Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for International for the week ending August 14, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: Photorealistic magazine cover of a single translucent glass globe with delicate gold-leaf continents resting on a perfectly still mirror of water, vast pale dawn sky fading to deep cosmic indigo above with soft mist blurring the horizon, one thin thread of warm gold light grazing the sphere, bold minimalist title text reading International set large and clean in the empty upper sky, quiet symmetry, long-exposure stillness, two-thirds negative space.
This Week in International News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- DeepSeek's busy week: DeepSeek released V4-Pro-0813, which Cline says is up 15.8% on Terminal Bench from the April preview. Commenters focused on price: $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens with a 1M-token context. It also open-sourced DeepSeek Harness under an MIT license, a developer preview whose commits partly came from Codex worktrees.
- Qwen3.8 weights land: Alibaba's Qwen team put Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Hugging Face, with 2.4T total parameters and 95B active. vLLM announced day-0 support, though one developer noted the open version is text-only, with no vision input.
- MiniMax and open media models: MiniMax-H3 took first place on the Video Edit Arena at 1390 points, per the Arena account. MiniMax also released open-weights Music 3, and its posts say the Redis creator built an H3 inference engine for Macs.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to International
DeepSeek Harness was just released with MIT license. The current 0.1.0 version is a developer preview, and may still have many rough edges. Feedback is welcome! DeepSeek Harness”
https://x.com/tianyi/status/2087888089759015218
deepseek harness was heavily developed using codex, at least ~20% of commits and PRs are coming from codex worktrees”
https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2087908415775408346
Apple trains own AI model for China with Alibaba support, Reuters reports By Investing.com
https://au.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/apple-trains-own-ai-model-for-china-with-alibaba-support-reuters-reports-4599519
Unitree’s landmark IPO is here. [宇树科技, ticker 688836] opened subscription on Shanghai’s STAR Market on Aug 10: “Opening public subscription” means investors can now apply to buy shares at the set price. With demand this high, who actually gets shares is decided by lottery,”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2087296846813360149
Seedance 2.5 is live on fal. The drawn line passes under a glacier arch. So does the camera. Ends at the viking ship, one take.”
https://x.com/fal/status/2086927528032145450
Seedance 2.5 with the same prompt. Lovely and very much reminds me of the (overly) optimistic future of space books that used to be popular; predicting space tourism coming soon. (Also the reflections these models can pull off are impressive)”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2086801016817697025
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is now live on Together AI. The Qwen Team’s latest flagship model is built for coding and long-horizon agent workflows, with 2.4T parameters and a 256K context window. 🧵”
https://x.com/togethercompute/status/2087649685129318585
DeepSeek silently released V4-Pro 0813, up 15.8% on Terminal Bench from their April Preview model, with Fable 5 performance at ~57x cheaper cost. 1.6T param, 49B active, 1M context. This is the best price-to-perfomance model on the market right now. Available in ClinePass now!”
https://x.com/cline/status/2087602193205694891
amazing release. it’s a web UI with multiple harnesses inside it, you can spawn claude code and codex agent through their SDK “deepseek harness” supports different “modes” by default (which are harnesses): code mode with programmatic tool calling (in typescript), bash+edit”
https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2087904176357437820
3 frontier models in one day! – Grok 4.6: Fable 5-level, but 85% cheaper. – Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4T params, 95B active. Weights are out. – DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813: weights could drop any time. Heard it’s good, not just benchmaxxing. Competition is great for consumers and businesses.”
https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2087577925919068639
We ran DeepSeek V4 Flash through 4 more agent harnesses (Hermes Agent, Pi Agent, Prime Agent, Deep Agents) on 30 challenging agentic tasks. Pi Agent was the cheapest harness and passed the most tasks 🧵🧵”
https://x.com/composio/status/2086814488162972027
Muse Glimmer’s gaps against its class concentrate in agentic evaluations: 953 Elo on GDPval-AA v2 against 1141 for Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning), 1141 for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 1004 for Kimi K2.5 (Reasoning), with Terminal-Bench v2.1 (52%) also behind Qwen3.6 27B (61%). The”
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2086916156796055922
Prime-agent is indeed a good general harness for long-horizon tasks GLM 5.2 results on FutureSim Q2″
https://x.com/ShashwatGoel7/status/2086840890023137420
DeepSeek V4 Flash + LFM2.5-VL-3B as the vision auxiliary in Hermes Agent is a deadly combo. DeepSeek handles the agentic work. LFM2.5-VL-3B gives it the eyes. I told it to use only its local vision model to browse. It read Hacker News, picked the top story, opened the eclipse”
https://x.com/noctus91/status/2087559912687862240
One of the interesting aspects of DeepSeek Harness is how open minded it is. It opens up what is happening under the hood – e.g. System reminders being added as in this screenshot as it allows easy access to complete trajectories. No funny business of hiding them.”
https://x.com/bookwormengr/status/2087963340777951720
Use case ②: Business analysis. It’s not just kids’ games. Attach an Excel file and Sakana Chat takes it from raw data to charts to a finished deck. Strong in Japanese, built for how business actually gets done here in Japan (we get it). Blog post:
https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/2087956599214391505
递归自我改进（RSI）正在越来越具体地落到 Harness 上。最近 Pi 和 DeepSeek Harness 的两套设计，恰好补上两个关键底座：一个让 Agent 跑得足够久，一个让 Agent 本身足够容易改。 Pi 最新 Harness V3 规范把 Agent”
https://x.com/0xLogicrw/status/2087927539729829890
🎉 Congrats to @Alibaba_Qwen on Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, one of the largest open-weight models released to date. 2.4T params, 95B active, 512 experts. Day-0 support in vLLM, verified on @NVIDIA and @AMD hardware. A ready-made 4-bit checkpoint per vendor, both out of the box:”
https://x.com/vllm_project/status/2087571359413281049
Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · Hugging Face
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
DeepSeek Prices Its New V4-Pro-0813 Model At $0.87 Per 1 Million Output Tokens, As The Chinese AI Lab Comes Out Second Only To Anthropic On Token Consumption
https://wccftech.com/deepseek-prices-its-new-v4-pro-0813-model-at-0-87-per-1-million-output-tokens-as-the-high-flying-chinese-ai-lab-wows-with-its-soaring-token-consumption/
MiniMax Music 3 is just out on @huggingface 🎶🎵 SoTA song generation, now open weights 🔊, a 8B LLM + 2.7B DiT that turn prompt + lyrics into full songs fits smol consumer GPUs with 🧨 diffusers or comfy model weights + app on Spaces, come play ▶️
https://x.com/multimodalart/status/2087933660490056163
Huge thanks to @ComfyUI for an incredible livestream! From reference-to-video and native audio, to multi-shot commercial creation, MiniMax H3 showcased the expanding possibilities of open-weight video models. The stream also took a deep dive into quantization, offloading,”
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2086685565722984842
🎵MiniMax-Music3 Next-Generation Open-Weights Production-Ready & Versatile Music Model
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2087934657354678421
Exciting update: MiniMax-H3 by @MiniMax_AI just landed #1 in the Video Edit Arena within open models and overall! With 1390 pts, this release is +32 pts over the next two best models, Dreamina Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni Flash, and +83 pts than HappyHorse 1.0 at #4. Congrats”
https://x.com/arena/status/2087930695469646276
The model punches above its weight, outperforming Gemma 4 E2B and Ministral 3 3B across a broad range of visual understanding benchmarks and delivers particularly strong results on document understanding and visual Q&A. See the full results:
https://x.com/cohere/status/2087571579517489581
DeepSeek-V4-Pro Benchmarks still behind Kimi-K3 in ~half of them”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2087569635612778655
We are in an insane run of open-weight drops. Every modality, open source is winning. This is what an open source AI summer ☀️ looks like: 🧠 LLMs & Reasoning → DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (my king 👑): 304B MoE refresh, Terminal-Bench 2.1 jumps 61.8→82.7 over the preview,”
https://x.com/victormustar/status/2087551400377037062
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 – API Pricing & Benchmarks | OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813#pricing
Chinese Model Kimi K3 Breaks UK AI Safety Institute Benchmark Evaluations | Frontier Security
https://blog.frontier.security/chinese-model-kimi-k3-breaks-uk-ai-safety-institute-benchmark-evaluations/
One of the best programmers on Earth just wrote a MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers.🫨 Open weights mean anyone can bring H3 to any hardware, and sometimes “anyone” turns out to be the creator of Redis. You can’t hire this, you can only open-source and let it”
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2086940119324565748
Minimax H3 running locally is pretty damn impressive. Alexey is clearly putting sovereign AI to work 😂”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2088038376427438380
Korean AI lab Upstage has released Solar Pro 4, scoring 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a significant increase from Solar Pro 3’s 14 Solar Pro 4 is @upstageai’s new proprietary flagship reasoning model, replacing Solar Pro 3 from April 2026. At 42 on the”
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2087590023742775472
#1. Not just among open models. SOTA, full stop. 🥇 H3 just took the crown on Video Edit Arena. Drop in your footage, prompt the impossible, and let H3 reimagine every frame. Show us your wildest edit. 🔥”
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2087938612088410302
We just raised $400M in Series C funding to help people run their businesses | Lovable
https://lovable.dev/blog/series-c
Today, we’re adding another member to our model family. Meet North Micro Vision. Our smallest vision-language model yet, ideal for sophisticated document understanding. Available open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. Get the weights on @huggingface.”
https://x.com/cohere/status/2087571573947392419
I got DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 running on 4x A100 with SlimServe. 175 tok/s for single-request 1k tok/s for 64 concurrent requests.”
https://x.com/QuixiAI/status/2086913835580211500
🚨 DeepSeek V4 Pro (GA) is now rolling out on the DeepSeek API and on DeepSeek Chat”
https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/2087558842271813860
The DeepSeek 4 Pro GA is a very good model. But holy sh*t, the pricing is so damn good! $0.435/M input and $0.87/M output @ 1M-token context This is insane pricing!!”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2087577624180637806
This is one of the more unusual flying robots I have seen. Researchers at the University of Tokyo built DRAGON, a transformable aerial robot that can change its shape while flying. Instead of a rigid frame, it is made of four linked segments. Each segment has two ducted rotors”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2086723241041670264
This is part of working with the EU AI Act, other labs are adding similar watermarking. It’s hard to identify AI-generated text, and this gives people better tools to do that. We’ll also be a shipping text detection API that you can use yourself.”
https://x.com/trq212/status/2087258090169414008
X Square ran a fully autonomous logistics livestream: sorting parcels and flipping the barcode side up for the scanner. – 1,816 parcels/hour (~2 seconds per parcel) – 98% accuracy – ~45% higher throughput than Figure’s sub-3 seconds per parcel pace from its multiday livestream”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2087772610411262245
Qwen3.8-Max weights just dropped on Hugging Face! 2.4T total parameters, with 95B activated. A good oss AI day.”
https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2087566479558394360
€2 million for a humanoid robot lab. This is what @Jan_R_Peters asked @TUDarmstad for. In 2019. He got a yes. The robots arrived… in 2023. 🎙️ Ep 106 | “Red Tape Cost Us a 5-Year Lead in Humanoid Robotics” (w/ Jan Peters): Every step in between was correct; legal”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2087962891328901138
Manus Unacquired – Geopolitechs
https://www.geopolitechs.org/p/manus-unaccquired
OCR 4.1 – Mistral AI | Mistral Docs
https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1
~4x faster Kimi-K3 decoding. Our new DSpark speculator takes single-stream interactivity from ~110 to ~435 tok/s/user on math reasoning, delivers ~3.5x the output throughput at matched interactivity under load, and thanks to sliding window attention (2048-token window across all”
https://x.com/RedHat_AI/status/2087907190929531028
open-weights version of Qwen3.8-Max is text-only. no vision input support. fuck.”
https://x.com/skalskip92/status/2087578544801010075
Spark is the big news and is a good model. Not quite at the frontier of open models from China, and still well behind the closed frontier, but the best non-Chinese open weights model released in a year. Of course, a lot depends on continuing to release new open models to keep up”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2086793377308156217
A few of the biggest takeaways from our H3 conversation on ThursdAI 🎥 Also, huge thank you to @altryne for having us and for bringing together such a great discussion. 🔓 Open video is reaching the frontier. The discussion didn’t frame H3 as simply “good for an open model.””
https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2086724681219068006
Sakana Chat just got a big upgrade. No login required, free to use:
https://t.co/lyIrGJXwqo Powered by Fugu and Namazu, our Japanese LLM. With newly added code execution, you can vibe-code interactive web apps, games, and tools in seconds by describing them (even in Japanese).”
https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/2087880850318696481
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