Est. MMXXVI No. 77 ◆ Archive ◉ RSS ⌁ Free Models
LVX IN TENEBRIS

Inference server generously provided by Devocracy · powered by DwarfStar · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (M3 Ultra)!

Smartphone prices are climbing across the industry — theverge.com
Listen Labs walks away from $125M Series C amid $2B Salesforce acquisition talks — techcrunch.com
Automattic's board places CEO Matt Mullenweg on leave of absence — techcrunch.com
AirPods with cameras remain unannounced, and that absence is welcome — theverge.com
The black iPhone Pro returns — theverge.com
Smartphone prices are climbing across the industry — theverge.com
Listen Labs walks away from $125M Series C amid $2B Salesforce acquisition talks — techcrunch.com
Automattic's board places CEO Matt Mullenweg on leave of absence — techcrunch.com
AirPods with cameras remain unannounced, and that absence is welcome — theverge.com
The black iPhone Pro returns — theverge.com

Research & Papers

06

Show-Harness: just a VLM agent can play robots

Open Source & Models

03

Marigold V2 revisits Diffusion Transformers for monocular depth

Tools & Startups

03

Inception Labs releases Mercury 2.5 diffusion LLM

Italia AI Spotlight

03

Italo-Estonian AI HR startup ignosti joins Tehnopol AI Accelerator

Money & Markets

05

Cylake raises $245M in convertible notes for AI cybersecurity

Free Models

24

Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.

In Brief

12

Source: