Models & Agents

By Patrick

Daily AI briefing covering new model releases, agent frameworks, and the latest developments in AI. Not the models and agents you are thinking about! Stay on top of the most exciting developments of o... more

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The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.

Models & Agents episodes:

May 31, 2026 Ep 65: Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-25 to 2026-05-31 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.
Models & Agents — Weekly Recap
Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-25 to 2026-05-31 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.
This Week's Top Stories
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May 30, 2026 Ep 64: Windows users can now steer Codex agents directly on their machines while stepping away.
Models & Agents
Windows users can now steer Codex agents directly on their machines while stepping away.
What You Need to Know: OpenAI extended computer-use capabilities to Windows for Codex, letting the agent act on local desktops and continue tasks from the mobile app. StepFun released a 198B MoE vision-language model optimized for coding agents, while Hermes Agent added tool search to reduce MCP context bloat. ...
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12min
May 29, 2026 Ep 63: Anthropic's $65B Series H at $965B valuation and $47B run-rate revenue show Claude demand is scaling faster than most labs can match.
Models & Agents
Anthropic's $65B Series H at $965B valuation and $47B run-rate revenue show Claude demand is scaling faster than most labs can match.
What You Need to Know: Liquid AI shipped LFM2.5-8B-A1B with 128K context and 38T pre-training tokens for edge devices. A new monokernel on AMD MI300X hits 3,300 output tokens/s for small models. ...
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9min
May 28, 2026 Ep 62: CoreWeave’s new platform lets agents improve themselves between training and inference runs without manual retraining cycles.
Models & Agents
CoreWeave’s new platform lets agents improve themselves between training and inference runs without manual retraining cycles.
What You Need to Know: CoreWeave launched a unified agentic platform that closes the training-to-inference gap for continuous autonomous improvement. Perplexity open-sourced a Unigram tokenizer that cuts reranker latency 5x versus Hugging Face. ...
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11min
May 27, 2026 Ep 61: Anthropic just published concrete sandboxing patterns that let agents scale capabilities without expanding their blast radius.
Models & Agents
Anthropic just published concrete sandboxing patterns that let agents scale capabilities without expanding their blast radius.
What You Need to Know: Anthropic released a detailed engineering post on how they contain Claude agents through evolving access controls and sandbox limits. EAGLE 3.1 fixes attention drift in speculative decoding for more stable production inference. ...
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10min
May 26, 2026 Ep 60: Local builders can now treat markdown skill files as optimizable parameters with automated validation gates instead of manual tweaking.
Models & Agents
Local builders can now treat markdown skill files as optimizable parameters with automated validation gates instead of manual tweaking.
What You Need to Know: A new paper formalizes SkillOpt, using frontier models to propose bounded edits to markdown skills and accepting only those that improve a held-out validation set. Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6 receive new uncensored and diffusion variants with detailed training notes for consumer hardware. ...
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12min
May 25, 2026 Ep 59: Datasette's new slash-key jump menu now launches agent conversations directly from your databases.
Models & Agents
Datasette's new slash-key jump menu now launches agent conversations directly from your databases.
What You Need to Know: Simon Willison shipped Datasette 1.0a30 with a keyboard-driven "jump to" menu that plugins can extend, plus a datasette-agent plugin that adds a conversation starter form. NuExtract3, a new 4B vision-language model, arrived on Hugging Face for structured extraction and Markdown conversion from documents. ...
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11min
May 24, 2026 Ep 58: Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-18 to 2026-05-24 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.
Models & Agents — Weekly Recap
Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-18 to 2026-05-24 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.
This Week's Top Stories
From Ep 52 (2026-05-18): What You Need to Know:
What You Need to Know: NVIDIA released a full 4-bit pretraining stack (NVFP4) that was validated on a 12B Mamba-Transformer trained for 10 trillion tokens. ...
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8min
May 23, 2026 Ep 57: OpenAI just added goal mode and screen-aware context to Codex, letting agents work autonomously for hours on real tasks.
Models & Agents
OpenAI just added goal mode and screen-aware context to Codex, letting agents work autonomously for hours on real tasks.
What You Need to Know: OpenAI rolled out Goal mode, Appshots, and advanced annotation in Codex across app, IDE, and CLI. Anthropic reported finding over 10,000 high-severity vulnerabilities through Project Glasswing using Claude models. ...
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12min
May 22, 2026 Ep 56: OpenAI just gave Codex the ability to control locked Macs and run multi-day goals, turning it into a true background agent you can launch from your phone.
Models & Agents
OpenAI just gave Codex the ability to control locked Macs and run multi-day goals, turning it into a true background agent you can launch from your phone.
What You Need to Know: OpenAI shipped several Codex updates today including secure computer use on locked Macs, Goal mode for hours-long autonomous work, and advanced annotation tools. Microsoft released Fara1.5, a family of browser agents that beat OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 on web tasks. ...
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11min

FAQs about Models & Agents:

How many episodes does Models & Agents have?

The podcast currently has 65 episodes available.