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New AI texturing model just went open source 🎉 UltraTex creates precise textures for 3D models (even clean, readable text) and runs locally & for free. It uses FLUX.2 Klein base 9B + the UltraTex LoRA for 2K texturing. Weights are already released. You can find a ComfyUI repo... show more

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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.

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GPT-6 Astra vs Kimi K3. I'm comparing these because the gap between US models and Chinese models is already getting small. If US AI labs slow down, they will be the ones most affected by it. > Astra did it in one shot 6m 20s and $8. > Kimi K3 got almost the same result, but I had to use 2 follow-up prompts. Total: 12 min and $6.35. The results are almost identical. If US labs slow down, China takes the AI race. They will ship Astra-level open-weight models. China is already good at this. Open weights become the default. That's a nightmare for US labs.

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