#253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

#253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

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August 3, 2026 · 1h 43m · Episode 293

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The episode discusses major AI news and releases from the past week.

Our 253rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 07/29/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or  hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ In this episode: Major releases: Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5; Google released Gemini 3.6/3.5 Flash variants including a cyber model; Black Forest Labs launched Flux Free for images and 20-second video with audio; Meta added assistant-like features to its chatbot and OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Health. Compute and business: Safe Superintelligence partnered with NVIDIA to scale using Vera Rubin; AMD committed up to $5B with Anthropic to deploy MI450/Helios and improve ROCm; Meta discussed leasing compute to Anthropic; Fireworks raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation. Open source/tools: Moonshot AI released the 2.8T-parameter open-weight Qimi K3 (compute constraints and distillation/export-control allegations); Thinking Machines released a ~975B multimodal open-weight MoE; Prime Intellect unified 23 agentic datasets into Verifiers V1 (365k…

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Hosts: Andrey Kurenkov, Jeremie Harris

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Organizations: Anthropic, Google, Black Forest Labs, Meta, Safe Superintelligence, NVIDIA, AMD, Fireworks, Thinking Machines, OpenAI

Products: Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Gemini 3.5, Flux Free, ChatGPT Health, Qimi K3, Verifiers V1

Places: China

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