TLDR AI 2025-07-28
Claude Code in practice 👨💻, Meta’s new Chief Scientist 🤖, Runway Aleph 📹
Runway Aleph Video Model (4 minute read)
Runway's Aleph is a new in-context video model capable of editing, transforming, and generating videos. It supports tasks like object manipulation, angle shifts, and style or lighting changes with high fidelity.
Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab (2 minute read)
Meta has named Shengjia Zhao, ChatGPT co-creator, as chief scientist of its new Superintelligence Lab to bolster its AI initiatives. Zhao will lead research direction, working closely with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief AI Officer Alex Wang. The move highlights Meta's aggressive recruitment strategy to close the gap in advanced AI capabilities.
Claude Code in Practice: Anthropic Case Study (26 minute read)
This case study explores how Anthropic's internal teams, from legal to engineering, are using Claude Code to automate tasks, bridge skill gaps, and accelerate complex projects.
The Story of the World's First AI-Organized Event (1 minute read)
An AI orchestrated a successful event, handling tasks such as scheduling, marketing, and logistics. The event highlighted AI's potential to automate complex organizational tasks. This advancement could streamline event management and reduce human workload.
Why China isn't about to leap ahead of the West on compute (13 minute read)
Chinese hardware has closed the computational performance gap from 10x to just 3x behind NVIDIA's latest chips, yet over 90% of notable Chinese language models since 2017 were still trained on Western hardware. Major bottlenecks in chip manufacturing yields—SMIC achieves below 50% compared to TSMC's 90%—and immature software ecosystems mean Chinese developers continue preferring NVIDIA when available.
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AgenticSeek (GitHub Repo)
A fully local, voice-enabled AI assistant that autonomously browses the web, writes code, and plans tasks. It was designed to be a private open-source alternative to Manus AI with no cloud dependencies.
CollabLLM (GitHub Repo)
CollabLLM is an open-source framework that trains language models to ask strategic questions and guide conversations rather than make assumptions, using "Multiturn-aware Reward" that evaluates responses based on their long-term impact on conversation outcomes rather than immediate helpfulness.
Qwen3 235B Thinking (Hugging Face Repo)
Alibaba's latest open-source thinking model achieves 92.3% on AIME25 math competitions, matching OpenAI's O4-mini performance while surpassing it on coding benchmarks with 74.1% on LiveCodeBench. The 235B parameter mixture-of-experts model activates only 22B parameters during inference, making it more efficient than traditional dense models.
Everything I've Learned so far About OpenAI's Agents (10 minute read)
This article looks at what OpenAI's new Agents can do, can't do, their available applications and tools, and more. Examples of work done by the agent are provided in the article. There are still many things OpenAI's Agents are unable to do. There are also many performance and output issues, making the product seem unfinished.
The Cloud Cost Conundrum: Rising Expenses Hinder AI Innovation in Europe (3 minute read)
High cloud infrastructure costs are slowing AI development in Europe. Compute-intensive workloads like model training are facing sharp budget constraints. Many startups report needing to scale back experiments or delay releases due to rising cloud bills. The region's innovators are calling for more efficient architectures and pricing models to remain competitive globally.
Turn your rough ideas into polished designs with Lovart, the Design Agent (Sponsor)
Lovart works like an expert designer: using tools, planning, looking up examples, delivering designs, and iterating based on feedback. Supports image, video, audio, 3D.
No waitlist - start now for freeFaster Hugging Face CLI (3 minute read)
Hugging Face has renamed its CLI from huggingface-cli to hf, reorganizing the command structure into a more intuitive format.
The 14 pains of billing for AI agents (13 minute read)
The original billing complexity hasn't gone away, we've just added a whole new layer of agentic complexity on top.
Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark (19 minute read)
GitHub Spark is GitHub's implementation of the prompt-to-app pattern - this post explores its system prompt in detail.
The dominance of Chinese open models is undersold (1 minute read)
The top four open source AI models are from Chinese labs.
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