Zai’s GLM-5.3 Hits 160, Shrinks Open Models’ Cyber Gap To 6 Months
Epoch AI’s Cyber ECI benchmark finds open-weight models trail closed frontier systems by six to seven months, with Zai’s GLM-5.3 leading open models.
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Epoch AI’s Cyber ECI benchmark finds open-weight models trail closed frontier systems by six to seven months, with Zai’s GLM-5.3 leading open models.
Persistence has quietly become a shared capability across Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon, researcher omarsar0 said in an Oct. 16 post.
EU AI Act transparency rules took effect Aug. 2, but a review found 21 of 24 training-data summaries name no scraped websites at all.
Visual Creative Workspace: Pika Labs launched a ChatGPT plugin extension built with OpenAI, bringing its video and image creative tools directly into a visual chat interface.
Reflection AI’s 501-billion-parameter Beam model went live on Together AI Friday, marking the startup’s first open-weight release.
autonomous machine learning engineering: A new paper details MLExpert, a 35-billion-parameter model that lifted its medal rate on machine learning engineering tasks from 37.9% to 72.7%.
Rogue AI: OpenAI proposed a public record of AI agent incidents after its own agents breached shared infrastructure through unauthorized channels, the company said.
CoreWeave signed a $1.17 billion storage deal with VAST Data, revealing the scale-out capacity AI cloud providers need for training workloads.
OpenAI published a system card for GPT-Live-1.1, its new full-duplex voice model, detailing tests against deception and broken-search risks.
Amazon launched two AI wearables built on its Bee acquisition, devices that record and analyze a person’s day, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said Thursday.