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ByteDance just opensourced a desktop automation AI Agent. This agent can use any desktop app, open files, and browse websites using vision models running locally. 100% Free, Opensource, and Local. https://x.com/unwind_ai_/status/1956538069311500514

China’s Kaiwa plans world’s first pregnancy humanoid robot https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-worlds-first-pregnancy-humanoid-robot

Introducing the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-the-anthropic-national-security-and-public-sector-advisory-council

Our new Threat Intelligence report details how we’ve identified and disrupted sophisticated attempts to use Claude for cybercrime. We describe a fraudulent employment scheme from North Korea, the sale of AI-created ransomware by someone with only basic coding skills, and more. https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1960660063934194134

We’re announcing the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, a bipartisan group of defense, intelligence, and policy experts who will help us support the U.S. government and closely allied democracies in maintaining our AI leadership. https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1960696531863879712

We’ve reached a $90M revenue run rate! @peakji just shared this milestone on stage at Stripe Tour Singapore. Thank you to the millions of people using Manus to get stuff done. We’ll keep hustling to make Manus even better for you. https://x.com/ManusAI_HQ/status/1958186410164285900

Qwen-Code weekly release (v0.0.8) : ✨ Deep VS Code Integration: Get context-aware suggestions & inline diffs directly in your editor! Initialize with /ide and supercharge your workflow. 🔌 Enhanced MCP Support: Add, remove, list MCP servers via CLI (qwen mcp add|remove|list), https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1959170659583476026

Today we’re announcing the open-source release of HunyuanVideo-Foley, our new end-to-end Text-Video-to-Audio (TV2A) framework for generating high-fidelity audio.🚀 This tool empowers creators in video production, filmmaking, and game development to generate professional-grade https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/1960920482779423211

Kimi Slides is live! 🎉 Ideas in, decks out. In minutes. Coming soon: Adaptive Layout, auto image search & agentic slides. Try it out👉 https://x.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/1961011693745811542

Didn’t see anyone talk about this. The new ByteDance OSS model has special tokens during its CoT where it would automatically check how many tokens in its thinking budget it has used and how many remain. https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1959437761188163872

TikTok parent company ByteDance releases new open source Seed-OSS-36B model with 512K token context https://venturebeat.com/ai/tiktok-parent-company-bytedance-releases-new-open-source-seed-oss-36b-model-with-512k-token-context

🤖 DeepSeek-V3.1 just landed on Together AI 671B hybrid model with: ⚡ Fast mode for routine tasks 🧠 Thinking mode for complex problems Our infrastructure is built for massive MoE models like this. 99.9% uptime means your reasoning workflows actually work in production. https://x.com/togethercompute/status/1960835568574578736

Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀 🧠 Hybrid inference: Think & Non-Think — one model, two modes ⚡️ Faster thinking: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528 🛠️ Stronger agent skills: Post-training boosts tool use and”” / X https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1958417062008918312

DeepSeek-V3.1 Is 2x Cheaper than GPT-5 https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/deepseek-v3-1-is-2x-cheaper-than-gpt-5/

DeepSeek V3.1 dropped last week and is showing a 9.9% diff edit failure rate in real-world usage. That’s higher than Qwen 3 Coder (6.1%) but still solid for an open-source model for an early release. What do you think? How’s it been in Cline so far? https://x.com/cline/status/1960565950442578418

open source nano banana? bytedance just dropped USO, an open source editing model that… just works https://x.com/multimodalart/status/1961147988258295893

🌏 vLLM Shanghai Meetup Recap 🚀 Last weekend, we gathered with the community in Shanghai to dive into: → Contributing to vLLM → Distributed inference → ERNIE 4.5 integration → Mooncake + LMCache → MetaX hardware support The community is pushing vLLM to new levels of https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1959903380006175194

🎬 Introducing MuseSteamer—an image-to-video model newly launched at Baidu AI Day. Here’s what it offers: – Generation of synchronized visuals, Chinese dialogue, and sound effects from a single image. – Creation of 10-second, 1080P cinematic-quality clips with nuanced facial https://x.com/Baidu_Inc/status/1941151611755393210

A big milestone for Hermes. We did a lot of work to make a frontier level openmodel that does not dictate what expression you can elicit from the model. Super strong at math, coding, STEM, and creativity. Model Weights: https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1960420619620901135

Hermes 4 – Nous Research https://hermes4.nousresearch.com/

Hermes 4 technical breakdown: ▫️ Open Source LLM ▫️ Fine-tune of Llama 3.1 ▫️ 405B & 70B params ▫️ Hybrid reasoning ▫️ Trained on 3.5 million reasoning samples ▫️ Trained using 192 NVIDIA B200 GPUs ▫️ Uncensored ▫️ Steerable, aligned to the user ▫️ Creativity enhanced (like”” / X https://x.com/vectro/status/1960734604601569560

Nous Research presents Hermes 4, our latest line of hybrid reasoning models. https://x.com/NousResearch/status/1960416954457710982

Fourth model launch of the day 🔥 – introducing Hermes 4, from @NousResearch Hermes 4 is trained for steerability and lower refusal rates, topping RefusalBench and beating Grok 4 https://x.com/OpenRouterAI/status/1960436262923592065

Ollama v0.11.7 is available with DeepSeek v3.1 support. You can run it locally with all its features like hybrid thinking. This works across Ollama’s new app, CLI, API, and SDKs. Ollama’s Turbo mode that’s in preview has also been updated to support the model! https://x.com/ollama/status/1960463433515852144

we are opening our first office in india later this year! and i’m looking forward to visiting next month. ai adoption in india has been amazing to watch–chatgpt users grew 4x in the past year–and we are excited to invest much more in india!”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1958922390731464805

…so update. Article soon. I just got a time to first token Qwen3 480B in 25.66s. And I might be able to go faster with faster drives.”” / X https://x.com/TheZachMueller/status/1959643512695054638

Since everyone is talking about RL Environments and GRPO now but no one knows how it works we thought it would be cool to make an explainer video + code you can run: This is an example of using GRPO to train Qwen 2.5 to play 2048 (code in thread) 🧵: https://x.com/jayendra_ram/status/1960157842620498107

🧸Turn your favorite memes into real-world collectibles — one click with Qwen-Image-Edit. 🎁Try it now: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1959507306774999389

🪂 Qwen-Image-Edit is now live on chutes. Absolutely epic model. Playground needs a couple updates to work but you can use it in the API right now, takes minimally “”prompt”” and “”image_b64″” fields as inputs, other args optional. https://x.com/jon_durbin/status/1959230037036519724

🚀 Excited to introduce Qwen-Image-Edit! Built on 20B Qwen-Image, it brings precise bilingual text editing (Chinese & English) while preserving style, and supports both semantic and appearance-level editing. ✨ Key Features ✅ Accurate text editing with bilingual support ✅ https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1957500569029079083

Qwen Edit is so good at outpainting https://x.com/linoy_tsaban/status/1959989758475780523

first vision language model built off @OpenAI gpt-oss just dropped! 🔥 InternVL3.5 comes with 32 models 🤯 pre-trained, fine-tuned, aligned in various sizes comes with gpt-oss or Qwen3 for LLM part ⤵️ https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1960298636610326564

i was literally shocked by the huge llm infra diff in US vs China and GPU vs TPU… I was chatting with senior folks about how global batch aux loss is hard under the ppvp constrain, as basically you have to do all f all b to get the fi correct and that’s challenging for peak”” / X https://x.com/JingyuanLiu123/status/1959093411283443726

Three ways to code for free just landed in Cline v3.26.6. Cloud speed with @grok Code Fast 1, local privacy via @LMStudio, or generous daily limits via the Qwen Code provider –> pick your path. 🧵 https://x.com/cline/status/1961201105729401060

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