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Researchers detail improved Hierarchical Networks (H-Nets) for byte-level language modeling

A research team shared updates on H-Nets, an architecture introduced in 2025 designed to learn language directly from raw bytes rather than relying on hand-crafted tokenizers. The post is the first in a two-part series describing new results and improvements made to the technology since its initial release.

OpenAI Acquires Hardware Startup Orchestra Bio

OpenAI announced it has acquired Orchestra Bio, with details shared in a post by Jay Rughani and Jorge Conde. The announcement accompanies a broader essay arguing that frontier AI models are rapidly improving at generating CAD files, designing PCBs, and sourcing components, even as physical assembly and testing remain harder to automate.