Latent.Space
npub1lp8ksa8zw8ls6ngkgsjnp3cpqu7ef4henjw9kjzg08f5qgts0d5qz4qmyp@drss.io
The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al!
Follow into
[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months
Save into
19 Aug 2026
the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels
Frontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model Routing
Save into
18 Aug 2026
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.
[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
Save into
17 Aug 2026
No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.
React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue
Save into
15 Aug 2026
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.
[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot
Save into
13 Aug 2026
AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet
[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace
Save into
12 Aug 2026
Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet
🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
Save into
11 Aug 2026
Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.
[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
Save into
11 Aug 2026
a small win for american open models - Glimmer runs on a fits on a single RTX 3090!
[AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents
Save into
8 Aug 2026
a quiet day lets us find some connections among recent themes
[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
Save into
6 Aug 2026
The end of an era.
[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back
Save into
5 Aug 2026
A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate
Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users
Save into
4 Aug 2026
An external reconstruction of how Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills and Tools work in the new ChatGPT Work.
[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
Save into
4 Aug 2026
Qwen is so back!
The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
Save into
3 Aug 2026
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.
[AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization
Save into
31 Jul 2026
Distillation is all you need!
Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web
Save into
30 Jul 2026
AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.
[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open
Save into
29 Jul 2026
a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.
[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack
Save into
29 Jul 2026
The Big Pause is coming.
Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
Save into
28 Jul 2026
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.
[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
Save into
28 Jul 2026
Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today
[AINews] Claude Opus 5: Fable-level performance at Opus price (half Fable)
Save into
25 Jul 2026
ain't nobody beats Anthropic at distilling Fable!
[AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model
Save into
24 Jul 2026
A HUGE win for BFL!
[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro"
Save into
23 Jul 2026
a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.
Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
Save into
23 Jul 2026
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.
[AINews] AI Cybersecurity becomes top of mind
Save into
22 Jul 2026
Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend
Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)
Save into
21 Jul 2026
Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.
[AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing
Save into
17 Jul 2026
a great week for open models continues.
🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences
Save into
16 Jul 2026
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.
[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Save into
16 Jul 2026
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
[AINews] not much happened today
Save into
14 Jul 2026
a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.
5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026
Save into
14 Jul 2026
At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.
[AINews] Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code??
Save into
14 Jul 2026
a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...
[AINews] not much happened today
Save into
11 Jul 2026
a quiet day after a week of nonstop model releases
[AINews] OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Codex becomes ChatGPT superapp
Save into
10 Jul 2026
A big day for OpenAI.
[AINews] SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, first Opus-class model post Cursor acquisition
Save into
9 Jul 2026
SpaceXAI continues to move faster than any other frontier lab on earth.
Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
Save into
8 Jul 2026
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.
[AINews] Lilian Weng summarizes 35 papers on Harness Engineering for RSI
Save into
8 Jul 2026
a quiet day lets us read some condensed insight
[AINews] The Field Guide to Fable
Save into
7 Jul 2026
a quiet day lets us digest the world's most significant model launch... to date.
AIEWF Daily Dispatch: The great loops debate and the state of AI engineering
Save into
3 Jul 2026
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.
Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software
Save into
3 Jul 2026
The Vercel Chief of Software explains how its agent framework, eve, was created — and why skills, sandboxes and agent-readable websites now matter.
The website of the future may assemble itself for every visitor
Save into
2 Jul 2026
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.
Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI design
Save into
2 Jul 2026
Paul Bakaus talks to us about Impeccable, human judgment in a 'loopmaxxing' era, and why agents still need people to steer them.
