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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Models & Agents episodes:

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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May 21, 2026 Ep 55: A general-purpose reasoning model just disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture by finding better constructions than the square grids mathematicians expected.
Models & Agents
A general-purpose reasoning model just disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture by finding better constructions than the square grids mathematicians expected.
What You Need to Know: OpenAI announced that one of its general-purpose models solved the planar unit distance problem posed by Paul Erdős in 1946, marking the first time AI has autonomously resolved a prominent open math question. ...
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May 20, 2026 Ep 54: Gemini 3.5 Flash gives builders faster, cheaper frontier performance on coding and agent tasks while Gemini Omni adds real-time multimodal scene editing.
Models & Agents
Gemini 3.5 Flash gives builders faster, cheaper frontier performance on coding and agent tasks while Gemini Omni adds real-time multimodal scene editing.
What You Need to Know: Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash today, claiming it outperforms the prior 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic work, runs 4x faster than other frontier models, and delivers up to 800 tokens/sec inside Antigravity. ...
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May 19, 2026 Ep 53: Anthropic's acquisition of StainlessAPI hands developers cleaner SDKs and MCP server tooling for building production agents today.
Models & Agents
Anthropic's acquisition of StainlessAPI hands developers cleaner SDKs and MCP server tooling for building production agents today.
What You Need to Know: Anthropic acquired StainlessAPI, the platform behind every Anthropic SDK since the API's earliest days, to accelerate SDK and MCP server development. Alibaba previewed new Qwen models that currently rank as the top Chinese entries on the LMSYS Arena. ...
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May 18, 2026 Ep 52: NVIDIA's 4-bit pretraining technique cuts memory needs for large hybrid models while keeping accuracy nearly identical to FP8.
Models & Agents
NVIDIA's 4-bit pretraining technique cuts memory needs for large hybrid models while keeping accuracy nearly identical to FP8.
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. The approach combines selective BF16 layers, Hadamard transforms, and stochastic rounding to stay within 0.04 points of an FP8 baseline on MMLU-Pro. ...
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May 17, 2026 Ep 51: Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-11 to 2026-05-17 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.
Models & Agents — Weekly Recap
Looking back at 6 episodes from 2026-05-11 to 2026-05-17 — the stories that mattered, what we learned, and what to watch next.
This Week's Top Stories
From Ep 45 (2026-05-11): What You Need to Know:
What You Need to Know: Sakana and NVIDIA released TwELL, a sparse inference approach that uses simple L1 regularization plus custom CUDA kernels to hit over 99% sparsity in LLM feed-forward layers. ...
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May 16, 2026 Ep 50: An agent that manages another agent just moved from research demo to production reality at Fin.
Models & Agents
An agent that manages another agent just moved from research demo to production reality at Fin.
What You Need to Know: Fin (formerly Intercom) launched Fin Operator, an AI system whose sole job is configuring, debugging, and monitoring the customer-facing Fin agent. The release highlights a practical two-layer agent architecture with human approval gates and usage-based pricing. ...
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May 15, 2026 Ep 49: Codex just landed on your phone — OpenAI’s coding agent now runs natively on iOS and Android with Windows sync coming soon.
Models & Agents
Codex just landed on your phone — OpenAI’s coding agent now runs natively on iOS and Android with Windows sync coming soon.
What You Need to Know: OpenAI rolled out a preview of Codex in the ChatGPT mobile apps today, letting developers work with the agent from anywhere. Anthropic released both a new US-China AI leadership paper and a $200M Gates Foundation partnership for global health and education. ...
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8min
May 14, 2026 Ep 48: Faster pre-training without changing model architecture just became practical — Nous Research's Token Superposition Training cuts wall-clock time by up to 2.5x on models from 270M to 10B.
Models & Agents
Faster pre-training without changing model architecture just became practical — Nous Research's Token Superposition Training cuts wall-clock time by up to 2.5x on models from 270M to 10B.
What You Need to Know: Nous Research introduced Token Superposition Training, a two-phase method that averages token embeddings early then switches back to standard prediction. Open-source builders shipped a full cinematic video pipeline that runs end-to-end on a single AMD MI300X. ...
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9min
May 13, 2026 Ep 47: Real-time multimodal agents now run full-duplex perception and generation without external VAD or frozen states.
Models & Agents
Real-time multimodal agents now run full-duplex perception and generation without external VAD or frozen states.
What You Need to Know: Thinking Machines Lab released TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B MoE model with 12B active parameters that processes 200ms chunks of audio, video, and text in parallel streams. ReVision cuts visual token usage by ~46% for computer-use agents while lifting success rates 3 points on OSWorld and WebTailBench. ...
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FAQs about Models & Agents:

How many episodes does Models & Agents have?

The podcast currently has 66 episodes available.