DeepSeek Tests Open Model Economics; Foreign Coauthors
Today’s through-line is control. DeepSeek is reportedly trying to prove that open models and serious capital can coexist, while NIH,…
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DeepSeek Forces Visual Reasoning Through Points and Boxes
DeepSeek has released an open-source visual reasoning framework called Thinking with Visual Primitives. According to 36Kr, the system changes how…
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302 Designs, 16 Hits: AI-Designed Viruses in the Lab
AI-designed viruses are now a lab result, but not in the way the viral posts made it sound. Researchers affiliated…
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66 Tokens Make a Diffusion Language Model Look Easy
A diffusion language model generates text by starting from masked or otherwise corrupted tokens and iteratively restoring them. In this…
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Kimi K2.6 is Rumor: Kimi K2.5 is the Real Story
Kimi K2.6 is everywhere in preview chatter. Kimi K2.6 is also, based on the sources we can actually verify, not…
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Zero-Shot World Models Attack AI’s Data Bottleneck
Most vision models get good by seeing absurd amounts of data. Zero-shot world models are interesting because they try a…
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is Unverified: Qwen3.5 is Real
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is being passed around as a major new open model release: 35 billion total parameters, 3 billion active, Apache…
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AI Reproducibility Crisis: Why Claims Fail to Verify
A paper reports a new state-of-the-art result. The repo is public. The figures look clean. The conference is top-tier. In…
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LLM Performance Drop: Hosted Models Feel Worse for 3 Reasons
I tried to answer a simple question: is the current LLM performance drop panic actually a real cross-industry regression, or…
