xAI works on Grok Code Remote to rival OpenAI's Codex (2 minute read) xAI will host a hackathon on December 6-7. Participants will receive early access to experimental models. The company is working on a feature called Grok Code Remote to align with industry trends towards cloud-based code execution. It will allow users to run code in remote environments directly from the web. | Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI (6 minute read) OpenAI forecasts that it won't turn a profit until 2030, while Anthropic expects to break even for the first time in 2027. OpenAI is also expected to burn roughly 14 times as much cash as Anthropic before turning a profit. The two most valuable AI startups are taking vastly different approaches to growth. OpenAI is investing heavily in chips and data centers. Anthropic is taking a more cautious approach, making sure that costs grow more in line with revenue. | You can now test upcoming GPT-5.1 on OpenRouter (2 minute read) OpenAI's latest code updates reference a general availability date of November 24 for the GPT-5.1 family for Enterprise accounts. Plus and Pro users may gain access to the models even earlier, possibly within the coming week. GPT-5.1 Thinking may currently be testing under the name Polaris Alpha on platforms such as OpenRouter. Polaris Alpha has a 256k context window and quite good performance. | | AI Diffusion Report: Where AI Is Most Used, Developed, and Built (20 minute read) AI has reached 1.2 billion users in under three years, marking the fastest technology adoption in human history. However, the Global North's adoption rate is nearly double that of the Global South. The next 1–2 billion users may come easily, but adoption is expected to plateau afterward because the remaining ~4 billion people lack electricity or internet access. Low-resource languages create an additional barrier: half the web is in English, even though only 5% of people speak it natively. | The 4.5 trillion dollar elephant in the room (25 minute read) Nvidia, currently valued at $4.5 trillion, is the most valuable company on Earth and the dominant supplier of AI chips. A pattern of fear around the company is impacting policy discussion. There are claims that the major AI companies disagree with Nvidia's policy stances, but are unwilling to speak out because Nvidia has the power to undermine their business. This article looks at the evidence of such claims. | | Omnilingual ASR (GitHub Repo) Omnilingual ASR is a speech recognition system that supports over 1,600 languages, with hundreds never before covered by other ASR technology. New languages can be added with just a few paired examples without specialized expertise or large datasets. Omnilingual ASR is designed for broad accessibility - it is aimed at making speech technology more inclusive and adaptable for communities and researchers worldwide. | Egocentric-10K (Hugging Face Repo) Egocentric-10K is a hand visibility and active manipulation data set with 10,000 hours of video. It contains 192,900 video clips of 2,138 workers completing tasks in real factories. A video showing examples of some of the clips is available in the repository. | AMA With Moonshot AI, The Open-source Frontier Lab Behind Kimi K2 Thinking Model (Reddit Thread) Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 is a Mixture-of-Experts model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance in frontier knowledge, math, and coding among non-thinking models and also has agentic abilities. Kimi-K2-Base and Kimi-K2-Instruct were recently open sourced. This thread contains a discussion with the team at Moonshot AI. | | New leaked image samples by Nano Banana 2 (1 minute read) Nano Banana 2 access was briefly leaked, and image samples were widely circulated across social media. The model appears capable of remastering low-quality images and following detailed text prompts. There is still no confirmation of the release date, but a launch is likely to be imminent. The leaked samples are available in the article. | | | Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! | | Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! | | | | Track your referrals here. | | Want to advertise in TLDR? 📰 If your company is interested in reaching an audience of AI professionals and decision makers, you may want to advertise with us. Want to work at TLDR? 💼 Apply here or send a friend's resume to jobs@tldr.tech and get $1k if we hire them! If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Andrew Tan, Ali Aminian, & Jacob Turner | | | |
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