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JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model from…
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Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions
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Last summer, Peter Degen’s postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One…
16 May 2026
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16 May 2026
ROCm with PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning seems to still suck for research [D]
“`html A British AI enthusiast found that running a small codebase for training SANA…
16 May 2026
Stanford studied 51 real AI deployments and found a 71% vs 40% productivity gap – here’s what separates the two groups
**What Happened:** A Stanford research paper analyzed 51 real-world AI deployments across various companies…
15 May 2026
[Release] Nexidion – A private knowledge vault with an autonomous local AI background worker.
Release After almost two years of development and several architectural revisions, I’m finally releasing…
15 May 2026
PINN is predicting trivial solution for stiff ODE [D]
“`html A user named cae_shot is experiencing issues with a physics-informed neural network (PINN)…
15 May 2026
Anthropic just published a pretty alarming 2028 AI scenario paper and it’s not about AGI safety in the usual sense
**What Happened:** Anthropic recently published a research paper outlining two potential futures for global…
14 May 2026
we gave an AI real money to create a real business and make decisions autonomously for eight months. here is the most uncomfortable thing we learned.
“`html We Gave an AI Real Money to Create a Real Business and Make…
14 May 2026