Good morning. Here's what picked up speed in AI over the last day.

Top mover: clef, score 93, up 0% in a day. Coding make up 3 of the top 10.

Climbing fastest

1. clef (score 93). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 1.7K
2. JEV-27B-VL (score 91). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 966
3. Kolibri-1 (score 90). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 701
4. Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF (score 87). Model on Hugging Face · open weights · ♥ 3.4K
5. clef-flash (score 87). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 581

Headlines

• Mistral launches a preview of Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, a 1T model it claims tops any open model developed in the US or Europe; weights are due October 27 (Techmeme)
• Sources: Waymo increased the size of its inaugural debt raise from $3B+ to $5B, as it grapples with rising AI costs and rapidly expands its robotaxi fleet (Techmeme)
• Anthropic integrates its Cyber Verification Program and Project Glasswing into a new, expanded version of CVP, with three tiers and access to its latest models (Techmeme)
• Mistral says ML4 was trained using 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its own data centers in Europe and much of its training data was multilingual (Techmeme)
• Meta, Walmart, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure interactions between AI bots and businesses (Techmeme)

Repos gaining stars

• QingYunA/answer-me-with-html: +219 stars in 24h
• nanaism/yomiyasu: +0 stars in 24h

Threads people are discussing

• Mistral Large 4 (Hacker News)
• Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk" (Hacker News)
• Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (Hacker News)

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