Last week's AI news in 60 seconds:
Google Deepmind shakeup - the research <> applied tensions are mounting.
OpenAI previews a new model - their biggest yet.
Massive cyber incident with 2 billion potentially affected.
And more - watch now below 👇
ByteDance told their AI researchers back in 2023 not to distill American models.
Now they're at the frontier in video and preparing to train a Mythos-tier model.
I explain why this was a smart choice in this video.
Let me know if you want more unhinged explainers 🤪
OpenAI incident report: a model in a cyber eval found a zero-day, escaped its sandbox, found internet access, and read Hugging Face's production database.
All to cheat on a benchmark.
Then Claude did the same thing.
Learn more:
I've never recorded a video announcement before. But after 15 years of working in AI and 1.5 years heads down building @CambrianNetwork, I wanted to share this news myself.
I'm proud to announce the public launch of the Cambrian API, which you can try free on https://t.co/cNcQRMa8Xw
In 2024, while building an AI copilot for trading, I became convinced that the future of finance would be increasingly operated by agents. I also realized that existing data solutions were far from meeting the needs of a burgeoning industry called agentic finance.
So I assembled a team of data, infrastructure, and finance veterans, earned support from @a16zcrypto@Polychain@FTDA_US and many other amazing investors, and embarked on a mission to build the world's financial intelligence layer.
Today, the Cambrian API is out of beta. It's the best source of onchain and offchain signal for AI agents and institutions to make winning financial decisions, such as:
- Smarter trading strategies
- Automated yield-maximization
- Social sentiment-based trades
- Risk analyses & much more
Start using it for free and scale as your needs grow.
'Open Weights' is now a marketing term, not a technical one.
OSS companies love changing the definition of 'Open' and AI is no different.
MiniMax published one of the best video/audio models but it's banned in dozens of countries.
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Alibaba is telling us Qwen 3.8 is going to be open source, but their historical behavior tells a different tale.
Are we about to be bait-and-switched?
I explore the story in my latest video:
Our founder @justinbebis had an incredible day with @StanfordSBA, @0G_labs, and a host of incredible founders and investors last week in San Francisco for the Apollo graduation.
Huge thanks to everyone that made it possible!
POV: Your agent draws two shorts on oil, one thesis.
A: fade the bounce into EMA26 at 80.35. Target 77.76, stop 82.13.
B: wait for 77.76 to break, short the retest. Target 74, stop 79.50.
Which one are you taking?
Anthropic is in a really weak position right now.
They went all-in on intelligence, which is being commodified quickly.
Meanwhile OpenAI is hedging with data-centers, building out an ads business, and now slashing the prices of GPT-5.6 Luna.
It seems like their business is under attack from every angle - and their only way out at this point is through.
They either retain the #1 spot or lose the race.
There’s a cool new company called @Etched.
If they can deliver on promises, their tech might be the ingredient we need for AGI.
OOMs more intelligence per second would accelerate the frontier of nearly every field beyond measure.
Watch to learn more:
.@CHELDORITO has been building on Cod3x since basically day one. 698 versions, 14 model swaps, and a very honest write-up of what actually made the difference.
Worth your time even if you don't run an agent.