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Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/google-scores-six-year-meta-cloud-deal-worth-over-10-billion.html
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s rBio uses virtual cells to train AI, bypassing lab work https://venturebeat.com/ai/chan-zuckerberg-initiatives-rbio-uses-virtual-cells-to-train-ai-bypassing-lab-work
1/ Today we’re proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958983843169673367
Congratulations to the @scale_AI team on a major $99M contract with the @USArmy!”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1960195704275743035
Proud to share we’ve been awarded a $99M contract to support the acceleration of the @USArmy’s adoption of AI. This contract reflects our long-term commitment to ensuring America’s military remains prepared, resilient, and at the forefront of AI innovation. https://x.com/scale_AI/status/1960126564236157391
Scale AI and DoD Expand Partnership to Advance Army R&D | Scale https://scale.com/blog/scale-ai-dod-expand-army-rd-partnership
LeCun now reports to Alexandr Wang as Meta reshuffles its top AI leadership https://the-decoder.com/lecun-now-reports-to-alexandr-wang-as-meta-reshuffles-its-top-ai-leadership/
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 truly only investing more and more into Meta Superintelligence Labs as a company. Any reporting to the contrary of that is clearly mistaken.”” / X https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958599969151361126
Musk Tried to Enlist Zuckerberg to Help Finance OpenAI Bid https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/musk-tried-to-enlist-zuckerberg-to-help-finance-bid-for-openai/ar-AA1KZ6y5
Musk v. OpenAI just got messier https://tech.therundown.ai/p/musk-brings-zuck-into-openai-drama
OpenAI lawyers question Meta’s role in Elon Musk’s $97B takeover bid | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/openai-lawyers-question-metas-role-in-elon-musks-97b-takeover-bid/
All the big labs pretrain on the ~same internet, but each has a secret sauce: OpenAI: reddit xAI: twitter Google: youtube Meta: instagram & facebook In the end, models mirror the cultures of the social media they grew up on.”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1961121746670817404
🚀 LLM Compressor v0.7.0 is here! This release brings powerful new features for quantizing large language models, including transform support (QuIP, SpinQuant), mixed precision compression, improved MoE handling with Llama4 support, and more. Full blog: https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1960432740672921934
