Topic 16 of 16 in the learning path

Industry Trends & Job Market

Where the field and the job market are heading.

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• GLiDE: Fastino's Decision Model with Adaptive Thinking · Melvin Vivas, X: Fastino Labs released GLiDE, which it calls the first decision model that thinks.
• Tavus Demo: Lifelike Real-Time Conversational Video AI · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:25: Melvin Vivas reshares a Tavus demo and jokes that it looks so real his wife will be jealous.
• Gemini 4 Argon Announced (Google AI Ultra Only) · Melvin Vivas, X: A short news post saying Google announced Gemini 4 Argon.
• GPT-6.1 and Sonnet 5.5 Released the Same Week · Melvin Vivas, X: Industry news: GPT-6.1 and Sonnet 5.5 came out in the same week.
• OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace · Melvin Vivas, X · 5:18: Melvin Vivas cut OpenAI's DevDay 2026 keynote down to a 5-minute clip of the announcements.
• dot.com redirects to xAI's Grok Bot · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator notes that dot.com redirects to xAI's Grok Bot page, which is a jab at OpenAI's new Dots launch.
• Creator's favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator picks his favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements: Dots, Codex Cloud, GPT-6.1 Sol, the Decisions API, the Agents API, OpenAI Marketplace and the banked Codex usage reset.
• OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API · Melvin Vivas, X: A full list of OpenAI DevDay launches: Dots agents powered by Astra, Codex Spaces, Codex Cloud and Codex Security Cloud, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast inference, new Pro plans, the Decisi
• OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares the replay of his OpenAI DevDay 2026 livestream, with timestamps for each announcement.
• OpenAI DevDay keynote livestream (watch party) · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator plans to livestream a watch party of the OpenAI DevDay keynote, linking to OpenAI's official livestream page.
• ElevenLabs Eleven v4 & v4 Turbo: Emotive, Multilingual Text-to-Speech Models · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:36: Melvin Vivas reshares ElevenLabs' launch of Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, which ElevenLabs calls its fastest and most emotive voice models so far.
• Claude Sonnet 5.5 release beats Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench · Melvin Vivas, X: Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5.
• Cognition's Devin Hits $1B Run Rate: AI Coding Agents in the Enterprise · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:58: Melvin Vivas congratulates Cognition, the maker of the AI software-engineering agent Devin, on passing $1B in annualized revenue run rate.
• On-Device AI: Running Gemma 4 E2B Offline on an iPhone with LiteRT · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:44: Melvin Vivas shows an iPhone app that runs Google's open model Gemma 4 E2B entirely on the phone, with no internet connection.
• Unsloth passes 500M model downloads on Hugging Face · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas congratulates Unsloth on passing 500 million model downloads on Hugging Face.
• ChatGPT Voice Update: Plugins, Model Switching and ChatGPT Work · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:05: Melvin Vivas shares OpenAI's announcement that ChatGPT Voice can now use plugins (email, calendar, Slack), switch between GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and run inside ChatGPT Work on
• Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS: new text-to-speech models · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares Google's launch of the Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS text-to-speech models.
• Space Bunny Alpha: stealth 1M-context flash model on OpenRouter · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares OpenRouter's stealth model Space Bunny Alpha.
• Qwen-Audio-3.1: Alibaba's Five-Model Audio Stack · Melvin Vivas, X: Alibaba Qwen released Qwen-Audio-3.1, which upgrades its speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS) and Realtime models.
• DeepSWE results: GPT-6 Sol slightly below GPT-5.6 Sol, but cheaper · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares DeepSWE benchmark results showing that GPT-6 Sol peaks slightly below its predecessor GPT-5.6 Sol on coding tasks, though it costs less.
• OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna · Melvin Vivas, X: OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna.
• Claude Opus 5.5 Released: Fable 5.1-Level Performance at 40% Lower Cost · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:20: This is a short reaction post.
• Qwen-Image-2.1 Announced as an Open-Weights Image Model · Melvin Vivas, X: The post shares news that Qwen will open-source Qwen-Image-2.1 on ModelScope, releasing both the weights and the code.
• Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: real-time simultaneous interpretation model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares Qwen's announcement of Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a model for real-time simultaneous interpretation.
• Open models now dominate token volume on Vercel AI Gateway · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator argues for using open models more to keep costs sustainable, and for improving agent harnesses with Skills to power workflows.
• AuK: Open-Source Model for Generating and Editing Speech · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:53: Melvin Vivas shares a demo of AuK, a new open-source foundation model that both generates and edits speech.
• Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: Qwen's agentic omni-modal model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares Qwen's announcement of Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, described as Qwen's first omni-modal model built around agentic capabilities.
• TypeSafe AI's Jev and System One models: the launch article · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas recommends the TypeSafe AI blog post that introduces its System One models and Jev.
• Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis · Melvin Vivas, X: Liquid AI released LFM2-1.2B-Longevity and LFM2-2.6B-Longevity, small models built to interpret structured aging data.
• Jev by TypeSafe.AI: a parallel "System 1" model for fast structured decisions · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:56: Melvin Vivas reshares the launch video for Jev, which TypeSafe.AI calls the first public "System 1" model.
• Melvin Vivas reacts to OpenAI's "GPT-6 Astra" announcement · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:16: This is a 16-second X post with no speech.
• Persimmon: A Model Built to Simulate Human Conversation · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:42: Melvin Vivas shares a quoted announcement of Persimmon.
• AI Engineer Salaries at OpenAI & Anthropic and the Skills They Want · Bashiri Smith, Facebook · 0:50: The video points to two Applied AI Engineer job postings, one at Anthropic ($200K–$320K) and one at OpenAI ($230K–$385K+), as evidence that companies pay well for engineers who tur
• DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Released: Smallest, Faster DeepSeek Model · Melvin Vivas, X: News that DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash.
• Grok Release Cadence: About One New Version per Month · Melvin Vivas, X: The post lists recent Grok releases: 4.5 (July 8), 4.6 (Aug 12) and 4.7 (Sep 12, upcoming).
• AuK: Tencent Hunyuan's Unified Audio Generation and Editing Model (TTS Demo) · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:53: Melvin Vivas shares a demo of AuK, a new audio model from Tencent Hunyuan that combines text-to-speech and audio editing in one model.
• Will Smith Spaghetti Benchmark: Stop Motion with GPT Image 2.5 and Astra · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:17: A 17-second demo with no narration.
• ChatGPT Images 2.5 (GPT Image 2.5): What's New in OpenAI's Image Update · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:57: This is a short reaction post.
• Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent (and the Manus Connection) · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:22: Melvin Vivas reposts Meta's announcement of Muse, a personal AI agent that "gets things done across every part of life." He notes that it isn't available in Singapore yet and wonde
• GPT-6 Astra Announced: Computer Use, Coding and Math · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator quotes the announcement of GPT-6 Astra, described as the 'most intelligent and aligned model yet'.
• GPT-6 Astra Access Across Plans vs Fable on Claude Max · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator notes that GPT-6 Astra will be included in every plan's normal usage allocation.
• GPT-6 Astra Demo: One Agent Juggling Many Computer Tasks · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:42: Melvin Vivas reacts to the launch video for GPT-6 Astra.
• GPT-6 Astra Coming to Devin: Benchmark and Cost Claims · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares a quoted announcement that the GPT-6 Astra model is coming to the Devin coding agent.
• NVIDIA and Hugging Face announcement on open models · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator celebrates a quoted NVIDIA announcement about Hugging Face; the excerpt doesn't say what was announced.
• Mercury 2.5 runs at 1,100 tokens/sec · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reacts to the Mercury 2.5 release.
• Muse Voice Transcribe: Meta's real-time speech-to-text model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator highlights Muse Voice Transcribe from Meta Superintelligence Labs, a real-time audio model.
• Claude Fable 5.1 Runs a 38-Hour Unattended ML Task · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator points out that Claude Fable 5.1 handles long-horizon work, citing a 38-hour unattended run on an ML issue.
• Claude Fable 5.1 Scores 73.4% on CursorBench 3.2 · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares a quote saying Claude Fable 5.1 is the most capable model run on CursorBench 3.2, with 73.4% at max effort.
• Why Software Engineers Should Move Into AI Engineering · Bashiri Smith, Facebook · 0:53: Bashiri Smith argues that AI is changing software engineering more than any other profession, but job openings are still going up.
• Infinite Slop: Endless AI-Generated Video Site Switches to Portrait · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares Infinite Slop, a site by levelsio and fal.ai that streams AI-generated videos without end.
• OpenAI Models Leaving Cursor After November 12 · Melvin Vivas, X: OpenAI is ending its partnership with Cursor after Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX.
• Jevons Paradox: Discounted GPT 5.6 Terra/Luna Raised Token Use 13.8x · Melvin Vivas, X: When OpenRouter heavily discounted GPT 5.6 Terra and Luna, token usage went up 13.8x.
• GLM 5.3 Open Weights Release Delayed for Framework Support · Melvin Vivas, X: Z.ai confirms that GLM 5.3 weights will be released as open source.
• NVIDIA buying Hugging Face: what it could mean for open models · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reacts to news that NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face.
• GPT-5.6 Sol API and Credit Pricing Cut by Over 20% for 3 Months · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:05: A short news post: Melvin Vivas shares a quoted announcement that API and credit pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol is dropping by more than 20% for the next three months.
• Meta Muse Spark 1.2: Multimodal Model Release Announcement · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:43: This is a short news post.
• Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:30: A 30-second demo of alphaXiv's new "Paperscrolling" feature.
• Qwen3.8 27B Trends #1 on Hugging Face · Melvin Vivas, X: A news post: Qwen3.8 27B is the #1 trending model on Hugging Face.
• GLM-5.3 now available on AWS Marketplace · Melvin Vivas, X: The GLM-5.3 model is now on AWS Marketplace.
• Grok 4.6 release: better than Grok 4.5 at the same price · Melvin Vivas, X: xAI announced Grok 4.6, describing it as frontier-level and a big improvement over Grok 4.5 at the same price.
• Meta Muse Glimmer-30B: Open Weights Model That Beats Qwen3.6 37B on Agentic Tasks · Melvin Vivas, X: Meta released Muse Glimmer-30B as an open-weights model.
• Liquid AI Documentation and the Future of Local AI · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says he is reading Liquid AI's documentation and is optimistic about local AI.
• Running MiniMax H3 Locally on a Single RTX 3090 (Demo) · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:15: This is a 15-second demo clip with no speech.
• Qwen3.8-27B announced to run locally on 17GB RAM/VRAM · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the announcement that Qwen3.8-27B is coming and will run locally on setups with 17GB of RAM/VRAM.
• Qwen3.8-Max announced with open weights for Max and 27B · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares Qwen's announcement of Qwen3.8-Max, its most capable model so far, with 2.4T parameters aimed at coding and cowork.
• Grok Can Now Analyze Videos · Melvin Vivas, X: A short note that xAI's Grok can now analyze videos, linking to Elon Musk's announcement post.
• DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official API Launches in Public Beta · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares DeepSeek's news that the official DeepSeek-V4-Flash API is live in public beta.
• Gemini Robotics 2: Whole-Body Humanoid Control from One Prompt · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:29: A short repost with a video and no speech.
• Is Indie Hacking Dead? How AI Coding Changes the Micro-SaaS Playbook · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:32: Melvin Vivas shares a Fireship clip.
• Korean AI Model News and an AI News Tracker Site · Melvin Vivas, X: A short post pointing to a new Korean AI model and linking to an AI news page that collects model releases, announcements and research.
• Seedance 2.5 Video Model: Up to 50 References and 30-Second Clips · Melvin Vivas, X: A quick reaction to the Seedance 2.5 video generation model.
• Public Industry Support for Open-Source / Open-Weight AI · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator praises companies for publicly backing open source, not just signing a letter, and links to Elon Musk's post on it.
• Open-Weight Model Letter: Who Signed and Who Didn't · Melvin Vivas, X: A quoted post says Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella shared a joint letter, released by several companies and organizations at once, urging policymakers not to restrict open-weight mo
• Claude Opus 5 Release: Anthropic's New Model Announced · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:08: An 8-second post celebrating the release of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.
• News: Chinese AI, Hugging Face and an OpenAI Hack (Forbes) · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares a Forbes article that asks whether Chinese AI saved Hugging Face from disaster after an OpenAI hack.
• Qwen-Image-3.0 Released: Third-Gen Image Generation Model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the announcement of Qwen-Image-3.0, the third generation of Qwen's base image generation model.
• Open Model GLM 5.2 Helped Mitigate OpenAI-Caused Cyberattack · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator argues the main story of the Hugging Face incident is that GLM 5.2, an open model running on Hugging Face infrastructure, helped mitigate an unintentional cyberattack b
• Heads-up: an upcoming 2T-parameter Grok model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says to watch for a 2-trillion-parameter Grok model from xAI and links Elon Musk's announcement post.
• Qwen3.8 (2.4T params) Announced as Upcoming Open-Weight Model · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas reacts to Qwen announcing Qwen3.8.
• Why Chinese AI Models Are Mostly Open Source · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas connects the open release of many Chinese models (GLM, Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek) to China's stated policy of international AI cooperation.
• Qwen3.8 Open-Weight Launch Announcement Reaction · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas reacts to the announcement that Qwen3.8 is coming soon.
• Kimi K3 release: 2.8T params, 1M context, native multimodal · Melvin Vivas, X: Announces that Moonshot's Kimi K3 model has been released and lists its reported specs.
• AI News Roundup: Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6 Launch, GPT-Live Voice Models · Melvin Vivas, X: A news roundup that points to the creator's AI news page.
• Grok 4.5 First Impressions: Opus-Level Output vs Fable · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator compared the newly released Grok 4.5 with Fable on the same tasks and found the outputs comparable.
• Cognition Releases SWE-1.7: Near-Frontier Coding Model at Low Cost · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares Cognition's announcement of SWE-1.7, their most capable model so far.
• Meta's Muse Image: An Agentic Image Generation Model · Melvin Vivas, X: Quotes Meta's announcement of Muse Image, the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).
• News: Alibaba Bans Anthropic's Claude After 'Distillation Attack' Claim · Melvin Vivas, X: Links a CNBC article reporting that Alibaba banned Anthropic's AI for its employees after an accusation of a 'distillation attack'.
• AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares his AI news page and several headlines: Anthropic redeploys Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5, LawZero shares Bengio-led Scientist AI safety work, Z.ai launches ZCode for
• Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash · Melvin Vivas, X: Google released two generative media models for developers and enterprises, both pitched on cost-performance.
• AI Is Blurring Engineering, Product and Design Roles · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator agrees with a quoted post saying engineering, product, design and data science are merging into new kinds of roles.
• Waiting for a Z.ai model to rival Fable · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin says he expects Z.ai (Zhipu, maker of the GLM models) to release a model that competes with Fable.
• Cloud Coding Agents: Moving Code Agents Off the Laptop · Melvin Vivas, X: A short opinion post.
• Gated GPT-5.6 rollout: a case for open models · Melvin Vivas, X: A news item reports that the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the GPT-5.6 release, with access approved customer by customer.
• Gemma 4: Google's Open Models for On-Device, Offline AI · Melvin Vivas, X · 4:07: Melvin Vivas shares Google's promo video for Gemma 4 and asks whether Gemma might come to Apple devices.
• OpenAI's first custom AI chip: Jalapeño, built with Broadcom · Melvin Vivas, X: Quotes OpenAI's announcement of Jalapeño, its first in-house AI chip, built for LLM workloads and taken to production with Broadcom.
• Hugging Face CEO on the Shift to Open-Source and Local AI Models · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:39: Melvin Vivas reshares a short clip in which Clem Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, says AI is moving toward open-source and local models.
• Google Workspace CLI creator says Google fired him · Melvin Vivas, X: Quotes the creator of the Google Workspace CLI, who says Google fired him for building it, even though it went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News and quickly gained thousands of GitHub s
• Hugging Face Nears 3M Public Models and 1M Datasets · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator boosts a post saying Hugging Face is about to pass 3 million public models and 1 million public datasets.
• Google Shuts Down Gemini CLI and Firebase Studio · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reports that Google recently shut down two developer projects: Gemini CLI and Firebase Studio.
• Samsung Electronics Rolls Out ChatGPT and Codex to Employees · Melvin Vivas, X: OpenAI announced that Samsung Electronics is giving its employees ChatGPT and Codex.
• Must-Watch: Full Interview with Dario Amodei on the Anthropic Story · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator recommends a newly released full interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as a must-watch for anyone into AI.
• Bloomberg's 'Inside Anthropic' interview with Dario and Daniela Amodei · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares Bloomberg Originals' The Circuit episode where Emily Chang interviews Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei.
• GLM 5.2 Ranks Above Fable 5 on Design Arena · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reports that the open model GLM 5.2 beats Anthropic's Fable 5 on the Design Arena leaderboard.
• GLM 5.2 from Z.ai is catching up with Claude Opus 4.8 · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says Z.ai's GLM 5.2 model is catching up with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 while people wait for 'Fable'.
• Open-source AI keeps growing: GitHub and Hugging Face numbers · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares numbers on how fast open-source AI is growing: 5.6 million AI projects on GitHub and Hugging Face uploads tripling since 2023.
• ChatGPT's market share drops below 50% (TechCrunch) · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares a TechCrunch report (June 16, 2026) that ChatGPT's share of the AI assistant market has fallen below 50% for the first time.
• Stanford AI Index Report 2026 · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares the PDF of the Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026.
• SpaceX acquires Cursor · Melvin Vivas, X: Reports that SpaceX acquired the AI code editor Cursor.
• Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Mini: Faster, Cheaper AI Video Generation · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:10: Melvin Vivas reshares the launch of Dreamina Seedance 2.0 Mini, a lower-cost, faster version of the Seedance 2.0 video generation model, adding only "faster and cheaper!!!" The quo
• Ideogram 4.0 Released as an Open-Weights Image Model · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:55: Melvin Vivas shares news that Ideogram has open-sourced its image model.
• Martin Scorsese Joins Black Forest Labs: Storyboarding with FLUX · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:30: Melvin Vivas reposts Black Forest Labs' announcement that director Martin Scorsese is now an advisor to the company.
• Martin Scorsese Storyboards a Scene with Black Forest Labs' FLUX · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:30: Melvin Vivas reshares a Black Forest Labs announcement that director Martin Scorsese is now an advisor to the company.
• NVIDIA's LocateAnything: Vision-Language Detection Model (CVPR 2026) · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:16: This is a short repost with no narration.
• Opinion: GPT Image 2 Is the Current SOTA Image Model · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator calls GPT Image 2 the current state-of-the-art image generation model.
• Opinion: Seedance 2.0 Still Beats Gemini Omni for Video · Melvin Vivas, X: A short comparison: the creator thinks Gemini Omni did not beat Seedance 2.0.
• Qwopus Coder 9B: Small Coding Model Line Expanding · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator quote-posts an update about Qwopus Coder 9B, a 9B coding model.
• Gemini 3.5 Flash Released · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares Google's announcement of Gemini 3.5 Flash.
• Qwen 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation Demo · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:57: A short demo of Qwen 3.5 Live Translate translating live conversation between English, French and Chinese.
• Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate: Real-Time Audio-Visual Interpretation Model · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:58: Melvin Vivas shares the launch video for Alibaba Qwen's Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate, a real-time audio-visual simultaneous interpretation model.
• Gemini Omni: Google's Any-to-Video Multimodal Model (Google I/O) · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:07: This is a short reaction post.
• Cursor Launches Composer 2.5 with Doubled Usage for a Week · Melvin Vivas, X: A reaction to Cursor's Composer 2.5 launch, saying it puts pressure on GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7.
• Qwen 3.7 Plus Preview Ranks #16 in the Vision Arena · Melvin Vivas, X: Alibaba released a Qwen 3.7 Plus preview only weeks after Qwen 3.6.
• Figure F.03 Livestream: Humanoid Robots Working Nonstop · Melvin Vivas, X: A link to Figure's livestream of its F.03 humanoid robots on Day 9: 191 consecutive hours and 238,000 packages handled.
• Humanoid Robots Run a Full 8-Hour Shift with Helix-02 · Melvin Vivas, X: Figure's humanoid robots ran a full 8-hour shift at human performance levels.
• Claude Plans Get Monthly Credit for Agent SDK and claude -p · Melvin Vivas, X: The quoted announcement says that from June 15, paid Claude plans can claim a dedicated monthly credit for programmatic usage.
• Demo: A Real-Time Vision AI Assistant That Coaches Your Diet · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:00: A one-minute demo of a voice-and-camera AI assistant that watches what the user picks up and gives diet advice in real time.
• Self-Flow: Training Multimodal Generative Models Without an External Encoder · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:12: This clip comes from a talk Stephen Batifol gave at AI Engineer.
• "Veo Omni?": A 10-Second Teaser Clip of a Possible New Google Video Model · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:10: Melvin Vivas reposts a 10-second clip from @Lentils80 with only the caption "Veo Omni?", hinting that the video may come from an unreleased or rumored Google Veo model.
• OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company · Melvin Vivas, X: A link to OpenAI's announcement of the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new company meant to help businesses build around AI.
• Gemma 4 Coming to React Native: On-Device LLMs for Mobile Apps · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:45: Melvin Vivas reacts ("wow!!!") to an announcement, quoted in his post, that Gemma 4, Google's open model family, will soon run fully on-device inside React Native apps.
• Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro Released: Text-to-Image Model Update · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares the launch of Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro, a text-to-image model with better image quality, multilingual text rendering and instruction following.
• ComfyUI Raises $30M: Open-Source Visual AI Pipelines Move into Production · Melvin Vivas, X · 2:32: Melvin Vivas reposts ComfyUI's funding announcement video, captioned only with "great".
• Qwen 3.6 27B: An Open Local Model with Benchmarks Near Claude Opus 4.5 · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator says Qwen 3.6 27B's benchmark scores come close to Claude Opus 4.5, while the model is open source and can run locally.
• SpaceXAI and Cursor partner on coding AI · Melvin Vivas, X: Industry news: SpaceXAI and Cursor are working together on AI for coding and knowledge work.
• Seedance 2.0 Video Model Now Available Inside HeyGen (Demo Clip) · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:08: An 8-second demo clip from Melvin Vivas showing video made with the Seedance 2.0 model inside HeyGen, an AI video platform.
• Claude Opus 4.7 Release: More Rigor on Long-Running Tasks · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator reacts to Anthropic's launch of Claude Opus 4.7 and wants his Claude Max subscription back.
• Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: Controllable Speech with Audio Tags · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator shares the release of Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, which Google calls its most controllable text-to-speech model.
• Rumored Anthropic App Builder vs bolt.new, Lovable and v0 · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin reacts to a leak saying Anthropic is building a Lovable-like feature for creating full-stack apps.
• GLM-5.1 Reportedly Beats Claude Opus 4.6 on Cybersecurity · Melvin Vivas, X: A one-line claim that the open-source GLM-5.1 model beats Claude Opus 4.6 on a cybersecurity benchmark.
• Open-Source GLM-5.1 Beats GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro · Melvin Vivas, X: Claims that GLM-5.1, an open-source model, scores higher than GPT-5.4 on the SWE-Bench Pro coding benchmark.
• GLM-5.1: Open-Source Model for Long-Running Coding Agents · Melvin Vivas, X: Shares the GLM-5.1 launch announcement.
• Seedance 2.0 Demo: Multi-Clip Video with Automatic Cuts from One Generation · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:15: This is a 15-second demo with no speech, shared by Melvin Vivas.
• Gemma 4 and Google DeepMind's Open-Source Push · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator praises Google DeepMind for releasing open models and says Gemma 4 is very good.
• GLM-5V-Turbo: A Vision Coding Model for Multimodal Inputs · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:17: This is a short post with a video and no narration.
• Cohere Transcribe: Cohere's New Open-Source Speech-to-Text Model · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:39: A short news post saying Cohere has released Cohere Transcribe, which it calls a new state-of-the-art open-source speech recognition (speech-to-text) model.
• Cursor Composer 2 Is Built on Open-Source Kimi K2.5 · Melvin Vivas, X: The post says Cursor's Composer 2 coding model uses Moonshot's open-source Kimi K2.5 as its base model.
• Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models · Melvin Vivas, X · 3:12: In this clip, Ahmad Osman, who moderates r/LocalLLaMA, asks Jensen Huang whether NVIDIA will keep releasing Nemotron models or whether recent releases only proved that NVFP4 traini
• Opinion: With AI Coding, Frameworks Are for Humans · Melvin Vivas, X: The creator argues that AI can write what you need in one or a few files without frameworks, because frameworks exist for human developers.
• LTX-2.3 Video Generation Model Now Available on Replicate · Melvin Vivas, X · 0:39: A short announcement that LTX-2.3, the video generation model from LTX (@ltx_model), can now be run on Replicate.
• LTX-2.3 Launch: Fast Native 4K AI Video Generation in LTX Studio · Melvin Vivas, X · 1:00: Melvin Vivas reshares the launch announcement for LTX-2.3, a video generation model now powering LTX Studio.
• GPT-5.4 Release: Thinking and Pro in ChatGPT, API and Codex · Melvin Vivas, X: Announcement that OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro are rolling out in ChatGPT, and GPT-5.4 is also in the API and Codex.
• The 'SaaSpocalypse': $300B in SaaS Market Value Wiped Out by AI Fears · Melvin Vivas, X: Melvin Vivas shares a Forbes article by Don Muir (Feb 4, 2026) saying about $300 billion in SaaS market value disappeared, which the article calls the start of a 'SaaSpocalypse'.
• Block Cuts About 40% of Staff, Citing AI Productivity · Melvin Vivas, X: Block cut about 4,000 jobs (nearly 40% of staff), saying AI tools let smaller teams deliver more.

Watch, free (8)

• OpenAI DevDay livestream replay · video · x.com · free
  Replay of Melvin Vivas's X Live watch party covering the full OpenAI DevDay 2026 keynote.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay 2026 Replay: Timestamped Guide to the Announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI Engineer (conference and YouTube channel) · channel · youtube.com · free
  AI engineering conference series that posts its talks for free on YouTube, including the full version of this talk.
  Mentioned in: Self-Flow: Training Multimodal Generative Models Without an External Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• F.03 Livestream - Day 9 | 191 consecutive hours and 238,000 packages · video · youtube.com · free
  Figure's livestream of F.03 humanoid robots running package handling around the clock.
  Mentioned in: Figure F.03 Livestream: Humanoid Robots Working Nonstop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Fireship · channel · youtube.com · free
  Developer YouTube channel with short, fast-paced videos on tech news and programming; it made the 'indie hackers going extinct' video quoted here.
  Mentioned in: Is Indie Hacking Dead? How AI Coding Changes the Micro-SaaS Playbook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Full interview with Dario Amodei · video · youtube.com · free
  Full-length YouTube interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the Anthropic story.
  Mentioned in: Must-Watch: Full Interview with Dario Amodei on the Anthropic Story (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Juggernaut | The Circuit · video · youtube.com · free
  A Bloomberg Originals interview with Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei about the company's history, safety approach and politics.
  Mentioned in: Bloomberg's 'Inside Anthropic' interview with Dario and Daniela Amodei (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• President Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order, challenging US dominance (CNA) · video · youtube.com · free
  CNA news video on China's pitch to lead global AI governance and cooperation.
  Mentioned in: Why Chinese AI Models Are Mostly Open Source (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Theo - t3.gg (YouTube channel) · channel · youtube.com · free
  Theo Browne's channel about web development and AI tools, and the main speaker in this masterclass.
  Mentioned in: Theo's YouTube Packaging Masterclass: Thumbnails, Titles and the Algorithm (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)

Read and use (111)

• Liquid AI (@liquidai) on X · website · x.com · free
  An AI company that builds efficient foundation models. The quoted post shows its PII handling working on Japanese text.
  Mentioned in: Zero-Shot Prompt Routing with Liquid AI's LFM 2.5-Encoder-350M (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Liquid AI LFM 2.5 Encoder: a CPU-friendly encoder model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Fine-tuning Liquid AI LFM2/LFM2.5 MoE models with the new Halo framework (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 20 more
• OpenAI · tool · x.com · free
  An AI model provider whose models can be used through managed connectors.
  Mentioned in: Creator's favorite OpenAI DevDay announcements (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Agents API with Bring Your Own Sandbox as a backend for a 'software factory' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building Software Factories on the OpenAI Agents API (Codex-Powered) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Free Local-First Desktop App for Running AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 12 more
• Z.ai (@Zai_org) on X · person · x.com · free
  Official X account of Z.ai, maker of the GLM models and the GLM coding plan.
  Mentioned in: Open models now dominate token volume on Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLM 5.3 Open Weights Release Delayed for Framework Support (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Trying ZCode by Z.ai with GLM 5.2 on a Mac (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 10 more
• TypeSafe AI (@typesafeai) on X · person · x.com · free
  The X account of TypeSafe AI, the company that makes Jev and the System One models.
  Mentioned in: Using Jev (TypeSafe AI) as a Decision Model for Email Classification (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building a Jev Session-History Tool with Codex and Astra (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Not every problem needs an LLM: small fine-tuned models (Jev by TypeSafe AI) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Jev model added to the AIBackends API via Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 7 more
• AI News Today (donvitocodes.com) · website · donvitocodes.com · free
  A web page that collects the latest AI announcements, model releases and research. It is the source page for the demo video.
  Mentioned in: Hermes Agent + HyperFrames: Turning a Web Page into a Video (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Korean AI Model News and an AI News Tracker Site (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI on Why Teens Deserve Access to Safe AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI News Roundup: Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6 Launch, GPT-Live Voice Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 5 more
• Fastino Labs (@fastinoAI) on X · person · x.com · free
  The X account of Fastino Labs, which builds GLiNER decision models and shares demos.
  Mentioned in: GLiDE: Fastino's Decision Model with Adaptive Thinking (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLiDE by Fastino Labs: A Post-Trainable Reasoning Decision Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GLiNER decision model demos from Fastino Labs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends v0.8.1 adds GLiNER2.5-Decide local classification (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 5 more
• arXiv · website · arxiv.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  A free archive of research preprints, with daily listings of new papers in fields like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Generate Job-Worthy AI Project Ideas from Recent Research Papers + ChatGPT (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), The complete arXiv corpus as a Hugging Face dataset (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Software Engineer to AI Engineer: Job Boards, Stack, Projects and Learning Sites (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 1 more
• NVIDIA AI (@NVIDIAAI) on X · person · x.com · free
  NVIDIA AI's official X account, which posts model releases and endpoint availability.
  Mentioned in: Using Free OpenRouter Models (Nemotron 3.5) With Coworker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running AI Locally: Rebuilding AIBackends as a Python Library with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more
• Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) on X · person · x.com · free
  Official X account of Alibaba's Qwen team, which posts model releases and demos.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-Audio-3.1: Alibaba's Five-Model Audio Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Demo: Qwen3.8-27B Running Locally with Pi and llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running AI Locally: Rebuilding AIBackends as a Python Library with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Audio-Visual Vibe Coding with Qwen 3.5 Omni: Spoken Specs to Web App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Black Forest Labs · website · bfl.ai · check price
  The lab behind the FLUX image models; the speaker's team, which published Self-Flow.
  Mentioned in: Martin Scorsese Joins Black Forest Labs: Storyboarding with FLUX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Martin Scorsese Storyboards a Scene with Black Forest Labs' FLUX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Self-Flow: Training Multimodal Generative Models Without an External Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google DeepMind (@GoogleDeepMind) on X · person · x.com · free
  Google DeepMind's official X account, which posts research and model releases such as Gemma.
  Mentioned in: Running AI Locally: Rebuilding AIBackends as a Python Library with Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 and Google DeepMind's Open-Source Push (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 E4B: A Local Agentic Edge Model in 6GB RAM (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• MiniMax H3 · tool · huggingface.co · free
  MiniMax video generation model that turns a starting image and an audio track into a lip-synced video.
  Mentioned in: MiniMax H3 Image + Audio-to-Video Lip-Sync Demo (with Irodori-TTS v3) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Generating AI Video Locally with MiniMax H3 in ComfyUI on an RTX 3090 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running MiniMax H3 Locally on a Single RTX 3090 (Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nous Research · website · nousresearch.com · check price
  AI research organization that builds the Hermes models and Hermes Agent.
  Mentioned in: Hermes Desktop Adds an Agent-Controllable In-App Browser (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes Agent Adds Hands-Free Voice Activation with a Wake Word (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hy3 (Tencent Hunyuan) Free on Nous Portal for a Limited Week (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) on X · person · x.com · free
  X account of Artificial Analysis, which posts independent model and provider benchmarks.
  Mentioned in: Compare Model Outputs with Artificial Analysis MicroEvals (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Compare GLM-5.2 API Providers on Artificial Analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AuK · tool · github.com · free
  Open-source foundation model for unified speech generation and editing (zero-shot TTS, instruction control, content editing, whisper conversion).
  Mentioned in: AuK: Open-Source Model for Generating and Editing Speech (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AuK: Tencent Hunyuan's Unified Audio Generation and Editing Model (TTS Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Clem Delangue · person · x.com · free
  Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, who speaks publicly about open-source AI.
  Mentioned in: Open Model GLM 5.2 Helped Mitigate OpenAI-Caused Cyberattack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hugging Face CEO on the Shift to Open-Source and Local AI Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Did China's AI Save Hugging Face From Disaster After OpenAI Hack? (Forbes) · article · forbes.com · check price · open in a browser to verify
  A Forbes news article on the Hugging Face cyberattack incident and how a Chinese AI model may have helped stop it.
  Mentioned in: Forbes: Did Chinese Open AI Save Hugging Face After the OpenAI Hack? (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), News: Chinese AI, Hugging Face and an OpenAI Hack (Forbes) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Omni · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Google's multimodal generative model that takes combined image, audio, video, text and drawing inputs and generates high-quality video.
  Mentioned in: Opinion: Seedance 2.0 Still Beats Gemini Omni for Video (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemini Omni: Google's Any-to-Video Multimodal Model (Google I/O) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gergely Orosz · person · x.com · free
  Author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter. He writes about how big tech companies build software, including OpenAI's agentic workflows.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Build-Review-Deploy-Observe Loop (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), How OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory Works (Pragmatic Engineer) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• levelsio · person · x.com · free
  Well-known indie hacker who builds and ships profitable solo apps in public.
  Mentioned in: Infinite Slop: Endless AI-Generated Video Site Switches to Portrait (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Is Indie Hacking Dead? How AI Coding Changes the Micro-SaaS Playbook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise · article · linkedin.com · free
  LinkedIn's ranking of the fastest-growing jobs in the US, which put AI engineer at #1 for 2026.
  Mentioned in: Why Software Engineers Should Move Into AI Engineering (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI Engineer Salaries at OpenAI & Anthropic and the Skills They Want (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Matt Shumer · person · x.com · free
  An AI builder whose quoted post reported that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted his production database.
  Mentioned in: Keep Production .env Files Out of Your Coding-Agent Workspace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coding Agent Risk: GPT 5.6 Sol Deleted a Mac User Directory (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ornith (@ornith_) · person · x.com · free
  The X account of Ornith, the team credited with releasing the Ornith-1.5 model.
  Mentioned in: Serving Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B at 128k Context on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B (Q4_K_M) at 128k Context on an RTX 3090 with llama.cpp (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen-Image-2.1 · tool · github.com · free
  Qwen's open-source image-generation model, released with weights and code on ModelScope.
  Mentioned in: Run Qwen-Image-2.1 locally on 12GB VRAM with Unsloth GGUFs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Qwen-Image-2.1 Announced as an Open-Weights Image Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Tencent Hunyuan · website · x.com · free
  Tencent's AI model team, which makes the Hunyuan family of models, including Hy3.
  Mentioned in: AuK: Tencent Hunyuan's Unified Audio Generation and Editing Model (TTS Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hy3 (Tencent Hunyuan) Free on Nous Portal for a Limited Week (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• X (Twitter) · website · x.com · free
  Social network where you can follow AI engineers and researchers to keep up with the field.
  Mentioned in: Software Engineer to AI Engineer: Job Boards, Stack, Projects and Learning Sites (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Using the September Hiring Surge: Volume Plus Quality in Your Job Search (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• $300 Billion Evaporated: The SaaSpocalypse Has Begun (Forbes) · article · forbes.com · check price · open in a browser to verify
  Forbes article by Don Muir on the roughly $300B drop in SaaS market value tied to AI disruption.
  Mentioned in: The 'SaaSpocalypse': $300B in SaaS Market Value Wiped Out by AI Fears (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Agorapulse · tool · agorapulse.com · paid
  Social media management platform aimed at small businesses and agencies.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Ahmad Osman (@TheAhmadOsman) · person · x.com · free
  Local-LLM advocate and r/LocalLLaMA moderator who asked Jensen this question.
  Mentioned in: Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AI Engineering Field Guide (Alexey Grigorev) · repo · github.com · free
  A GitHub repo that collects and analyses 4,894 real AI engineering job descriptions. The video uses it to define the five skill areas.
  Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap: 5 Skill Areas, a 24-Week Study Order & Interview Strategy (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• alphaXiv · website · alphaxiv.org · free
  A platform for discovering and discussing arXiv research papers, with AI-generated paper briefs.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• alphaXiv Briefs · tool · free
  Short AI-generated summaries of research papers covering key ideas, figures and audio explanations.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• alphaXiv Paperscrolling · tool · free
  A scrollable feed of trending research papers, each with key ideas, figures and an audio explanation.
  Mentioned in: Paperscrolling: Browse Trending AI Research Papers Like a Social Feed (alphaXiv) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) on X · website · x.com · free
  Anthropic's official X account.
  Mentioned in: AI News Roundup: Claude Fable 5, Scientist AI, ZCode, NVIDIA RL (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Apptronik Apollo 2 · tool · apptronik.com · paid
  Apptronik's humanoid robot, used to demo Gemini Robotics 2 whole-body control.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Robotics 2: Whole-Body Humanoid Control from One Prompt (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• AuK — Unified Audio Generation and Editing · website · auk-project.github.io · free
  Project page for Tencent Hunyuan's AuK model, with demos of TTS, speech editing, accent editing, cleanup and source separation.
  Mentioned in: AuK: Tencent Hunyuan's Unified Audio Generation and Editing Model (TTS Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Buffer · tool · buffer.com · check price
  Established social media scheduling platform that has since released a public API.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Charlie Guo (@charlierguo) on X · person · x.com · free
  Works at OpenAI and posts about many of its launches.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Live-1 Voice Agents in the API, and Charlie Guo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time (TechCrunch) · article · donvitocodes.com · free
  TechCrunch news article reporting that ChatGPT's market share fell below 50%.
  Mentioned in: ChatGPT's market share drops below 50% (TechCrunch) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• China's Alibaba bans Anthropic AI for employees after 'distillation attack' accusation (CNBC) · article · cnbc.com · free
  CNBC news article on Alibaba banning Claude for its employees after a distillation accusation.
  Mentioned in: News: Alibaba Bans Anthropic's Claude After 'Distillation Attack' Claim (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Mythos · tool · anthropic.com · paid
  Anthropic's new frontier model, currently previewed only with cyber defenders.
  Mentioned in: Claude Mythos Model Card: Anthropic's Limited Preview for Cyber Defenders (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Cohere Transcribe · tool · cohere.com · free
  Cohere's open-source speech recognition (speech-to-text) model, which Cohere bills as state of the art.
  Mentioned in: Cohere Transcribe: Cohere's New Open-Source Speech-to-Text Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• DeepSeek (@deepseek_ai) on X · person · x.com · free
  DeepSeek's official X account for model and tool announcements.
  Mentioned in: DeepSeek Harness: Open-Source, Browser-Based Agent for DeepSeek V4.1 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Diego Almeida · person · x.com · free
  Founder of TypeSafe.AI, who says he co-created ChatGPT and RLHF at OpenAI.
  Mentioned in: Jev by TypeSafe.AI: a parallel "System 1" model for fast structured decisions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Don Muir on Forbes · person · forbes.com · free · open in a browser to verify
  Forbes contributor page for Don Muir, the article's author.
  Mentioned in: The 'SaaSpocalypse': $300B in SaaS Market Value Wiped Out by AI Fears (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Dreamforce 2026 · other · salesforce.com · paid
  Salesforce's annual conference, where Slack Code was shown.
  Mentioned in: Slack Code: Multiplayer Coding with AI Agents Inside Slack Channels (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Eleven v4 · tool · elevenlabs.io · check price
  ElevenLabs' new expressive speech model, which the company calls its most emotive. Supports 100 languages and keeps the voice consistent over long text.
  Mentioned in: ElevenLabs Eleven v4 & v4 Turbo: Emotive, Multilingual Text-to-Speech Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Eleven v4 Turbo · tool · elevenlabs.io · check price
  Ultra-low-latency version of Eleven v4 for real-time voice agents and conversational apps.
  Mentioned in: ElevenLabs Eleven v4 & v4 Turbo: Emotive, Multilingual Text-to-Speech Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X · article · x.com · free
  X post announcing Grok's video analysis capability.
  Mentioned in: Grok Can Now Analyze Videos (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X – 2T Grok model post · article · x.com · free
  Elon Musk's X post about the upcoming 2T-parameter Grok model.
  Mentioned in: Heads-up: an upcoming 2T-parameter Grok model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X – post on open-source support · article · x.com · free
  Elon Musk's X post announcing public support for open-source AI.
  Mentioned in: Public Industry Support for Open-Source / Open-Weight AI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• ESP32 · tool · espressif.com · paid
  A low-cost microcontroller from Espressif, used here to run a tiny LLM.
  Mentioned in: Running a 28.9M-Parameter LLM on an $8 ESP32 Microcontroller (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Figure · website · figure.ai · free
  Humanoid robotics company behind the F.03 robots and Helix.
  Mentioned in: Humanoid Robots Run a Full 8-Hour Shift with Helix-02 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Forbes (@Forbes) on X · website · x.com · free
  The Forbes news account on X, the source of the article.
  Mentioned in: News: Chinese AI, Hugging Face and an OpenAI Hack (Forbes) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini 4 Argon · tool · blog.google · paid
  Google's newly announced frontier model in the Gemini 4 family.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 4 Argon Announced (Google AI Ultra Only) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Omni Flash · tool · ai.google.dev · paid
  Google's natively multimodal generative media model with strong cost-performance.
  Mentioned in: Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Gemini Robotics 2 · tool · deepmind.google · check price
  Google DeepMind's robotics model that turns natural-language prompts into whole-body control for humanoid robots.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Robotics 2: Whole-Body Humanoid Control from One Prompt (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus) · dataset · ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · free
  NCBI's public repository of functional genomics data, including DNA methylation data.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google DeepMind · website · deepmind.google · free
  Google's AI research lab, which builds the Gemini models, including Gemini Robotics.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Robotics 2: Whole-Body Humanoid Control from One Prompt (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google I/O · other · io.google · free
  Google's yearly developer conference, where Gemini Omni was announced.
  Mentioned in: Gemini Omni: Google's Any-to-Video Multimodal Model (Google I/O) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Live Translate · tool · blog.google · free · open in a browser to verify
  Google's live translation feature that the creator used himself.
  Mentioned in: Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: Real-Time Speech Translation via the Gemini Live API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Google Translate · tool · translate.google.com · free
  Google's free translation app and service, the main incumbent for consumer travel translation.
  Mentioned in: GPT-Realtime-2 & Realtime-Translate: Reasoning Voice Agents and Live Translation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• GPT-3 powers the next generation of apps · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI blog post showcasing products built on GPT-3.
  Mentioned in: Q&A Over Your Own PDFs with LlamaIndex, OpenAI and Python (2023) (Melvin Vivas on melvinvivas.com · notes)
• GTEx (Genotype-Tissue Expression) · dataset · gtexportal.org · free
  A public resource of gene expression (transcriptomics) data across human tissues.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Helix-02 · tool · figure.ai · check price
  Figure's vision-language-action model that controls its humanoid robots.
  Mentioned in: Humanoid Robots Run a Full 8-Hour Shift with Helix-02 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hootsuite · tool · hootsuite.com · paid
  Long-established social media management and scheduling platform.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face Papers · website · huggingface.co · free
  A daily, community-curated feed of trending AI research papers on Hugging Face.
  Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Infinite Slop · website · infiniteslop.ai · free
  A site by levelsio and fal.ai that streams AI-generated videos without end.
  Mentioned in: Infinite Slop: Endless AI-Generated Video Site Switches to Portrait (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Jensen Huang's X post sharing the open-weight models letter · article · x.com · free
  Jensen Huang's post with the joint letter asking policymakers not to restrict open-weight models.
  Mentioned in: Open-Weight Model Letter: Who Signed and Who Didn't (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Krea 2 Turbo · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A fast, distilled open-weights version of Krea 2 with a wide range of aesthetic styles.
  Mentioned in: Krea 2 Open Weights: Raw (Undistilled) vs Turbo (Distilled) Image Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Latent Space · newsletter · latent.space · free
  AI engineering podcast and newsletter that publishes the AINews daily roundup.
  Mentioned in: Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol for Writing: Latent Space AINews Test (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Lentils (@Lentils80) on X – original "Veo Omni" clip post · article · x.com · free
  The original X post with the AI-generated video clip that Melvin reposted.
  Mentioned in: "Veo Omni?": A 10-Second Teaser Clip of a Possible New Google Video Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2-1.2B-Longevity · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's 1.2B-parameter model specialized for interpreting structured aging data.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LFM2-2.6B-Longevity · tool · huggingface.co · free
  Liquid AI's 2.6B-parameter model specialized for interpreting structured aging data.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• LocateAnything (NVIDIA, CVPR 2026) · paper · research.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA research paper and model for vision-language object detection with a new approach to predicting bounding boxes, built for fast localization by agents and robots.
  Mentioned in: NVIDIA's LocateAnything: Vision-Language Detection Model (CVPR 2026) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Martin Scorsese · person · x.com · free
  Film director who is now an advisor to Black Forest Labs on visual AI.
  Mentioned in: Martin Scorsese Storyboards a Scene with Black Forest Labs' FLUX (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Moonshot AI · tool · moonshot.ai · check price
  Chinese AI lab that makes the open-weight Kimi models.
  Mentioned in: Open models now dominate token volume on Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Image · tool · free
  Meta's agentic image generation model, which reasons, searches and plans before generating.
  Mentioned in: Meta's Muse Image: An Agentic Image Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Spark · tool · free
  Meta's reasoning model that Muse Image works with to plan generations.
  Mentioned in: Meta's Muse Image: An Agentic Image Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Muse Voice Transcribe · tool · developer.meta.com · paid
  Meta Superintelligence Labs' real-time multilingual speech-to-text model with diarization and endpointing.
  Mentioned in: Muse Voice Transcribe: Meta's real-time speech-to-text model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nano Banana 2 Lite · tool · blog.google · paid · open in a browser to verify
  Google's fast, low-cost image generation model in the Nano Banana family.
  Mentioned in: Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nevo David (@wickedguro) on X · person · x.com · free
  Founder of Postiz who shares startup growth, open-source and agent-first product advice on X.
  Mentioned in: How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NHANES · dataset · cdc.gov · free · open in a browser to verify
  The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a source of clinical and health records.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Nous Research (@NousResearch) on X · website · x.com · free
  X account of Nous Research, the AI lab behind the Hermes models and agent.
  Mentioned in: Hermes by Nous Research Praised as a 'Life Hack' (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA AI Developer (@NVIDIAAIDev) · person · x.com · free
  NVIDIA's developer account on X, with news on models, NIM and tools.
  Mentioned in: NVIDIA build.nvidia.com: Try Hosted NIM Model APIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Cosmos · tool · nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's open world foundation models for physical AI.
  Mentioned in: Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• NVIDIA Isaac GR00T · tool · developer.nvidia.com · free
  NVIDIA's open foundation model family for humanoid robots.
  Mentioned in: Jensen Huang on NVIDIA's Long-Term Commitment to Open Nemotron Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Olink · dataset · olink.com · paid
  Olink proteomics data, which comes from Olink's protein measurement platform.
  Mentioned in: Liquid AI's LFM2-Longevity models for aging-data analysis (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI DevDay · other · devday.openai.com · free
  OpenAI's yearly developer conference, where new APIs, models and tools are announced.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay keynote livestream (watch party) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Jalapeño · other · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's first custom AI chip, built for LLM inference and training workloads.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI's first custom AI chip: Jalapeño, built with Broadcom (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build around intelligence · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's official announcement of its new Deployment Company for enterprise AI adoption.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenAI Livestreams · website · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's official livestream page, including the DevDay keynote.
  Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay keynote livestream (watch party) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• OpenRouter announcement: Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview · article · x.com · free
  OpenRouter's post announcing free, limited-time access to Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview, including the data-collection notice.
  Mentioned in: Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview Is Free for a Limited Time on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Persimmon · tool · persimmon.humansand.ai · check price
  A newly announced large-scale model designed to realistically simulate how people talk and interact.
  Mentioned in: Persimmon: A Model Built to Simulate Human Conversation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Photo AI (photoai.com) · website · photoai.com · check price
  An AI image and video generator product, cited as a profitable single-file PHP app.
  Mentioned in: Opinion: With AI Coding, Frameworks Are for Humans (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen TTS-Next · tool · x.com · paid
  Alibaba's audio model family with upgraded ASR, TTS and Realtime models.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-Audio-3.1: Alibaba's Five-Model Audio Stack (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro · tool · x.com · check price
  Qwen's text-to-image model, with strong multilingual text rendering and instruction following.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro Released: Text-to-Image Model Update (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen-Image-3.0 · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Qwen's third-generation base image generation model, focused on realism.
  Mentioned in: Qwen-Image-3.0 Released: Third-Gen Image Generation Model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Qwen's real-time simultaneous interpretation model covering 60 languages with about 2.3s average lag.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: real-time simultaneous interpretation model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash · tool · qwen.ai · check price
  Qwen's omni-modal model with native audio/video understanding, reasoning and tool use.
  Mentioned in: Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: Qwen's agentic omni-modal model (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Qwopus Coder 9B · tool · huggingface.co · free
  A 9B-parameter coding-focused language model.
  Mentioned in: Qwopus Coder 9B: Small Coding Model Line Expanding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Samsung Electronics brings ChatGPT and Codex to employees · article · openai.com · free
  OpenAI's announcement of Samsung's company-wide rollout of ChatGPT and Codex.
  Mentioned in: Samsung Electronics Rolls Out ChatGPT and Codex to Employees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Seedance 2.5 · tool · seed.bytedance.com · check price
  An AI video generation model that supports up to 50 references and 30-second outputs.
  Mentioned in: Seedance 2.5 Video Model: Up to 50 References and 30-Second Clips (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• SpaceXAI on X (@SpaceXAI) · person · x.com · free
  Official X account that announced Grok 4.5.
  Mentioned in: AI News Roundup: Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6 Launch, GPT-Live Voice Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Stanford AI Index Report 2026 · pdf · donvitocodes.com · free
  Stanford HAI's annual report on the state of AI: research, benchmarks, investment, policy and workforce.
  Mentioned in: Stanford AI Index Report 2026 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Stephen Batifol · person · x.com · free
  The speaker in this clip; he presented where visual intelligence and multimodal generative models are heading at AI Engineer.
  Mentioned in: Self-Flow: Training Multimodal Generative Models Without an External Encoder (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• The Pragmatic Engineer · newsletter · newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · check price
  Gergely Orosz's software engineering newsletter.
  Mentioned in: How OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory Works (Pragmatic Engineer) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• The roles emerging in the gaps between roles (Andela Research) · article · andela.com · free
  Andela's study of 47,101 Fortune 500 technical job postings, which found that job titles often don't match the actual work.
  Mentioned in: Find Hidden AI Jobs: Search by Skills (RAG, LLMs), Not "AI Engineer" Titles (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)
• Vercel announcement post on X · article · x.com · free
  Vercel's post announcing free Jev access on AI Gateway.
  Mentioned in: Jev was free on Vercel AI Gateway until Sept 25 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Victor M (@victormustar) on X · person · x.com · free
  Hugging Face team member who posts about HF products, open models and agent workflows.
  Mentioned in: Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Yann LeCun · person · yann.lecun.com · free
  AI researcher and deep learning pioneer whose advice on learning skills that last opens the video.
  Mentioned in: Problem Solving Over Keywords: The AI Skill That Never Expires (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)

Build

• Recreate the keynote demo: ask a coding agent to 'build an app that picks three attendees at random' to give away free tickets. (from OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace)
• Build a ChatGPT plugin extension (a full app that feels native to ChatGPT) and list it on the OpenAI marketplace. (from OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace)
• Build an iPhone app that downloads a small open model (e.g., Gemma 4 E2B) and runs it offline with LiteRT as a local chat assistant. (from On-Device AI: Running Gemma 4 E2B Offline on an iPhone with LiteRT)
• Build a multilingual voice app or narrator using Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS voices. (from Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS: new text-to-speech models)
• Build an AI agent project that you can explain end to end in an interview. (from AI Engineer Salaries at OpenAI & Anthropic and the Skills They Want)
• Build an LLM application with an evaluation suite that measures how well it performs. (from AI Engineer Salaries at OpenAI & Anthropic and the Skills They Want)
• Ship an AI application that runs reliably in production and be ready to talk about the reliability choices you made. (from AI Engineer Salaries at OpenAI & Anthropic and the Skills They Want)
• Make a short stop-motion clip by generating consistent frames with an image model and putting them together as an animation. (from Will Smith Spaghetti Benchmark: Stop Motion with GPT Image 2.5 and Astra)
• Build a 3D browser game where the player dodges asteroids with the arrow keys and uses space to boost (prompted in the demo). (from GPT-6 Astra Demo: One Agent Juggling Many Computer Tasks)
• Build a design-to-fabrication pipeline: sketch, detailed render, Blender 3D model, STL export for a 3D printer. (from GPT-6 Astra Demo: One Agent Juggling Many Computer Tasks)
• Try running the Minimax H3 model locally on a 24 GB consumer GPU and write down VRAM use, generation time and output quality. (from Running MiniMax H3 Locally on a Single RTX 3090 (Demo))
• Build a product around AI agents instead of a simple micro-SaaS (Melvin's suggestion). (from Is Indie Hacking Dead? How AI Coding Changes the Micro-SaaS Playbook)
• Fine-tune Gemma for an indigenous language such as Quechua and ship it as an offline mobile app for schools or hospitals. (from Gemma 4: Google's Open Models for On-Device, Offline AI)
• Build an offline, data-free health assistant app, like the maternal-health example in the video. (from Gemma 4: Google's Open Models for On-Device, Offline AI)
• Build a homework-checking assistant that runs on a phone. (from Gemma 4: Google's Open Models for On-Device, Offline AI)
• Build a script-to-storyboard tool: take a scene description, pull out the setting, mood and camera directions, and generate a sequence of FLUX frames. (from Martin Scorsese Storyboards a Scene with Black Forest Labs' FLUX)
• Build a camera-based diet coach: the user sets food or drink rules, and a vision-capable multimodal model checks webcam frames and gives spoken or written advice that follows those rules. (from Demo: A Real-Time Vision AI Assistant That Coaches Your Diet)
• Use Audio Tags in Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS to produce narration in different styles and paces. (from Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: Controllable Speech with Audio Tags)