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  1. Trending

    DeepSeek opens its own search engine to developers with Search and Fetch APIs (opens the original source in a new tab)

    Search finds web pages for a question and Fetch turns one page into Markdown text, so AI agents can read the live web. Both are free until November 1, then cost $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests.

    518 points on Hacker News

    DeepSeek · 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. Open source

    vLLM 0.32 adds an endpoint for choice questions and 4-bit memory caches on more GPUs (opens the original source in a new tab)

    The open program for serving AI models gets 814 commits from 363 contributors, including a new endpoint that answers choice and score questions and a 4-bit cache of past text on more NVIDIA chips.

    vLLM · Original source (opens in a new tab)

  4. 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.

    1048 points on Hacker News

    Anthropic · Original source (opens in a new tab)

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