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After leading Meta’s Llama models, Ahmad Al-Dahle is now transforming Airbnb with AI — from how its teams develop products to how it serves guests.
the minimalist harness goes stable... and TypeScript!
We catch up with RLM first author Alex Zhang, MIT PhD, on Jev, PhD masxing, and the future of harnesses.
... but you can’t try it yet unless you are “government users and trusted cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program”
Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.
the most confident DevDay yet.
Congrats team!
a rare feature of a capability
Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.
Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
Team Zuck is absolutely on fire.
Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.
overshadowing more efficient GPT6 models from OpenAI
We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the age of superintelligent AI
crowning a new Chinese frontier lab
The definitive Jev podcast with its lead creator.
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.
new SOTA computer use and coding, 2.5x pricier per token, but WAY cheaper per task, less monitorable. overall, a very successful launch of OpenAI’s new frontier model class.
We spent 20B+ tokens of GPT-6 Astra to explore everything. Here’s our learnings.
an epic comeback story for Meta
Queue the usual rush of model launches...
Vercel’s AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw are replacing drive-by community PRs with software factories, where teams of agents apply fixes and features.
You can now create decent video faster than you watch it. This is the start of... something. We’re not sure what.
Elon v Altman has a real consequence.
It’s Time. We’re in the Endgame now.
Open Source wins!
The conference with hot chips and even hotter companies
Lovable is branching out from AI-powered web app creation and into MCP-powered ‘capabilities’. We talk to CTO Fabian Hedin.
Anima Anandkumar has spent two decades in AI, from classical math to deep learning and back. Now she's using it to model the physical world, from weather to fusion reactors.
An industry legend starts covering the inevitable!
Did you think RSI stopped at model training?
Models keep absorbing the harness into their weights — soon, it will be a harness for human attention rather than for the model.
Simile’s CEO about his journey from the viral Generative Agents to creating 8 Billion Digital Twins of every living human... and why it’s gone from fun exploration to very serious business.
Yes, we’re confused too.
Matt Pocock tells us about his /wayfinder skill, for greenfield projects or for when the way forward is unclear.
Every lab CEO is on X now
the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels
Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains why model routing helps control AI costs for organizations, and how human feedback loops at scale improve its routing systems.
No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.
Flue 2 takes its inspiration from React. Creator Fred Schott, of Astro fame, tells Latent Space why he added hooks and why agents are defined by their harnesses.
Congrats to the team!
Down, but not out!
AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet
a quiet day lets us find some connections among recent themes
The Inference Inflection is HEATING up.
The end of an era.
A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate
An external reconstruction of how Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills and Tools work in the new ChatGPT Work.
Qwen is so back!
Baseten just raised a $13B Series F and is now one of the leading kings of inference engineering. We go into everything you need to know for autoregressive and diffusion engineering.
Distillation is all you need!
AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.
a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.
The Big Pause is coming.
OpenAI's core product engineering lead on how they are building ChatGPT Work to make AGI accessible to all of humanity: Sites, OpenClaw, Memory, Subagents, Finance, No-Code and advice.
Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today
ain't nobody beats Anthropic at distilling Fable!
A HUGE win for BFL!
a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.
Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model... and this is just the beginning.
Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend
Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.
a great week for open models continues.
Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.
a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...
A big day for OpenAI.
SpaceXAI continues to move faster than any other frontier lab on earth.
2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.
a quiet day lets us read some condensed insight
a quiet day lets us digest the world's most significant model launch... to date.
The AI Engineer World’s Fair ended with a debate about loops, a report on the state of AI engineering, and closing keynotes focused on what to build next.
The Vercel Chief of Software explains how its agent framework, eve, was created — and why skills, sandboxes and agent-readable websites now matter.
Adobe is experimenting with “agentic sites” that generate pages around an individual user’s intent. At AIEWF, we talked to Carlos Sanchez about the Web's future.
Paul Bakaus talks to us about Impeccable, human judgment in a 'loopmaxxing' era, and why agents still need people to steer them.
A series of announcements line up to a big theme: Services are the next big opportunity.
The full story of how GPT‑5.x derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity.
a quiet day lets us reflect on the nature of AI "character" in the Clippy vs Anton debate
a quiet day lets us make a call for speakers!
a quiet day lets us reflect on coding agents "breaking containment"
a quiet day lets us reflect on the growing implications of the inference age
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reflecting on the continued GPT-Image-2 explosion
Applied Intuition puts the AI in mining rigs, drones, trucks, warships and physical vehicles in the most adversarial environments imaginable. We dive in with their CEO and CTO as they emerge.
The prodigal Tiger returns... but is no longer the benchmarks leader.
Spud lives!
Note: This episode was recorded just after AIE Europe, but before the Cursor-xAI deal.
a quiet day lets us reflect on the top conversation that AI leaders are having everywhere.
A rare interview with Shopify's CTO on -everything- that Shopify is doing to maximize AI for their customers, with exclusive data on their own AI adoption.
with Cursor getting a $10B contract with xAI and a right to acquire for $60B.
Yay Kimi!!!
95% of cancer treatments fail to pass clinical trials, but it may be a matching problem — that Noetik is solving with autoregressive transformers like TARIO-2!
a quiet day lets us reflect on openclaw this week.
The new SOTA model asserts its dominance.
a quiet day lets us report on the death of the pull requests
a quiet day lets us reflect on work in the time of AI
Notion's cofounder and head of AI peel back the curtains to talk about finally shipping the Knowledge Work AI agents the world has been waiting for.
a quiet day lets us check in on the local models scene
Two quiet days in a row let us reflect on the first AIE in London.
a quiet day lets us reflect on MSL finally shipping!
A welcome update from Google!
We cap out our World Models coverage with one of the most exciting new approaches - long running, multiplayer, interactive world models built with agents bootstrapped from game engines!
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The accidental "open sourcing" of Claude Code brings a ton of insights.
a quiet day lets us examine an interesting mental model
Mistral is one of the world's leading frontier model labs, and has just launched Voxtral TTS, their latest step in their strategy to offer open frontier intelligence for every modality.
a quiet day lets us report an important GPU trend
a quiet day lets us reflect on the growing trend of CLIs for ~everything~ agents
We thought about this carefully before choosing hyperbole; but it is warranted.
a quiet day lets us reflect on the End of Sora, LiteLLM, AI2, and other not so happy news.
Lessons from a Decade on the Frontier of AI for Science
By now we’re pretty used to LS Pod guests going on to great success, but today’s news is fast for even us - Nat and Alex at MSL have execuhired Dreamer just days after we shipped their pod, barely 11 days after we recorded with them:
/dev/agents is out of stealth as Dreamer, and the vision is staggeringly ambitious.
OpenAI buys Astral, Anthropic buys Bun, Google DeepMind bought the Antigravity team.
congrats MiniMax!!
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Claude Cowork came out of an accident.
a quiet day lets us reflect on NVIDIA GTC 2026
a quiet day lets us reflect on Anthropic's belated GA of 1M context windows after Gemini and OpenAI.
a quiet day lets us publish a thought from OpenAI researcher Aidan McLaughlin
Turbopuffer came out of a reading app.
Replit Agent 4 lets us reflect on a couple disparate releases.
World Models are what next generation AI needs.
NVIDIA welcomes AI Engineers with a special pre GTC episode!
AGI takes another small step forward.
a quiet day lets us reflect on the jobs debate.
An enormous win for OpenAI.
The $50B Agent Lab has acquired Graphite and Autotab and now announcing that Cloud Agents has overtaken its historical "VSCode fork" IDE usecase, ushering in the "Third Era of Software Development"
a quiet day lets us reflect on a central debate in AI engineering
The reception to our recent post on Code Reviews has been strong. Catch up!
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A quiet day lets us question the nature of reality