Neurodigest Weekly (#120)

Jubilee Edition

LLM

• $60 Billion Deal — SpaceX acquires Cursor.
• GLM 5.2 — Zhipu has released GLM 5.2. They slightly changed the architecture for a long context of 1M, kept the same API pricing, and continue to distribute weights under the MIT license. The best open model for coding.

Generative Models

• Seedance 2.0 Mini — Twice as fast as the Fast version and 30% cheaper.

Miscellaneous

• One Star Less at Google — Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI. Ironically, just two years ago, Google spent $2.7 billion to acquire Character AI largely to bring him back.
• Ultrasound Scanner from Midjourney — David Holz returns to hardware development. MJ unexpectedly announced a medical division, an affordable ring scanner for the whole body, and the opening of a spa center in San Francisco.