AI — Page 31
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- MemTensor releases Metis models that write memory inside the backbone
The Qwen3.5-based research preview includes 4B, 9B and 27B checkpoints, while withholding training data and restricting the code to noncommercial use.
- Google backs away from an AI Studio app after claiming 800,000 preorders
The app was due August 1st; Google's existing product already lets builders create and distribute software through the browser.
- Explorative Modeling adds best-of-K search to generative model pretraining
Alexi Gladstone's open-source method spends extra compute during training and reports gains across image, video and masked language models.
- Edison Scientific launches research hub with open models for reading chemical patents
The FutureHouse spinout is publishing weights, code and benchmarks to support its push to sell Kosmos into biopharma R&D.
- Tracer launches Echo with near-Claude Fable scores at one-third the cost
Solo founder Adam Rida built the YC S26 system to allocate compute across open-weight models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
- Supabase launches open benchmark for AI coding agents building backends
The framework tests Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on database, auth and Edge Function tasks, then publishes the scores.
- Argo IQ says revenue grew 10x as it shifted from AI QA to growth services
Founder Trenton Hughes is selling recurring content and growth operations to B2B companies, with human experts supervising AI output.
- Argil adds MiniMax H3 to its AI-avatar social video workflow
Founders Laodis Menard and Brivael Le Pogam are placing MiniMax's video model inside Argil's production system for avatars, scripts, captions, B-roll and finished social clips.
- Huawei releases 505B-parameter openPangu model trained on Ascend chips
The 512K-context release tests whether Huawei can turn its chip, model and inference stack into a credible alternative to Nvidia-centered AI.
- Altman claims AI cost declines are 20x faster than Moore's law
The OpenAI CEO made the claim after the company reported a 20% serving-cost reduction and greater than 15% token-efficiency gain from GPT-5.6 Sol, while passing some savings to Luna and Terra users.
- MarbleOS tests a visible desktop workspace for AI agent work
Miguel Acevedo's macOS app turns research, files, recurring tasks and outputs into an inspectable workspace.
- DeepSeek updates V4-Flash API for coding agents without changing architecture
DeepSeek's July 31st public beta adds native Responses API support while leaving V4-Pro and the models in its app and website unchanged.
- Citadel buys Situational Awareness's public portfolio after leveraged AI losses
Leopold Aschenbrenner kept a private Anthropic stake reportedly worth $5 billion, preserving his largest route back from the rout.
- Google connects Gemini Spark to Chrome for logged-in web tasks
The U.S. rollout gives AI Pro and Ultra subscribers an agent that can use active browser sessions, with daily task caps and security warnings.
- Loka and Arcee detail an open biomedical model built for AWS deployment
The July 30th announcement centers on a LoRA adapter first published in February and still awaiting an official DrugProt test-set evaluation.
- Cardinal launches AI revenue platform after pivot from document intelligence
The YC-backed founders say Deepgram, Giga and Mintlify use Cardinal to design and run sales workflows.
- CTGT says DeepSeek distillation lifted finance scores without censorship transfer
CTGT reports finance gains without the teacher's political refusals, though unreleased adapters prevent full independent reproduction.
- Nous Research opens a 48-hour FLUX 3 Preview inside Hermes Agent
Paid Nous Portal subscribers get temporary access to Black Forest Labs' audio, image and video model, plus a short-film contest.
- Ryan Williams builds Ellis to reconcile private credit records with AI
Ellis raised an $11 million seed led by First Round in April, as the Cadre founder sells an AI operations layer to smaller credit managers.
- Gradium opens TTS beta for phone numbers, emails and financial codes
The API-only model aims to remove brittle text-normalization rules, with 1 million credits offered for production-case feedback.
- Bottleneck's Saul agent spends $99.50 and ends with five new users, $0 revenue
Alex Reibman's 24-hour experiment added five users and no revenue after Saul hit distribution blocks and bought a $99.50 user-testing campaign.
- Infisical launches Agent Proxy to keep API keys away from AI agents
The proxy swaps placeholder keys for real credentials at the network boundary, extending Infisical's secrets platform into agent infrastructure.
- Thinking Machines Lab ships Inkling-Small with open weights and lower compute costs
The 276-billion-parameter multimodal model gives Murati's Tinker platform a cheaper base for fine-tuning coding agents and custom AI apps.
- Arena launches AutoEval to rank new AI models within an hour
The reward-model system uses millions of user preferences and scored above 0.98 correlation with Arena's later live rankings.