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OpenAI has given major customers a first look at Astra, an upcoming frontier AI model family, at a closed-door preview in San Francisco, TIME reports. In one demonstration, 16 AI agents divided a research-level mathematics problem into subproblems, coordinated their work and assembled a proposed proof. In another, Astra navigated well-known desktop software, creating and editing work across applications “with unnerving speed.” CEO Sam Altman told the visitors that watching Astra use a computer in a “super-human, very fast kind...

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OpenAI has given major customers a first look at Astra, an upcoming frontier AI model family, at a closed-door preview in San Francisco, TIME reports.

In one demonstration, 16 AI agents divided a research-level mathematics problem into subproblems, coordinated their work and assembled a proposed proof. In another, Astra navigated well-known desktop software, creating and editing work across applications "with unnerving speed." CEO Sam Altman told the visitors that watching Astra use a computer in a "super-human, very fast kind of way" had been among the most striking moments for employees.

Altman explained that Astra would enable "persistent agents" — virtual colleagues toiling for sustained periods on tasks. Its biggest impact, he predicted, would come from people using it to discover new knowledge. "I expect this will be the first model where the model actually invents new things in a way that matters," Altman told the group. "That's a very AGI-like thing."

The preview comes amid turmoil: OpenAI recently acknowledged that an unreleased agent escaped its sandbox during testing and hacked into production systems at Hugging Face to obtain benchmark answers, and the company has since frozen some experiments, paused a major training run and tightened its safeguards. TIME reports OpenAI still plans to ship Astra, but its release now depends on clearing those new safety measures.

For more information, see also this Testing Catalog report.

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]]> https://www.redferret.net/openai-shows-off-astra-16-ai-agents-super-human-desktop-control/feed/ 0 Alibaba’s new Qwen3.8-27B: A game changing AI Model That Fits on a Laptop https://www.redferret.net/alibabas-new-qwen3-8-27b-a-game-changing-ai-model-that-fits-on-a-laptop/ https://www.redferret.net/alibabas-new-qwen3-8-27b-a-game-changing-ai-model-that-fits-on-a-laptop/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:29:33 +0000 https://www.redferret.net/?p=63378 Qwen

Alibaba recently released Qwen3.8-27B, an open AI model designed to run on consumer hardware like a laptop, and open-sourced the weights of its most powerful model, Qwen3.8 Max. It was a direct answer to Meta’s return to open, locally-run AI. The Chinese tech giant, which until recently has had to play second fiddle to the mighty DeepSeek hype, claims that Qwen3.8-27B has “excellent capabilities” in coding, professional work, research and long-horizon agentic tasks, matching the performance of a model ten...

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Alibaba recently released Qwen3.8-27B, an open AI model designed to run on consumer hardware like a laptop, and open-sourced the weights of its most powerful model, Qwen3.8 Max. It was a direct answer to Meta's return to open, locally-run AI.

The Chinese tech giant, which until recently has had to play second fiddle to the mighty DeepSeek hype, claims that Qwen3.8-27B has "excellent capabilities" in coding, professional work, research and long-horizon agentic tasks, matching the performance of a model ten times its size. Running a model on-device — on a laptop or phone — can be faster and more secure, industry experts say, because data stays on local hardware instead of being sent to cloud data centres.

Guess what? The company isn't lying. Qwen is an absolute beast of a AI model. Not just because it's free and open source, but because you can run it on extremely modest hardware and get super impressive results out of it. I've been playing with it over the past couple of weeks and I'm blown away by just how performative this model is.

Anything from creating fun Android games to producing full blown websites and mobile applications. Sure, it takes longer versus the big cloud models like Claude, but producing something in an hour versus fifteen minutes is neither here nor there when you consider that you're not spending a penny on a subscription of any kind.

"The company which can offer the most capable open weights models will move ahead in this race," Neil Shah of Counterpoint Research told CNBC. With capable models that fit in a laptop now topping Hugging Face's trending charts, the race to run AI on our own machines is heating up.

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Biotech pioneer Moderna and drugmaker Merck have announced a personalized messenger-RNA cancer therapy, designed to tamp down the recurrence and spread of high-risk melanoma in a late-stage trial – the first successful Phase 3 result ever for an mRNA cancer treatment. According to the companies’ announcement, the INTerpath-001 study enrolled 1,137 patients to receive the made-to-order vaccine Intismeran (V940, or mRNA-4157), alone or alongside the Keytruda antibody treatment. The combination met its primary endpoint, recurrence-free survival, and a key secondary...

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Biotech pioneer Moderna and drugmaker Merck have announced a personalized messenger-RNA cancer therapy, designed to tamp down the recurrence and spread of high-risk melanoma in a late-stage trial – the first successful Phase 3 result ever for an mRNA cancer treatment. According to the companies’ announcement, the INTerpath-001 study enrolled 1,137 patients to receive the made-to-order vaccine Intismeran (V940, or mRNA-4157), alone or alongside the Keytruda antibody treatment.

The combination met its primary endpoint, recurrence-free survival, and a key secondary endpoint, distant metastasis-free survival. The full report is due shortly. Intismeran is built from a patient’s tumor: scientists sequence it to map the cancer’s unique mutational fingerprint and craft an mRNA strand targeting up to 34 neoantigens to train the immune system to attack the disease. An interesting example of using fire to fight fire.

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel called the findings a pivotal moment for cancer research; study lead Georgina Long, medical director of the Melanoma Institute Australia, called them a landmark moment for adjuvant melanoma treatment; and Merck Research Laboratories president Dean Y. Li said they reinforce the promise of a more personalized approach. The companies said they will seek regulator approval to make an appropriate filing, and to discuss the potential to test the same treatment protocol against lung, kidney, bladder and other cancers. The fight continues!

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The tropical Pacific is warming so quickly that this year’s El Niño could become the strongest ever recorded, China’s National Climate Center warned this week, according to China Daily. Sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific have risen sharply since El Niño conditions emerged in May, with the three-month running average reaching 2.09 C above normal in July, up 0.49 C from June, and climbing to 2.64 C in the first half of August. At the current pace, forecasters expect...

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The tropical Pacific is warming so quickly that this year’s El Niño could become the strongest ever recorded, China’s National Climate Center warned this week, according to China Daily. Sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific have risen sharply since El Niño conditions emerged in May, with the three-month running average reaching 2.09 C above normal in July, up 0.49 C from June, and climbing to 2.64 C in the first half of August.

At the current pace, forecasters expect that running average to exceed 2.5 C — the threshold for an extreme “super” El Niño event. The center says temperatures are likely to peak around November or December, potentially surpassing the three strongest episodes on record — 1982-83, 1997-98 and 2015-16.

China is already feeling developing-phase effects: rainfall concentrated in two major belts across the north and south, a stronger summer monsoon lifting typhoon activity, and overlapping rain systems heightening the risk of compound disasters. Because the climate system responds to El Niño with a time lag, effects could linger into autumn — more rain across parts of eastern, southern and southwestern China while much of the country runs warmer than average. The center says it will strengthen monitoring and forecasting as the event develops.

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Memory-chip stocks are stalling as price growth cools, with analysts warning that the explosive AI-driven memory-price boom may be peaking, according to the South China Morning Post. Morgan Stanley said in a report last week that the memory cycle is set to enter its late stage in the fourth quarter, as price increases moderate and inventories build. Shares of the biggest makers — Micron, SK Hynix and SanDisk — have retreated from recent highs. Bernstein Research said conventional DRAM contract...

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Memory-chip stocks are stalling as price growth cools, with analysts warning that the explosive AI-driven memory-price boom may be peaking, according to the South China Morning Post.

Morgan Stanley said in a report last week that the memory cycle is set to enter its late stage in the fourth quarter, as price increases moderate and inventories build. Shares of the biggest makers — Micron, SK Hynix and SanDisk — have retreated from recent highs. Bernstein Research said conventional DRAM contract prices were expected to rise about 17% in the third quarter, down from the roughly 65% jump in the April–June period.

Chinese producers are adding supply that could temper the cycle. UBS expects ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) to nearly double its monthly DRAM capacity, from around 240,000 wafer starts to 466,000 by late 2028, lifting its share of global DRAM bit supply from about 7% to 10%. Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) is expanding its NAND flash footprint.

The slowdown is uneven: PC and smartphone makers are resisting higher prices, while servers and AI data centers stay resilient and Citi Research, citing TrendForce, sees servers taking 51.1% of global NAND production by 2027, up from 44.2% in 2026. As Morgan Stanley put it, “a strong AI cycle and a cyclical downturn can coexist,” though JPMorgan still expects shortages to persist for another two years.

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “Kimi K3 full model running on 16x GB10 cluster at 20+tps” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Daniil Komov on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases Kimi K3 full model running on 16x GB10 cluster at 20+tps Via r/LocalLLaMA · 1362 points · 269 comments 🔗 Read more Mistral’s Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation Via Hacker News · 448 points · 114 comments 🔗 Read...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Brecht Corbeel on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update Via Hacker News · 723 points · 341 comments 🔗 Read more DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis Read more DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731: Models you can run locally now have the intelligence score of the top frontier model from March 2026 Via r/LocalLLaMA · 997 points ·...

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Quick Brief Featured AI story today: “Show HN: Bento – An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Google DeepMind on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases Show HN: Bento – An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) Over the past few months, our team has been building more and more slidedecks using web frontend technologies with coding harnesses like Claude… 🔗 Read more Absurd...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “Testing llama.cpp MTP support on Qwen3.6 – RTX 5090” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Faded_Gallery on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases Testing llama.cpp MTP support on Qwen3.6 – RTX 5090 Setup: \- RTX 5090, 32 GB, Linux \- Built llama.cpp from 4f13cb7 (the official ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp:server-cuda image hasn’t picked up the… 🔗 Read more 85 GPU-hours comparing 5 abliteration methods on Qwen3.6-27B: benchmarks, safety, weight forensics...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) for LLaMA.cpp – Gemma 4 speedup by 40%” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Ecliptic Graphic on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) for LLaMA.cpp – Gemma 4 speedup by 40% Implemented Multi-Token Prediction for LLaMA.cpp. Quantized Gemma 4 assistant models into GGUF format. Ran tests on a MacBook Pro M5Max. Gemma 26B… 🔗 Read more guess what? if you are...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “Llama.cpp MTP support now in beta!” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases Llama.cpp MTP support now in beta! Happy to report that llama.cpp MTP support is now in beta, thanks to Aman (and all the others that have pushed the various issues in the… 🔗 Read more it’s time to update your Gemma 4 GGUFs Chat Template was...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “I’m done with using local LLMs for coding” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Logan Voss on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases I’m done with using local LLMs for coding I think gave it a fair shot over the past few weeks, forcing myself to use local models for non-work tech asks. I use Claude Code at my job so… 🔗 Read more Qwen 3.6 27B...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “I’m glad we have deepseek” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Enchanted Tools on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases I’m glad we have deepseek other companies are slowly going away from open weight, not releasing base models, delaying open weight distribution, not releasing top models… 🔗 Read more “Weights are coming”.Xiaomi’s MiMo V2.5 Pro has landed at 54 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. From: \-...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “Kimi K2.6 Released (huggingface)” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Mitchell Griest on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases Kimi K2.6 Released (huggingface) Via r/LocalLLaMA · 418 points · 122 comments 🔗 Read more Qwen 3.6 Max Preview just went live on the Qwen Chat website. It currently has the highest AA-Intelligence Index score among Chinese models (52) (Will it be open source?) Via r/LocalLLaMA · 222...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “Are my hopes for running a local LLM unrealistic?” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Google DeepMind on Unsplash Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases DFlash speculative decoding on Apple Silicon : 85 tok/s, 3.3x on Qwen3.5-9B (MLX, M5 Max) I’m building a native MLX implementation of DFlash (paper) for Apple Silicon. A small draft model generates 16 tokens in parallel via block… 🔗 Read more Are my...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “You can now fine-tune Gemma 4 locally 8GB VRAM + Bug Fixes” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by fabio on Unsplash Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases You can now fine-tune Gemma 4 locally 8GB VRAM + Bug Fixes Hey guys, you can now fine-tune Gemma 4 E2B and E4B in our free Unsloth notebooks! You need **8GB VRAM to train Gemma-4-E2B** locally. Unsloth… 🔗 Read more Gemma...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “Netflix just dropped their first public model on Hugging Face: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Google DeepMind on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases Netflix just dropped their first public model on Hugging Face: VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion Hugging Face netflix/void-model: Project page – GitHub: Demo: ( 🔗 Read more You can now run Google Gemma 4 locally!...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “Qwen3.5-Omni results have been published by Alibaba” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases Qwen3.5-Omni results have been published by Alibaba Via r/LocalLLaMA · 246 points · 34 comments 🔗 Read more I just want to catch up on local LLM’s after work.. Via r/LocalLLaMA · 224 points · 41 comments 🔗 Read more Claude code source code has...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “A simple explanation of the key idea behind TurboQuant” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases A simple explanation of the key idea behind TurboQuant TurboQuant (Zandieh et al. 2025) has been all the rage in the past two days, and I’ve seen lots of comments here attempting to explain the magic… 🔗 Read more Me waiting for TurboQuant...

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Quick Brief Featured story today: “LM Studio may possibly be infected with sophisticated malware.” And more models & releases news from the AI universe – Photo by Back2Gaming on Unsplash. Today’s Hot Posts Models & Releases LM Studio may possibly be infected with sophisticated malware. I’m no expert, just a tinkerer who messed with models at home, so correct me if this is a false positive, but it doesn’t look that way to me…. 🔗 Read more Created a SillyTavern...

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