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Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T LongCat: Trained on Domestic Chips, Zero NVIDIA
Meituan open-sources 1.6T model: trained entirely on domestic chips, zero NVIDIA July 2, Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0. 1.6T parameter MoE, 59.5 on SWE-bench Pro, pricing at $0.038 per millio
Meta's First Paid API: Muse Spark 1.1 Targets GPT-5.5, Open-Weights Path Shifting?
Meta just did something big: its first paid API is live, and the open-weights path is shifting July 9, Meta released Muse Spark 1.1. The specs alone aren't shocking — 1M token context, agentic c
Anthropic Found J-space in Claude: Interpretability Breakthrough That Catches Models Lying
Anthropic found a "workspace" inside Claude's mind On July 6, 2026, Anthropic dropped a striking paper — "A global workspace in language models." Inside Claude's neural network they found a small spe
NVIDIA Just Broke the One-Token-at-a-Time Rule: Nemotron TwoTower Hits 2.42x Speed
Every LLM You've Used Generates One Token at a Time GPT, Claude, Gemini — every major model generates text token by token. That's the autoregressive architecture, and it's been the standard since GPT
Google Ships Gemini Omni Flash and Nano Banana 2 Lite: Multimodal AI Hits Production
On June 30, Google Dropped Two Models at Once Honestly, Google's been moving fast. On June 30, they shipped Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash — one for images, one for video. Both are availab
OpenAI's Custom Jalapeño Chip: 50% Inference Cost Cut, 9 Months from Design to Tapeout
OpenAI Built Its Own Chip: Going After NVIDIA, Cutting Inference Costs in Half On June 24, OpenAI unveiled its first custom AI chip — Jalapeño. Not a PowerPoint announcement — actual silicon that's
The Death of Sora: From Viral to Shutdown in Six Months — What Happened to AI Video?
The Death of Sora: From Viral Sensation to Shutdown in Six Months — What Happened to AI Video? On March 24, 2026, OpenAI announced the shutdown of Sora, its video generation service. From its viral
AI Agent Framework Guide: LangChain vs CrewAI vs AutoGen — Which Fits Your Team
Agents are hot, but picking the wrong framework means what exactly AI Agent is the buzzword of 2026, but people overlook one question — if you pick the wrong framework, the consequence isn't "fewer f
June 2026 LLM Showdown: Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.5 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash — Who's the Real King?
Every month, someone asks me: which large language model should I actually be using right now? That question got harder to answer in June 2026, because all three major players are iterating at a furio
Cursor 2.0 After 30 Days: A Designer Built 3 Complete Websites (With Prompt Templates)
Background first: I'm a designer, not a programmer. Designers who've been writing code for over a decade are rare — I'm the type who can edit CSS but can't write React from scratch. Building websites
Have Open-Source AI Models Caught Up to Closed-Source? June 2026 Showdown: Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen 3 235B vs DeepSeek V4-Pro vs GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.6
Every few months, the AI community erupts into the same debate: have open-source models caught up to closed-source yet? The last flare-up was in April 2025 when Llama 4 dropped. Some said 'caught up,
AI Agents Are No Longer Just Slides: 5 Real-World Use Cases Actually Happening in 2026
This time last year, 'AI Agent' was still a buzzword in investor pitch decks. By mid-2026, the situation has changed — not 'about to change,' but 'already changed.' Over the past few months, I've con