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Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

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Exclusive: Backed, SOSV back AI world models lab Zenithon

September 30

Zenithon, a London-based AI lab working on world models for extreme physics, has raised a $10m round from Backed, Lunar, Seraphim, MMC and SOSV.

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