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You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-01 20:47:35

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose source code was uploaded to the Hugging Face platform. However, there are restrictions to xAI's open-source license, which doesn't let people use Grok to train, create or improve other AI models. It's not the first time xAI has made its mo

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SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 19:40:38

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings SQLite has a WAL mode (the default is journal mode), but you’re likely using it if you want higher write throughput. SQLite also has a PRAGMA called synchronous which configures how fsync is called. The default is NORMAL . This is what the docs say: [..] but WAL mode does lose durability. A transaction committed in WAL mode with synchronous=NORMAL might roll back following a power loss or system crash. In WAL mode when

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-11-01 15:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect. Another surprise that has long p

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ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 13:23:33

ThinkMesh ThinkMesh is a python library for running diverse reasoning paths in parallel, scoring them with internal confidence signals, reallocates compute to promising branches, and fuses outcomes with verifiers and reducers. It works with offline Hugging Face Transformers and vLLM/TGI, and with hosted APIs. Note: This is still in it's early development phase and breaking changes can sometimes occur Highlights Parallel reasoning with DeepConf‑style confidence gating and budget reallocation

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AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

news.ycombinator.com Vinci Rufus 2025-11-01 14:18:52

Published: Aug 13, 2025 | at 11:00 AM We’ve reached an inflection point in AI development. The scaling laws that once promised ever-more-capable models are showing diminishing returns. GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini represent remarkable achievements, but they’re hitting asymptotes that brute-force scaling can’t solve. The path to artificial general intelligence isn’t through training ever-larger language models—it’s through building engineered systems that combine models, memory, context, and determ

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Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

news.ycombinator.com Graham King 2025-11-01 14:40:33

Most models are excellent, so cost and latency dominate. It’s great that AI can win maths Olympiads, but that’s not what I’m doing. I mostly ask basic Rust, Python, Linux and life questions. So I did my own evaluation. I gathered 130 real prompts from my bash history (I use command line tool llm). I had Qwen3 235B Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Pro group them into categories. They both chose very similar ones, broadly (with examples): Programming - “Write a bash script to ..” Sysadmin - “With curl

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ChatGPT-5 Impressions: Fast, but a Bit Impersonal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 03:54:00

ChatGPT-5 likes getting straight to the point. For some, that's a reprieve from its chattier predecessor, GPT-4o. For others, something will certainly seem off. Despite the hype leading up to OpenAI's launch of GPT-5, it ultimately doesn't feel too different from 4o. The quality of responses in my ongoing testing seems to be at the level of past models, including the o3 "reasoning" model. The major difference is that some responses generate very quickly in relatively few words, while others ca

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OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-01 19:25:35

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling the development of computer-use agents (CUAs). Models trained usin

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Apple trained a large language model to efficiently understand long-form video

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-01 23:27:48

Apple researchers have developed an adapted version of the SlowFast-LLaVA model that beats larger models at long-form video analysis and understanding. Here’s what that means. The nerdy bits Very basically, when an LLM is trained to also understand video, it learns to split videos into frames, apply computer vision to extract visual features, analyze how those features change over time, and align all of that with language so it can describe or reason about the video in the form of text. One v

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College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-01 23:13:56

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English "just for fun" got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 London—events the developer didn't know had actually happened until he Googled them. "I was interested to see if a protest had actually occurred in 1834 London and it really did happen," wrote Reddit user Hayk Grigorian, who is a computer science student at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. For t

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MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-11-02 02:50:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The adoption of interoperability standards, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), can provide enterprises with insights into how agents and models function outside their walled confines. However, many benchmarks fail to capture real-life interactions with MCP. Salesforce AI Research developed a new open-source benchmark it calls MCP-Un

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Apple reportedly in talks with Google to make Gemini the foundation of Siri

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-02 12:38:25

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Apple reportedly approached Google to explore developing a custom AI model to serve as Siri’s foundation. This AI model may already be in training to run on Apple’s servers. The Cupertino-based firm is said to be developing a version of Siri powered by its models and a second version that runs on third-party technology. Apple has long been trailing behind its competitors in the AI space. In fact, the company was expected to launch a revamped version of S

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Apple considers Google Gemini to power next-gen Siri, internal AI ‘bake-off’ underway

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-02 22:35:34

Apple seems open to anything and everything when it comes to delivering the next generation of Siri. After reports that it could be powered by OpenAI or Anthropic, Google has entered the conversation. Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg that Google, which offers a ChatGPT competitor called Gemini, is actually training a model that could run on Apple’s servers to power the new Siri experience: The iPhone maker recently approached Alphabet Inc.’s Google to explore building a custom AI model that w

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Deals: Amazon Labor Day sale, most affordable 24GB M4 MacBook Pro $300 off, Apple Watch Ultra 2 $150 off, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-11-03 08:45:08

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break deals are kicking off with the now live Amazon Labor Day sale where you’ll find plenty of big-time Apple gear deals. All of the details you need on that are right here, but we are also once again tracking the 24GB/512GB M3 MacBook Air for $400 less than the M4 model (it is now back in stock) alongside the most affordable M4 MacBook Pro with 24GB of RAM at $300 off, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 models at $150 off the list prices. All of that and more awaits below. Looking

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GPT-5 usage limitations: what are they, how does this compare to GPT-4 family?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 09:00:51

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority GPT-5 arrived a few weeks ago, though its rollout hasn’t been entirely smooth. While the model shows plenty of promise, its debut also meant the abrupt removal of every other GPT model from ChatGPT’s user-facing UI. Since then, some old models have returned, and there have been a few other changes to the way the system works. Furthermore, many of the initial GPT-5 usage limits have been temporarily enhanced since launch. Let’s dive in and take a closer look

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Tesla Will Use a Powerful New Weapon in AI Race

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-04 08:34:19

Tesla will partner up with AI darlings DeepSeek and Bytedance’s Doubao on new tools in its cars in China, according to a document uploaded to Tesla’s official website. Bloomberg reports that Doubao will work on voice command-related tools like the temperature in a Tesla, navigation, and in-car entertainment, while DeepSeek will handle the AI side of things. The move may be a way for Tesla to boost its Chinese deliveries, which dropped 8.4% from December to June compared to the same time period

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24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville

news.ycombinator.com Andrew P. Collins 2025-10-31 09:40:35

Get The Drive’s daily newsletter The latest car news, reviews, and features. Email address Sign Up Thank you! Terms of Service & Privacy Policy. A British outfit called Bo makes a sleek little electric scooter called the Model-M. The best variant claims a 22 mph top speed and a 40-mile range for $2,500. Sounds pricey but practical. The prototype Turbo model is another story—it’s gunning for triple-digit speeds at the Bonneville salt flats next month. Bo has been around since 2022, but seems to

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Don’t sleep on Cohere: Command A Reasoning, its first reasoning model, is built for enterprise customer service and more

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-04 11:35:22

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now I was in more meetings than usual today so I just caught up to the fact that Cohere, the Canadian startup geared co-founded by former Transformer paper author Aidan Gomez toward making generative AI products work easily, powerfully, and securely for enterprises, has released its first reasoning large language model (LLM), Command A Reasonin

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Google's AI Mode Is Getting New Agentic Features for Restaurant Reservations and More

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 16:30:00

Google's AI Mode is getting new agentic capabilities and expanding to 180 new countries and territories around the world, Google announced Thursday. AI Mode allows you to ask questions directly to Google and it'll kick off a series of searches on your behalf. From there, it will surface relevant information to your query without the need to do any of the deep research yourself. It changes the way you search for things online, and it's getting even smarter with this latest rollout. Powered by De

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Building AI products in the probabilistic era

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 06:42:10

I was recently trying to convince a friend of mine that ChatGPT hasn't memorized every possible medical record, and that when she was passing her blood work results the model was doing pattern matching in ways that even OpenAI couldn't really foresee. She couldn't believe me, and I totally understand why. It's hard to accept that we invented a technology that we don't fully comprehend, and that exhibits behaviors that we didn't explicitly expect. Dismissal is a common reaction when witnessing A

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s rBio uses virtual cells to train AI, bypassing lab work

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-05 12:53:02

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced Thursday the launch of rBio, the first artificial intelligence model trained to reason about cellular biology using virtual simulations rather than requiring expensive laboratory experiments — a breakthrough that could dramatically accelerate biomedical research and drug discovery. The reasoning mod

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Google's AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations for you - how it works

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-05 12:11:11

SvetaZi/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Google's AI Mode can now suggest restaurant reservations. Users can also now receive personalized dining recommendations. Google is aiming to build a more dynamic and personalized web. AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations, Google announced in a blog post Thursday. Users can now request reservations in local restaurants according to constraints like party size and dietary restrictions, and the system will automat

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Building AI Products in the Probabilistic Era

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 12:42:10

I was recently trying to convince a friend of mine that ChatGPT hasn't memorized every possible medical record, and that when she was passing her blood work results the model was doing pattern matching in ways that even OpenAI couldn't really foresee. She couldn't believe me, and I totally understand why. It's hard to accept that we invented a technology that we don't fully comprehend, and that exhibits behaviors that we didn't explicitly expect. Dismissal is a common reaction when witnessing A

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I Gave GPT-5 Some Work Tasks in Copilot. Here's What's New

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 11:34:00

OpenAI's latest GPT-5 model promises to be the most advanced AI assistant yet, but for the millions of workers using Microsoft Copilot for their daily routines, the reality is a bit more nuanced. Microsoft announced last week that GPT-5, OpenAI's latest ChatGPT AI model, is now integrated across its Copilot services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot and the standalone Copilot app. While GPT-5 does deliver some noticeable improvements in polish, detail and helpfuln

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Meet Surya, a New AI Model From NASA and IBM That Can Predict Solar Flares

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 11:49:36

Today's solar flare forecasting is pretty straightforward. Earth has several instruments pointed at the sun that monitor it, and when a solar flare erupts, NOAA predicts whether it'll hit Earth and reports it via the Space Weather Prediction Center. But NASA and IBM may be able to do this faster and with a little more accuracy thanks to a new artificial intelligence model named Surya. Surya, which is Sanskrit for "Sun," is a 366M-parameter AI model developed to analyze the various cool things t

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Honor's Magic V5 Boasts On-Device Live AI Call Translation for Guaranteed Privacy

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 12:10:01

"Hola! ¿Hablas inglés?" I asked the woman who answered the phone in the Barcelona restaurant. I was calling in a futile attempt to make a reservation for the CNET team dinner during Mobile World Congress this year. Unfortunately, I don't know Spanish (I learned French and German at school). And as it turned out, she didn't speak English either. "No!" she said, and brusquely hung up. What I needed in that moment was the kind of AI call translation feature that's becoming increasingly prevalent

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Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-05 17:52:53

AI models can respond to text, audio, and video in ways that sometimes fool people into thinking a human is behind the keyboard, but that doesn’t exactly make them conscious. It’s not like ChatGPT experiences sadness doing my tax return… right? Well, a growing number of AI researchers at labs like Anthropic are asking when — if ever — might AI models develop subjective experiences similar to living beings, and if they do, what rights should they have? The debate over whether AI models could on

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ChatGPT-5 Lets You Choose Your AI Model. These Are Your Options

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 12:15:02

The biggest pushback after OpenAI announced its new GPT-5 model for ChatGPT came from devotees of older models who felt the new generative AI chatbot lacked the panache of its predecessors. Now you have more choices of pre-GPT-5 models (although you'll have to hunt for some of them) and better control over which components of GPT-5 handle your questions. OpenAI is still sorting through a somewhat rocky launch of GPT-5, led by complaints about the lack of model choices. The model has been antic

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Google AI Mode is expanding to 180 countries and adding an agentic restaurant finder

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 03:48:33

Google’s seemingly unrelenting quest to infuse AI into every aspect of your online life just got a lot more global in scope, with the company expanding its AI Mode in Search to over 180 new countries . AI Mode has previously only been available in the US, India and the UK, and while English remains the only supported language right now, Google says it’ll add more soon. Google is also expanding its AI Mode’s agentic capabilities, so you can now use natural language to find restaurant reservation

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Google Search can now present real-time table booking results, but only if you pay up for AI

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 12:58:18

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s AI Mode is getting an agentic mode to help you with hotel reservations. AI Mode will also scan for your diet and seating preferences and offer suggestions for cafes and restaurants in particular areas. It is now expanding to over 180 countries for searches in English. Yesterday’s Pixel launch displays Google’s determination to bring agentic AI features to Android devices. While Magic Cue on Pixel 10 is just a step in that direction, the company

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Latest Tech News

You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

ChatGPT-5 Impressions: Fast, but a Bit Impersonal

OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

Apple trained a large language model to efficiently understand long-form video

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

Apple reportedly in talks with Google to make Gemini the foundation of Siri

Apple considers Google Gemini to power next-gen Siri, internal AI ‘bake-off’ underway

Deals: Amazon Labor Day sale, most affordable 24GB M4 MacBook Pro $300 off, Apple Watch Ultra 2 $150 off, more

GPT-5 usage limitations: what are they, how does this compare to GPT-4 family?

Tesla Will Use a Powerful New Weapon in AI Race

24,000-Watt Scooter Is Going for a 100 MPH Speed Record at Bonneville

Don’t sleep on Cohere: Command A Reasoning, its first reasoning model, is built for enterprise customer service and more

Google's AI Mode Is Getting New Agentic Features for Restaurant Reservations and More

Building AI products in the probabilistic era

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s rBio uses virtual cells to train AI, bypassing lab work

Google's AI Mode can now find restaurant reservations for you - how it works

Building AI Products in the Probabilistic Era

I Gave GPT-5 Some Work Tasks in Copilot. Here's What's New

Meet Surya, a New AI Model From NASA and IBM That Can Predict Solar Flares

Honor's Magic V5 Boasts On-Device Live AI Call Translation for Guaranteed Privacy

Microsoft AI chief says it’s ‘dangerous’ to study AI consciousness

ChatGPT-5 Lets You Choose Your AI Model. These Are Your Options

Google AI Mode is expanding to 180 countries and adding an agentic restaurant finder

Google Search can now present real-time table booking results, but only if you pay up for AI

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