OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost
OpenAI eyes January exit from “code red” John Werner / Forbes : The Wonder And The Promise Of GPT 5.2 Is Here Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert...
A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026
1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
Sources: humanoid robotics startup 1X is seeking to raise up to $1B at a $10B+ valuation, more than 12x its previous valuation from a January financing
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Cerebras announces the $50/month Code Pro and the $200/month Code Max plans, offering users access to Qwen3-Coder at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second
Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. Bluesky: Tim Kellogg / @timkellogg.me : Cerebras Code — use models hosted on Cerebras with a dev-friendly subsc...
A roundup of the 2025 VLSI conference: using digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process compared to TSMC, and more
Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis : X: @semianalysis_ X: @semianalysis_ : Intel 18A Details & Cost Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D Backside Power Adoption (or Not) China's FlipFET Digital Twins from Atoms to Fabs ...
Google DeepMind says Gemini Diffusion, an experimental text diffusion model demoed at Google I/O and available by waitlist, generates 1,000-2,000 tokens/second
Our state-of-the-art, experimental text diffusion model Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt : Google Doubles Down on AI: Veo 3, Imagen 4 and Gemini Diffusion Push Creative Boundaries Matthias Bastian / The De...
Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO
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A look at the US market for humanoids in homes and businesses; PitchBook says investors have poured $7.2B into 50+ startups since 2015, including $1.6B in 2024
By getting its humanoids into people's homes, 1X hopes to gather enormous amounts of data that can show these robots how to handle …
Sources: 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been using fake customer endorsements and massaging its financial numbers
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory.
Sources: Lightspeed returned $8B from current and active funds in the past five years; its most recent fund with more than 1x DPI was its $500M fund in 2016
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