Holy moly: GLM-5.3 got much better in cybersecurity since... our pre-release evaluation with Z.ai. It now matches GPT-5.6-Sol on our cybersecurity benchmark at 0.4x the cost 🤯 - At pass@1: it went from 60.4% to 65.6% CVEs rediscovered, crushing every other open model on one-shot tasks - At pass@3: it did 75% -> 78.1%, matching GPT-5.6-Sol - Its precision remained stable, reporting fewer false positives than DeepSeek models The performance increase comes from a behavioral change: the new version is more persistent. It tends to run longer, and had a ~43% reasoning tokens increase. But the performance upgrade is worth that additional cost. 1/3 🧵show more

BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a... MONSTER We've been testing for about a week Every 🪨 and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good. Here's our vibe check: - Beats GPT-5.5 on Senior Engineer bench. On our toughest benchmark Opus 4.8 scores a 63—a hair higher than GPT-5.5's score of 62, and a full 30 points higher than Opus 4.7. It tackled a ground-up rewrite of a production codebase, and actually built something that works. HOWEVER: Coding performance varied a lot at different reasoning levels. We recommend using it on xhigh for best results. - Incredibly good writer. Opus 4.8 scored a 79.6 on our writing benchmark—measuring models on real-world writing tasks we do all of the time like essay writing, promo email writing, and more. It beats GPT-5.5 by 6 points. It produces well-written prose with fewer "AI-isms". It's also very good at writing in your voice given the right context. HOWEVER: Writing performance also varied with reasoning levels. Medium reasoning had higher incidence of AI-isms—we found best results with high. - Beast at knowledge work. Opus 4.8 is very good at general knowledge work tasks like report creation, research and more. It produced the best PowerPoint one-shot we've ever seen on our deck generation benchmark. - Emotionally intelligent, willing to question the frame. I've also found it to be quite good at talking through psychological or interpersonal issues. It has a high EQ, and it's also good at not glazing and helping to expand your perspective. Its thought process feels extremely rich and dynamic. THE BAD: These days a model is only as good as its harness, and Codex is still a far superior harness to the Claude Desktop app. This has kept me using Codex + GPT-5.5 as my daily driver, but I am flipping back and forth a lot more between Codex and Claude. Anthropic is back baby! Read the rest on Every 🪨:show more

Fable 5 totally crushed our new contest, but it... cost 6x more than Opus 4.8! We gave 4 models the same prompt: build three self-contained HTML5 canvas scenes with real physics demos Prompts: — A train derailing off a broken bridge into the water — Two cars jumping off ramps and colliding mid-air over a canyon — A monster truck crushing a row of parked cars Outputs: Fable 5: 62,158 tokens, $3.12 GPT 5.5: 37,753 tokens, $1.14 Opus 4.8: 22,280 tokens, $0.56 GLM 5.2: 36,246 tokens, $0.08 Fable 5 did all three scenes at A+. The crashes looked real, things fell and broke the right way, and nothing went through the ground or floated. GPT 5.5 was the closest to Fable. In the Bigfoot show, we think GPT was even a little better. GLM 5.2 did not win any scene, but it was the cheapest by far. Fable is the best pick for quality, but you pay more for it.show more

1-bit Kimi K3 performs at Opus 5 level on... 3D physics! We ran our Atomic Chat quant of Kimi K3 locally on 4x B200 against three cloud models and gave them all the same task, to build a giant anvil drop test as a single HTML file with real physics Outputs: K3 1bit (local): 15.8K tokens, $0 API cost Kimi K3 (API): 15.3K tokens, $0.30 API cost Opus 5: 22.8K tokens, $0.77 API cost GPT 5.6: 14.5K tokens, $0.72 API cost All four got the physics right. But only Kimi made a working winch. The drum turns and the chain drags the flat car off the pad. Opus 5 drew the most detail, road markings and sparks on the hit. And you can run a model at this level on your own box now. That still feels insane to usshow more

Big win for open-source LLMs! DeepSeek V4 Pro holds... the top open-weights score on SWE-bench Verified, in the GPT-5.5 range. GLM 5.2 leads the open-weight intelligence index and sits near the closed frontier on long-horizon coding. But this leaderboard number is a weak proxy for real performance. It comes from one task set, run through one harness, served at one precision. The same weights can even score differently across providers, since many hosts quantize activations to fp8 and drift the model off its reference weights. Real performance is determined based on whether a model can read a repo, make coordinated edits across files, run the tests, and recover when one breaks. By that measure, the top open models hold up, but only inside the right harness. The teams that actually put DeepSeek V4 into production pipelines as a frontier substitute got there through the harness they built around the model, not by picking a stronger model. If you want to see this in practice, Cline (64k+ stars) has actually built that harness around open models, tuned so they run at production quality. And it's tuned so that these LLMs can run at production quality, with plan and act modes, checkpoints, and terminal feedback. ClinePass is the new access layer on top of it. It runs a curated set of those models inside Cline, narrowed to the ones tested for coding-agent use, with 2 to 5x the standard rate limits and no separate provider accounts, keys, or billing to track. The video below shows the setup, and I worked with the team to put this together. It runs alongside custom keys and local models as well, not in place of them.show more

New open-source agent harness just landed! I got early... access to TrueForge by TrueFoundry and have been running it locally for the past few days. The harness layer deserves as much attention as the model, and open source matters here because you can inspect the loop, run it on your own infrastructure, and swap to the latest or cheaper models. TrueForge handles the runtime work that makes an agent reliable. It drives the tool-calling loop, manages context, coordinates subagents, and executes code in a sandbox, with any model you choose. Every tool call re-sends the growing context to the model, so in practice the harness controls most of what an agent costs to run. A few things stood out from my testing and their published benchmarks. Vendor-Neutral by design. It runs OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models alongside open-weight models like Kimi, GLM, and DeepSeek. Model routing is a setting, and you can send each task to the model that fits it. On a 14-task enterprise agent benchmark, it matched the accuracy of Claude Managed Agents running the same Opus 4.8 model at roughly 30% lower cost per run (3.8M tokens vs 10M for the same answers). Routing the same tasks to GLM-5.2 held accuracy and brought cost down by about 75%, around $3 per run instead of $12. Fully self-hosted and Open Source (MIT License). I had it running locally with one command, with sandboxed code execution working out of the box. It's time to own your agent harness. Thanks to TrueFoundry for partnering on this post.show more

China is literally on 🔥 Baidu from China has... launched ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 and it’s freaking cheap . Here is everything you need to know. ERNIE 4.5 - Native multimodal and Outperforms GPT 4.5 in multiple benchmarks at just 1% of GPT 4.5 price - OpenAI GPT 4.5 – Input: $75 / 1M tokens, Output: $150 / 1M tokens; - ERNIE 4.5 – Input: $0.55 / 1M tokens, Output: $2.20 / 1M tokens ERNIE X1 - A deep thinking reasoning model with multimodal capabilities on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price See it in action and check out the pricing details👇 📹 source : yiyan[.]baidu[.]com 1/6 ERNIE 4.5 is a multimodal which can take Audio files as well.show more

Perplexity Computer in 60 seconds: 1. It's a cloud-based... AI employee that runs tasks in the background. 2. 19 models working together. Claude for reasoning, GPT-5.2 for research, Grok for speed tasks. You don't pick. It routes automatically. 3. 400+ connectors. Gmail, Slack, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot. One click to enable each. 4. Credits, not tokens. Simple tasks cost ~30. Complex builds cost 1,000+. Vague prompts waste them. Specific prompts save them. 5. Spaces = persistent project folders. Upload context once, every task inherits it. 6. Scheduled tasks run on autopilot. "Every Monday, prep my calendar." Set it and forget it. The PRD hack alone (in the article) will save you hundreds in credits. Full breakdown in the article below.show more

Right now, you may not have access to models... like GPT‑5.6 Sol, GPT‑4.6 Terra, GPT‑5.6 Luna, Claude Mythos 5, or Claude Fable 5. But you can run something surprisingly powerful today, locally, and completely free. in the next 10 mins on your 8 GB VRAM gaming laptop. Gemma 4 26B A4B QAT (MoE) delivers strong performance on a standard 8 GB VRAM GPU using Ollama, with no API, no usage limits, and no external dependencies. Out of the box, it reaches around 20 tokens per second without any optimizations. Only one command in your terminal: Ollama run gemma4:26b This means: Full offline capability (privacy by default) Zero recurring cost Competitive performance for many real world tasks Fast enough for interactive use on cheap consumer hardware If you're waiting for cutting edge cloud models, you're missing what is already practical today: a capable, local LLM that runs entirely on your own machine.show more

Laguna S 2.1 performs at GLM-5.2 level on building... popular games with 6x fewer params! We gave three local models the same task: build three popular arcade games that play themselves. Each game is one self-contained HTML file with a bot that plays it. Prompts: – Geometry Dash – Doodle Jump – Air Hockey Outputs: Laguna S 2.1: 10.3K tokens GLM-5.2: 26.4K tokens Hy3: 10.4K tokens Laguna held its quality against a 753B model. We think Laguna's Geometry Dash looked the best of the three, the cube clears every spike and block. GLM won Air Hockey. Its table looked the most detailed of all. Hy3 was the only model that added shooting to its Doodle Jump. But Laguna is the only model in our benchmark that runs on a MacBook with 128GB!show more

GPT-5.6 Sol is unbelievably good at creating and editing... videos. It can do motion design, product demos, and animations like this one I made by simply giving it a screen recording. GPT 5.6 has the best design taste and significantly outperforms Fable, which relies heavily on repetitive design patterns. To help you experiment with video editing on it, we just launched a collection of 100 ready-to-use skills that show what’s possible and help you get started with video editing using GPT-5.6. These skills can create anything from motion graphics launch videos for your product to a 3B1B-style science explainer video. You can also use them to edit existing videos: add captions, generate motion graphics, create voiceovers, redesign visual styles, translate into new languages, and much more. If you want access to the full library, comment “VIDEO SKILLS” and I’ll share it with you. (You'll have to follow me so I can DM you.)show more

This week's ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 7: 1/... Rich formatting in our web composer – When you paste in emails or documents, our composer will retain the formatting; copying and pasting is so common, we should have done this a while ago! 2/ Updated model for paid users – GPT 5.6 Sol is more consistent across quick chats and deeper reasoning. You'll now get a slider that lets you choose how much thought ChatGPT puts into a response. The haptics (vibrations) on mobile slider are fun! 3/ Unlimited text messages - Free users will get GPT 5.6 Luna with unlimited text messages. More intelligence for all. Rolling out soon. 4/ Fast Android Camera – We've made it a lot faster on Android to tap "camera" in ChatGPT to take a new photo and ask a question. 5/ Voice x Files - You can now upload files and ask questions in our new ChatGPT voice experience powered by GPT-Live. Team demos were awesome this week. So much in the queue that the next few months are going to be good. Let us know what you're hoping for in the comments!show more

HERMES AGENT NOW RUNS CLAUDE OPUS 5. NEAR FABLE... 5 INTELLIGENCE. HALF THE PRICE. SELF-VERIFIES ITS OWN WORK. AVAILABLE TODAY VIA NOUS PORTAL (20% OFF ALL MODELS). Anthropic shipped Opus 5 on July 24, 2026. same $5/$25 per million tokens as Opus 4.8. but the benchmarks tell a different story. WHAT CHANGED FROM OPUS 4.8: FrontierBench v0.1: Opus 5: 43.3%. Opus 4.8: 18.7%. 2.3x jump on the same test. ARC-AGI-3: Opus 5: 30.2%. 3x better than the next closest model. beat Fable 5 on 8 out of 13 benchmarks. at half the cost ($5/$25 vs $10/$50). same price as Opus 4.8. twice the intelligence. no reason to stay on 4.8. THE SPECS: model ID: claude-opus-5 context: 1M tokens (default and maximum) max output: 128K tokens thinking: on by default effort toggle: low / medium / high per request fast mode: $10/$50, 2.5x faster knowledge cutoff: May 2026 minimum cacheable prompt: 512 tokens (was 1,024) SELF-VERIFICATION (the biggest change): Opus 5 checks its own work automatically. Anthropic says: delete your verification prompts. "include a final verification step" now causes OVER-verification because the model already does it. for Hermes /goal tasks this is a direct upgrade. the judge checks evidence. the model also checks evidence. double layer of verification without extra tokens. EFFORT TOGGLE: low: fast, cheap, routine work. medium: balanced, daily tasks. high: full reasoning, complex problems. set per request. not a global switch. matches Hermes /reasoning command: /reasoning low (routine) /reasoning high (complex) Opus 5 effort toggle + Hermes reasoning control = precise cost management per turn. WHERE OPUS 5 FITS IN HERMES: DAILY DRIVER (replaces Opus 4.8): same price. 2.3x better benchmarks. set as your main model: Desktop app / Dashboard: Models → claude-opus-5 CHIEF OF STAFF: synthesis across multiple agents. reads Kanban, prioritizes, routes tasks. self-verification catches routing errors before they cascade. COMPLEX CODING: SOTA on agentic coding benchmarks. FrontierBench 43.3% = best public model for coding. set as coder profile model. /GOAL TASKS: self-verification + completion contracts = the model proves its work AND double-checks the proof. long-horizon goals finish correctly more often. MoA AGGREGATOR: strongest synthesis model at $5/$25. pair with GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 as references. Opus 5 aggregates. best quality at mid-range price. presets: max-quality: reference_models: - provider: openai-codex model: gpt-5.6-sol - provider: xai model: grok-4.5 aggregator: provider: anthropic model: claude-opus-5 COMPUTER USE: near-Fable 5 quality for browser automation. at half the token cost per session. computer_use tasks burn lots of vision tokens. Opus 5 halves that bill vs Fable 5. WHAT TO KEEP OPUS 5 AWAY FROM: cron monitoring: too expensive. use DeepSeek or no_agent mode. sub-agent grunt work: use GPT-5.6 Luna ($1/$6) or DeepSeek. auxiliary tasks: use Gemini Flash. routine web extraction: use a cheap model. Opus 5 is for the turns where quality compounds. planning, synthesis, verification, complex reasoning. budget models handle everything else. NOUS PORTAL: 20% OFF ALL MODELS Nous Portal currently runs a 20% discount on all models including Opus 5. $5/$25 official → $4/$20 through Nous Portal. the cheapest way to run Opus 5 right now. hermes setup --portal select claude-opus-5 as your model. discount applies automatically. Opus 5 replaces Opus 4.8 everywhere. same price. better at everything. no tradeoff. straight upgrade. hermes update /model claude-opus-5show more

Claude can't, but GPT 5.6 on GOD-MODE is IMMACULATE... Here's how you create it step by step: > open the new desktop app, pick Sol, reasoning on High. this is taste work, don't give it to the small models > feed it 2-3 sites you love and one line: "extract the art direction: mood, motion, typography, pacing. write it down as a style bible" > then the brief, one paragraph, goal not steps: "resort site for [name]. cinematic scroll, the booking button always one glance away. follow the style bible" > add house rules: no template hero-with-three-cards, no stock gradients, motion carries the story, every section earns its scroll > set the bar: "a working designer can't tell this from an agency build." then spin up a SECOND 5.6 with fresh context to grade against that bar. the builder never grades itself > loop it: build, grade, close the biggest gap, again. walk away, it doesn't need you in the room > when the verifier runs out of complaints: tag Sites. live URL, one click, no hosting, no deploy The deeper version of every step (the contract, the rules, the verifier trick, when to spend on Ultra) is in the article below.show more

I spent a day playing with GPT-5.6-Sol, and I... can now say with much more confidence that it hasn’t improved at design tasks. I haven’t noticed any meaningful improvement in its coding capabilities, either. Maybe it's just in the tasks I gave it. However, I finished an app we started building on a stream yesterday and brought it close to the original idea I had in mind. It’s incredibly easy to build tools like this these days. I basically gave Codex a batch of editorial grid examples, then combined those layouts with formula-based pattern generation. A few prompts and some polishing, and you have something that can serve as a basic brand identity system.show more

#Keep4o 🚨THE GPT-4o FILE🚨 Researchers at Microsoft Research published... a paper titled “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4.” Their conclusion: “An early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.” 📎 Paper: OpenAI’s Charter defines AGI as: “Highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” 📎 Source: OpenAI’s own System Card for GPT-4o shows that the model improved performance on 21 out of 22 medical evaluations compared to GPT-4T. On the MedQA USMLE (the U.S. medical licensing exam), accuracy jumped from 78.2% to 89.4% , surpassing specialized medical AI models like Med-Gemini and Med-PaLM 2. 📎 Source: Under OpenAI’s agreement with Microsoft, AGI is explicitly excluded from Microsoft’s license. And who decides if AGI has been reached? OpenAI’s Board. WHAT THEY DID WITH IT AFTER THEY TOOK IT FROM PEOPLE A. Military deployment. On February 28, OpenAI signed a deal to deploy models in classified military environments. 📎 Source: B. State Department. A State Department memo confirmed: “For now, StateChat will use GPT-4.1 from OpenAI.” This is a direct descendant of the GPT-4 family the same family Microsoft’s researchers called early AGI. 📎 Source: C.Altman’s personal biotech investment. Altman personally invested $180 million in Retro Biosciences,a longevity startup.OpenAI then built GPT-4b micro, based on GPT-4o.The model made proteins 50 times more effective. 📎 Source: WHAT INDEPENDENT BENCHMARKS SHOW Overall SM-Bench score: GPT-4o (extended): 66.6% GPT-5.3 Chat: 63.4% GPT-5.1: 58.9% GPT-5.4: 51.4% GPT-5.2: 47.8% Creative Writing: GPT-4o: 97.31% Pass 98, Fail 2 GPT-5.4: 36.77% Pass 40, Fail 60 Reasoning / Overfit: GPT-4o: 83.06% GPT-5.4: 39.25% The model they removed is still the best they ever made at the things humans actually use AI for. 📎 Source: Musk asks the court to make a judicial determination on whether GPT-4 constitutes AGI. If a jury finds that GPT-4 is AGI, then GPT-4o,which was more advanced,is also AGI and under OpenAI’s own founding documents, it was never supposed to be locked behind a subscription,licensed exclusively to Microsoft, given to the military, or taken away from the public. 📎 Source: The most powerful version of GPT-4o was never given an official dated snapshot. It was only available through the chatgpt-4o-latest endpoint that OpenAI itself described as intended for “research use only.” It was never officially archived. That is not an oversight. That is a pattern. 📎 Source: 📎 Source: WE DEMAND A.Frozen model snapshots under independent custody. Specifically: gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-4o-2024-08-06, gpt-4o-2024-11-20, the March 2025 version (chatgpt-4o-latest), gpt-4-0613 (the original GPT-4 evaluated in the Sparks of AGI paper), and gpt-4.1-2025-04-14 (currently running in the State Department). B.Cryptographic hash verification (SHA-256) for each snapshot. Every model has weights. Those weights can be hashed. If OpenAI provides a snapshot today, the hash proves whether the weights were modified later. This is the only way to verify that models were not downgraded before testing. C.Independent AGI benchmarking. Using the AGI definition from OpenAI’s own Charter applied to ALL frozen snapshots listed above. D.Explanation for the missing March 2025 snapshot. OpenAI was founded on one promise: build AGI for the benefit of humanity. -They took it from us. -They gave it to the military. -They gave a custom version to the CEO’s biotech investment. -They put it in government classified networks. -They refuse to call it AGI because the moment they do, they lose billions.show more

GPT-5.5 is MUCH more reliable on longer running tasks... - for the first time with any model. As we speak I have a migration running for over 7+ hours - this literally never happened before, the models would maybe run for 30 mins or of you really shout at them for 2-3 hours. Last night I went to sleep, set a long running task, then queued up 10 prompts to 'keep it going'. It did not stop after the first prompt and kept going for 8+ hours and I woke up to all the same prompts still queued up. The ability to run for a long time, in combination with ability to validate with computer use & other tools, makes it much more useful for building real applications.show more

Parsing PDFs at scale with LLMs is cost prohibitive.... Newer models (e.g. gemini 3) are good at reading pdfs, but you burn unnecessary vision tokens even when the page is text heavy. We’ve built in a “cost-optimizer” within LlamaParse that will dynamically route pages to fast/cheap parsing depending on its complexity. Complex pages (e.g. those with tables/charts/diagrams) will still get routed to our VLM-enabled modes. This will let you save anywhere from 50-90% of parsing costs, at much higher accuracy compared to the comparable mode of feeding screenshots into VLMs. Check it out!show more

Just two months ago, we were on the verge... of letting go of a customer that we had been serving for more than two years. The prices were super competitive as they were procuring these springs from China. According to our cost calculations, we would have to sell them these springs at our breakeven price point. We would not be making any profit from their orders. The volumes were huge and we decided to take up the challenge. In manufacturing, one of the very important metric that your product cost depends on is cycle time. The speed at which we are able to process that part within the desired tolerance. Higher the speed at which you can manufacture, lower the cost of making that component. We could only manage 150 pcs/minute on our imported machines. At this speed, it was unviable for us. It would only make sense for us to continue if we were somehow able to manufacture this spring at a minimum of 200 pcs/minute. We were far apart and it seemed we wouldn’t be able to reach that goal. We were on the verge of giving up after two years of persistent effort in increasing our speed. Today, we manufactured that same spring on the CNC machines that we built in-house at a whopping 220 pcs/minute! We went from almost letting go off that customer to now asking that very same customer to increase our order volumes! First video is our imported machine at 150 pcs/minute. The second video is our in-house machine at 220 pcs/minute.show more

The new ‘LAX People Mover’ at the Los Angeles... Airport is finally being tested This elevated train connects to terminals and parking and was supposed to open 3 years ago. It is now $1 billion dollars over budget. Costing $3.4 billion dollars Here’s a list of things that cost less than this new 2 mile LAX Airport Train: - The Beijing High Speed Rail $2.3 billion. 75 miles of train for half the cost of our 2 miles - Paying $100,000 to every homeless person in the city of Los Angeles - Overthrowing the government of Venezuela - The Apollo 11 mission to the moon (not adjusted for inflation) - The third tallest building in the world - The second tallest building in the world - Both these buildings COMBINED is still cheaper than the 2 miles of train at the LAX airport The cost of this 2 miles of train at LAX airport is $4.9 billion (this is the estimated cost to complete and operations)show more