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Aug 5 • Louie Peters, Louis-François Bouchard, and Towards AI

TAI #216: Frontier Models Now Drive Engineering and Maths Breakthroughs, and Cheaper Intelligence Is One of Them

Also, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, Qwen3.8-Max, GPT-5.6 price cuts, Sol’s self-optimization, Astra’s ten mathematics advances, & more.

Aug 4 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

July 2026

TAI #215: AI Is Expanding Roles Before Job Titles Change

Also, Claude Opus 5 tops several leaderboards, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite offers cheap multimodal extraction, Gemini 3.6 Flash, FLUX 3 & more.

Jul 28 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #214: Kimi K3 Brings Open Weight Closer to the Frontier

Also, Fable disproves an 87-year-old math conjecture, Qwen3.8-Max, Thinking Machine's Inking & more!

Jul 22 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #213: A Wave of New Frontier Competitors and the Multi-Agent Breakout

Also GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Realtime-2.1, and more.

Jul 15 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #212: AI Engineer World's Fair: Agent Loops and Forward-Deployed Engineers

Also, OpenAI's Alexander Embiricos on Codex and enterprise deployment, Claude Fable 5 returns, GPT-5.6 goes public Thursday & more.

Jul 9 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #211: GPT-5.6 is here, but most people cannot use it yet

Also, OpenAI and Broadcom’s Jalapeno chip, Claude Tag for Slack, Mistral OCR 4 & more.

Jul 1 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

June 2026

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Jun 26 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #210: GLM-5.2 Closes Most of the Open-Weight Gap in Ten Weeks

Also, SpaceX acquires Cursor, Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI & more.

Jun 23 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #209: Claude Fable 5 Arrived, Then the US Government Took It Offline

Also, GLM-5.2, Zamba2-VL, North Mini Code, and more!

Jun 16 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #208: Open Models Find Their Role as Agent Token Bills Rise

Also, Microsoft MAI models, Gemma 4 12B, MiniMax M3, and more!

Jun 9 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

TAI #207: Claude Opus 4.8 Is Better, but Dynamic Workflows Are the Bigger Story

Also, Anthropic files for an IPO after raising $65B, Liquid AI LFM2.5–8B-A1B, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and more.

Jun 2 • Louie Peters, Towards AI, and Louis-François Bouchard

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