Latent Space

Congrats team!

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Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier

In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.

A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!

GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.

Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.

Team Zuck is absolutely on fire.

Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.

overshadowing more efficient GPT6 models from OpenAI

We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the age of superintelligent AI

crowning a new Chinese frontier lab

The definitive Jev podcast with its lead creator.

Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery

a quiet day

A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.

We sit down with AIUC’s CEO on their Series A!

congrats to TypeSafe!

Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.

Pacing gathers pace.

Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You.com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!

Before co-founding Kepler, Vinoo Ganesh led Spark at Palantir and built Project Frontline — a pioneering program for Forward Deployed Engineers. He takes us through the best practices of FDEs.

We agree with Sebastian: this should have been DeepSeek v5

a quiet day

Overshadowing Cognition's $48B Series E, Mistral's $24B Series D, Meta's Muse agent, and GPT Image 2.5. The most jam packed, feel the AGI day in the history of AI.

Latent Space debuts the Frontier AEO Tracker, its first Astra project: 6 prompt variants across 7 frontier models and 161 categories to quantify AI product recommendations. It finds real model self-preference, inspectable contamination checks, only 28 universally dominant categories, notable cross-generation flips between Opus→Fable and Sol→Astra, and measurable shifts in source-citation behavior.

AI News for 9/2/2026-9/3/2026.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, calling it its most intelligent and aligned model yet, with headline gains in computer use, software engineering, and math/science. Independent benchmarks show impressive but uneven improvements, while higher token prices and reduced chain-of-thought monitorability have triggered heated debate about benchmark saturation, release governance, and safety.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, the first Stargate and lightly looped supermodel, beating Fable 5.1 on many benchmarks. After burning 20B+ tokens in real-world tests, the author found Astra is a genuinely capable autonomous AI Engineer that can train models, label data, debug systems, orchestrate subagents, and run at an effective cost below $6/hour.

Pull requests on GitHub have traditionally been open, but top AI-native open source projects like Vercel's AI SDK, Astro, Flue, and tldraw are shifting to a 'software factory' model, using internal agents to manage PRs and issues, reducing reliance on external contributions for efficiency and to handle AI-generated slop PRs.