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Writer, curator, latent space explorer. Main blog: https://swyx.io Devrel/Dev community: https://dx.tips/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/swyx

[AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks
LockSimple

Oct 13, 2026

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20 min read

[AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks

Gemini 4 Argon went GA today, but we already gave it title story 2 weeks ago and most benchmarks, like CursorBench, simply independently confirm their claims.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space
[AINews] not much happened today

Oct 3, 2026

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20 min read

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day.

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Latent.Space

Podcast

Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI

Aug 21, 2026

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48 min read

Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI

Simile’s CEO about his journey from the viral Generative Agents to creating 8 Billion Digital Twins of every living human... and why it’s gone from fun exploration to very serious business.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months
LockSimple

Aug 19, 2026

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24 min read

[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months

the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery

Aug 11, 2026

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3 min read

🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery

Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.

Latent.Space
RJ Honicky
Latent.Space, +1

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???
LockSimple

Aug 5, 2026

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18 min read

[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???

The end of an era.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten

Aug 3, 2026

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81 min read

The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten

Baseten just raised a $13B Series F and is now one of the leading kings of inference engineering. We go into everything you need to know for autoregressive and diffusion engineering.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack
LockSimple

Jul 28, 2026

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22 min read

[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack

The Big Pause is coming.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI

Jul 28, 2026

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58 min read

Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI

OpenAI's core product engineering lead on how they are building ChatGPT Work to make AGI accessible to all of humanity: Sites, OpenClaw, Memory, Subagents, Finance, No-Code and advice.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
LockSimple

Jul 27, 2026

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16 min read

[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights

Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

Jul 22, 2026

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89 min read

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model... and this is just the beginning.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)

Jul 21, 2026

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2 min read

🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)

Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.

Latent.Space
RJ Honicky
Latent.Space, +1

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] not much happened today
LockSimple

Jul 17, 2026

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20 min read

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences

Jul 16, 2026

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3 min read

🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences

Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Codex becomes ChatGPT superapp
LockSimple

Jul 9, 2026

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27 min read

[AINews] OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Codex becomes ChatGPT superapp

A big day for OpenAI.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO

Jul 8, 2026

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46 min read

Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO

2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

🔬 The Coolest Diffusion Research Isn't in LLMs — Evan Feinberg & Sergey Edunov, Genesis Molecular AI

Jul 1, 2026

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5 min read

🔬 The Coolest Diffusion Research Isn't in LLMs — Evan Feinberg & Sergey Edunov, Genesis Molecular AI

Why the Llama lead left Meta for drug discovery, PEARL's zero-shot OpenBind win, and what becomes possible when co-folding finally crosses the accuracy threshold.

Latent.Space
Brandon Anderson
Latent.Space, +1

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna — restricted to trusted partners
LockSimple

Jun 26, 2026

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21 min read

[AINews] OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol / Terra / Luna — restricted to trusted partners

Oddly tiered releases to both OAI and ANT on the same day.

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks

Jun 24, 2026

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60 min read

Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks

In a rare double-interview, the Databricks technical leaders riff on what it will take for every company to build Agent Clouds

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan

Jun 22, 2026

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43 min read

Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan

OpenAI boardmember Zico Kolter and Gray Swan CEO Matt Fredrikson join swyx to explain why AI security is not just “cybersecurity with AI”

Latent.Space
Latent.Space
[Exclusive] $250 off AI Engineer tix til Monday
LockSimple

Jun 21, 2026

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1 min read

[Exclusive] $250 off AI Engineer tix til Monday

special offer for subscribers - $250 off AI Engineer tix til Monday

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Latent.Space

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] not much happened today
LockSimple

Jun 20, 2026

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19 min read

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day lets us promo AIE one last time

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP

Jun 18, 2026

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46 min read

The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP

We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!

Latent.Space
Latent.Space

Podcast

🔬 The Self-Driving Lab — Joseph Krause, Radical AI

Jun 17, 2026

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4 min read

🔬 The Self-Driving Lab — Joseph Krause, Radical AI

Radical AI's Joseph Krause on why the moat in materials is the lab, not the model

Latent.Space
Brandon Anderson
Latent.Space, +1

AINews: Weekday Roundups

[AINews] Satya on Loopcraft: Building Frontier Ecosystems
LockSimple

Jun 15, 2026

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16 min read

[AINews] Satya on Loopcraft: Building Frontier Ecosystems

a quiet day lets us report on Satya's hit essay

Latent.Space
Latent.Space