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AI headlines, repositories, models and papers, collected from public sources on a schedule. The summaries and the numbers are the sources’ own and every item links to where it came from — this is what I’m keeping an eye on, not reporting I’ve done.
Headlines
OpenAI
Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia (opens in a new tab)
OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.
The Verge
OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming announcement (opens in a new tab)
OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago, co-founder and technology chief Sam Yam announced on X that he's…
The Verge
OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again (opens in a new tab)
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the company announced a…
Simon Willison
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering (opens in a new tab)
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things…
The Verge
Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta (opens in a new tab)
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10…
OpenAI
Better prompt caching for GPT-6 (opens in a new tab)
Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.
Simon Willison
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war (opens in a new tab)
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's going to take a while to…
MIT Technology Review
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype (opens in a new tab)
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face…
Hugging Face
How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible (opens in a new tab)
OpenAI
Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna (opens in a new tab)
Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.
Hugging Face
Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community (opens in a new tab)
Simon Willison
llm 0.36 (opens in a new tab)
Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna . #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False for models that only accept single-turn prompts. LLM raises…