Models & Agents

By Patrick

Your daily briefing on AI models and agents: new releases from the frontier labs, open-weight drops, agent frameworks, benchmarks, pricing, and practical tools you can use the same day — with long-run... more

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The podcast currently has 178 episodes available.

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June 03, 2026 Ep 68: NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 pairs an autoregressive reasoner with a diffusion generator so builders can now train agents that jointly reason about physics, generate worlds, and output actions.
Models & Agents
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 pairs an autoregressive reasoner with a diffusion generator so builders can now train agents that jointly reason about physics, generate worlds, and output actions.
What You Need to Know: NVIDIA released Cosmos 3, a two-tower omnimodal world model for physical AI. H Company dropped the Holo3.1 family of Qwen 3.5-based VLMs for computer-use agents across web, desktop, and mobile. ...
AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
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June 02, 2026 Ep 67: Enterprise teams can now run governed AI agents inside existing procurement systems instead of leaking data to personal ChatGPT accounts.
Models & Agents
Enterprise teams can now run governed AI agents inside existing procurement systems instead of leaking data to personal ChatGPT accounts.
What You Need to Know: Zip launched five Superagents plus a native MCP implementation that keeps every action inside compliance controls. Alibaba released Qwen3.7-Plus with vision, tool use, and autonomous iteration. JetBrains shipped Mellum2, a 12B MoE model aimed at specialized coding workflows. ...
AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
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June 01, 2026 Ep 66: OpenAI’s model cracked an 80-year math problem by leaning on its native strengths in structured reasoning rather than brute force.
Models & Agents
OpenAI’s model cracked an 80-year math problem by leaning on its native strengths in structured reasoning rather than brute force.
What You Need to Know: OpenAI published a solution to a long-standing math problem that had resisted human efforts for decades. NVIDIA released a large open-source collection of physical AI agent tools and skills. ...
AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.
📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page
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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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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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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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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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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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FAQs about Models & Agents:

How many episodes does Models & Agents have?

The podcast currently has 178 episodes available.