# [AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC > Source: > Published: 2026-10-02 06:40:53+00:00 **Last call for regular tickets for [AI Engineer NYC](https://ai.engineer/nyc)!** See you in 2 weeks! *As an exclusive for Latent Space subscribers, the first 30 of you can [take a 30% off code](https://app.ai.engineer/e/ai-engineer-new-york-2026?discount=LS-NYC26) if it helps (for new tickets only, no refunds).* Pi is often mentioned in the same breath as OpenClaw, as [we did earlier this year](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-sci-fi-with-a-touch-of-madness?utm_source=publication-search): but today is time for the increasingly well regarded [Earendil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zcw_sVF6hU&pp=0gcJCS4MAYcqIYzv), which Pi joined, to have its day in the sun, with both [Pi 1.0](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926069) and [Pi Durable](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925969) hitting the front page of HN. - [Codemode](https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/) (native support for MCP, Jev and image models) - Extension support for [virtual models](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/releases) - Deferred tool loading - Cache warming for anthropic models - [Mid-conversation system messages](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/coding-agent/docs/session-format.md) (transcript-aware prompt and tool changes) - A new TUI theme - Full-screen mode by default **[Pi Durable](https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/)** ports Pi to TypeScript and externalizes all stateful components of Pi: - **Crash Survival:** Every step is recorded as a checkpointed task. If a process fails or restarts, agents and subagents automatically resume from their last exact state. - **Portability:** It runs anywhere with a JavaScript runtime (like Node, Bun, or Cloudflare) and uses pluggable storage backends (Memory, SQLite, JSONL) and flexible remote or local execution environments. - **Concurrency:** A single harness can run multiple parallel, branching conversations—such as a main channel and separate threads—without blocking one another. - **Extensibility:** Developers can bundle custom system prompts, tools, hooks, and durable tasks (e.g., multi-step checkout processes with rollback capabilities) into installable “Extensions.” - **Context Management:** Automatic background compaction summarizes older messages to maintain token limits without pausing the agent’s active work. - **Multiplayer & State Sync:** Application state (like a to-do list) is stored in documents directly alongside the conversation transcripts, allowing multiple users or UIs to connect, watch, and steer the same agent simultaneously. - **Hot-Swapping:** Tool and extension code can be updated dynamically while the agent is running, with the next tool call automatically picking up the new code. AI News for 10/01/2026-9/30/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, [544 Twitters](https://twitter.com/i/lists/1585430245762441216) and no further Discords. [AINews’ website](https://news.smol.ai/) lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, [AINews is now a section of Latent Space](https://www.latent.space/p/2026). You can [opt in/out](https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/8914938285204-How-do-I-subscribe-to-or-unsubscribe-from-a-section-on-Substack) of email frequencies! # **AI Twitter Recap** **Frontier and Multimodal Launches: Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-6.1 Sol and FLUX 3** - **Gemini 4 Argon** : Google announced a new generation of Gemini, with contributors highlighting revised pretraining mixtures, long-horizon post-training data, and internal applications in memory optimization, code migration and mathematics. These are developer accounts of how the model was built and used—not independent evidence of general superiority ([Google researcher](https://x.com/mirrokni/status/2105500370675921213) ). - **Validation** : Google says new Gemini revisions now undergo weeks of testing by thousands of internal software engineers before release ([Logan Kilpatrick](https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2105521401566486875) ). - **Contested readiness** : A circulated Bloomberg report attributed coding weaknesses to anonymous insiders; a subsequent post reported a senior DeepMind engineer rejecting that account. Treat the practical coding-quality dispute as unresolved, rather than interpreting either benchmarks or employee reactions as decisive ([reported criticism](https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2105570914574209283) ,[reported rebuttal](https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2105709302484729879) ). - **GPT-6.1 Sol** : OpenAI’s update is primarily an efficiency story. Sam Altman called it the company’s fastest-growing model and said serving performance had improved after launch-time load problems ([update](https://x.com/sama/status/2105688354834756036) ). - **Measured economics** : Artificial Analysis reports $0.72 per Intelligence Index task at maximum effort, versus $1.04 for GPT-6 Sol and $3.26 for Astra. Fewer turns and cheaper cache reads—not simply fewer generated tokens—drive the improvement ([results](https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2105491868608004578) ,[explanation](https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2105449959554441580) ). - **Multimodal fix** : OpenAI also corrected image encoding for Luna and Sol. Luna gained one Intelligence Index point, including improvements on visual-document and knowledge-work evaluations; Sol changed negligibly ([measurement](https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2105491868608004578) ). - **Solar Mini 4** : Upstage’s proprietary text-only reasoning model reports 35B total/3B active parameters, a 1M-token context window and 262K maximum output. Weights are not released, so parameter counts remain vendor-reported ([analysis](https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2105459219059401036) ). - **Pricing** : $0.10/$0.40/$0.01 per million input/output/cache-hit tokens. - **Trade-offs** : Artificial Analysis scores it 24 overall and 83% on long-context reasoning, but only 1% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Despite 208 tokens/s output, approximately 88K output tokens per task produce a 7.1-minute average completion time and roughly five times Luna’s task cost. - **FLUX 3 Image** : Black Forest Labs launched native generation up to 4K, up to ten reference images, bounding-box layout control and targeted multi-turn editing. Preserving every untouched pixel is a vendor capability claim, not independently established here ([announcement](https://x.com/bfl_ai/status/2105734605621825738) ). - **Interactive video agents** : Tavus introduced Griffin, a video-to-video interaction model. It claims 48% of live participants mistook it for a human, versus under 3% for earlier systems; that result should not be generalized into an unrestricted “Turing test passed” conclusion without the test protocol ([announcement](https://x.com/tavus/status/2105704169009246248) ). - **Enterprise deployment** : Separately, Synthesia launched Sessions: conversational avatars for roleplay and survey interviews, extending its previous one-way training-video product ([launch](https://x.com/synthesiaIO/status/2105591908659540474) ).