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Based on a transcript excerpt: Matthew Berman demonstrates DeepSeek's latest open-source model, testing its ability to generate a detailed interactive 3D mechanical watch diagram in a single web page. The video showcases the model's spatial awareness, 3D generation, and internal knowledge, positioning it as a leading open-source option.

AI Models & Capabilities • Matthew Berman

Mistral released the weights for Mistral Large 4, codenamed Le Chonk, claiming it rivals top open models like GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index. The release includes benchmark scores the company says are competitive with leading open-weight models.

Model Release • Techmeme

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59, driven by leading performance in complex reasoning, knowledge, and scientific tasks. It ranks second only to Claude Opus 5.5 on the Coding Agent Index, with large coding and knowledge-work gains over prior Gemini models.

Model Release • Hacker News

Cohere • Unknown

Cohere Inc., an AI model maker based in Canada, has completed the first close of a funding round expected to total up to $5 billion, with the Canadian government agreeing to invest up to $1.14 billion. The round values the company at $20.5 billion.

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Amazon spent over $77 billion on property and equipment in Q3, leading to a free cash outflow of $42.4 billion. The company said in July that it would likely spend $220 billion in 2026 capex.

Productivity

Jacob Sansbury describes Spawn's agents changing live code and shipping to production hourly, reading errors, bug reports and metrics themselves; about 60% of work reportedly starts from a production error, a Savi bug report, logs, or a feature request.

Hackers compromised the online platform of OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, and stole some users' API keys, leading to unauthorized charges on their AI accounts. The AI tools OpenCode turned to for help reportedly refused to analyze the malicious code.

AI Safety • TechCrunch AI