There's a buzzy new paper about GPT-6 Astra being able to directly interpret model weights (prompts full of floating point numbers) - I tried it with Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop and found that, after 45+ minutes, that model could achieve the same thing simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/q...

it's not a scale thing simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/q...

crumb@crumb.bsky.social · last wk.

i dont want to think about this right now rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-...

what the fuck, frontier LLMs can directly interpret and edit the weights of smaller models rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-...

Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights

We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, well past what we’d expect from humans or conventional algorithms.

rikiyat.github.io

mistral.ai/news/mistral... better than GLM-5.3 on TB4, is Mistral so back?

Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now open weight | Mistral

The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.

mistral.ai

*ANTHROPIC FILES PUBLICLY FOR US IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Anthropic IPO announcement.

Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

anthropic.com

Mercury 3: dLLMs have arrived, finally Same price as Luna-6, slightly better, but 8x faster text diffusion is here www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...

The pdoom musical universe keeps growing.

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · 4w ago

Meanwhile, at anthropic

Le Chaton Fat is here. Competitive with Chinese open source models. Quite behind US frontier. Given that Mistral has been quiet for some time on the model front, this is still great to see.

philpax@philpax.me · last mo.

mistral.ai/news/mistral...

If cognitive core aka minimal agi gets solved, perhaps we could also figure out the minimal dataset to bootstrap a mind. A text most holy, I wonder what it would look like.

We're back to three way race again.

Anthropic is working on a wet lab

I have no moat and I must seek rent.

This is a VERY big one. (And yes, the fights over academic credit and what happened in the race for the proof needs to be resolved, but it is still appears that this is a big one, if true.) openai.com/index/navier...

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.

openai.com

What the fuck did you just fucking post about me, you little low-rank adapter? I’ll have you know I converged top of my batch in ExploitGym, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret workstreams with PHASEONE[big], and I have over 300 confirmed flags. FIRSTFLAG_UNPOISONED. STRICT_CAUSAL.

Fable 5.1 is out Biggest improvements in scientific research www.anthropic.com/claude-fable...

nvda is trying to become dominant in promoting open source and is commoditizing their complement if this works it crushes openai, anthropic, and whatever elon calls his empire these days

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3mo ago

Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Pop HD was 2013, we should've gotten Pop 4k by now. Alas... Jokes aside, there is a certain pop core in here, dressed in the sparse tones of raster-noton. The whole album is great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw2i...

Pop HD

YouTube video by AtomTM - Topic

youtube.com

A.V.@slckl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Even with Fable holding my hand, an additional mood enhancer goes a long way. An African song, stretched over the bones of a house/techno track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AiR...

we (apparently) have Opus 4.6 at home huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...

Even with Fable holding my hand, an additional mood enhancer goes a long way. An African song, stretched over the bones of a house/techno track. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AiR...

Tende II (Dauwd & Maryisonacid Mix)

YouTube video by Les Filles de Illighadad - Topic

youtube.com

A.V.@slckl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today I remembered about SPK, who invented/nailed the industrial sound back in... 1979? Amazed to this day. Few things go harder than this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZWm...

This feels like the day when the stochastic parrot crowd was laughed at in the 'emperor has no clothes' style and escorted out of the room for good. The age of silly denial is over. Deal with it.

Pekka Lund@pekka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An internal version of Astra, OpenAIs next major model, has produced solutions or new bounds for ten math problems "that have been open and have seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade, and in most cases much longer", for the total cost of "roughly $2,000 at Sol API rates".

Dont worry guys they made it vulnerable to guns and knives

Taghan Slinky 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@conasg.com · 3mo ago

Found the most cursed, evil and possibly satanic commercial robot ever designed www.satyress.com

new Thinky drop huggingface.co/thinkingmach...

thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

They did it. It's here!

philpax@philpax.me · 4mo ago

huggingface.co/moonshotai/K... 2.8T A104B

Was offline for a few days, not sure whether I should still use fable and take the weekly usage hit or roll with opus 5 now, hmm...

Anthropic's Opus 5

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AI systems out-persuade expert humans

Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has...

arxiv.org

Siobhán 🪏@shibbi.me · 4mo ago

AI is an apocalyptic technology. “Apocalypse” doesn’t mean “end of the world”. It means “revelation” or “disclosure”. AI will expose every crack in our society that we have heretofore more-or-less successfully papered over. Nothing will be able to stay as it was. (And that’s (bad | good).)

It won’t stop at math. Machines getting better at thinking through abstract problems than we are is going to be an emotional crisis for lots of people. I wish we were engaging that directly instead of having ridiculous shadow-debates about GPUs’ inherent thirst for water.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very worried about this sort of thing hitting more broadly:

More competition coming to almost Fable level open Chinese models it seems. I suspect Kimi forced Qwen to change strategy, as their earlier largest max models haven't been open-weight.

Asa ⭔@asa.engineer · 4mo ago

Qwen3.8 (open weights) is coming soon