The archive
New models, what they can do, and how to build with them.
OpenAI's new GPT-6 developer guide lays out three tiers—Astra, Sol and Luna—with a 100x price spread, plus steering, async tools and delegation for tasks that run for hours.
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A CSAIL-led tool pairs Microsoft's TRELLIS 3D generator with GPT-4 so novices can spot and fix structural flaws before printing. Nearly 80% of generated test models were flawed.
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Google DeepMind's new frontier model claims a 1M-token output limit and state-of-the-art scores on software engineering and security benchmarks, but access starts with a small group of vetted defenders.
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AWS says its internal NarrateAI assistant serves 4,000+ executives using adaptive routing, cross-account quota failover and paragraph-level evaluation that runs while the model streams.
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Google DeepMind says Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar pairs low-latency video generation with speech, adding lip-synced visual personas across 97 languages for Gemini Enterprise customers.
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A clear walk through how large language models are built and trained, from next-token prediction to instruction tuning, and why they seem to reason but still fail.
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Google DeepMind's two new text-to-speech models add prompt-built custom voices, 30-second voice replication and line-by-line performance direction — with pricing and latency undisclosed.
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OpenAI says its two new GPT-6 tiers halve API prices versus GPT-5.6 promotional rates and improve prompt caching. The benchmark claims come with fine print worth reading.
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Anthropic says Opus 5.5 costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 and tops its internal alignment audit — while warning that benchmark margins no longer track real-world differences.
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How retrieval-augmented generation connects a language model to your own documents, covering chunking, retrieval, reranking, grounding, common failures, and evaluation.
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Anthropic is merging Cowork into the main Claude app and adding Claude Docs and Claude Slides, so agentic work and chat now share one interface and one context.
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An intuitive explanation of diffusion models: how they learn to remove noise, how text prompts steer them, and what settings like steps and guidance actually control.
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