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What is climbing fastest across every source

Claude Haiku 5.57.0xClaude6.9xOpenAI5.7xOct7.0xGPT-67.0xLLMs6.1xMicrosoft7.0xChatGPT4.7xMeta6.0xMistral Large 44.5x

FrancisRing/Prism

A image to video model from FrancisRing with 114 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face1m ago▲huggingface.co

Quoting Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck explains how convolutional neural networks process pixel data to identify visual patterns for green screen replacement in film production. ·

Simon Willison2h ago▲simonwillison.net

Claude Haiku 5.5

651 points and 326 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison7h ago▲72 to 977 across 35 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.293

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 as the default Haiku model on its API, featuring a 1M token context window and pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens. ·

GitHub Releases7h ago▲7 to 27 across 3 pollsgithub.com

langchain-fireworks==1.7.1

LangChain releases version 1.7.1 of its Fireworks integration, which preserves reasoning during streaming and tool loops while updating the LangGraph SDK dependency. ·

GitHub Releases5h ago▲github.com

Claude Haiku 5.5

651 points and 326 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison7h ago▲72 to 977 across 35 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

FrancisRing/Prism

A image to video model from FrancisRing with 114 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face1m ago▲huggingface.co

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.293

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 as the default Haiku model on its API, featuring a 1M token context window and pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens. ·

GitHub Releases7h ago▲7 to 27 across 3 pollsgithub.com

canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning

A text to speech model from canberkkkkkk with 264 likes and 2,724 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face20h ago▲121 to 264 across 42 pollshuggingface.co

Claude Haiku 5.5

651 points and 326 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison7h ago▲72 to 977 across 35 pollsdiscussanthropic.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. ·

Hacker News+ Mistral, Simon Willison37h ago▲35 to 569 across 49 pollsdiscussmistral.ai

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.293

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 as the default Haiku model on its API, featuring a 1M token context window and pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens. ·

GitHub Releases7h ago▲7 to 27 across 3 pollsgithub.com

FrancisRing/Prism

A image to video model from FrancisRing with 114 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face1m ago▲huggingface.co

canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning

A text to speech model from canberkkkkkk with 264 likes and 2,724 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face20h ago▲121 to 264 across 42 pollshuggingface.co

Trending topics today: heat

Claude Haiku 5.5: 2.46Claude Haiku 5.52.46Claude: 2.05Claude2.05OpenAI: 2.01OpenAI2.01Oct: 1.17Oct1.17GPT-6: 1.09GPT-61.09LLMs: 0.99LLMs0.99
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Claude Haiku 5.52.46
Claude2.05
OpenAI2.01
Oct1.17
GPT-61.09
LLMs0.99

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

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▼2: 3,560abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▼23,560autotrust/JEV-27B-VL ▲1: 1,968autotrust/JEV-27B-… ▲11,968Cloudflare/clef ▼1: 1,816Cloudflare/clef ▼11,816autotrust/GEV-26B-Decide ▲3: 1,303autotrust/GEV-26B-… ▲31,303google/embeddinggemma-2 ▲6: 947google/embeddingge… ▲6947Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▼2: 774Aleph-Alpha/Kolibr… ▼2774
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▼23560
autotrust/JEV-27B-VL ▲11968
Cloudflare/clef ▼11816
autotrust/GEV-26B-Decide ▲31303
google/embeddinggemma-2 ▲6947
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▼2774

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/

unslothai/unsloth Train your own Decision model

Unsloth releases a tool that converts text or vision LLMs into decision models, raising accuracy from 30% to 80%. ·

New release v0.1.904-beta of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.

GitHub Releases10h ago▲4 to 11 across 5 pollsgithub.com

AI Model Groupthink

15 points and 3 comments on Hacker News, linking magicnumbers.io.

Hacker News7h ago▲6 to 18 across 4 pollsdiscussmagicnumbers.io

canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning

A text to speech model from canberkkkkkk with 264 likes and 2,724 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face20h ago▲121 to 264 across 42 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. ·

Hacker News+ Mistral, Simon Willison37h ago▲35 to 569 across 49 pollsdiscussmistral.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. ·

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

Hacker News+ Mistral, Simon Willison37h ago▲35 to 569 across 49 pollsdiscussmistral.ai

canberkkkkkk/ema-lightning

A text to speech model from canberkkkkkk with 264 likes and 2,724 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face20h ago▲121 to 264 across 42 pollshuggingface.co

X voices

5 stories

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 News36h ago▲18 to 74 across 44 pollsView on X

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

QingYunA/answer-me-with-html: 2,045QingYunA/answer-me-wi…2,045Jakeschincariol/replica-skill: 859Jakeschincariol/repli…859elstongun/leviathan: 665elstongun/leviathan665AgentMemoryRepo/agentmemoryrepo: 613AgentMemoryRepo/agent…613DozenTwelve/Papermorph: 530DozenTwelve/Papermorph530zzzz7788990213-ops/EvoVLM: 507zzzz7788990213-ops/Ev…507
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QingYunA/answer-me-with-html2045
Jakeschincariol/replica-skill859
elstongun/leviathan665
AgentMemoryRepo/agentmemoryrepo613
DozenTwelve/Papermorph530
zzzz7788990213-ops/EvoVLM507

Docker Agent

171 points and 81 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.

Hacker News7h ago▲5 to 252 across 29 pollsdiscussgithub.com

openai/codex 0.161.0

OpenAI releases Codex 0.161.0, which makes GPT-6.1 Sol the default model in bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs. ·

GitHub Releases9h ago▲0 to 1 across 4 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth Train your own Decision model

Unsloth releases a tool that converts text or vision LLMs into decision models, raising accuracy from 30% to 80%. ·

New release v0.1.904-beta of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.

GitHub Releases10h ago▲4 to 11 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Docker Agent

171 points and 81 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.

Hacker News7h ago▲5 to 252 across 29 pollsdiscussgithub.com

openai/codex 0.161.0

OpenAI releases Codex 0.161.0, which makes GPT-6.1 Sol the default model in bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs. ·

GitHub Releases9h ago▲0 to 1 across 4 pollsgithub.com

LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance

LosaLosSantos releases aurelio-finance, a self-hosted tool for tracking personal wealth and portfolios using AI insights, built with FastAPI and React. ·

GitHub29h ago▲101 to 183 across 6 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Fri 02: 32Fri 0232Sat 03: 0Sat 030Sun 04: 3Sun 043Mon 05: 31Mon 0531Tue 06: 27Tue 0627Wed 07: 28Wed 0728Thu 08: 0Thu 080
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Fri 0232
Sat 030
Sun 043
Mon 0531
Tue 0627
Wed 0728
Thu 080

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 $2.09Min $2.09Max $5.00

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

claude-haiku-5.5: 0.50claude-haiku-5.50.50claude-haiku-5.5:batch: 0.25claude-haiku-5.5:batch0.25gemini-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-preview3.20median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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claude-haiku-5.50.5
claude-haiku-5.5:batch0.25
gemini-nano-banana-2.17.5
mistral-large-4-02.09
pareto-26.10-preview3.2
median, all paid models2

440 paid models listed; median of the 51 added in 30 days: $2.09. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens?

A calculator converts daily, monthly, or yearly token volumes into estimated counts of A100, H100, or B200 GPUs, including a sourced uncertainty range. ·

14 points and 4 comments on Hacker News, linking cedana.com.

Hacker News31h ago▲4 to 18 across 5 pollsdiscusscedana.com

How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens?

A calculator converts daily, monthly, or yearly token volumes into estimated counts of A100, H100, or B200 GPUs, including a sourced uncertainty range. ·

Hacker News31h ago▲4 to 18 across 5 pollsdiscusscedana.com