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Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing

Import AI covers 23 IFP policy ideas for automated AI R&D risks and MIT/Columbia's game theory of AI racing slowdowns.

Think tank IFP published 23 policy recommendations across seven categories to help policymakers address risks from increasingly automated AI R&D. MIT and Columbia researchers released 'Racing to Ruin,' a game theory model showing that coordinated slowdowns between rival AI firms hinge on trust and transparency. The newsletter also links a short story on interacting with powerful AI systems.

Import AI · Aug 10, 2026AI research

Why you should work on AI for AI Research — Richard Socher of Recursive

Richard Socher's new lab Recursive, backed by $4.65B seed, targets AI systems that automate AI research itself.

Latent Space interviews Richard Socher, founder of You.com and AIX Ventures, about his new venture Recursive, which raised a $4.65 billion seed round to build the 'Eureka Machine' — a superintelligence for automating invention and AI research. Early claimed results include an AI research system outperforming humans and their agents on optimization tasks within two days, and NVIDIA GPU kernel improvements discovered without CUDA experts. Discussion spans reward hacking, constitutional AI critique, AI regulation, open-source models as geopolitical soft power, and hard-takeoff constraints.

Latent Space · 1d agoAI industry

Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia's own million-part operation

Nvidia and Palantir integrated open Nemotron models and cuOpt into Foundry to run AI-driven supply chains, starting with Nvidia's million-part operation.

Nvidia and Palantir announced a partnership to run supply chains with AI, first deployed on Nvidia's own network of millions of parts and thousands of suppliers; a single Vera Rubin rack contains 1.3 million components. Palantir is integrating open Nemotron models into its Foundry platform for customer fine-tuning, while Nvidia cuOpt handles scenario planning and optimization, with decisions fed back to improve models over time. The stack runs on customer hardware or in the cloud through the Sovereign AI OS reference architecture with infrastructure partners Dell, Cisco, Rackspace, and Nebius, with more details shown at AIPCon 11.

The Decoder · 6d agoAI industry1

Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark

Opinion piece argues viral demos like one-prompt Minecraft recreations are overfit 'demo-benchmarks' measuring preparation, not true model capability.

The author argues that fixed, famous demo tasks (Minecraft builds, SVG pelicans) are trivially optimizable by labs each release cycle, so they no longer differentiate model capability. The piece cites Thinking Machines' Inkling Small scoring within a point of its flagship on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with less than a third of the parameters, and beating it on Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, and SciCode. The proposed alternative is rotating or holdout evals such as LiveBench, ARC-AGI's private set, and held-back portions of Humanity's Last Exam.

Hacker News · AI · 9d agoAI researchHN 73↑ · 71 comments

Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation

Thinking Machines, Mira Murati's AI lab, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation, with Accel reportedly leading.

Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is negotiating a $1 billion round at a valuation of at least $40 billion, below the $50 billion it reportedly sought last year. The company's annual revenue run rate exceeds $100 million, mostly from usage-based compute fees for its open-weight Inkling model adapted on the Tinker platform. Its prior $2 billion seed round, led by Andreessen Horowitz with Nvidia, GV, Lightspeed, and Conviction Partners, valued it at $12 billion. Several co-founders, including Lilian Weng and Luke Metz, have since returned to OpenAI.

TechCrunch · AI · 12d agoAI industry

Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens

Analysis argues open-source AI now depends heavily on Nvidia's financing, with a reported $26 billion bet shaping the open-weights ecosystem's future.

An Interconnects essay examines whether the open-source model recipe, exemplified by Ai2's Olmo and Nvidia's Nemotron releases, can become economically self-sustaining. It reports Nvidia is spending roughly $26 billion on near-open-source models to drive demand for its chips, and argues the open ecosystem faces an existential financing window over the next few years. The author predicts open models may fork toward efficiency, specialization, and on-prem enterprise agents rather than competing head-on with closed frontier labs.

Interconnects · 29d agoAI industry

GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier

Z.ai released GLM-5.3, a ~750B-parameter model with frontier agentic coding scores, with open weights on Hugging Face planned in two weeks.

Z.ai announced GLM-5.3, initially available only in its coding plan, with API access and open Hugging Face weights promised within two weeks. The roughly 750B-parameter model, one-third the size of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, surpasses Kimi K3 on many benchmarks and beats Claude Fable 5 or GPT-5.6-Sol on some, placing it at the frontier of agentic coding benchmarks. GLM-5.3 reuses the GLM-5.2 base model with substantially extended post-training based on more RL environments, more diverse tasks and more compute. The post also analyzes how Chinese labs keep pace with the frontier, arguing release speed matters more than distillation.

Interconnects · Aug 14, 2026Model release