Upcurrent: anatomy leads Monday, October 12
Good morning. Here's what picked up speed in AI over the last day.
Top mover: anatomy, score 95, up 284% in a day. 2 of the top 10 are in Agents.
Climbing fastest
- anatomy (score 95). An agent skill for creating detailed, interactive isometric illustrations of real-world machines and complex systems. Generates polished SVGs with…
- ARTEX (score 93). AI 自主渗透测试系统 | 百度“agent+”攻防挑战赛冠军项目
- embeddinggemma-2 (score 90). Vision on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 1.7K
- Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (score 90). Vision on Hugging Face · open weights · ♥ 554
- humanizer (score 89). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 1.1K
Headlines
- An interview with ex-DeepMind scientist David Silver on his startup Ineffable, building an AI "super learner" using RL as an alternative path to LLMs, and more (Techmeme)
- Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says AI companies are "starting to do phones" and asking Qualcomm to support running 100B-parameter local LLMs continuously by 2028 (Techmeme)
- Vitalize, an AI platform that helps hospitals manage labor and capacity in real time, raised a $31M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, with YC and others participating (Techmeme)
- Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the Iran school strike and AI targeting, the DOD dropping Anthropic, AI liability, effective altruism, and more (Techmeme)
- UK to strengthen cyber defences as minister calls for AI firms to increase safety efforts (The Guardian)
Repos gaining stars
- wheresryan22/anatomy: +3,751 stars in 24h
- LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance: about +441 stars in 24h
- mhtsec/ARTEX: +352 stars in 24h
Threads people are discussing
- The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (Hacker News)
- An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust (Hacker News)
- Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (Hacker News)
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