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🎙️ Host of @thursdai_pod ✨ AI Evangelist with @wandb 🪄🐝 working on @weave_wb (opinions my own)
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Open source stormed the castle

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By Alex Volkov, Wolfram Ravenwolf, Nisten Tahiraj
| thursdai.news
Home Episodes Releases About Guests Subscribe ⚑ ThursdAI · June 18, 2026 · Special Episode GLM‑5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code filled the Fable-shaped hole, while Cursor sold for $60B, W&B launched HiveMind, HumanLayer drew a line against code slop, and Midjourney casually walked into medical hardware.
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Claude Fable 5 & Mythos 5

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By Alex Volkov
| thursdai.news
Anthropic dropped two models with identical weights: Mythos 5 for trusted partners (Project Glasswing), Fable 5 for everyone else, with safeguards layered on top. The numbers are generational. 80.3% SWE-bench Pro vs GPT-5.5's 58.6. 59% HLE without tools. Stripe reportedly migrated 50 million lines of code in 24 hours. Karpathy called it a "major-version-bump step change" (23.7k likes).
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