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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic6.1xMuse Spark9.8xA42B7.0xOpen-816B7.0xmeta-models7.0xGemini 4 Argon7.1xblack-forest-labs7.0xflux-37.0xChinese7.0xVision-Language-Action6.6x

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 Papers15h ago▲2 to 163 across 6 pollsarxiv.org

OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image

OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·

GitHub14h ago▲github.com

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 Papers15h ago▲2 to 163 across 6 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 Releases18h ago▲0 to 12 across 9 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 2.46Anthropic2.46Muse Spark: 1.30Muse Spark1.30A42B: 1.04A42B1.04Open-816B: 1.04Open-816B1.04meta-models: 1.04meta-models1.04Gemini 4 Argon: 0.87Gemini 4 Argon0.87
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Anthropic2.46
Muse Spark1.3
A42B1.04
Open-816B1.04
meta-models1.04
Gemini 4 Argon0.87

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: 4,416abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…4,416google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,480google/embeddinggemma…2,480jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,796jialinyyzz/humanizer1,796Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: 919Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-T…919openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B: 820openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7…820fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5: 525fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5525
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized4416
google/embeddinggemma-22480
jialinyyzz/humanizer1796
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo919
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B820
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5525

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 Papers15h ago▲2 to 163 across 6 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 Papers15h ago▲2 to 163 across 6 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: 2,780onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,780deeplethe/solid-glass: 1,323deeplethe/solid-glass1,323rociiu/talorys: 1,228rociiu/talorys1,228marclou/mailcheap: 1,108marclou/mailcheap1,108zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 1,060zhuyansen/new-term-ra…1,060feder-cr/git-ai: 1,033feder-cr/git-ai1,033
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2780
deeplethe/solid-glass1323
rociiu/talorys1228
marclou/mailcheap1108
zhuyansen/new-term-radar1060
feder-cr/git-ai1033

OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image

OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·

A new repository written in Python with 139 stars in its first week.

GitHub14h 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 Releases18h ago▲0 to 12 across 9 pollsgithub.com

zgsfsec/Full-Chain-Sentinel-System

Full-Chain Sentinel is a penetration testing agent system that assists security services with full-process testing and prohibits use for illegal attacks. ·

GitHub11h ago▲127 to 130 across 2 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 Releases18h ago▲0 to 12 across 9 pollsgithub.com

OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image

OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·

GitHub14h ago▲github.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 Releases22h ago▲0 to 16 across 11 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: 24Fri 1624
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Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 1241
Tue 1329
Wed 1434
Thu 1541
Fri 1624

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.