Models & Agents

Ep 56: OpenAI just gave Codex the ability to control locked Macs and run multi-day goals, turning it into a true background agent you can launch from your phone.

Models & Agents OpenAI just gave Codex the ability to control locked Macs and run multi-day goals, turning it into a true background agent you can launch from your phone. What You Need to Know: OpenAI shipped several Codex updates today including secure computer use on locked Macs, Goal mode for hours-long autonomous work, and advanced annotation tools. Microsoft released Fara1.5, a family of browser agents that beat OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 on web tasks. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 55: A general-purpose reasoning model just disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture by finding better constructions than the square grids mathematicians expected.

Models & Agents A general-purpose reasoning model just disproved an 80-year-old math conjecture by finding better constructions than the square grids mathematicians expected. What You Need to Know: OpenAI announced that one of its general-purpose models solved the planar unit distance problem posed by Paul Erdős in 1946, marking the first time AI has autonomously resolved a prominent open math question. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 54: Gemini 3.5 Flash gives builders faster, cheaper frontier performance on coding and agent tasks while Gemini Omni adds real-time multimodal scene editing.

Models & Agents Gemini 3.5 Flash gives builders faster, cheaper frontier performance on coding and agent tasks while Gemini Omni adds real-time multimodal scene editing. What You Need to Know: Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash today, claiming it outperforms the prior 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic work, runs 4x faster than other frontier models, and delivers up to 800 tokens/sec inside Antigravity. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 53: Anthropic's acquisition of StainlessAPI hands developers cleaner SDKs and MCP server tooling for building production agents today.

Models & Agents Anthropic's acquisition of StainlessAPI hands developers cleaner SDKs and MCP server tooling for building production agents today. What You Need to Know: Anthropic acquired StainlessAPI, the platform behind every Anthropic SDK since the API's earliest days, to accelerate SDK and MCP server development. Alibaba previewed new Qwen models that currently rank as the top Chinese entries on the LMSYS Arena. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.

Ep 52: NVIDIA's 4-bit pretraining technique cuts memory needs for large hybrid models while keeping accuracy nearly identical to FP8.

Models & Agents NVIDIA's 4-bit pretraining technique cuts memory needs for large hybrid models while keeping accuracy nearly identical to FP8. What You Need to Know: NVIDIA released a full 4-bit pretraining stack (NVFP4) that was validated on a 12B Mamba-Transformer trained for 10 trillion tokens. The approach combines selective BF16 layers, Hadamard transforms, and stochastic rounding to stay within 0.04 points of an FP8 baseline on MMLU-Pro. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production.