Upcurrent: qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill leads Friday, October 16
Good morning. Here's what picked up speed in AI over the last day.
Top mover: qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill, score 94. 3 of the top 10 are in Vision.
Climbing fastest
- qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill (score 94). 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
- esp32-iphone-agent (score 91). 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 90). Vision on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 2.4K
- humanizer (score 89). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 1.8K
- Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (score 89). Vision on Hugging Face · open weights · ♥ 893
Headlines
- Taiwan plans US industrial parks costing $2B to $4B each, starting with a Texas complex costing up to $4B, to build a supply chain for Nvidia, TSMC, and Foxconn (Techmeme)
- Austin-based RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build custom AI tools, raised a ∼$29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures (Techmeme)
- Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base (Techmeme)
- Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline (Hugging Face)
- OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta (Techmeme)
Repos gaining stars
- Arekejoker/qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill: about +692 stars in 24h
- onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: +606 stars in 24h
- deeplethe/solid-glass: about +288 stars in 24h
Threads people are discussing
- Muse Spark Open (Hacker News)
- Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design (Hacker News)
- Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad (Hacker News)
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