5 stories that day · 2 models · 1 open source · 2 research
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Only 17 billion parameters work on each step. It is on the lab's Tinker platform now, and the lab says it plans to share the full weights next week, once outside safety testing is done.
Thinking Machines Lab · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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Examples Meta gives include a gift tracker, a word game and a wedding planner. You can keep changing a space by chatting with Muse and choose where it sits in the app.
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Nous Research releases Arete-27B, a Qwen model retrained to answer politically sensitive questions differently (opens the original source in a new tab)Nous fine-tuned Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B on answers from Inkling. It says, on its own test, answers containing propaganda fell from 22% to 0.9%. The weights are under Apache 2.0.
Nous Research · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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Data analysis was about a third of Claude sessions and nearly half on Claude Code. Scientists used it less for new ideas, though they rank that among the most important tasks.
Anthropic · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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Ai2's ToyBlocks is an open simulated tabletop for studying how robots learn (opens the original source in a new tab)A robot arm pushes, flips and stacks blocks. The framework makes its own training recordings, so no person has to steer the robot by remote control.
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