Is it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own tooling
Hugging Face Blog published: Is it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own tooling
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Beyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique?
Hugging Face Blog published: Beyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique?
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB monster - with 40 active parameters (Mixture of Experts). GLM-5.2 is a text input only model - Z.ai have a separate vision family most recently represented by GLM-5V-Turbo , but that one isn't open weights. GLM-5.2 has a 1 million token context window, up from GLM-5.1's 200,000. The buzz around this model is strong. Artificial Analysis, who run one of the most widely respected independent benchmarks: GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index . GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on the Intelligence Index v4.1. At 51, it leads MiniMax-M3 (44), DeepSeek V4 Pro (max, 44) and Kimi K2.6 (43) They did however find it to be quite token-hungry: GLM-5.2 uses more output tokens per task than other leading open weights models: the model uses 43k output tokens per Intelligence Index task, up from GLM-5.1 (26k) and above MiniMax-M3 (24k), Kimi K2.6 (35k) and DeepSeek V4 Pro (max, 37k) The model is also now ranked 2nd on the Code Arena WebDev leaderboard , behind only Claude Fable 5. That leaderboard measures "front-end web development tasks, including agentic coding workflows". I'm impressed to see it rank so highly given the lack of image input, which I had incorrectly assumed was a key part of building a truly great frontend coding model. I've been trying it out via OpenRouter , which has it from 9 different providers, almost all of which are charging $1.40/million for input and $4.40/million for output. For comparison, GPT-5.5 is $5/$30 and Claude Opus 4.5-4.8 is $5/$25. Excellent pelican, disappointing opossum GLM-5.1 gave me one of my favorite pelicans and my all time favorite opossum (for the prompt "Generate an SVG of a NORTH VIRGINIA OPOSSUM ON AN E-SCOOTER".) Interestingly, in both of those cases the model chose to return SVG wrapped in an HTML document that added additional animations using CSS. Let's try GLM-5.2. For "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" I got this : It's a self-contained fully animated SVG, and the animations aren't broken! Often I'll see eyes falling off or wheels rotating independently of the bicycle but here everything works great. It's a very nice vector illustration of a pelican too. Very impressive. Sadly, the NORTH VIRGINIA OPOSSUM ON AN E-SCOOTER did not come out nearly as well : This is such a step down from GLM-5.1! As a reminder, that possum looked like this: 5.2 didn't even try to animate it. Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , llm-release , openrouter , ai-in-china , glm
ChatGPT can be made to generate sexualised and violent images, researchers find
But researchers say its still possible to trick the AI chatbot into producing graphic content.
Interest rates held as Bank warns of impact of high energy prices
The Bank last cut interest rates in December but upheaval in the Middle East has stalled any further reductions.
SpaceX adds longtime Elon Musk ally Roelof Botha to board
Roelof Botha, who worked with Elon Musk at PayPal in the dot-com era before becoming a prominent venture capitalist, is joining the SpaceX board.
Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy
Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy."
Agentic Document Extraction
Make the world's documents computable Discussion | Link
Tim Cook says RAM expenses are ‘unsustainable’ and Apple is going to raise prices
Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are unavoidable:" We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying to shield our customers from the […]
QApilot's CoWork
3x Mobile Automation. Same QE Team. Discussion | Link
Chrome Stable for iOS Update
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Stable 150 (150.0.7871.34) for iOS; it'll become available on App Store in the next few hours. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome
Google to use UK and EU user IP addresses for ad personalization
From August 3, 2026, Google will use IP addresses from UK, EEA and Switzerland users for ad measurement and personalization. It lands as the ICO weighs new consent rules, and years after Google itself called using such signals to identify devices "wrong." [...]
Chrome for Android Update
Hello Everyone! We've just released Chrome 150 (150.0.7871.28) for Android to a small percentage of users. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here . This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Harry Souders Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update for ChromeOS / ChromeOS Flex
The ChromeOS Stable channel is being updated to OS version 16667.47.0 (Browser version 149.0.7827.153 ) for most ChromeOS devices. If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following ways: File a bug Visit our ChromeOS communities General: Chromebook Help Community Beta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help Community Report an issue or send feedback on Chrome Interested in switching channels? Find out how. Luis Menezes Google ChromeOS
MeshPilot
Your AI workspace for terminals, tasks, and agents Discussion | Link
Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.
VSCO launches Studio Pro mobile photo editing app and plans $500 per year subscription
VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers tools for batch editing, style matching from a reference image, and sharing images through VSCO Galleries. VSCO says more features are coming later, […]
Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors
The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.
After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap’s stock takes a dive
Snap's long-awaited smart glasses debut hasn't exactly done wonders for the company's stock.
NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard. This tension between […]
California says AT&T lied to FCC in attempt to shut off old phone network
FCC considers AT&T petitions to preempt state rules and discontinue phone service.
Read remote repository content with GitHub CLI
Explore repository content from your terminal without cloning by using two new commands: gh repo read-file and gh repo read-dir. What you can do Use gh repo read-file to read… The post Read remote repository content with GitHub CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Vida
Clone yourself. Let AI do the work before you ask Discussion | Link
v0.30.10
What's Changed Command A and North family models now run on Apple Silicon with the MLX engine Updated the underlying llama.cpp engine to build 9672 Fixed build artifacts for MLX Full Changelog : v0.30.9...v0.30.10