
Leaks & rumours
GPT-6.1 Terra Appears in a Leaked Eval Config Screenshot
A screenshot shared by @LuminaBench shows a YAML eval config naming gpt-6.1-terra as the judge model, but neither OpenAI's nor Microsoft's official model…
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Leaks & rumours
A screenshot shared by @LuminaBench shows a YAML eval config naming gpt-6.1-terra as the judge model, but neither OpenAI's nor Microsoft's official model…

News
China's commerce and science ministries have published a draft adding 23 AI technologies to export controls, with interim registration now and open-source and…

Leaks & rumours
An outside X account says three OpenAI model IDs, aurora-blue-alpha, aurora-green-alpha and aurora-red-alpha, appeared briefly and were removed. OpenAI's model…

News
OpenCode lists LL Alpha Free as a free model with maker, context and release unknown. Its data page shows 28B tokens and 1.9K users on Oct 16.

AI releases
PrismML's Ternary Bonsai 2 2B, 4B and 9B are out under Apache 2.0. The 0.43–2 GB sizes need PrismML's binaries; stock llama.cpp loads larger Q2_0 files.

AI releases
OpenCode's Cat Jam Free, a text-only reasoning model with about 262K context, is free on Zen and Go. Its docs note 30-day data retention.

AI releases
Meta's Muse Wonder is available in the Meta Model API and Muse Code, and Muse Wonder Full is for Muse Code subscribers. Here is who can use each, what it costs…

Leaks & rumours
An X user shares a video he labels 'Claude Next Model' and says upcoming image outputs will be 'purely coded'. Anthropic hasn't announced a model by that name.

News
Three fired OpenAI safety and alignment researchers say their open letter describes a chilling effect on safety work and on outside collaboration. OpenAI's…

News
Google has expanded SynthID Detector globally in English and named OpenAI, NVIDIA and Kakao as partners. It checks for SynthID watermarks, not AI media…

Leaks & rumours
A non-company X account, @lyraxana, mentions a "Gemini 4 Argon day" in a greeting. Google has not announced the name, and the post gives no features, dates or…

AI releases
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, a low-cost small model it says costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5 on average. It adds an adjustable effort…

AI releases
Exo Free is listed in OpenCode Zen as a limited-time free model, with reported support for long context, images and tool calls—but with an important data-use…

News
OpenAI says it is releasing mathematical results from an unnamed internal frontier model, along with GitHub materials, Lean formalizations and details about…

Leaks & rumours
A post attributed to Wired reported that OpenAI planned to publish solutions to hundreds of unsolved math problems on GitHub, but the release remains…

AI releases
An X post announces Nano Banana 2.1 as an image-generation and editing update with reported quality improvements, bug fixes, lower pricing and access through…

News
Google’s EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, code, images, video and audio into one embedding space for local search and retrieval.

Leaks & rumours
An X post reports DeepSeek funding, Huawei Ascend infrastructure and a possible V5 launch, but the details remain unconfirmed.
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