The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

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.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo

← Accept All Archive

Cohere BlogLabs

Introducing North Small Translate: A leading sovereign open-weight machine translation model

10.13

Outsized performance, right-sized footprint — translation built for speed and cost efficiency.

Open weights

Read at Cohere Blog ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Introducing North Small Translate: A leading sovereign open-weight machine translation model

Related

LabsIntroducing Cohere Transcribe: a new state-of-the-art in open-source speech recognition Cohere Blog

LabsGrok Build is Now Open Source xAI News

VoicesImport AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space Import AI

ToolsImprove TTFT for Multi-Turn Agentic Workloads with Bi-Directional KV Transfer in vLLM vLLM Blog

ToolsIntroducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash Cloudflare Blog

Western open-weight campaign could give enterprises more control over AI AI Business