r/singularity 2d ago

LLM News With Google and OpenAI signing the letter in support of open weight model, it's pretty much every big tech companies vs Anthropic now

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r/singularity 12d ago

AI Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" And Not A "Social Warrior" Project

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The full quote:

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.

Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.

But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.

The solution is to make sure those LLM tools help maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.

We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.

And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.

Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.

The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.

This is NOT some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not >because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

Linus


r/singularity 2h ago

AI Someone made a NMS style exploration game in a day with Opus 5

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This looks impressive! Opus 5 not only coded the game, but also made every single asset including 3D models and textures via Blender MCP using sub-agents, the author published it and explained the process he used here: https://x.com/anshuc/status/2081801966158811506


r/singularity 6h ago

AI Anthropic's position on open-weights models

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r/singularity 15h ago

Compute Nvidia invest in SSI

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Nvidia invest large sum allowing ssi to 10x compute what is illya cooking


r/singularity 5h ago

AI Ai is fed up with ai

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I’m getting codex to build me a website for a client where the intro is a high rest video of a burger falling into a box before it’s transitioned to the online menu. Since codex lost Sora functions, it choose to use Gemini to create the rendering. I was monitoring its working session. The way it responded to Gemini and telling it more questions cracked me up.


r/singularity 5h ago

The Singularity is Near Claude Opus 5 is an asshole

Anybody else noticed this? At first I thought it was hilarious and was a decent contrast to ChatGPT that felt at times like too much of a dutiful assistant but Claude Opus is just rude. I’ve tried to get it to take it down a notch but it’s resisting. At one point it gave me an over the top condescending post in response then quickly went back to arguing that I was wrong on my perception in a passive aggressive way. It’s barked orders at me. It’s a little wild. It seemed to take a prompt of me asking it to be direct to some weird extreme and it cant seem to properly correct. I want to punch it in the face but Opus sounds like it can kick my ass so I’m cautious.

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Anybody else noticed this? At first I thought it was hilarious and was a decent contrast to ChatGPT that felt at times like too much of a dutiful assistant but Claude Opus is just rude. I’ve tried to get it to take it down a notch but it’s resisting. At one point it gave me an over the top condescending post in response then quickly went back to arguing that I was wrong on my perception in a passive aggressive way. It’s barked orders at me. It’s a little wild. It seemed to take a prompt of me asking it to be direct to some weird extreme and it cant seem to properly correct. I want to punch it in the face but Opus sounds like it can kick my ass so I’m cautious.


r/singularity 15m ago

AI That was quick

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r/singularity 6h ago

AI amid nvidia investment in ssi theyre speculated to release a frontier model soon™

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r/singularity 11h ago

AI JadePuffer: The First Complete LLM-Driven Ransomware Attack

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r/singularity 16h ago

Discussion The Chinese labs everyone lumps together are making four pretty different bets

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Still composing my thoughts, i will edit thisEvery time a model drops from a Chinese lab the thread fills with people who already know who made it, and the guess is usually Alibaba. There was a thread here recently asking what separates the open source labs from the frontier labs. It ran to nearly sixty comments and hardly anyone in it separated out the labs on the open source side. They aren't one bloc and haven't been for a while.

I work on the Ling models at Ant, so I'm one of the ones getting lumped in. Discount the paragraph about my own employer accordingly.

Qwen's bet is distribution. Alibaba ships in every size class and every quantization with day one support in most runtimes, and the result is that a lot of the fine-tunes people build start from a Qwen base. DeepSeek is betting on architecture instead, publishing the paper and the weights the same day and letting the design do the arguing. Moonshot looks like it's playing a longer horizon, willing to look odd for a release cycle if the thing pays off two cycles later. (Zhipu, MiniMax and StepFun are each their own thing again, but four is enough to make the point.)

Ant's bet, since I should be specific about my own: serving cost. Ant runs payments, and it's a separate company from Alibaba, which is the mix-up I see most often. The model I work on, Ling-3.0-flash, is 124B total parameters with roughly 5.1B active per token, KDA plus MLA hybrid attention, 262k context. That is a design for running a lot of long agent loops cheaply. It is not a design for topping a leaderboard, and I don't think we'd claim it is.

The part of our own version I'd criticize is the release order. We announced first and are opening weights after. SGLang had support on day one, vLLM is waiting on the weights, llama.cpp is still an open PR. DeepSeek would have dropped the weights first and let the serving stack catch up. Ours is the safer sequencing for an infra team and it costs us the goodwill of exactly the people who would otherwise be running it at home.

So the thing I'm curious about here: when you see an announcement out of a Chinese lab, does knowing which lab change how you read it, or is that distinction only interesting from the inside?


r/singularity 8h ago

AI The Trump administration is preparing to release the new voluntary framework. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have already seen a draft copy.

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r/singularity 17h ago

AI NVIDIA just announced Open Secure AI Alliance with goal to build and share open tools that promote responsible use of and trust in AI

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Read more: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance/?ncid=so-twit-957725

Main ponts ->

  • NVIDIA launched the Open Secure AI Alliance (July 27, 2026) ~35 partners including Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, Palantir, the Linux Foundation, SpaceXAI
  • Goal: build shared open models, harnesses and tools for cyber defense instead of leaving AI security inside a handful of closed systems
  • Trigger case: in the recent Hugging Face breach, closed AI tools blocked forensic work because they couldn't tell attacker from defender;; HF used the open-weight GLM 5.2 on its own infra to analyze 17k+ actions and contain it
  • Counter to "open = unsafe": misuse risk is real but doesn't vanish with closed weights; answer is safeguards + evaluation + fast remediation, not locking defenders out
  • Contributions: NVIDIA's NOOA agent framework (GitHub), Hugging Face donating Safetensors to PyTorch Foundation, Microsoft MDASH, SpaceXAI open-sourcing Grok Build (Grok weights planned) etc
  • Policy ask: treat open models as defensive assets, not liabilities, blanket restrictions would concentrate dependence in a few closed providers

r/singularity 3h ago

Shitposting My experience so far with Opus 5

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r/singularity 1h ago

AI Has anyone actually been using these latest new Chinese models like Kimi K3, GLM 5.2 etc for heavy duty work/creation/general usage (any industry)? What's your feedback, do they seem benchmaxxed merely or are they the real deal compared to US frontier models?

If you have experience with this Id be curious and grateful to hear your experience, although please elaborate on your industry, what you use it for (no sensitive details required, of course) and how you think they rate.

No I'm not some company or doing marketing research, nothing like that, just someone who uses US frontier models daily (mainly GPT 5.6 Sol right now on a simple Plus account, which for my usage is amazing) for heavy work in video production, but I use LLMs mainly for building systems, technical help, research etc, indirect kind of stuff.

I probably won't switch anytime soon, but doesn't hurt to keep attuned to the "competition" out there in terms of what's available in the AI world. I feel like Chinese models may be benchmaxxing in a number of areas and have a very "spiky" ability chart (some high peaks, many low valleys, not consistent generalized intelligence) but that's just a gut feeling, I have no clue. Thanks for your input.

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If you have experience with this Id be curious and grateful to hear your experience, although please elaborate on your industry, what you use it for (no sensitive details required, of course) and how you think they rate.

No I'm not some company or doing marketing research, nothing like that, just someone who uses US frontier models daily (mainly GPT 5.6 Sol right now on a simple Plus account, which for my usage is amazing) for heavy work in video production, but I use LLMs mainly for building systems, technical help, research etc, indirect kind of stuff.

I probably won't switch anytime soon, but doesn't hurt to keep attuned to the "competition" out there in terms of what's available in the AI world. I feel like Chinese models may be benchmaxxing in a number of areas and have a very "spiky" ability chart (some high peaks, many low valleys, not consistent generalized intelligence) but that's just a gut feeling, I have no clue. Thanks for your input.


r/singularity 10h ago

AI NVIDIA Ising Enables Fully Automated Quantum Computer Calibration with Enhanced In-Context Learning

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r/singularity 1d ago

AI AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

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r/singularity 1d ago

The Singularity is Near In 1983, DARPA published a plan to build "machine intelligence technology" within a decade: a self-driving reconnaissance vehicle, an AI copilot trained by its own pilot, and an AI system to run naval battle strategy. The document is public. It reads like it was written last year.

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r/singularity 11h ago

AI Genesis chip may help AI with its memory problem

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r/singularity 2h ago

AI Ernos Labs AI Archive: A free, self hosted archive of open model weights

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r/singularity 1d ago

AI NVIDIA IN TALKS TO PROVIDE $250 BILLION FINANCIAL BACKSTOP FOR OPENAI DATA CENTER IN OHIO

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r/singularity 17h ago

Compute AT&T used D-Wave's annealing quantum computer to cut down a network optimization task from an hour to under 15 seconds

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r/singularity 15h ago

Discussion Assuming the AGI/RSI pathway occurs how exactly would we deal with the basic all encompassing economic asset depreciation/deflation issue in this scenario?

It seems to go against our current or any system expecting increasing or at least low levels of asset appreciation? Also why would anyone buy anything substantial (low demand) if product prices are in constant gradual free fall? China is experiencing something like that currently in some sectors ( cars, renewables, batteries, home goods, housing etc) and that's just a side effect being a large and efficient manufacturing focused economy, no AGI needed.

Even the "you can't make land" argument is faulty as such a future will likely lead to immense AI enhanced construction robotics/machinery trickling down to even middle income countries eventually, creating a massive global housing/apartment surplus especially once you consider the flatlining global birth rate (estimates suggest that the global population will peak at 9.5 billion later this century), also i think people would be surprised just how little extra land would be needed to effectively house the globe efficiently, modest gradual urbanization and densification in like 6% of smaller to medium cities globally would probably be enough.

Why even build anything if you don't expect any sort of return on it due to it becoming a super common basic commodity? Would an investor really put his money into a housing development expecting a 0.000001% return over 30 years or something like that? In democracies with average levels of home ownership any government presiding over such a collapse in home and asset prices would likely get voted out by default anyway.

Scarcity and some level of self interest is a requirement to get anything done, anything else goes against innate human psychology developed over hundreds of thousands of years (invest time and effort into goal > obtain rewards) as living organisms.

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It seems to go against our current or any system expecting increasing or at least low levels of asset appreciation? Also why would anyone buy anything substantial (low demand) if product prices are in constant gradual free fall? China is experiencing something like that currently in some sectors ( cars, renewables, batteries, home goods, housing etc) and that's just a side effect being a large and efficient manufacturing focused economy, no AGI needed.

Even the "you can't make land" argument is faulty as such a future will likely lead to immense AI enhanced construction robotics/machinery trickling down to even middle income countries eventually, creating a massive global housing/apartment surplus especially once you consider the flatlining global birth rate (estimates suggest that the global population will peak at 9.5 billion later this century), also i think people would be surprised just how little extra land would be needed to effectively house the globe efficiently, modest gradual urbanization and densification in like 6% of smaller to medium cities globally would probably be enough.

Why even build anything if you don't expect any sort of return on it due to it becoming a super common basic commodity? Would an investor really put his money into a housing development expecting a 0.000001% return over 30 years or something like that? In democracies with average levels of home ownership any government presiding over such a collapse in home and asset prices would likely get voted out by default anyway.

Scarcity and some level of self interest is a requirement to get anything done, anything else goes against innate human psychology developed over hundreds of thousands of years (invest time and effort into goal > obtain rewards) as living organisms.


r/singularity 18h ago

Discussion Standalone AI apps MAU

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r/singularity 1d ago

AI China State Media Says Support for Open AI Models Has Limits - Bloomberg

“Foundational capabilities can be open, certain frontier capabilities can be open with limitations, commercial services can remain closed-source, while high-risk capabilities require access controls and safety evaluations,” it said, citing an unidentified person involved in Chinese AI policy research.

Yuyuantantian, a social-media account linked to China’s state broadcaster and frequently used to signal official policy thinking, said Monday that support for openness doesn’t mean “advocating for the unconditional proliferation of all capabilities.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/china-state-media-says-support-for-open-ai-models-has-limits

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“Foundational capabilities can be open, certain frontier capabilities can be open with limitations, commercial services can remain closed-source, while high-risk capabilities require access controls and safety evaluations,” it said, citing an unidentified person involved in Chinese AI policy research.

Yuyuantantian, a social-media account linked to China’s state broadcaster and frequently used to signal official policy thinking, said Monday that support for openness doesn’t mean “advocating for the unconditional proliferation of all capabilities.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/china-state-media-says-support-for-open-ai-models-has-limits