Chinese AI models now account for over 30% of weekly token usage among US users on OpenRouter, driven by cost advantages of 60-90% over Western rivals. The surge, led by MiniMax M2.5, Moonshot AI's Ki…
A developer recreated an AI agent loop in 100 lines of Common Lisp, arguing that the language's recursion and eval capabilities make it ideal for building agents. The project, built with SBCL and two …
Gawk CLI, a live AI-ecosystem feed for the terminal, launched on Hacker News. The tool provides curated news, model rankings, tool health, and SDK adoption data from public sources, with zero dependen…
At GTC 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared the token the unit of production in the AI economy, presenting a formula linking revenue to tokens per watt and available gigawatts. Between 2026 and 2030…
OpenGenie, a free and open-source AI-powered game engine, launched to let anyone build video games by describing them in plain language. The tool packages Godot 4, git, and an AI agent into a single a…
Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang argues that open-source AI models are not hurting frontier labs like Anthropic, as they serve different lifecycle phases—frontier models for discovery and open-source for produ…
U.S. companies are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 due to rising domestic costs and narrowing performance gaps, with corporate usage surging from 4.5% in early…
Andrej Karpathy released an open-source project called LLM Council that enables multiple large language models to work together as a 'council' to answer questions. The system sends queries to several …
A former Google Senior Engineering Manager launched Rewire Text, a cross-platform desktop app for Windows and macOS that performs deterministic and AI-based text transformations via hotkey, using a br…
Hermes now connects to Nvidia's Nemotron model via OpenRouter for free, allowing users to set it as a primary or fallback model for AI agents. The integration supports both free and paid models, thoug…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai now account for over 30% of traffic on OpenRouter, up from 11% last year, as their costs run 60-90% cheaper than US rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. The start…
A developer built Bird-Away, a Raspberry Pi-powered system that uses an RTSP camera and Claude AI to detect birds in a pool, then triggers a sprinkler to deter them. The system saves images and video …
Xiaomi anonymously launched a trillion-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha on OpenRouter on March 11, pricing it at $0.30 per million tokens. Within days it processed 500 billion tokens weekly and …
Tencent released Hy3, an open-source 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 21B active parameters and 256K context length, under the Apache License 2.0. The model achieves state-of-the-art resul…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai are gaining traction with U.S. firms, with token share on OpenRouter exceeding 30% weekly since Feb. 8 and peaking at 46%, driven by rising costs at U.S. labs …
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 21B active parameters, outperforming similar-size models and rivaling flagship open-source models with 2-5x parameters. The model i…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model, under the Apache 2.0 license on July 6th, offering two weeks of free API access via OpenRouter. The model, already integrated…
Canadian developer Steven Chong created pxpipe, a tool that converts dense text into PNG images to reduce token costs when using Anthropic's Claude Code, cutting bills by up to 70%. The technique expl…
Zackriya Solutions released Meetily v0.4.0, a free and open-source AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on-device for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Unlike clou…
Treena launches a mobile coding agent with plan and agent modes, enabling developers to edit code, run commands, and push to GitHub from a phone. The bring-your-own-key approach lets users connect the…