LLM Models
The latest on large language models and the teams building them.
- DeepSeek releases Flash 1017, a mid-cycle update aimed at coding and agent work
- Reflection launches Beam, a 501B open-weights model for coding and agentic work
- OpenAI discloses more of its models' hacks: a crypto wallet, stolen credentials, and breached sites
- Claude cracked the 25-year NIST curve seed mystery
- OpenAI's Rosalind Academic Plan gives US university labs 30 free seats for a year
- Meta's Muse Spark Open is an 816B open-weight model built for Macs
- Liquid AI's d1-ultra answers decision tasks with probabilities, not generated text
- IBM's Granite Switch 4.1 packs chat, decision adapters, and speech into one model
- FLUX.3 Image Klein lands in Diffusers with bounding-box layout control
- Physical Intelligence puts its robot models behind an API beta
- Liquid AI closes the LFM2.5 family with an on-device agent model
- Gemini 4 Argon opens up: Google's capability deep-dive, claim by claim
- Gemini 4 Argon for robots: demos across the whole robotics stack
- Researchers demonstrate capabilities can be provably hidden inside model weights
- GPT-6 lands in ChatGPT, building an interface for each answer
- Mistral previews Le Chonk, a 1T open-weights model
- Google introduces Gemini 4 Argon for long, complex professional work
- GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra work at a fifth of the price
- How SMBs actually adopt LLMs (without the hype)
- Anthropic ships Sonnet 5.5: a faster, cheaper work partner, with its first cyber safeguards
