In 2022, Intel quietly buried the fastest storage medium anyone had ever shipped. Optane, built on 3D XPoint memory, was
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The default answer to “make the agent better” is a better model. But a growing pile of evidence says that
Three model releases in ten days have made one thing clear: the frontier story of late 2026 is not bigger
Alibaba’s Qwen team just shipped Qwen3.8-Max, and it arrives at a strange moment in the AI race. We’re past the
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become the engine behind modern reasoning models. The recipe is straightforward: let a
The AI landscape moves fast. In the span of a few weeks, we’ve seen several notable model releases that push
Robotics has a data problem. While language and vision models have ridden scaling laws to ever-higher capabilities, robot learning has
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Moonshot AI has just dropped Kimi K3, and it’s a monster. At 2.8 trillion parameters, it’s the world’s first open-source
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The open-weights LLM landscape just gained a significant new entrant. Inkling, released on July 15 by Thinking Machines Lab, is
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The open-weight frontier has been moving fast. Over the past few weeks, two major releases have landed on HuggingFace that
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