DeepMind launches economics of AGI research program

OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model, letting developers submit a prompt and get a price for the work, before negative customer feedback reversed the plan, Sam Altman said. He spoke Thursday.

Idol converts one photo, render, or generated image into up to 1,048,576 Gaussians, output as a standard 3DGS .ply file. It strips the background and frames the object automatically, running on consumer GPUs at 7.2 GB of VRAM.

Hydro, an open-source Rust framework for distributed systems, added a way to verify a system still works correctly when it resends messages after a failure. Shadaj Laddad said the resulting change was "like a 5000 line PR."

r/LocalLLaMA users argue Cohere's post on "concerning behaviour" in a popular open-weight model relied on extensive pre-filling and prompting, drawing wide media coverage and fear-mongering headlines from what critics call an unscientific experiment.

YC Labs partnered with Olam Labs to test multi-agent dynamics, running 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents in a survival Minecraft world for 3 hours with the goal "Build a t..." and a 25-agent GPT-6.1 Terra colony. The Minecraft harness, built on Mineflayer with a Pi-driven agentic loop, is open-sourced.

Community release pairs jeffpeng3's v2 heretic weights with a new quantization and imatrix recipe from u/jjusko20. The poster says v2 preserves both reasoning ability and output length, calling it a big step up from the v1 weights.