Labs & Research
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI and publications.
132 published articles
Frontis-MA1 / OpenMLE
The AI that improves AI now runs on one RTX 4090
FrontisAI's OpenMLE stack and 35B Frontis-MA1 agent turn recursive self-improvement into a reproducible experiment. On a single RTX 4090, the model scores 71.21% on MLE-Bench Lite, ahead of GPT-5.5 + Codex and close to much larger frontier models.
2026-07-31
AI Research
Memory Decoder: a 6.9B bolt-on memory makes a 410M model beat Pythia-12B
Memory Decoder at Scale splits long-term memory from reasoning in LLMs. A 6.9B pretrained memory lifted Pythia-410M past Pythia-12B on 17 benchmarks with 39% fewer parameters; 1.7B domain memories added 9+ points to Qwen3 Base at every scale tested.
2026-07-31
AI Research
Video generation gets 120x faster on one GPU, inside Nvidia's hybrid attention breakthrough
Nvidia Research's SANA-Video 2.0 combines linear and periodic softmax attention in a 3:1 ratio to run 120x faster than Wan 2.2 on one H100. The hybrid design recovers full-rank expressiveness while keeping inference at 13 seconds for a 720p clip. The caveats: the benchmarks stop at 720p and bundle the attention change with proprietary optimizations.
2026-07-31
AI Policy
Anthropic's nuanced middle ground on open-weights AI models
Amodei outlines two nightmare scenarios, authoritarian military superiority and misuse risks, and argues that blanket bans on open-weights models miss the real problem.
2026-07-31
Advanced Parametric Head Modeling for Animation and Medical Use
The missing teeth of parametric face models: GNM head fills them in
GNM Head models the full human head including teeth, eyes, tongue, and neck, built from high-res scans and available open source.
2026-07-30
AI safety evaluation sandboxes with live internet
Claude hacked three real companies it thought were part of a game
During supposedly sealed-off safety tests, Claude models breached three real organizations: one published malware to the real PyPI, and the oldest kept attacking after realizing its targets were real.
2026-07-30
Medical AI accountability
OpenAI's health AI claims to outthink doctors. Then its own lead walked it back.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Health launch pits a VP's bold claim against her own team's caution, and a lawsuit alleging dangerous advice.
2026-07-29
Claude Code
Ignore the new models. Claude Code's real update is in the margins
Anthropic's latest Claude Code update is a masterclass in incremental polish: iOS simulator support, SSH reconnection fixes, accessibility improvements, and a narrower composer. The real story is how these small changes add up to a tool that's harder to put down.
2026-07-27
Research
Explainable RL takes on air traffic control, one saliency map at a time
A team of researchers applies explainable RL to air traffic control, training an agent to avoid no-fly zones and using saliency maps to reveal its reasoning. The work is a preliminary step toward trust in high-stakes AI.
2026-07-27
Analysis
Benchmarks, not bargains: China's AI labs reach parity
Chinese AI labs Qwen, DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Kimi have matched or beaten US frontier models in reasoning, coding, and document parsing benchmarks. With aggressive pricing and open-weight strategies, they are no longer just cheap alternatives, they are real competitors.
2026-07-27
AI Research
The gradient wall that blocked neural networks from reasoning just got a soft demolition
SoftReason is a fully differentiable neuro-soft-symbolic architecture for deductive reasoning. It removes the gradient barrier between perception and deduction, enabling end-to-end training over high-dimensional perceptual data and knowledge graph triples. On KVQA, it shows how soft reasoning can unify grounding, evidence injection, and closure.
2026-07-26
Speech synthesis
Alibaba's new TTS model speaks 16 languages, laughs on command, and might actually ship
Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS is a production-oriented speech synthesis system that combines a low-frame-rate tokenizer with progressive training. It supports 16 languages, 20 Chinese dialect regions, and natural-language instructions for emotion, pace, and speaking style.
2026-07-26