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Today in brief.
Decision models go open: Amazon Strands and Perplexity API
A new model class for cheap workflow routing landed in the open. Amazon open-sourced Strands Decider 2B (local Jev-style picks with confidence scores). Perplexity open-sourced multimodal pplx-decider-27b and priced a Decisions API at $0.04/M input with free output.
🤖 AI
Project Continuum: real-time video as the desktop OS
Runway Labs shared Project Continuum, an OS research app built around real-time video interfaces: Portals, Visual Thinking, Responsive Video Interfaces, and Interactive Worlds. Interface world models like Solaris are the bet. Separate from yesterday's Praxis-1 robot weights.
🔧 Tech
Try today: Janus Vulkan GGUF and a $1.50 house redesign
Two things you can poke now: Janus, a Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia, and a ship-it interior redesign that restyles a full Zillow listing for about $1.50 with SAM 3.1 and Ideogram 4.5.
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🎬 Media
Tavus Griffin passes the video Turing test
Tavus unveiled Griffin, a full-duplex video-to-video Human Interaction Model. In a live one-minute blind study, 48% of people thought they were talking to a real person (prior systems ~2%). It also leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB full-duplex benchmark.
🔬 Science
Ataraxos beats the Stratego world champ on a shoestring
Academic team Ataraxos beat four-time world champion Pim Niemeijer 15-1-4 at Stratego, the long-horizon imperfect-info game that stumped DeepMind. Training cost: about 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars, not millions.
💼 Business
Shopify Canvas: chat Sidekick builds your real store
Shopify launched Canvas: merchants chat with Sidekick and watch the live store (real theme code, not a static mock) update in real time. Click-to-edit still works; third-party themes and mobile are later.
🔬 Science
Legato Frames: AI hearing glasses you can buy today
Hearing startup Legato launched Frames: AI glasses that amplify voices and cut background noise for up to moderate hearing loss. Starts at $999, 34g, 10 to 12 hour battery, fully on-device with no cameras or recording.
🔬 Science
OpenAI and Synopsys team up on GPT-Synopsys chip design
OpenAI and Synopsys signed a multi-year deal for GPT-Synopsys: a specialized frontier model that operates Synopsys EDA tools for semiconductor design workflows, with shared go-to-market and revenue. Early customer engagements underway.
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