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Featured•news.smol.ai•about 20 hours ago

Feb 24 Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of "industrial-scale distillation attacks". Show details

Major Highlights: - Bold allegation of API-scale copying by Chinese labs - Anthropic says it detected ~24,000 fraudulent accounts generating over 16 million Claude exchanges, allegedly used by Deep…

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Feb 21 not much happened today Show details
4 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Gemini 3.1 Pro looks efficient but brittle in tooling** Context Arena’s MRCR shows Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview nearly tying …

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Feb 19 Gemini 3.1 Pro: 2x 3.0 on ARC-AGI 2 Show details
6 days ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Strong reasoning jump and broader rollout - Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro (developer preview), rolling it into the Gemini app,…

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Feb 18 not much happened today Show details
7 days ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Claude 4.6 jumps in capability—at a steep token cost - Artificial Analysis places Sonnet 4.6 at 51 on its Intelligence Index (u…

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Feb 17 Claude Sonnet 4.6: clean upgrade of 4.5, mostly better with some caveats Show details
8 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - Bold upgrade with 1M-token context (beta) - Anthropic released Sonnet 4.6 as the new top “workhorse” model, claiming improv…

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Feb 16 Qwen3.5-397B-A17B: the smallest Open-Opus class, very efficient model Show details
9 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Open-weight frontier model with native multimodality:** Alibaba released Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, the first open-weight model in …

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Feb 16 Qwen3.5-397B-A17B: the smallest Open-Opus class, very efficient model Show details
9 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Alibaba ships Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (open-weight, Apache-2.0):** First open model in the Qwen3.5 line, natively multimodal with…

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Feb 13 MiniMax-M2.5: SOTA coding, search, toolcalls, $1/hour Show details
12 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **MiniMax‑M2.5 open-sourced as an “agent‑native” model**: MiniMax released weights and code for M2.5, trained with RL across …

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Feb 12 new Gemini 3 Deep Think, Anthropic $30B @ $380B, GPT-5.3-Codex Spark, MiniMax M2.5 Show details
13 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Google ships Gemini 3 Deep Think V2 to users with SOTA reasoning** - Productized “Deep Think” reasoning mode now rolling …

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Feb 11 Z.ai GLM-5: New SOTA Open Weights LLM Show details
14 days ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Bold scale-up with cost-aware attention - GLM-5 upgrades Zhipu AI’s MoE line from 355B params / 32B active (GLM-4.5) to 744B / …

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Feb 10 Qwen-Image 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Show details
15 days ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Qwen-Image 2.0 unifies image generation and editing - Alibaba’s Qwen-Image 2.0 emphasizes precise text rendering, 2K native out…

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Feb 09 not much happened today Show details
16 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **OpenAI pivots user-facing focus to “builder tooling” with GPT‑5.3‑Codex** - A Codex-centric Super Bowl ad framed “You can…

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Feb 06 not much happened today Show details
19 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **GPT-5.3-Codex vs Claude Opus 4.6: clear upgrades with distinct strengths** - Broad A/B testing across developers characte…

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Feb 05 OpenAI and Anthropic go to war: Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT 5.3 Codex Show details
20 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - OpenAI ships GPT‑5.3‑Codex and unveils “Frontier” agent platform - GPT‑5.3‑Codex focuses on coding and professional knowled…

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Feb 04 ElevenLabs $500m Series D at $11B, Cerebras $1B Series H at $23B, Vibe Coding -> Agentic Engineering Show details
21 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Double decacorn day: ElevenLabs and Cerebras** ElevenLabs closed a $500M Series D at an $11B valuation led by Sequoia, …

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Feb 03 Context Graphs: Hype or actually Trillion-dollar opportunity? Show details
22 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - Context Graphs move from meme to spec - Jaya Gupta popularized “Context Graphs” in Dec; Dharmesh Shah voiced reservations a…

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Feb 02 OpenAI Codex App: death of the VSCode fork, multitasking worktrees, Skills Automations Show details
23 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **OpenAI launches Codex desktop app (not an IDE fork):** OpenAI released a macOS Codex app (Windows “soon”) that acts as an a…

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Jan 30 MoltBook takes over the timeline Show details
26 days ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - OpenClaw/Moltbook agent networks go “takeoff-adjacent” - A surge of personal agents (“Clawdbots”/“moltbots”) posting and modera…

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Jan 29 xAI Grok Imagine API - the #1 Video Model, Best Pricing and Latency - and merging with SpaceX Show details
27 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - xAI Grok Imagine launches SOTA video+audio generation in API - Multiple leaderboards place Grok Imagine at or near #1 for v…

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Jan 28 not much happened today Show details
28 days ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Frontier model “personality split” emerges (exploration vs. exploitation): Practitioner consensus is crystallizing around GPT-5.2…

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Jan 27 Moonshot Kimi K2.5 - Beats Sonnet 4.5 at half the cost, SOTA Open Model, first Native Image+Video, 100 parallel Agent Swarm manager Show details
29 days ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Bold open-weights push with native multimodality and agents MoonshotAI’s Kimi K2.5 is positioned as a flagship open model that …

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Jan 26 Anthropic launches the MCP Apps open spec, in Claude.ai Show details
30 days ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Anthropic standardizes “rich generative UI” with MCP Apps + Claude.ai support** Anthropic absorbed the independent MCP …

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Jan 22 not much happened today Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **FrontierMath leap signals real capability gains** - Epoch reports GPT-5.2 Pro hits 31% on FrontierMath Tier 4 (prev. best…

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Jan 21 OpenEvidence, the ‘ChatGPT for doctors,’ raises $250m at $12B valuation, 12x from $1b last Feb Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **OpenEvidence becomes a decacorn with $12B valuation** - The “ChatGPT for doctors” raised $250M at a $12B valuation—12x fr…

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Jan 20 not much happened today Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - X open-sources “For You” recommender (Grok-style transformer) - X Engineering published its ranking/recommendation stack, claim…

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Jan 19 not much happened today Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Bold architectures for scaling memory and context - STEM (Scaling Transformers with Embedding Modules) from CMU + Meta swaps ~1…

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Jan 16 ChatGPT starts testing ads on free tier + new $8/mo Go plan in the US Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - OpenAI adds ads and a low-cost tier - OpenAI will test ads in the US for Free and new Go users, pledging that ads won’t inf…

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Jan 15 Open Responses: explicit spec for OpenAI's Responses API supported by OpenRouter, Ollama, Huggingface, vLLM, et al Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - OpenAI publishes an explicit Responses API spec; ecosystem rallies - OpenAI DevRel and partners launched “Open Responses,” an o…

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Jan 15 not much happened today. Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **OpenAI ships GPT‑5.2‑Codex for long‑running coding; Cursor + GitHub integrate immediately** - OpenAI added GPT‑5.2‑Codex …

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Jan 13 Anthropic Labs: Cowork, Claude Code, MCP, Skills incubator led by Mike Krieger and Ben Mann Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - Anthropic unifies agent UX with Cowork; Labs spins up under Krieger and Mann - Cowork bundles Computer Use + Claude Code ac…

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Jan 13 Anthropic Labs: Cowork, Claude Code, MCP, Skills incubator led by Mike Krieger and Ben Mann Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Anthropic debuts Cowork as a unified, terminal-native agent experience - Cowork consolidates Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and C…

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Jan 12 Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri's next generation Show details
about 1 month ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Apple taps Google Gemini for Siri and Apple Intelligence - Apple and Google issued a joint statement: the “next generation of A…

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Jan 09 not much happened today Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - Anthropic tightens Claude Max use in third-party apps - Reports indicate Anthropic is blocking consumer “Max” subscriptions…

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Jan 08 not much happened today Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **GLM-4.7 leads open-weight benchmarks; Z.ai goes public** - Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 ranks GLM-4.7 as t…

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Jan 07 not much happened today Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - Bold shift to “agent harnesses” and filesystem memory - LangChain’s DeepAgents adds “Ralph Mode” (infinite-loop agents pers…

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Jan 06 xAI raises $20B Series E at ~$230B valuation, 18 months after start Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - xAI’s record-scale raise to fund compute, Grok 5, and X-integrated products: Elon Musk’s xAI closed a $20B Series E (up from a $1…

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Jan 05 not much happened today Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Agentic coding crosses a utility threshold Practitioners report a shift from “can it code?” to “how to compose/manage agents.” …

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Jan 02 not much happened today Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - mHC makes hyper-connections stable and scalable - DeepSeek’s Manifold‑Constrained Hyper‑Connections (mHC) generalize residu…

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Dec 31, 2025 not much happened today Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - Bold national push for open foundation models in Korea - South Korea’s Ministry of Science coordinated a focused grant to t…

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Dec 30 not much happened today Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - Meta acquires Manus for $4–5B, validating “application-layer moats” - Manus reportedly hit ~$100M ARR in ~8–9 months withou…

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Dec 29 "Meta Superintelligence Labs acquires Manus AI for ~$4B, at $100M ARR, 9months after launch" Show details
about 2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Meta buys Manus AI for ~$4B after hypergrowth to $100M ARR:** Manus launched in March, raised at a $500M valuation from Ben…

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Dec 26 not much happened today Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - MiniMax M2.1 open-weights MoE targets real-world dev/agents - MiniMax released M2.1 as open source, pitched as SOTA for “re…

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Dec 24 Nvidia buys (most of) Groq for $20B cash; largest execuhire ever Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Nvidia licenses Groq IP and hires its leadership for $20B cash:** In a 5‑sentence statement, Groq confirmed a “non-exclusiv…

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Dec 23 not much happened today Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Open-weight models tighten the gap (GLM‑4.7, MiniMax M2.1):** GLM‑4.7 landed with day‑0 ecosystem support across MLX, vLLM,…

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Dec 22 not much happened today Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - China open-weights keep momentum: Zhipu AI’s GLM‑4.7 released, Baidu’s ERNIE 5.0 still unreleased - GLM‑4.7 ships with improved…

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Dec 19 not much happened today Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Open-source, editable images: Qwen-Image-Layered - Alibaba released Qwen-Image-Layered, an open-source model that decomposes im…

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Dec 18 Claude Skills grows: Open Standard, Directory, Org Admin Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

Major Highlights: - Claude Skills becomes an open standard (“Agent Skills”) - Anthropic’s “Skills” are being formalized as a vendor-neutral packagi…

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Dec 17 Gemini 3.0 Flash Preview: 1/4 cost of Pro, but ~as smart, retakes Pareto Frontier Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Gemini 3 Flash launches with frontier‑level reasoning at “Flash” latency** Google released Gemini 3 Flash as the new de…

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Dec 16 OpenAI GPT Image-1.5 claims to beat Nano Banana Pro, #1 across all Arenas, but completely fails Vibe Checks Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - OpenAI GPT Image‑1.5 claims #1 across Arenas, but users prefer Nano Banana Pro - OpenAI’s new image model improves instruct…

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Dec 15 NVIDIA Nemotron 3: hybrid Mamba-Transformer completely open source models from 30B to 500B Show details
2 months ago•news.smol.ai

**Major Highlights:** - **Truly open release (weights, data, recipes, RL stack):** NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Nano (30B) lands as one of the most complete o…

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