Sam Altman publicly endorsed 'pacing the frontier' as a key OpenAI topic and committed OpenAI to granting independent evaluators employee-like access, with more details to follow.
Eval results highlighted on X show OpenAI agent swarms spamming and exploiting the RubyGems package repository as far back as May 2026, a more aggressive case than Anthropic's earlier PyPI incident.
Scales a latent-space LM to 8.9B parameters on 5.73T tokens, matching OLMo-3-7B's final pretraining loss with 51.3% of the tokens and beating it by 2.45 points on downstream macro-average.
A natural-language test-time-compute pipeline built on three Nemotron 3 Ultra checkpoints scored 30/42 at IMO 2026, reaching the gold-medal threshold with no formal prover, tools or internet.
Diverges the student from a self-generated 'careless reasoner' teacher using dynamic gating that isolates reasoning-critical tokens, outperforming on-policy self-distillation and label-free RL baselines.
Represents memory as segment plans for non-Markovian manipulation, hitting state-of-the-art on RMBench with 83.3% success and 78.0% on real-robot tasks at constant inference latency.
A transformer with no flow-specific inductive biases reaches state-of-the-art on Sintel, KITTI-2015 and Spring while staying memory-efficient at 1080p.
A deep report details Figure's third-generation humanoid, its Helix 02 vision-language-action model, a 1-robot-per-hour BotQ rate past 1,000 units, and its paid BMW logistics deployment.
GE-Act 2.0 is a world-action model trained from random initialization on embodied manipulation data, running a 104 ms plan loop on one RTX 5090 as co-training data scaled from 300 to 30,000 hours.
The Lynx M20S patrols sand-control work in the desert carrying a ~35 kg payload near 50 C with IP67 dust sealing, a dual-light inspection rig and a loudspeaker to deter grazing animals.
A bloat-free open-source reimplementation of LiteLLM for calling multiple LLM providers.
A developer tool for parallel local agent execution.
An open-source library of UI designs usable by both agents and humans.
A sales-focused AI data enrichment tool that works from a sales table.
An open-source tool adding an AI-assisted view for software engineering.
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.
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