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Hunyuan 4 Tested: Blender Automation and Real IPO Report Generation
Hands-on tests of Tencent's Hunyuan 4 building a Blender scene from a sketch and writing a full IPO research report from messy files.
Kimi K3.1 Pro: Inside Moonshot AI's 2.8T Parameter Open Model
Kimi K3.1 Pro specs explained: 2.8T MoE parameters, 104B active, 1M context, and how it benchmarks against Claude and GPT.
Mixing AI Models: Cut Coding Costs Without Losing Code Quality
A practical strategy for pairing a frontier model for planning with a cheaper open model for execution to lower AI coding costs.
Open-Weight Models vs Claude and GPT for AI Coding: Who Actually Wins?
Open models match Claude and GPT on short coding tasks but stall on long agentic workflows. Here's what the ticket-by-ticket data shows.
10 Academic Habits PhDs Must Unlearn to Build a Startup
Y Combinator's Startup School breaks down the academic instincts that sabotage PhD founders, from vanity metrics to novelty obsession, and how to fix them.
Ripple-65B Benchmarks: A Dense Model That Punches Above Its Weight
Ripple-65B is a dense 65B model from Recursive Intelligence that leads on agentic coding benchmarks but trails on math and safety tests.
Ripple-65B Tested Locally: Recursive Intelligence's Dense Coding Model
A hands-on local test of Ripple-65B, a dense 65B transformer for agentic coding, covering setup, VRAM needs, and real bug-fixing results.
Tencent Hunyuan 4: A Multimodal Agent for Blender, Office, and Finance
Tencent's Hunyuan 4 adds vision, 1M-token context, and computer-use skills for Blender, CAD, and office document work. Here's what it can do.
VidIQ MCP for Claude: What It Costs and How to Connect It
VidIQ's MCP server links to Claude for $1 the first month. Here's what the integration does and how to set it up for AI video research.
Is AI Weight Editing Overhyped? The Case for Skepticism
Researchers reproduced the viral weight-editing results fast, but the method only fixes existing flaws. It can't teach a model new skills.
Yann LeCun's JEPA Paper: Why a Tiny Model Beat Giant LLMs
Yann LeCun's new JEPA paper shows a small world model outperforming massive LLMs on world understanding. Here's what it actually proves.
Zed vs T3 Code vs Bamboo vs Delta: Best Claude Code Interface?
Comparing Zed, T3 Code, Bamboo, and Delta as interfaces for managing Claude Code, with pricing and feature differences explained.
Can AI Coding Agents Replace Paid Software Like Adobe and Excel?
AI coding agents can now clone Excel and the Adobe suite in hours. Here's what that means for software pricing and the subscription model.
How Claude Code Gave Minecraft and Terraria Real 3D on the 3DS
Claude Code reverse-engineered compiled Minecraft and Terraria binaries on Nintendo 3DS, adding true stereoscopic 3D with no source code access.
Is Crouton Alpha Free? What We Know About Access and Pricing
Crouton Alpha is a free stealth model with a 1 million token context window built for subagent workflows. Here's what's known so far.
Crouton Alpha Tested: The Free Stealth Model Built for Subagents
Hands-on test of Crouton Alpha, a free stealth model with a 1M token context, across coding subagents, vision, science, and translation.
DeepSeek Harness Creator Mode Prompts: The Seven Official Examples Explained
DeepSeek published seven official Creator Mode prompts. Here's what each one teaches about prompting an agent that builds its own plugins.
DeepSeek Harness Explained: The Plugin Architecture Behind Super Agent
DeepSeek Harness treats every component as a swappable plugin, built on the Cordis composability framework. Here's how it actually works.
Can AI Edit Another Model's Weights? Inside the MIT Experiment
MIT research has a frontier model editing a Qwen model's weights directly, lifting math scores 6x. Here's what actually happened and why.
GPT-6 Astra and Weight-Space Programming: Can AI Read a Model's Weights?
MIT's weight-space programming research claims GPT-6 Astra can read and edit another model's raw weights without training. Here's what that means.
How to Install the AI-Built 3D Mods for Minecraft and Terraria on 3DS
A practical guide to installing the open-source, Claude-engineered stereoscopic 3D mods for Minecraft and Terraria on a modded Nintendo 3DS.
Meta's Muse: What a $19B Flop and a 10M-User Comeback Teach Founders
Meta's Muse AI agent hit 10 million users after the metaverse lost $19 billion in 2025. Here's what its launch teaches builders about agency.
Nvidia RTX Spark Laptop: What It's Like Running Local AI On It
A hands-on look at the Nvidia RTX Spark powered Surface Laptop Ultra, its unified memory setup, and what running local AI workloads on it actually looks like.
Run Qwen 3.8 27B Locally on Ollama to Replicate MIT's Weight-Reading Test
A practical guide to running Qwen 3.8 27B locally via Ollama, including VRAM needs, to try MIT's model weight-reading experiment yourself.