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Genie 3

DeepMind's new world model turns a sentence into a place you can walk through — and the breakthrough isn't the picture, it's the persistence.

high · corporate-pr Frontier & AGI DeepMind
repo

nanoVLM

A complete vision-language model in about 750 lines — small enough to read in an afternoon, and that's exactly the point.

high · independent Open Models huggingface · ★ 3.1k this wk
paper

The Bitter Lesson, ten years on

A 2026 re-read of Rich Sutton's famous essay, with a decade of scaling results to mark its homework.

medium · independent Frontier & AGI arXiv
app

Granola

A meeting-notes app that finishes your notes instead of replacing them — a small design choice that turns out to matter.

medium · corporate-pr Agents granola.ai
repo

Ollama

Run a capable open model on your own laptop with a single command. The friction it removes is the whole product.

high · independent Open Models ollama · ★ 95k
video

Atlas plays football

Boston Dynamics' humanoid is learning to play football, and the interesting part is what happens when it gets knocked off balance.

Just interesting Robotics Boston Dynamics
demo

Drawing through a BCI

A Neuralink trial participant is drawing on screen using only decoded intent — a real step up from moving a cursor.

High impact Neurotech Neuralink
tool

Glucose to LLM dashboard

A small open tool that lets you interrogate your continuous-glucose data in plain English — niche, and quietly clever.

Quietly overlooked Longevity & Health github