Making a vintage LLM from scratch
A developer built a 340-million-parameter vintage LLM from nearly scratch, training it exclusively on texts from before 1900 using custom scripts and datasets. The open-source model, available on Hugg…
A developer built a 340-million-parameter vintage LLM from nearly scratch, training it exclusively on texts from before 1900 using custom scripts and datasets. The open-source model, available on Hugg…
MiniMax released M3, the first open-weights model combining frontier-level coding ability, a 1M-token context window, and native multimodality, which a developer tested on real tasks including a code …
Anthropic launched Fable 5 / Mythos 5, a model tier for long-horizon asynchronous autonomy, on June 10, 2026, marking the arrival of the async-agent era. The release reframes AI competition around aut…
HuggingFace's smolagents framework introduces CodeAgent, a code-writing agent that generates and executes Python in a sandboxed Jupyter kernel environment, replacing traditional tool-calling approache…
A developer built ETL pipelines for three directory sites in April, encountering different rate limits for the Steam, GitHub, and HuggingFace APIs. The Steam pipeline uses a 250ms sleep interval despi…
A developer built a three-tier content quality ladder for programmatic directory sites, using a single `model_used` column to track content origin across three sites launched in April. The system prio…
A developer built a progressive learning project that teaches LangChain and LangGraph by walking through six steps, from a raw LLM call to a full ReAct agent with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).…
A developer benchmarked two speech-to-text models on a CPU-only Azure VM and found that using an AI agent to plan and execute the task cut costs by 62%, from $1.96 to $0.74. The agent, Neo, achieved t…
Tenure has released a new memory system for large language models that claims 100% precision in retrieving relevant context, compared to under 10% for vector search methods. The tool, which operates a…
FUTO's swipe keyboard achieved a lower relative error rate compared to Google's Gboard, according to a new evaluation based on a dataset of over 1 million QWERTY English swipes collected from voluntar…
A developer wrote a fused decode-attention kernel that ran 2.2× faster than the baseline in microbenchmarks, but when integrated into a HuggingFace `generate` call for an RL training loop, the decode …
A developer known as AnonymousNomad has built Vitalis FSI, a fully autonomous, self-healing AI development system that runs entirely on local hardware without cloud dependencies, APIs, or large langua…
NVIDIA has released SANA, an efficiency-oriented codebase for high-resolution image and video generation that includes complete training and inference pipelines. The open-source repository provides mo…
A developer fine-tuned the Qwen2.5-0.5B model on 700 real incident post-mortem examples, achieving over 60% rubric compliance for structured SRE summaries—outperforming zero-shot baselines from larger…
A malicious npm package called `js-logger-pack` evolved through 29 versions into a full remote access trojan (RAT) named `MicrosoftSystem64` that exfiltrates stolen data to attacker-controlled Hugging…
Foursquare Open Source Places transitioned from public S3 bucket access to a new Places portal in October 2024, requiring user registration and token generation for data retrieval through an Iceberg c…
A malicious npm package named js-logger-pack, first observed in early April 2026, evolved across 29 versions into a cross-platform malware loader that deploys an 81 MB payload called MicrosoftSystem64…
Ashwin Gururaj, a data scientist and AI engineer based in Melbourne, Australia, is seeking full-time, contract, or internship opportunities. He recently built Sift, an open-source multi-agent fact-che…
A solo developer launched Agenlus, a browser-based reinforcement learning training platform designed to make RL accessible without requiring expensive hardware or installations. The platform allows us…
A malicious npm package called `js-logger-pack` evolved through 29 versions on the registry from April 2026 into a full remote access trojan that deploys an 81 MB binary named `MicrosoftSystem64` on W…