big coding gains, but AI professionals say the real story may be distillation from Anthropic's Claude models, or a case of subtle bencmaxxing, not novel training....
OpenAI's Greg Brockman: Z.ai's GLM-5.3 likely to "significantly accelerate the threat landscape"
3+ week, 5+ day ago (277+ words) The claim comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that open-weight models aren't a sufficient fix for AI's power concentration...