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Explore how the mixture of experts architecture efficiently scales parameters while minimizing cost per token in AI models.
Explore how self-attention and transformer architecture drive the performance of LLMs, including insights on scaling and efficiency.
Explore retrieval augmented generation, its mechanics, and advantages over fine-tuning in natural language processing.
Microsoft unveiled a wave of AI products including new MAI-branded foundation models, a Copilot super app with long-running Autopilot agents, and a built-in OpenClaw Companion agent for Windows.
OpenAI introduced role-specific plugins, annotations, and a preview of shareable interactive Sites for Codex, reporting that over 5 million people now use the tool weekly. Non-developers represent roughly 20% of users and are growing more than three times as fast as developers, according to the company.
OpenAI has called for the creation of an international youth safety institute to advance global standards for age-appropriate AI use ahead of the G7 Leaders' Summit in France. The company outlined nine principles for youth AI safety and detailed existing ChatGPT safeguards for minors.
OpenAI has made its frontier models and Codex generally available on AWS via Amazon Bedrock, allowing enterprises to deploy AI within existing security, governance, and procurement workflows. The announcement includes future plans to bring OpenAI's Daybreak cyber capabilities to AWS.
OpenAI announced the Rosalind Biodefense program to equip trusted developers with GPT-Rosalind for building defensive biosecurity tools. The company is also expanding access to the model for select U.S. and allied government partners, according to the OpenAI Blog.
OpenAI published recommendations for designing trustworthy third-party evaluations of frontier AI models, emphasizing that the surrounding "harness"—the environment, tools, and setup enabling agentic execution—fundamentally shapes measured capabilities and safeguard robustness. The post categorizes evaluation claims and urges evaluators to transparently report their setup, budget, and validity checks to avoid under-elicitation or miscalibrated results.
Specimens
Zhipu's flagship — agentic-first MoE with strong coding + tool-use benchmarks.
Open-weights coding specialist — 480B MoE, agentic by design.
Open-weights 1T-parameter MoE — agentic, long-context, the model behind Kimi Chat.
Open-weights 456B MoE with the largest free-tier context window in production: 1M tokens.
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From Attention Is All You Need (2017) through last week — every milestone, dated and linked.
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Directory
The image model with the most distinctive aesthetic — favoured by designers.
One API key for 200+ models, with automatic cost-routing across providers.
The default AI assistant for most of the world. GPT-5.5 now powers the free tier.
Anthropic's flagship assistant, with the best long-context reasoning in the business.
An AI-first VS Code fork that has become the default IDE for AI-augmented development.