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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback Proudly brought to you by SerpAPI: Today’s release covers a LOT of ground, but you can scrape all this into markdown for your agents ! 50% token cost of JSON.

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Latent SpaceVoicesAI for the Fortune 2000: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC — Alex Lieberman & CJ Hess Last year , Alex Lieberman and his cofounder joined us to explain Tenex’s unusual bet: pay AI engineers for the work they deliver, rather than the hours they spend at a keyboard.

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Latent SpaceVoicesThe Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute This was recorded on the sidelines of the new Compute Trading track at AIE NYC . Catch us next at AIE CODE , our last flagship for the top agentic engineers in the world.

10.20

Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] not much happened today Congrats to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and Mercury 3 (details below) but they’re not going to be in super wide use just yet.

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1 We are piloting a new show on Latent Space: High Taste Testers, a variant of our food show where we pull you in to a typical lunch conversation in San Francisco.

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Agents disprove Polysemanticity; greatly improve Interpretability & Alignment A version of Muse Spark Open was released today, fulfilling their original promise but with a model weaker than their Spark 1.3.

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Modal’s $1B ARR, $16B Series D makes it NYC’s newest AI Infra Decacorn, 3x usage and 3x valuation in 5 months, 15x in 1 yr Today Modal switches from our infra unicorn category to infra decacorn . We last caught up with Modal CTO Akshat in July: On the last day of AIE NYC , Akshat had a lot to share about the kind of…

10.15

Latent SpaceVoicesCrossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents OpenAI’s Joseph Kim talks about the threshold phenomenon at AIE NY today. One of the key themes at the AI Engineer New York conference this week was how to balance agent autonomy with security and…

10.14

Latent SpaceVoicesLab-in-the-Loop at Compute Speed — Ian Quigley, Leash Bio A few years ago I stumbled upon Leash Bio’s Substack , and was hooked. Be it their Kaggle competition that showed that no, we really haven’t solved protein-ligand binding , or their crazy discovery…

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks Gemini 4 Argon went GA today, but we already gave it title story 2 weeks ago and most benchmarks, like CursorBench , simply independently confirm their claims.

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Latent SpaceVoicesDyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy — Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics Watch along AIE NYC and join us at AIE CODE in SF next month! This episode includes a live demo of the Taku robot that is best enjoyed on YouTube .

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Meta Muse Wonder & Wonder Full: MSL’s Claude 5.5-tier Frontier Model We have been coveringe MSL’s 14 month journey to becoming a frontier lab , but only today did the final ball drop: Meta’s Muse Wonder to match Spark and Glimmer , the way that OpenAI has…

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Latent SpaceVoicesHow Anthropic’s Dynamic Workflows Coordinate Claude Agents (Updated with video!) CJ Avilla and Harrison Stall, Members of Technical Staff at Anthropic, at AI Engineer NYC today. The AI Engineer New York 2026 conference kicked off this morning with a series of workshops, including…

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Latent SpaceVoices[Subscriber Exclusive] NYC Subscriber Meetups! If you’re seeing this you’re part of our very very light subscription/paid tier, and we genuinely appreciate you: your donations have funded our production process indefinitely and it is my sincere…

10.10

Latent SpaceVoicesBuilding AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial Robotics When you think of robotics and AI, you probably first think of full humanoid robots like Figure’s AI-powered machines and 1X’s NEO home robots .

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] TypeSafe/Jev at >$100M ARR, $7.5B valuation 3 weeks after launch As you can see in the AINews X recap section below, everyone on earth has cloned the Jev API, but only one company can ever create the category.

10.10

Latent SpaceVoicesWhy AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding , Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly…

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] not much happened today More AI safety intrigue in the alignment below. AIE NYC leadership tickets will sell out tomorrow, while for SF folks, AIE CODE applications are still open for the top agentic engineers in the world.

10.08

Latent SpaceVoicesSynthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk It’s hard to believe that Periodic was only launched last September : @periodiclabs . Our mission is to accelerate science.\n\nOur founding team co-created ChatGPT, DeepMind’s GNoME, OpenAI’s…

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Latent SpaceVoices[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricing It’s been about a year since Anthropic shipped Haiku 4.5 , and with successive launches of Sonnet and Opus and Fable up to 5.5 it was seeming a little forgotten, especially as OpenAI launched Luna 6…

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