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What is climbing fastest across every source

Mistral Large 47.2xOpenAI7.5xLe Chonk7.1xChatGPT6.7xEmbeddingGemma 27.2xgoogle7.0xClaude5.9xMeta8.5xReflection7.1xMistral7.0x

llm-mistral 0.16

The llm-mistral plugin version 0.16 adds support for reasoning models, including the newly released Mistral Large 4. ·

Simon Willison2h ago▲simonwillison.net

openai/openai-python v3.26.0

OpenAI releases version 3.26.0 of its Python library, which adds standalone Decisions support to the API. ·

GitHub Releases2h ago▲github.com

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, is an enterprise AI platform that allows users to customize, fine-tune, and deploy assistants, agents, and multimodal models. ·

518 points and 5 comments on Hacker News, linking mistral.ai.

Hacker News+ Mistral, Simon Willison12h ago▲35 to 569 across 24 pollsdiscussmistral.ai

google/embeddinggemma-2

A feature extraction model from google with 426 likes and 364 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲112 to 426 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, is an enterprise AI platform that allows users to customize, fine-tune, and deploy assistants, agents, and multimodal models. ·

518 points and 5 comments on Hacker News, linking mistral.ai.

Hacker News+ Mistral, Simon Willison12h ago▲35 to 569 across 24 pollsdiscussmistral.ai

Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics

OpenAI publishes new results on open mathematical problems from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations on GitHub. ·

Hacker News+ OpenAI12h ago▲20 to 406 across 8 pollsdiscussopenai.com

google/embeddinggemma-2

A feature extraction model from google with 426 likes and 364 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲112 to 426 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

Mistral Large 4: 3.47Mistral Large 43.47OpenAI: 1.91OpenAI1.91Le Chonk: 1.90Le Chonk1.90ChatGPT: 1.57ChatGPT1.57EmbeddingGemma 2: 1.31EmbeddingGemma 21.31google: 1.26google1.26
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Mistral Large 43.47
OpenAI1.91
Le Chonk1.9
ChatGPT1.57
EmbeddingGemma 21.31
google1.26

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

convaiinnovations/laya ▼4: 5,279convaiinnovations/… ▼45,279abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 3,424abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…3,424Cloudflare/clef: 1,672Cloudflare/clef1,672autotrust/JEV-27B-VL ▲5: 974autotrust/JEV-27B-… ▲5974Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1: 711Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1711Cloudflare/clef-flash: 590Cloudflare/clef-flash590
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convaiinnovations/laya ▼45279
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF3424
Cloudflare/clef1672
autotrust/JEV-27B-VL ▲5974
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1711
Cloudflare/clef-flash590

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/

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, is an enterprise AI platform that allows users to customize, fine-tune, and deploy assistants, agents, and multimodal models. ·

518 points and 5 comments on Hacker News, linking mistral.ai.

Hacker News+ Mistral, Simon Willison12h ago▲35 to 569 across 24 pollsdiscussmistral.ai

google/embeddinggemma-2

A feature extraction model from google with 426 likes and 364 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲112 to 426 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 4 is an open-weight multimodal model using a Mixture-of-Experts design. It contains 49 billion active parameters and 1.05 trillion total parameters. ·

Hacker News11h ago▲117 to 1404 across 18 pollsdiscussdocs.mistral.ai

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, is an enterprise AI platform that allows users to customize, fine-tune, and deploy assistants, agents, and multimodal models. ·

518 points and 5 comments on Hacker News, linking mistral.ai.

Hacker News+ Mistral, Simon Willison12h ago▲35 to 569 across 24 pollsdiscussmistral.ai

google/embeddinggemma-2

A feature extraction model from google with 426 likes and 364 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲112 to 426 across 14 pollshuggingface.co

Mistral Large 4

Mistral Large 4 is an open-weight multimodal model using a Mixture-of-Experts design. It contains 49 billion active parameters and 1.05 trillion total parameters. ·

Hacker News11h ago▲117 to 1404 across 18 pollsdiscussdocs.mistral.ai

Mistral Large 4

1,546 points and 945 comments on Hacker News, linking mistral.ai.

Hacker News11h ago▲1521 to 2491 across 35 pollsdiscussmistral.ai

X voices

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

@MistralAI

70 points and 4 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.

X, via Hacker News11h ago▲18 to 74 across 19 pollsView on X
@MistralAI

70 points and 4 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.

X, via Hacker News11h ago▲18 to 74 across 19 pollsView on X

GitHub

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New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

rehan-remade/universal-modder: 4,574rehan-remade/universa…4,574QingYunA/answer-me-with-html: 1,763QingYunA/answer-me-wi…1,763nanaism/yomiyasu: 1,601nanaism/yomiyasu1,601Edwardxlai/easyread: 822Edwardxlai/easyread822oil-oil/oil-ui: 812oil-oil/oil-ui812StayLameBro/backburner: 766StayLameBro/backburner766
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rehan-remade/universal-modder4574
QingYunA/answer-me-with-html1763
nanaism/yomiyasu1601
Edwardxlai/easyread822
oil-oil/oil-ui812
StayLameBro/backburner766

unslothai/unsloth New Browser + Voice Cloning

Unsloth releases a new version featuring a built-in browser panel and support for Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 model. ·

New release v0.1.903-beta of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.

GitHub Releases7h ago▲3 to 24 across 4 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth New Browser + Voice Cloning

Unsloth releases a new version featuring a built-in browser panel and support for Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 model. ·

New release v0.1.903-beta of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.

GitHub Releases7h ago▲3 to 24 across 4 pollsgithub.com

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.6.0

llama.cpp v0.6.0 introduces an extended batch API, adds support for the 320B GLM-5.3-Flash model, and updates the Web UI with a Hugging Face Hub data layer. ·

GitHub Releases31h ago▲0 to 25 across 14 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Thu 01: 26Thu 0126Fri 02: 32Fri 0232Sat 03: 0Sat 030Sun 04: 3Sun 043Mon 05: 31Mon 0531Tue 06: 27Tue 0627Wed 07: 0Wed 070
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Thu 0126
Fri 0232
Sat 030
Sun 043
Mon 0531
Tue 0627
Wed 070

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 $3.20Max $5.00

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

gemini-nano-banana-2.1: 7.50gemini-nano-banana-2.17.50mistral-large-4-0: 2.09mistral-large-4-02.09pareto-26.10-preview: 3.20pareto-26.10-preview3.20gpt-6.1-sol-pro: 10gpt-6.1-sol-pro10gpt-6.1-sol: 10gpt-6.1-sol10median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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gemini-nano-banana-2.17.5
mistral-large-4-02.09
pareto-26.10-preview3.2
gpt-6.1-sol-pro10
gpt-6.1-sol10
median, all paid models2

439 paid models listed; median of the 49 added in 30 days: $3.20. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

AI Power Spikes Demand Chip-to-Grid Design Changes

AI data centers cause rapid power fluctuations that threaten grid stability, requiring coordinated design changes among chip makers, operators, utilities, and infrastructure providers. ·

Data Center Knowledge8h ago▲datacenterknowledge.com