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Today in brief.
OpenAI claims 100 open math problems and forms a math board
OpenAI says its systems have resolved more than 100 open mathematical problems and is standing up an independent mathematician advisory group to police how those results get shared.
Perplexity Computer ships Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 video
Perplexity Computer can now generate finished campaign clips and product demos with ByteDance Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 in the same thread as copy and creative, for Pro and Max users.
3 sources 3:00 PMa16z chart: post-ChatGPT startups hit 2x median revenue
a16z charts show median startup revenue four years after founding jumped from about $2.8M for the 2021 cohort to $5.6M for the 2022 ChatGPT-era cohort, while the SaaSpocalypse trade is still lagging.
2 sources 12:09 PMBoston Dynamics plants Atlas inside a Hyundai metaplant
Boston Dynamics opens the Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai's Metaplant America as a testbed to integrate Atlas directly into car manufacturing, while NVIDIA cheers Einride's next autonomous trucking stack.
Grok 4.7 lands with longer verified agent runs
xAI ships Grok 4.7 as its strongest coding and knowledge model yet, with early demos and benches showing longer verified builds at the same $2/$6 per million token price.
+37 sourcesMini-AGI grows a continual learner on an 8GB laptop
Show HN and LocalLLaMA highlight Mini-AGI, a dynamically grown continual-learning model trained from scratch on an 8GB VRAM laptop from a batch-1 data stream, now around 530M params and climbing.
Supra2-IMG drops a tiny open 100M image model
r/LocalLLaMA flags Supra2-IMG, a ~100M-parameter open text-to-image model claiming SOTA-for-size quality, a downloadable creator beat that fits on small GPUs.
FT: AI chatbots flub finance answers most of the time
The Financial Times reports AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries most of the time, a hard skeptic number for anyone shipping or trusting money advice from models.
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