Upcurrent: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 leads Sunday, October 18
Good morning. Here's what picked up speed in AI over the last day.
Top mover: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, score 98. 4 of the top 10 are in Vision.
Climbing fastest
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (score 98). Vision on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 1.1K
- qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill (score 92). Qwen-Image 2.1 NSFW/姿势出图 skill：作者级提示词配方 + NSFW LoRA + 136 姿势 VNCCS 人偶控制；适用 Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / OpenClaw
- git-ai (score 92). Git designed for AI agents.
- esp32-iphone-agent (score 89). Let an AI model use a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32: AirPlay eyes, USB HID hands, any OpenAI-compatible vision model. No Mac, no developer account,…
- embeddinggemma-2 (score 89). Vision on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 2.6K
Headlines
- Sources: Anthropic is consulting law firms on deal negotiation tactics as it develops AI agents to negotiate on humans' behalf and interact with AI counterparts (Techmeme)
- Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve (Techmeme)
- An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, plans to make Windows a safer OS to run AI agents, and more (Techmeme)
- RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive (NVIDIA)
- Anomaly Innovations, behind coding agent OpenCode, says a breach hit ~1.4% of OpenCode Console users and their API keys, in a "large scale distillation attack" (Techmeme)
Repos gaining stars
- deeplethe/solid-glass: +341 stars in 24h
- Arekejoker/qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill: +98 stars in 24h
- onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: +88 stars in 24h
Threads people are discussing
- DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 (Hacker News)
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 (Hacker News)
- Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses (Hacker News)
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