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Language models can't spark scientific revolutions, but world models might
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (429+ words) Can language models spark a scientific revolution? In a position paper titled "LLMs can't jump," Google Deepmind's Tom Zahavy argues they can't. They're missing the cognitive mechanism needed to create something truly new. Zahavy builds his case on a framework…...
Claude Cowork learns new skills through screen recordings and voice-over explanations
1+ week, 1+ day ago (180+ words) the-decoder.com Claude Cowork learns new skills through screen recordings and voice-over explanations Anthropic has added a new feature to its AI assistant Claude Cowork that lets users record custom skills in the desktop app. Users record their screen while…...
Google ships three new Gemini Flash models but its frontier 3.5 Pro remains lost in training
1+ week, 1+ day ago (599+ words) Google is expanding the Gemini lineup with two Flash models and a specialized Cyber version. But the anticipated frontier model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, is still missing. Google has announced three new models in the Gemini Flash family: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and the…...
Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops the competition in the text-to-speech rankings
1+ week, 2+ day ago (209+ words) the-decoder.com Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops the competition in the text-to-speech rankings Alibaba's new text-to-speech model, Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus, leads Artificial Analysis' Speech Arena leaderboard for provider voices. With an Elo score of 1,236, it sits just ahead of Simba…...
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 shows that more data beats bigger models when training robots to move
1+ week, 2+ day ago (698+ words) Xiaomi has released an AI model for robots that follows the same scaling pattern as large language models. Its performance improves as it trains on more data. To build that dataset, Xiaomi largely avoided using physical robots. That's the gap…...
Moonshot pauses new Kimi K3 subscriptions after GPU demand maxes out in 48 hours
1+ week, 3+ day ago (118+ words) the-decoder.com Moonshot pauses new Kimi K3 subscriptions after GPU demand maxes out in 48 hours So much for the idea that open source cuts computing needs. Moonshot, the AI startup behind the Kimi K3 model, has temporarily stopped selling new subscriptions. Over…...
GPT-5.6 Sol reportedly disproves a 30-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes after humans couldn't crack it
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (572+ words) A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 to solve one of the central open questions in his field. When researchers test thousands of hypotheses at once, like scanning the human genome for disease-linked genes, they run into a…...
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra reportedly solves a 50-year-old math problem in under an hour
2+ week, 4+ day ago (625+ words) OpenAI’s new AI model, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, has produced a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture using 64 subagents working in parallel. Mathematician Thomas Bloom praises the proof but criticizes the lack of citations. OpenAI has announced that GPT-5.6 Sol…...
GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top
3+ week, 2+ day ago (226+ words) the-decoder.com GPT-4's dominance lasted a year while today's top models barely survive seven weeks at the top OpenAI's GPT-4 held the top spot on the Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) for about a year. The ECI is a composite…...
Baidu's "Unlimited OCR" processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting
3+ week, 4+ day ago (919+ words) Baidu researchers have built an OCR model that handles dozens of document pages in a single inference pass, keeping memory use and speed constant regardless of text length. A redesigned attention mechanism makes this possible. No current OCR model handles…...