A Black Box Made Less Opaque (part 4)
A new analysis explores how weight quantization affects model performance and sparse autoencoder (SAE) reconstruction of the residual stream, using fraction of variance unexplained (FVU) as a key metr…
A new analysis explores how weight quantization affects model performance and sparse autoencoder (SAE) reconstruction of the residual stream, using fraction of variance unexplained (FVU) as a key metr…
The US government ordered Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline for two and a half weeks over national security concerns about jailbreaking vulnerabilities, marking a major clash b…
Hugging Face and Cerebras have partnered to create a real-time voice AI pipeline using Google DeepMind's Gemma 4, Nvidia's Parakeet, and Alibaba's Qwen3TTS, achieving low-latency speech-to-speech inte…
Anthropic released Sonnet 5, and Claire Vo tested it against four other frontier models using a custom eval harness built with Claude Code. The blind comparison across PRD quality, prototype generatio…
Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new flagship product for scientific research, at an event for pharmaceutical executives and biotech founders on Tuesday. The product autonomously carries out work…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper and faster version of Opus 4.8, while the industry awaits more advanced models like Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol. The article also discusses AI regulati…
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and cheapest AI image generator, producing images in four seconds for under four cents per thousand images. The company also expanded access to its Gemi…
Google DeepMind's Gemini Omni Flash, announced at Google I/O on May 19, 2026, ranked second in the Video Edit Arena leaderboard with a score of 1347, nearly 40 points ahead of third-place Alibaba's Ha…
Anthropic launched an AI drug discovery program on May 5, 2025, offering free API credits to researchers in biology and life sciences. The company later launched Claude for Life Sciences and acquired …
Google DeepMind released Nano Banana 2 Lite, its fastest and cheapest AI image-generation model, available today across the Google ecosystem. The model creates images in about 4 seconds at a fraction …
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot facility in Austin called Robot Park to collect teleoperation data from its Apollo 2 humanoid robots for Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics AI models. The company …
Google DeepMind launched the Nano Banana 2 Lite, officially branded as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, on February 26, 2026, ranking fifth in text-to-image leaderboards with an Elo score of 1,255. The mo…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists that integrates over 60 databases and pre-built toolkits, aiming to streamline computational research without introducing a new model.…
Google Cloud introduced a new skill for coding agents that automates the evaluation and improvement of agent quality, based on a three-phase flywheel methodology developed with Google DeepMind. The sk…
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers on June 30, offering a fast, low-cost image model and a video editing model via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. The launch t…
Google announced the general availability of Nano Banana 2 Lite and the public preview of Gemini Omni Flash, new generative AI models for image and video creation, now available in the Gemini Enterpri…
Schrödinger partnered with Google Cloud to deploy AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent from Google DeepMind, achieving a 4x speedup in molecular discovery by optimizing machine-learned force field training…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, Google DeepMind's Paige Bailey introduced Gemma 4, an open model under Apache 2.0 optimized for Cerebras, challenging the notion that open models are inferior to comme…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot Robot Park in Austin where its Apollo humanoid robots practice warehouse tasks, with most sessions still guided by human operators. The facility, described as a d…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550-billion-parameter open model under a fully permissive license, competitive with GPT-4.5 on code and reasoning. Z.AI launched GLM-5.2 with MIT-licensed weights, …