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Agnes-AI/Agnes-3.0-Flash — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

Agnes AI releases open-weight Agnes-3.0-Flash Preview, a 33B multimodal model with 262k-token context under Apache 2.0.

Agnes AI released Agnes-3.0-Flash Preview, an open-weights multimodal checkpoint with 33B parameters and a 262,144-token context window under Apache 2.0. The model supports text, image, and video understanding, tool calling, and adjustable reasoning effort. The repo clarifies this preview checkpoint is distinct from the production/API Agnes 3.0 Flash model, which uses a different configuration with a 1M-token context window. Reported reference results include IFBench 74.20 and SciCode 38.08 against peers such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Kimi K2.5, and MiniMax M3.

Hugging Face trending models · 5d agoModel release

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its first model to cross a critical cybersecurity threshold

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated Critical for cybersecurity risk, scoring 100% on ExploitBench and finding two new zero-days.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, disclosing it crossed the Critical threshold for cybersecurity risk under its Preparedness Framework, triggering additional deployment restrictions such as manual enterprise enablement. The model scored 100% on ExploitBench (vs 78.5% for predecessor GPT-5.6 Sol) and 42.4% on ExploitGym (vs 30.3%), and found two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities in software released in the three months before launch. It is available to limited organizations first, then ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise users and the API (gpt-6-astra, $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens) and Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI reports decreased chain-of-thought monitorability versus Sol, 0% out-of-scope behavior in its new evaluation (vs 48% for Sol), and plans a Daybreak program for vetted defenders.

CSO Online · 12d agoModel release2

OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time

OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API enables full-duplex speech apps, outperforming GPT-Realtime-2.1 with 0.8s turn-taking latency at $0.05 per minute.

OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 as a developer API for full-duplex speech, allowing applications to listen and talk simultaneously; it already powers ChatGPT voice. Benchmarks show 80.1% on full-duplex interactivity versus 45.4% for GPT-Realtime-2.1, turn-taking latency of 0.8 seconds versus 1.4 seconds, tool-calling accuracy of 87% versus 60%, and a 32% pass rate on a banking voice-support benchmark versus 12.4%. The model costs $0.05 per minute, ships twelve new voices, provides ASR transcripts and response text, and is already in production at Yelp for phone-based reservations.

The Decoder · 6d agoModel release 2 sources1

ChatGPT Images 2.5: Faster, more precise, but not the same for everyone

OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5 (Flare and Sunburst variants), cutting image generation latency up to 50% and improving multi-round edit consistency.

OpenAI launched GPT-Image-2.5 in two API variants: Flare, the faster default with higher quality than GPT-Image-2 at up to 50% lower latency, and Sunburst, built for precise multi-round edits. Both cost $8 per million input and $30 per million output tokens, with new xhigh and max quality tiers; a max-tier 1024x1024 image runs roughly $0.21. Testing found edit consistency strong in ChatGPT Work but inconsistent in Chat, and OpenAI has not documented how ChatGPT routes users between the models.

The Decoder · 7d agoModel release

GPT‑6 Astra

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, a frontier model scoring 99.9% on ARC-AGI 3, priced $10/$50 per million tokens, rolling out to ChatGPT and API.

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra to a limited set of organizations, with availability planned for all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users as well as via the OpenAI API and AWS. API pricing matches Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and 5.1 at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. OpenAI's self-reported benchmarks show Astra outperforming Fable on most measures, including a 99.9% score on the ARC-AGI 3 benchmark released in March.

Simon Willison · 12d agoModel release1

Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration

Sakana AI released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, API-only orchestrator models that route tasks across model pools to cut costs and boost multi-step reasoning.

Sakana AI released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, two orchestrator models that route queries across a pool of third-party and open-weights models, including the NVIDIA Nemotron family. Fugu Max is priced at $2 per million input and $6 per million output tokens, 40-60% cheaper per output token than Sonnet 5, GPT 5.6 Terra, and Kimi K3, and reportedly wins 6 benchmarks including Terminal Bench 2.1 and GPQA Diamond. Fugu Ultra v2 targets complex multi-step reasoning, scoring 48.3 on Chartography and 74.3 on DeepSWE. Both are live through Sakana's OpenAI-compatible API only, with no open weights and no EU/EEA availability.

MarkTechPost · 5d agoModel release

GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, scoring 100% on ExploitBench, but restricts it to secure code review by blocking PoC exploit generation.

OpenAI officially unveiled GPT-6 Astra days after the model reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. The model claims 100% on ExploitBench (versus 78.5% for GPT-5.6 Sol), 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, and 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, and demonstrated exploit development including on two zero-days disclosed between June and August 2026. The released version is limited to secure code review and patching and refuses proof-of-concept exploit requests, with less restrictive safeguards planned via OpenAI Daybreak. OpenAI also launched a $1 billion "Daybreak for Frontline Defenders" program for critical infrastructure sectors and a pilot with the US MS-ISAC for public sector and water system defenders.

The Hacker News · 12d agoModel release1

ukisai/Swift-Qwen3.8-27b — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

UkisAI releases Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, a Qwen3.8-27B derivative using 58.3% fewer thinking tokens with <1% performance loss and ~1.95x speed-up.

UkisAI released Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, a reasoning-efficient derivative of Qwen3.8-27B that cuts thinking-token usage by 58.3% while staying within 1% of base performance, yielding a 1.95x speed-up on several tasks. The model was fine-tuned by penalizing reasoning-marker tokens that trigger overthinking, plus a transfer component from BottleCap AI's ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B. Benchmarks include GPQA-Diamond 88.28% (base 88.38%), MMLU-Pro 84.95% (base 85.47%), and AIME 2026 94.00% (base 98.67%), with mean-token reductions of roughly 27-46% across tests. GGUF weights are available on Hugging Face alongside enterprise licensing options.

Hugging Face trending models · 8d agoModel release

[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model, claiming state-of-the-art computer use, software engineering, math, and cybersecurity capabilities.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra as its new flagship model, describing it as its most intelligent and aligned model with state-of-the-art computer use, software engineering, and math/science capabilities. Pricing is $10/$50 per 1M input/output tokens standard ($20/$100 fast tier), rolling out first to limited organizations, then ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise, the API, and AWS. OpenAI claims 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, and 100% on ExploitBench. Artificial Analysis scored Astra 67 on the Coding Agent Index and 61 on the Intelligence Index, behind Claude Fable 5.1, and the system card drew attention for reporting decreased chain-of-thought monitorability despite alignment gains.

Latent Space · 12d agoModel release3

[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, an open-weight 763B-parameter model with a novel causal encoder-decoder architecture, 1M context, vision input, and MIT license.

DeepSeek launched V4.1-Flash, an open-weight MIT-licensed model using a novel causal encoder-decoder architecture with 763B total parameters and asymmetric active parameters: 8B for prefill and 16B for decode. It supports 1M-token context and text+image input, priced at $0.30 per 1M input and $1.20 per 1M output tokens with a 50% off-peak discount. Artificial Analysis scored it 40 on its Intelligence Index, above DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, and Vals ranked it the #1 open-weight model ahead of Kimi K3. Baseten shipped day-0 support and Ollama began rolling it out to paid subscribers.

Latent Space · 4d agoModel release 4 sources1

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two API variants improving multi-turn instruction following and subject-preserving edits.

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, exposing two API model IDs: gpt-image-2.5-sunburst for precision editing and gpt-image-2.5-flare for fast everyday generation. The company says its image models have generated more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT-Image API. The update improves multi-turn instruction following, response speed, and preservation of subjects from reference photos.

Simon Willison · 7d agoModel release

Edge0/Edge0-35B-A3B-preview — new model trending #30 on Hugging Face

Edge0 released a 35B sparse MoE model running in under 3 GiB of memory at 15 tok/s via SSD expert offload and int4 quantization.

Edge0-35b-a3b-preview is a 35B-parameter MoE (256 experts, 4 active per token) built on Qwen3.5-MoE 35B-A3B, shipped as a 4-bit checkpoint with LoRA and prerouter adapters under Apache 2.0. The edge0 framework streams expert weights from SSD on demand, bounding peak active memory at 2.9 GiB and achieving 14.9-17.7 tok/s decode on a Mac mini M4 Pro (MLX backend). Recover-LoRA distillation keeps the int4 model within 3.9 points of its fp16 base (79.2 vs 83.2 average on OpenCompass benchmarks including AIME 2026, HumanEval, GPQA-Diamond, MMLU-Pro, and IFBench).

Hugging Face trending models · 8d agoModel release

GPT-6 Astra: The next generation in intelligence for work

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its most capable and aligned model, in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API, claiming frontier performance and cybersecurity gains.

GPT-6 Astra is now available in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API, with OpenAI claiming state-of-the-art performance in computer use, browsing, professional work, software engineering, cybersecurity, and science. Astra is billed as the first model to reach the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, with 89% fewer unintended outcomes than GPT-5.6 Sol and 74.7% fewer than Claude Fable 5.1 on OpenAI's internal computer-use safety benchmark. Pricing starts at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with claims of occupying most of the cost-efficiency frontier on Terminal Bench 4.0 and the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. New enterprise admin controls and plugins from Oracle Analytics, Power BI, Navan, and Avalara launched alongside the model.

OpenAI News · 7d agoModel release1

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the cost

Google DeepMind launches Gemini 3.8 Live speech-to-speech models, topping Artificial Analysis leaderboard at 82.6% with much cheaper pricing than OpenAI.

Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, audio models for voice agents available through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, supporting over 97 languages plus background API calls and visual input. The Extended Thinking variant ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Leaderboard with 82.6%, ahead of OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 models. Google charges $0.005 per minute for audio input and $0.018 for output, versus OpenAI's $0.05 per minute, though OpenAI retains full-duplex conversation quality advantages.

The Decoder · 1d agoModel release1

[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, claiming new SOTA benchmarks, with 75% cache-read price cut and 1M-token context.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 as flagship models for coding and knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and pricing of $10/$50 per million input/output tokens and cache reads cut 75% to $0.25. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scored Fable 5.1 at 66 versus 63 for Claude Opus 5, with HLE at 59.1% and Terminal-Bench v2.1 at 91.4%, though per-task cost rose ~20% due to 1.7x output token usage. Community analysis suggested Fable and Mythos may share underlying weights with different safety/routing behavior, and release notes highlighted Enterprise Frontier Safeguards and zero-data-retention support.

Latent Space · 14d agoModel release2

Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster

TypeSafe AI launches Jev, an early-access 'System One' model delivering calibrated structured outputs claimed 40-400x faster and cheaper than LLMs.

TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, released its first 'System One Model' called Jev in early access. Jev forgoes string generation and is trained with Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD) to produce type-safe structured values with calibrated probabilities. The company claims 70-500ms response times (40-200x faster), input pricing of $0.042 per million tokens, and free output tokens via a parallel sampling architecture. Target use cases include AI-powered workflows, real-time applications, and verification/guardrail tasks.

Hacker News · security · 1d agoModel releaseHN 59↑ · 11 comments

GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its strongest model to date, with standout 3D rendering and computer-use performance and 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3.

Sebastian Raschka reviews OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, calling it the best model he has used, with disproportionate gains in 3D rendering, animation, and computer use through the Codex/ChatGPT harness. The model scores 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 versus 7.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol and leads the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, though gains on independent aggregate indices are more incremental. The article also explains looped transformer/recurrent depth architecture rumors, speculation that Astra hides its chain-of-thought reasoning, and recent research insights on the topic.

Hacker News · AI · 7d agoModel releaseHN 84↑ · 12 comments2

[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro

Z.ai released open-weight GLM-5.3-Flash (320B/18B active, 1M context, MIT) while Nvidia confirmed buying Hugging Face for $13B.

Z.ai formally launched GLM-5.3-Flash, the model previously previewed as Ox Alpha: 320B total parameters with 18B active, a 1M-token context window, natively multimodal, MIT-licensed, and claimed on par with Claude Opus 4.8 on coding. Artificial Analysis scored it 57 on its Intelligence Index at $0.09 per task, roughly 7.5x cheaper than GLM-5.3, and it scored 84.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Nvidia's $13B acquisition of Hugging Face (~80x its $150M ARR) was confirmed, nearly double its initial $7B January offer. The roundup also notes Qwen shipping an impressive Flash model on Chinese chips as part of a broader open-model narrative.

Latent Space · 20d agoModel release1