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What is climbing fastest across every source

Claude7.1xOpus 5.52.7xOpenAI2.0x

World Embedding Benchmark

Researchers introduce a benchmark of 8,000 simulation cases to test how video models encode physical information, finding that lightweight probes recover useful data from frozen embeddings. ·

HF Daily Papers3h ago▲arxiv.org

World Embedding Benchmark

Researchers introduce a benchmark of 8,000 simulation cases to test how video models encode physical information, finding that lightweight probes recover useful data from frozen embeddings. ·

5 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.

HF Daily Papers3h ago▲arxiv.org

allenv0/SCM

allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News35h ago▲123 to 266 across 11 pollsgithub.com

allenv0/SCM

allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·

A new repository written in JavaScript with 266 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News35h ago▲123 to 266 across 11 pollsgithub.com

World Embedding Benchmark

Researchers introduce a benchmark of 8,000 simulation cases to test how video models encode physical information, finding that lightweight probes recover useful data from frozen embeddings. ·

HF Daily Papers3h ago▲arxiv.org

Trending topics today: heat

Claude: 1.38Claude1.38Opus 5.5: 0.27Opus 5.50.27OpenAI: 0.20OpenAI0.20
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Claude1.38
Opus 5.50.27
OpenAI0.2

Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.

Models

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Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings

Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes

Lightricks/LTX-2.5: 6,322Lightricks/LTX-2.56,322convaiinnovations/laya: 5,166convaiinnovations/laya5,166abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 3,151abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…3,151Cloudflare/clef: 1,226Cloudflare/clef1,226Cloudflare/clef-flash ▲1: 432Cloudflare/clef-fl… ▲1432Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲5: 406Aleph-Alpha/Kolibr… ▲5406
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Lightricks/LTX-2.56322
convaiinnovations/laya5166
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF3151
Cloudflare/clef1226
Cloudflare/clef-flash ▲1432
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲5406

PirateBench: score out of 100

gpt-6.1-sol: 99gpt-6.1-sol99opus-5-5: 96opus-5-596gpt-6-sol: 92gpt-6-sol92gpt-6-luna: 65gpt-6-luna65haiku-4-5: 4.28haiku-4-54.28
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gpt-6.1-sol98.9
opus-5-596.46
gpt-6-sol91.6
gpt-6-luna65.25
haiku-4-54.28

Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/

DEFINE: Exemplar-Guided Accent Control for Zero-Shot TTS

Researchers introduce DEFINE, a text-to-speech framework that separates speaker identity from accent using distinct audio exemplars. The system improves accent-probe accuracy from 6.5% to 19.6% on seen accents. ·

1 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.

HF Daily Papers3h ago▲arxiv.org

DEFINE: Exemplar-Guided Accent Control for Zero-Shot TTS

Researchers introduce DEFINE, a text-to-speech framework that separates speaker identity from accent using distinct audio exemplars. The system improves accent-probe accuracy from 6.5% to 19.6% on seen accents. ·

HF Daily Papers3h ago▲arxiv.org

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1

A text generation model from Aleph-Alpha with 406 likes and 1,135 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face36h ago▲113 to 406 across 73 pollshuggingface.co

X voices

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X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon

GitHub

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New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

rehan-remade/universal-modder: 3,239rehan-remade/universa…3,239CopilotKit/OpenDots: 3,226CopilotKit/OpenDots3,226feder-cr/dots: 2,604feder-cr/dots2,604nanaism/yomiyasu: 1,402nanaism/yomiyasu1,402QingYunA/answer-me-with-html: 1,096QingYunA/answer-me-wi…1,096nykooi1/vibe-wise: 1,078nykooi1/vibe-wise1,078
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rehan-remade/universal-modder3239
CopilotKit/OpenDots3226
feder-cr/dots2604
nanaism/yomiyasu1402
QingYunA/answer-me-with-html1096
nykooi1/vibe-wise1078

allenv0/SCM

allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News35h ago▲123 to 266 across 11 pollsgithub.com

shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio

The mesh-avatar-studio project lets users convert a single illustration into an animated 2D mesh avatar using a coding agent and a local editor. ·

GitHub23h ago▲108 to 145 across 11 pollsgithub.com

dakukibana/short-video-generator

The open-source tool short-video-generator converts long videos into short clips using automatic highlights, subtitles, hooks, cropping, translation, and voiceover features. ·

GitHub34h ago▲117 to 135 across 3 pollsgithub.com

allenv0/SCM

allenv0 releases SCM, a macOS application that uses deep AI to search every photo and video frame in any folder. ·

A new repository written in JavaScript with 266 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News35h ago▲123 to 266 across 11 pollsgithub.com

shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio

The mesh-avatar-studio project lets users convert a single illustration into an animated 2D mesh avatar using a coding agent and a local editor. ·

GitHub23h ago▲108 to 145 across 11 pollsgithub.com

dakukibana/short-video-generator

The open-source tool short-video-generator converts long videos into short clips using automatic highlights, subtitles, hooks, cropping, translation, and voiceover features. ·

GitHub34h ago▲117 to 135 across 3 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

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Tue 2933
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Thu 0126
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Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.

Median output price of models added in the last 30 days, $ per million tokens

Last $3.20Min $2.85Max $5.00

One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

pareto-26.10-preview: 3.20pareto-26.10-preview3.20gpt-6.1-sol-pro: 10gpt-6.1-sol-pro10gpt-6.1-sol: 10gpt-6.1-sol10claude-sonnet-5.5: 10claude-sonnet-5.510claude-sonnet-5.5:batch: 5claude-sonnet-5.5:bat…5median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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pareto-26.10-preview3.2
gpt-6.1-sol-pro10
gpt-6.1-sol10
claude-sonnet-5.510
claude-sonnet-5.5:batch5
median, all paid models2

437 paid models listed; median of the 47 added in 30 days: $3.20. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.