Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week
Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.
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OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU
Today is the 20 year anniversary of Sam Altman’s first startup, and fittingly OpenAI the consumer AI company is so back (as is OpenAI the AI Cloud and OpenAI the Enterprise and Coding Definitely Not Anthropic Hyperscaler), with Dots — their voice-enabled answer to Instinct and Muse, ChatGPT Spaces…
Latent Space12 min readAMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more
The official post is shy, but since AMD is public, we know the purchase price. We covered them less than a year ago:
Latent Space3 min readOpus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Checking in on Opus 5.5 ~1 week after launch. It's the #1 model in share of spend and share of tokens among Anthropic models on OpenRouter Switching from Opus 5 has been particularly rapid
Latent Space21 min readClaude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier
Latent Space91 min readOpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
Latent Space77 min readThe Future of Latent Space
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
Latent Space20 min readRunway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.
Latent Space84 min readFoundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science
Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
Latent Space11 min readMeta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm
and the effusive praise on Stratechery shows the mood on the ground. Unfortunately, no MSL updates beyond a tease, since Muse Spark was launched 3 weeks ago.
Latent Space13 min read🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.
Latent Space4 min readClaude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
OpenAI made a valiant effort with GPT-6 Sol and Luna launching 50% lower than GPT-5.6, but with 17M views on the launch and counting, today was always going to belong to Claude Opus 5.5, “the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family” performing like “Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40%…
Latent Space18 min read🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the age of superintelligent AI
Latent Space8 min readXiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
This is a first for the “Apple of China” phone maker-turned-frontier lab: “The MiMo-V2.6 series includes two natively omnimodal models: MiMo-V2.6-Pro is our most capable model to date, while MiMo-V2.6-Flash strikes the best balance between intelligence, efficiency, and cost.
Latent Space11 min readJev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
We have an unusual relationship with today’s guest: for years since coauthoring the InstructGPT paper, Diogo Almeida had been saying that API-available frontier models have been going down the wrong path, everything from the alignment to refusals to reliability perspectives, that we have dropped…
Latent Space150 min readHere are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
We covered Jev’s launch on Wednesday, and they have completely taken over the timeline, with 36M views of their launch video (by comparison, OpenAI’s Navier Stokes result got 74M views, and Anthropic’s Fable 5 got 57M views) in just two days.
Latent Space9 min readnot much happened today
AI News for 9/16/2026-9/17/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space. You can opt in/out of email frequencies!
Latent Space22 min readReality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
Steve Yegge has been very popular and loud in his gung ho adoption of tokenmaxxing, so it is sobering to see him now shut down Gas Town and admit that despite spending many thousands a month on coding agent subscriptions… he only ever built Gas Town with it:
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