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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic6.0xblack-forest-labs6.8xflux-36.8xChinese7.1xScion7.6xLLMs5.1xOpenRouter5.8xMononoke7.6xNvidia5.8xSCOPE7.0x

Self-Evolving Agent Harness

Harness self-evolution revises agent software scaffolding while keeping model weights fixed. The framework separates update targets from proposal and admission mechanisms. ·

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲7 to 39 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Self-Evolving Agent Harness

Harness self-evolution revises agent software scaffolding while keeping model weights fixed. The framework separates update targets from proposal and admission mechanisms. ·

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲7 to 39 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

openai/codex 0.163.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·

GitHub Releases8h ago▲0 to 8 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Self-Evolving Agent Harness

Harness self-evolution revises agent software scaffolding while keeping model weights fixed. The framework separates update targets from proposal and admission mechanisms. ·

38 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲7 to 39 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 2.39Anthropic2.39black-forest-labs: 1.16black-forest-labs1.16flux-3: 1.16flux-31.16Chinese: 1.03Chinese1.03Scion: 0.90Scion0.90LLMs: 0.88LLMs0.88
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Anthropic2.39
black-forest-labs1.16
flux-31.16
Chinese1.03
Scion0.9
LLMs0.88

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-Quantized: 4,397abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…4,397google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,426google/embeddinggemma…2,426jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,759jialinyyzz/humanizer1,759Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: 894Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-T…894openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B: 803openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7…803fishaudio/drama-3 ▲4: 494fishaudio/drama-3 ▲4494
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized4397
google/embeddinggemma-22426
jialinyyzz/humanizer1759
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo894
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B803
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲4494

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/

Learning Where to Split: Dynamic Band Splitting for Audio Source Separation

Researchers introduce Dynamic Band Splitting, an audio separation framework that adapts frequency boundaries to specific mixtures. The method achieves a 29.0% relative gain in average SI-SDR on the DnR v2 dataset. ·

24 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲6 to 25 across 3 pollsarxiv.org

Mosaic: Multi-Session Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Mosaic is a multi-session agentic reinforcement learning method that uses hierarchical optimization to estimate session contributions. It outperforms broadcasting in experiments on BrowseComp using Qwen3.5-4B. ·

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲2 to 11 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Speculative Forcing for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation

Researchers introduce Speculative Forcing, a framework that accelerates autoregressive video generation by freezing tokens that require minimal refinement. The method matches four-step generator quality using approximately 1.7 denoising steps on LongLive. ·

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲36 to 55 across 4 pollsarxiv.org

Learning Where to Split: Dynamic Band Splitting for Audio Source Separation

Researchers introduce Dynamic Band Splitting, an audio separation framework that adapts frequency boundaries to specific mixtures. The method achieves a 29.0% relative gain in average SI-SDR on the DnR v2 dataset. ·

24 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲6 to 25 across 3 pollsarxiv.org

Mosaic: Multi-Session Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Mosaic is a multi-session agentic reinforcement learning method that uses hierarchical optimization to estimate session contributions. It outperforms broadcasting in experiments on BrowseComp using Qwen3.5-4B. ·

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲2 to 11 across 2 pollsarxiv.org

Speculative Forcing for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation

Researchers introduce Speculative Forcing, a framework that accelerates autoregressive video generation by freezing tokens that require minimal refinement. The method matches four-step generator quality using approximately 1.7 denoising steps on LongLive. ·

HF Daily Papers6h ago▲36 to 55 across 4 pollsarxiv.org

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

onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: 2,609onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,609rociiu/talorys: 1,192rociiu/talorys1,192deeplethe/solid-glass: 1,120deeplethe/solid-glass1,120marclou/mailcheap: 1,071marclou/mailcheap1,071zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 1,034zhuyansen/new-term-ra…1,034feder-cr/open_scion: 963feder-cr/open_scion963
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2609
rociiu/talorys1192
deeplethe/solid-glass1120
marclou/mailcheap1071
zhuyansen/new-term-radar1034
feder-cr/open_scion963

openai/codex 0.163.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·

New release rust-v0.163.0 of openai/codex on GitHub.

GitHub Releases8h ago▲0 to 8 across 5 pollsgithub.com

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.7.0

llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·

GitHub Releases13h ago▲0 to 12 across 7 pollsgithub.com

feder-cr/open_scion

Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·

GitHub17h ago▲171 to 963 across 16 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.163.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·

GitHub Releases8h ago▲0 to 8 across 5 pollsgithub.com

ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.7.0

llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·

GitHub Releases13h ago▲0 to 12 across 7 pollsgithub.com

feder-cr/open_scion

Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·

GitHub17h ago▲171 to 963 across 16 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Sat 10: 3Sat 103Sun 11: 7Sun 117Mon 12: 41Mon 1241Tue 13: 29Tue 1329Wed 14: 34Wed 1434Thu 15: 41Thu 1541Fri 16: 0Fri 160
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Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 1241
Tue 1329
Wed 1434
Thu 1541
Fri 160

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 $5.00Min $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)

moondream3-preview: 2.50moondream3-preview2.50moondream3.1-9b-a2b: 2.50moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.50muse-spark-open: 4.25muse-spark-open4.25nemotron-3.5-super-vl: 0.50nemotron-3.5-super-vl0.50pareto-latest: 7.50pareto-latest7.50median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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moondream3-preview2.5
moondream3.1-9b-a2b2.5
muse-spark-open4.25
nemotron-3.5-super-vl0.5
pareto-latest7.5
median, all paid models2

438 paid models listed; median of the 47 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.