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  1. Open source

    Reflection releases the weights of Beam, its 501-billion-parameter open model (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Anyone can now download Beam from Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 licence. It is a mixture-of-experts model that uses 23 billion of its parameters per token, built for coding, reasoning and agents.

    Reflection · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  2. Model

    Elorian releases Glimpse, a model that keeps looking at pictures while it thinks (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Elorian says its first model goes back to an image or video as it reasons, using tools that write code, change images and watch videos. It is a research preview in an API and chat app.

    Elorian · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  3. Trending

    Claude works out where the mystery numbers in a common cryptography standard came from (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Anthropic says a Claude model found in under half an hour that the seeds of the ECDSA signature curves came from an old C random-number generator started with a clock time, making a backdoor less likely.

    1017 points on Hacker News

    Anthropic · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  4. Research

    Google Research links AI agents to lab robots to design proteins (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Agents plan biology experiments that lab robots run, checked by VERID, a live 3D copy of the lab that stops impossible moves. Working in loops, they found proteins that latch tightly onto cancer targets.

    Google Research · Original source (opens in a new tab)

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