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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic6.6xGoogle7.9xOpenAI7.3xQwen 3.8 27B6.9xLLMs7.0xAstra6.7xGPT-6 Astra7.0xRSI9.5xRailway8.2xQwen6.4x

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.318

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.318, which adds mod answer records, assume role support, and fixes for macOS session stalls and permission prompts. ·

New release v2.1.318 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.

GitHub Releases59m ago▲github.com

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Quantized

Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Quantized is a text-to-image model with 7B parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face46m ago▲5622 to 5623 across 2 pollshuggingface.co

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

A paper by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab describes weight-space programming, where models like GPT-6 Astra read and write neural network weights. ·

475 points and 150 comments on Hacker News, linking simonwillison.net.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison9h ago▲8 to 625 across 35 pollsdiscusssimonwillison.net

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.318

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.318, which adds mod answer records, assume role support, and fixes for macOS session stalls and permission prompts. ·

GitHub Releases59m ago▲github.com

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Quantized

Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-Quantized is a text-to-image model with 7B parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face46m ago▲5622 to 5623 across 2 pollshuggingface.co

Advances in Agentic Computer Graphics

A report introduces a unified taxonomy for agentic systems in computer graphics and an automated literature analysis tool to track rapid research growth. ·

HF Daily Papers25h ago▲8 to 109 across 14 pollsarxiv.org

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

A paper by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab describes weight-space programming, where models like GPT-6 Astra read and write neural network weights. ·

475 points and 150 comments on Hacker News, linking simonwillison.net.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison9h ago▲8 to 625 across 35 pollsdiscusssimonwillison.net

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.318

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.318, which adds mod answer records, assume role support, and fixes for macOS session stalls and permission prompts. ·

GitHub Releases59m ago▲github.com

Advances in Agentic Computer Graphics

A report introduces a unified taxonomy for agentic systems in computer graphics and an automated literature analysis tool to track rapid research growth. ·

HF Daily Papers25h ago▲8 to 109 across 14 pollsarxiv.org

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 3.35Anthropic3.35Google: 2.97Google2.97OpenAI: 2.76OpenAI2.76Qwen 3.8 27B: 1.75Qwen 3.8 27B1.75LLMs: 1.15LLMs1.15Astra: 1.12Astra1.12
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Anthropic3.35
Google2.97
OpenAI2.76
Qwen 3.8 27B1.75
LLMs1.15
Astra1.12

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

Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲1: 10,491Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲110,491deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 ▼1: 4,851deepseek-ai/DeepSe… ▼14,851mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B: 1,544mistralai/Mistral-Lar…1,544LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B: 1,404LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B1,404nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B ▲1: 737nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemo… ▲1737speridlabs/idol ▲1: 514speridlabs/idol ▲1514
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Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲110491
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 ▼14851
mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B1544
LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B1404
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B ▲1737
speridlabs/idol ▲1514

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/

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

A paper by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab describes weight-space programming, where models like GPT-6 Astra read and write neural network weights. ·

475 points and 150 comments on Hacker News, linking simonwillison.net.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison9h ago▲8 to 625 across 35 pollsdiscusssimonwillison.net

Advances in Agentic Computer Graphics

A report introduces a unified taxonomy for agentic systems in computer graphics and an automated literature analysis tool to track rapid research growth. ·

HF Daily Papers25h ago▲8 to 109 across 14 pollsarxiv.org

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

A paper by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab describes weight-space programming, where models like GPT-6 Astra read and write neural network weights. ·

475 points and 150 comments on Hacker News, linking simonwillison.net.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison9h ago▲8 to 625 across 35 pollsdiscusssimonwillison.net

Advances in Agentic Computer Graphics

A report introduces a unified taxonomy for agentic systems in computer graphics and an automated literature analysis tool to track rapid research growth. ·

HF Daily Papers25h ago▲8 to 109 across 14 pollsarxiv.org

X voices

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

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype: 16,692deepseek-ai/dsh-super…16,692heydamir/unslop: 7,528heydamir/unslop7,528wangzan101/Mika: 6,043wangzan101/Mika6,043paipiange/nvzhuang: 2,122paipiange/nvzhuang2,122caru-ini/stack-diagram: 1,526caru-ini/stack-diagram1,526RikiyaT/lm_understand-logs: 733RikiyaT/lm_understand…733
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deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype16692
heydamir/unslop7528
wangzan101/Mika6043
paipiange/nvzhuang2122
caru-ini/stack-diagram1526
RikiyaT/lm_understand-logs733

ollama/ollama v0.40.14

Ollama version 0.40.14 updates Claude Code token limits, fixes API chat decoding, and improves MLX sampling speed. ·

GitHub Releases23h ago▲8 to 21 across 10 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.317

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.317, adding scheduling warnings, email checks, and a new cost report API. ·

GitHub Releases24h ago▲15 to 26 across 12 pollsgithub.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.14

Ollama version 0.40.14 updates Claude Code token limits, fixes API chat decoding, and improves MLX sampling speed. ·

GitHub Releases23h ago▲8 to 21 across 10 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Thu 29: 42Thu 2942Fri 30: 29Fri 3029Sat 31: 2Sat 312Sun 01: 5Sun 015Mon 02: 35Mon 0235Tue 03: 39Tue 0339Wed 04: 0Wed 040
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Thu 2942
Fri 3029
Sat 312
Sun 015
Mon 0235
Tue 0339
Wed 040

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 $2.50Min $2.50Max $3.20

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

glm-5.3-flashx-legal: 1.25glm-5.3-flashx-legal1.25particle-1: 0.50particle-10.50gpt-6.1-terra-pro: 5gpt-6.1-terra-pro5gpt-6.1-terra-pro:batch: 2.50gpt-6.1-terra-pro:bat…2.50gpt-6.1-terra: 5gpt-6.1-terra5median, all paid models: 2.08median, all paid mode…2.08
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glm-5.3-flashx-legal1.25
particle-10.5
gpt-6.1-terra-pro5
gpt-6.1-terra-pro:batch2.5
gpt-6.1-terra5
median, all paid models2.08

427 paid models listed; median of the 29 added in 30 days: $2.50. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.