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AIThinking Machines has made Tinker generally available, adding support for advanced vision input models and Kimi K2 Thinking. The update also includes a simpler way to sample from models.

AIApple has released SHARP, a model that generates a 3D Gaussian representation of a scene from a single photograph in less than a second on a standard GPU. The output renders in real time as high-resolution photorealistic views of nearby camera positions, with metric absolute scale, and the paper reports reductions of 25–34% in LPIPS and 21–43% in DISTS versus the best prior model.

AIOpenAI has published weights for a sparse model from Gao et al. 2025, used for qualitative results on bracket counting and variable binding, on Hugging Face under the openai/circuit-sparsity repository. The release includes a standalone Hugging Face implementation that loads the converted model and tokenizer with trust_remote_code and runs sample generation. The project is licensed under Apache License 2.0.

AIAlibaba's FunAudioLLM has released Fun-CosyVoice3-0.5B-2512, a 0.5B-parameter LLM-based text-to-speech model on Hugging Face, with an RL variant also published. The model supports zero-shot voice cloning across 9 languages and 18+ Chinese dialects and accents, with streaming output at latency as low as 150ms. On the source's test-en benchmark, it reports a 2.24% WER and 71.8% speaker similarity, and the RL version reports 1.68% WER.

AIAndrej Karpathy built hn-time-capsule, a tool that feeds each December 2015 Hacker News front-page article and its comment thread to GPT-5.1 Thinking for a retrospective analysis. The project, written with Claude Opus 4.5 in about three hours, processes 930 articles at a cost of about $58 and roughly one hour. Results include prescience and wrongness grades for commenters, and the project is hosted on his website with the intermediate data available for download.

AIARC Prize reports that the top Kaggle entry reached 24% on the ARC-AGI-2 private dataset at $0.20 per task, and that all winning solutions and papers are open source. The top verified commercial model, Opus 4.5 (Thinking, 64k), scored 37.6% at $2.20 per task, while a Poetiq refinement on Gemini 3 Pro reached 54% at $30 per task. The author argues that refinement loops are the main driver of 2025 progress, and says ARC-AGI-3 is planned for early 2026.

Why it matters: The post links 2025 competition results to a broader argument about refinement loops, showing how benchmark outcomes are being read as evidence of AI reasoning progress.

AIApple's CLaRa-7B-E2E is a fully end-to-end unified RAG model that jointly optimizes retrieval and generation, with 16x and 128x document compression. It is trained with end-to-end finetuning using differentiable top-k retrieval and a unified language-modeling objective. The model is available on Hugging Face with example end-to-end inference code.

AIApple has published CLaRa-7B-Instruct on Hugging Face, an instruction-tuned unified RAG model with built-in semantic document compression at 16× and 128× ratios. The model answers instruction-following questions directly from compressed document representations, and its paper, GitHub repository, and transformers usage example are referenced in the release.

AIMoonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source thinking model that interleaves step-by-step reasoning with tool calls across 200 to 300 sequential invocations. The model is a 1T-parameter mixture-of-experts with 32B activated parameters and a 256k context window, and it uses native INT4 quantization for roughly 2x faster generation. The model card reports benchmark results on HLE, BrowseComp, and other tests, and recommends vLLM, SGLang, or KTransformers for deployment.

Why it matters: The model card gives benchmark tables, quantization details, and deployment settings, letting readers compare Kimi K2 Thinking against GPT-5 and other models on specific tasks.

AIMoonshot AI released Kimi Linear, a hybrid linear attention architecture with 48B total and 3B activated parameters and a 1M-token context length, on Hugging Face. The model card reports up to 6.3x faster TPOT than MLA at 1M tokens and up to 75% lower KV cache needs, and says it outperforms full attention on long-context and RL-style benchmarks.

Why it matters: The model card gives concrete long-context speed and memory figures for a hybrid attention design, useful for judging whether linear attention can replace full attention in practice.

AIMoonshot AI has released Kimi-Linear-Base and Kimi-Linear-Instruct, both 48B total and 3B activated parameters with a 1M context length, on Hugging Face. The models use Kimi Delta Attention in a 3:1 hybrid ratio with global MLA, cutting KV cache by up to 75% and boosting decoding throughput by up to 6x at 1M tokens. The KDA kernel is open-sourced in FLA, and the checkpoints were trained on 5.7T tokens.

Why it matters: The model card gives concrete throughput and KV cache figures for a hybrid attention design, which helps readers weigh its long-context tradeoffs against full attention.

AICognition built and open-sourced blockdiff, a file format that creates block-level diffs of VM disks using only filesystem metadata. The company reports its otterlink hypervisor cut snapshot times from 30 to 60 minutes on EC2 to about 5 to 10 seconds for a 128 GB disk with a 5 GB diff, roughly a 200x speedup. The post also covers the sparse file and copy-on-write concepts behind the approach and why OverlayFS, ZFS, and qcow2 were not chosen.

AICognition launched the official DeepWiki Model Context Protocol server, which is free and requires no login or authentication. It gives programmatic access to ask_question, read_wiki_contents, and read_wiki_structure for GitHub repositories indexed on DeepWiki.com. Private repositories require a Devin account with GitHub connected, and open-source maintainers can apply for $500 in Devin credits.

Why it matters: The source names the three tools and the access path, showing how indexed GitHub repositories can be queried programmatically without login.

AICognition is bringing back its Devin Open Source Initiative, offering $500 in Devin ACU credits to open-source GitHub projects with over 100 forks. Projects below that threshold will still be considered. Eligible projects must have an OSI-approved license and be actively maintained, and maintainers can apply through a linked form.

AICognition has launched DeepWiki, a free public version of its Devin Wiki and Devin Search tools that helps developers understand codebases. Users can view docs for any repo by replacing github.com with deepwiki.com in the URL, and more than 50,000 top public GitHub repositories are already indexed. Private repositories require a Devin account.

AICrossmint said Devin became its top contributor to the open-source GOAT SDK during an initial trial, merging 8 pull requests versus 4 for the next contributor. Examples included a DEXScreener plugin built from a documentation URL and a harder Sui blockchain integration that needed three rounds of feedback and about an hour of human involvement. The company said its results depended on proper training, clear task context, and planned validation, not on treating Devin as superhuman.

AICognition is launching the Devin Open Source Initiative, giving selected open source maintainers 500 free ACUs on a Devin Teams plan as part of Devin's general availability launch. The post shows Devin contributing pull requests to projects including Anthropic's MCP Inspector, Dagger, and nanoGPT, with maintainers still reviewing the results. Devin's GitHub integration forwards PR comments and CI checks to help refine changes, though the company warns a human should still verify final quality.

AILiquid AI reports STAR, an evolutionary algorithm that synthesizes tailored neural network architectures from a numerical genome representation. The authors say it produced hundreds of designs that outperform Transformer and hybrid architectures in quality, with smaller caches and parameter counts, and can optimize for latency on target hardware. The full method is described in the arXiv technical report 2411.17800.

Why it matters: The post explains how evolutionary search over a new architecture design space produced designs beating Transformers and hybrids, giving a concrete method for quality versus latency and memory trade-offs.