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Open-Weights Frontier + Motion/Video Surge. Frontier drops cluster: Moonshot Kimi K3 (2.8T-param open MoE, 1M context), Thinking Machines Lab ships Inkling — its first open-weights frontier model (975B/41B MoE, 45T multimodal tokens) — xAI open-sources Grok Build (Rust coding-agent TUI), Prism ML Bonsai 27B (ultra-low-bit ternary/1-bit quantization), and NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Embed tops the RTEB embedding benchmark. Image: NVIDIA/Comfy-Org PixelDiT (VAE-free pixel-space diffusion, CVPR Best Paper Finalist), ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro now API-available on BytePlus, and Lucida matting. Video + human animation: Qualcomm MobileWan (on-device 5B video gen on phones), Alibaba Wan-Dancer (minute-long music-to-dance) and Wan-Streamer v0.3 (duplex audio-video), MeiGen-AI talking-head hub, and the Cardboard AI editor. Motion + world/3D: RobbyAnt LingBot World 2 (now on Reactor), Motion4Motion cross-morphology transfer, Snap SnapMoGen, NVIDIA ARDY (humanoid motion to Unitree G1), Google DeepMind GenCeption (video models as vision learners), and Google GNM 3D head model. Big agent-tooling + Agent-Skills wave: Colibri (run 744B GLM-5.2 on 25GB RAM), Google Always-On Memory Agent, Graphify code knowledge graphs, official GSAP Skills, taste-skill anti-slop UI, Super Video Maker, scroll-world, nano-banana image skills, Digital Marketing Pro, and a Telnyx/Kimi voice agent. Safety: CopySight IP-compliance. Industry: George Lucas embraces AI (Variety).
36 launches and research drops that matter for enterprise AI builders—curated, tagged, and ready for your next roadmap sync.
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New reasoning systems, world models, and alignment papers.
2.8-trillion-parameter open MoE model (16 of 896 experts active via Stable LatentMoE, Kimi Delta Attention) with native multimodal vision and a 1M-token context, scoring 67.3 on DeepSWE; priced at $0.30/MTok cached input and $15/MTok output.
View release ↗Ultra-low-bit quantized multimodal LLM based on Qwen3.6 27B, with a ternary {-1,0,+1} variant (1.71 bits/weight, 5.9 GB, ~95% of full-precision performance) and a 1-bit binary variant (1.125 bits/weight, 3.9 GB, ~90% retention). Quantizes end-to-end with no higher-precision escape hatches, keeping 262K context, tool calling, vision, and speculative decoding.
View release ↗First open-weights frontier model from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab: a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts LLM (975B total / 41B active, up to 1M-token context) trained on 45T multimodal tokens across text, image, and audio, with controllable thinking effort, uncertainty calibration, and agentic coding/tool use. Weights on Hugging Face, fine-tuning via Tinker.
View release ↗Open embedding-model family (8B and 1.14B, 4096/2048 dims, 32K context) for RAG, agentic retrieval, code search, and agent memory. The 8B variant ranks #1 on RTEB (78.5%) and is SOTA on the LMEB long-context memory benchmark (64.4); the NVFP4 1B variant delivers ~2x throughput on Blackwell.
View model ↗Video, audio, and physics-native generation techniques.
Interactive world model that turns a single input image into an explorable world generated in real time, frame by frame, with hour-long continuous 720p/60fps generation and native agent interaction. Now distributed via Reactor (Reactor Technologies, $59M raised).
View release ↗SIGGRAPH 2026 training-free method for cross-morphology motion transfer (human-to-animal, animal-to-object) that avoids skeletons by operating on dense pixel-level motion flow, rewiring cached self-attention K/V features in a frozen WAN text-to-video diffusion transformer via retargeted positional encodings (TransPE).
View release ↗Embodied agents learning to act in complex worlds.
Sample project building an inbound-call customer-support voice agent on the Telnyx AI Assistant Builder, using Kimi-K2.5 for inference plus Telnyx native STT/TTS. A FastAPI webhook injects live context (queue wait times, system status) at call start, with a WebRTC widget for browser testing.
View repo ↗xAI's open-sourced terminal-based coding agent, a full-screen Rust TUI (Apache 2.0) that understands codebases, edits files, runs shell commands, searches the web, and manages long-running tasks. Runs interactively, headless for CI, or embedded in editors via the Agent Client Protocol.
View repo ↗Gemini/ADK reference agent that runs continuous memory consolidation via three sub-agents (Ingest, Consolidate on a 30-min timer, Query), ingesting 27 file types into SQLite with entity/importance extraction and no vector DB or embeddings; built on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite.
View repo ↗Frameworks, playbooks, and OSS repos.
Python 3.10+ web-scraping framework with adaptive selectors that relocate when page layouts change, plus HTTP/stealth/Playwright fetchers, TLS-fingerprint spoofing, and Cloudflare/Turnstile anti-bot bypass. Adds a Scrapy-like spider layer with concurrent crawling and checkpoint pause/resume; BSD-3-Clause.
View repo ↗MIT-licensed "anti-slop" collection of portable Agent Skills that push AI-generated UIs toward better design, with aesthetic presets (soft, minimalist, brutalist) and dials for layout variance, motion, and density. Framework-agnostic (React/Vue/Svelte), installable via npx skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
View repo ↗MIT-licensed coding-assistant skill that turns codebases, docs, and media into queryable knowledge graphs using local tree-sitter AST parsing (no data leaves the machine) across 36+ languages plus PDFs, images, and SQL schemas. Outputs interactive graph.html/JSON with Leiden community detection and query/path/explain commands.
View repo ↗GreenSock's official Agent Skills repo teaching AI coding agents to use GSAP correctly, with eight skills covering the core API, timelines, ScrollTrigger, plugins, utilities, React, performance, and Vue/Svelte. Installable via npx skills or the Claude Code plugin marketplace; works with Cursor, Copilot, and 40+ agents.
View repo ↗Publicly shared Google Doc curating a ranked list of ~10 frontend-design skills and MCP servers for building UI with Claude Code in 2026, including frontend-design, ui-ux-pro-max, shadcn-ui, GSAP, Framer Motion, and Convex, each with links.
View release ↗Open-source end-to-end AI video-production Agent Skill that lets agents produce polished videos: HeyGen avatar explainers, FFmpeg screen-recording/demo composition, B-roll via Seedance 2.0 and OpenAI images, Whisper captioning, and Remotion motion graphics, plus layout/QC checks.
View repo ↗Apache-2.0 zero-dependency C runtime that runs the 744B-parameter MoE model GLM-5.2 on ~25GB-RAM consumer machines by streaming expert weights from disk across a VRAM/RAM/NVMe tier hierarchy, with MLA attention, speculative decoding, and an OpenAI-compatible API. ~0.05–0.1 tok/s on a 25GB device, up to ~6.8 tok/s with six GPUs.
View repo ↗Agent skill for Claude Code/Codex that generates scroll-scrubbed fly-through landing pages where a camera continuously flies through interconnected 3D diorama scenes, using a vanilla-JS scrub engine plus ffmpeg and orchestrating Higgsfield (GPT Image 2) for stills and Seedance/Kling for frame-locked transitions.
View repo ↗MIT-licensed collection of AI agent skills for Nano Banana Pro (Google Gemini) covering image transformations like anime-to-photorealistic, character reference sheets, cosplay conversion, IMAX 70mm portrait outpainting, and 8K photo restoration; used by adding the repo as Knowledge to a Gemini Gem.
View repo ↗Skill (Claude/Cursor/Codex/Gemini-CLI) that recommends AI image prompts from a library of 10,000+ community-curated templates synced daily, returning up to 3 ranked prompts each with a mandatory sample image. Optimized for Nano Banana Pro but compatible with DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Flux.
View repo ↗Open-source MIT-licensed AI marketing plugin with 158 skills and 25 specialist agents that runs a 12-part strategy flow producing ~50–60 strategy docs in about an hour; works across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and 40+ platforms via the Agent Skills standard, with 8 real API connectors (Slack, HubSpot, Klaviyo, etc.).
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