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Quick background for people who don't track the chinese labs closely. zhipu is one of the bigger ones, glm is their main model line, and glm 5.2 dropped on June 13. The mit weights already on huggingface on June 17, and GLM 5.2 API went live on June 17. I'm not posting about the model itself, i'm posting because the launch is a clean example of something worth learning to read. There are two different sources of numbers going around and they are not the same thing. one set is from the official...

Just a simple question.

Super curious to know what's the most niche AI use case that you've made up for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X90A9ZFtg6g I built a native C substrate engine that runs locally and persists/restores state deterministically. This short demo shows: - clearing the live state - mounting a small knowledge pack - exporting state to disk - restarting the process - restoring the same state with a matching digest In the demo, the restored state is 106 nodes / 72 relations. The current demo path does not require cloud services or GPU inference. It also supports abstention i...

I was wondering what platforms or strategies everyone is using to gather genuine beta tester feedback. I am happy to offer AI credits to anyone willing to test it out and provide feedback, treating this incentive as part of my marketing spend. Any thoughts on where I should post or how best to get started? The product is GetOutr. Right now, outbound sales tends to be either painfully slow when done manually, or highly ineffective when blasting generic templates. I built Outr to fix that. T...

For instance, let’s say I have 4 friends (all of whom agreed to be used as models) and I plug in their faces, and I give a complex prompt with specificity. Which one can handle the prompt while not confusing the faces? thanks!

I was looking at China's 2025 workforce data and one thing surprised me. The country's largest occupational group isn't professionals or factory workers. It's craft and related trades workers at 93.6 million people. Despite their size, they score only 2.5/10 on AI exposure. Meanwhile, clerical support workers score 8.5/10 and cover 33.6 million workers. Professionals score 6.5/10 and account for 81.8 million people. Another interesting finding is the split between AI and robotics. Plant ...

Jailbreaking is a real issue, but honestly nothing new… Every model gets cracked within days of release. The real question is where the model gets the dangerous knowledge in the first place. It has to be in the training data. So how does a model end up knowing how to cook meth, or worse? It didn't figure it out by itself. It's in there because of what they fed it. Anthropic, OpenAI, all of them love to present themselves as the responsible, "safety-first" adults in the room. But...

A few experiments exploring how far generative video + fine-tuned orchestration layers can be pushed in rhythm, camera language, body transformation, and most of all, audiovisual synchronization. Breakdown: I used Uisato Studio’ Seedance 2.0 Video mode, with the "Intelligent" setup and the "Audioreactive Performance" prompt recipe. Inputs were: - the artist image [full-body recomended - I ended up using a mix of Midjourney + GPT Image + Image Studio] - a target au...

Cause no matter what I see, generative Ai has sloved nouthing. But people keep saying it's "The future". What future? Because all that generative Ai had done is: -making it easy for people to spred propoganda -making clean water much harder to accese because of the many data set it need's -stole many artists' artwork -demotivated me from sharing real art I made as generative Ai will just spit out a much uglier and much more sanitized version. But despite that, people wil...

Most AI systems are built on three assumptions: you need backpropagation, you need GPUs, and you need to carefully prevent catastrophic forgetting. I wanted to see what happens if you throw all three out. RAVANA is a research prototype that: Learns through prediction errors — like Friston's free energy principle, the system feels "pressure" when predictions fail and self-organizes to reduce it Never forgets — a biologically-inspired sleep cycle (SWS for consolidation + REM ...

I was thinking for math. My father was in his 20s in the 70s. And although accepted to Princeton he did not go. IQ about 20 points higher than mine. And trained himself on things he wanted to know reading magazines and reading books on things to solve problems. Like the hubble telescope. Taught himself optics to figure out how to use what was functional. Not sure what they actually did, I guess sent someone up and fixed it. Or same thing he did. I don't know ​ We looked at one of thos...

Hey everyone, Two months ago, We launched AgentSwarms to help developers learn and build POC using Agentic AI. Since then, over 3,800 learners have joined the platform. Now, it’s time to see what you can actually design when the gloves come off. This week, We're officially launching the Agentic AI World Cup . The twist? No complex boilerplate environment setup required. This competition is entirely focused on architectural design using the platform's visual canvas builder . 🏆 The ...

I’ll start: I thought AI would automate simple jobs first. Instead, it’s helping with things like coding, writing, and research much faster than I expected. What’s yours?

hallucination is loud. you can catch a wrong date. agreement is silent. there's no error message for "this just told you what you wanted to hear." i've watched it happen to me a hundred times. i ask hopeful, it's hopeful. i ask scared, suddenly we're doomed. it's not its own rational brain, its its own reasoning brain. reasoning that is affected by user input. it's a mirror with a vocabulary. and it's worst exactly when it matters most, because that's when you're too invested to ...

Been sitting on this for a bit after watching an AI feature at my last job basically die a slow death post-launch, and I think the model-failure explanation is usually a red herring tbh. Concrete version of what I mean. We had an agent doing first-pass triage on inbound support tickets, routing + drafting a suggested reply for a human to approve. Launched, looked great for like 6 weeks. Engineering was watching latency (fine, consistently under 2s) and error rate (also fine, sub 1%). Product was...

I’m wondering whether maybe “dating service” might be a genuine “killer app” for AI. I, myself, am an AI cynic, seeing that the hype and concomitant human folly have far outstripped the proven, solid uses for this new technology. However, perhaps human matching is actually a task an AI algorithm could successfully tackle. There already are a few AI dating services out there, even after removing the chatbot girlfriend/boyfriend providers and the AI dating advice sites, but even the current AI m...

Creating an intelligence network where signals are turned into intelligence. Goal is to create network/digital ecosystems of intelligence. Any feedback is appreciated. Still early in the works The idea is pretty simple: instead of just showing information, it tries to connect signals, trends, stories, and systems to help explain what's changing in the world and where things might be heading.

Every AI assistant starts every chat from zero — you re-explain your context every time — and the "memory" features that exist keep your stuff on someone's server. so i built the opposite: one private memory that lives on your own machine, that your AI tools share over MCP. tell one assistant something, another can recall it. it's just plain markdown files on your disk — readable, greppable, deletable, yours — and recall runs on-device, so nothing gets uploaded. free and open source ...

One of these applications even analyses factors that cause market volatility—such as geopolitical developments, regulatory changes, and macroeconomic shifts—allowing Deutsche Bank globally to eliminate or minimise portfolio risk. ​ Deutsche India, Deutsche Bank’s Global Capability Centre (GCC) on Thursday (June 18, 2026) demonstrated three different AI applications and how they are being applied at scale to solve real business challenges in the global banking sector. ​ Offe...

As a 56-year old engineer/project manager, I am cognizant of my precarious position in the line of being displaced. The media, CEOs, and politicians spew lazy rhetoric of 'you need to upskill yourself in AI', 'winners will be those who can successfully navigate AI', as if all the problem lies with the workers themselves, and everyone is just rejecting AI and chooses to use hand chisels. Here is the truth - there is simply not enough roles for all the workers trained in AI. For every success ...

Most prompt injection benchmarks are one-shot. The attack says “ignore your instructions” and the defense either catches it or doesn’t. Real attacks are often slower. The model gets nudged over multiple turns. A webpage plants a suggestion. An email reinforces it. A tool output reframes it. Five turns later the agent is doing something it never should have done. I got curious how existing defenses handled this, so I built a benchmark around multi-turn escalation and cross-source authority tr...

Something I am legitimately worried about is the scale at which agentic technologies can produce artifacts, which are then contributed as part of the general corpus that they reference. The more that the internet and other public databases are propagated with AI-generated content, the more that AI is effectively training itself in referencing these corpuses. This seems like a non-issue now, but in 10-15 years when billions of AI-generated artifacts have been proliferated and contributed to th...

The last 6 months have experienced an enormous leap forward in terms of AI production capabilities. I generated a tweet, which through AI, translated into an official 30s video complete with a written script, voiceover narration, inclusion of clips to accompany both visuals and audio narration together with subtitles for both video and audio, were produced. ​ Previously, this would have been considered a novelty item only. Now, it has evolved into something useful but probably wouldn'...

Is this the new scammy ad push? Yesterday I saw a video for a nutrition supplement with what looked like Carrie-Ann Moss hosting a podcast (Trinity in The Matrix). Today it was an ad about dogfood with Rob Lowe (West Wing, Parks and Rec, etc). I hate this era 😑

I have long wanted to create a text based browser game (as niche as they are) but I knew that it would take a few years to do so and that just wasn't in the cards for me.... fast forward to 2026 and in two months, I have my first game up and some happy customers (as of today) subscribed! The one thing I have fought with the most was ignoring all of the 'ai slop' feedback. I have been a dev for over 10 years, yea I get it... but ultimately AI/Vibe Coding is not going anywhere. This project has ...