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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic5.7xA42B6.7xOpen-816B6.7xmeta-models6.7xblack-forest-labs7.0xflux-37.0xChinese7.1xScion6.6xLLMs4.8xAnalyzing6.0x

FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery

FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·

HF Daily Papers13h ago▲2 to 90 across 4 pollsarxiv.org

FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery

FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·

HF Daily Papers13h ago▲2 to 90 across 4 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 Releases16h ago▲0 to 11 across 8 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 1.66Anthropic1.66A42B: 1.06A42B1.06Open-816B: 1.06Open-816B1.06meta-models: 1.06meta-models1.06black-forest-labs: 0.89black-forest-labs0.89flux-3: 0.89flux-30.89
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Anthropic1.66
A42B1.06
Open-816B1.06
meta-models1.06
black-forest-labs0.89
flux-30.89

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: 4,413abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…4,413google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,465google/embeddinggemma…2,465jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,784jialinyyzz/humanizer1,784Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: 914Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-T…914openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B: 813openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7…813fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5: 514fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5514
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized4413
google/embeddinggemma-22465
jialinyyzz/humanizer1784
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo914
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B813
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5514

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/

FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery

FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·

HF Daily Papers13h ago▲2 to 90 across 4 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 Papers13h ago▲7 to 169 across 9 pollsarxiv.org

FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery

FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·

HF Daily Papers13h ago▲2 to 90 across 4 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 Papers13h ago▲7 to 169 across 9 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: 2,761onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,761deeplethe/solid-glass: 1,314deeplethe/solid-glass1,314rociiu/talorys: 1,225rociiu/talorys1,225marclou/mailcheap: 1,103marclou/mailcheap1,103zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 1,057zhuyansen/new-term-ra…1,057feder-cr/open_scion: 1,031feder-cr/open_scion1,031
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2761
deeplethe/solid-glass1314
rociiu/talorys1225
marclou/mailcheap1103
zhuyansen/new-term-radar1057
feder-cr/open_scion1031

PointWormGazebo/panel-all-in-one-any-game

PointWormGazebo offers a universal cheat panel that provides AI-enhanced aimbot and per-game precision tuning for various video games. ·

A new repository with 122 stars in its first week.

GitHub13h ago▲github.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 Releases16h ago▲0 to 11 across 8 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 Releases20h ago▲0 to 16 across 10 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 Releases16h ago▲0 to 11 across 8 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 Releases20h ago▲0 to 16 across 10 pollsgithub.com

feder-cr/open_scion

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

GitHub24h ago▲171 to 1031 across 23 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: 15Fri 1615
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Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 1241
Tue 1329
Wed 1434
Thu 1541
Fri 1615

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 $2.40Max $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.