Cur8 — Sunday, August 30, 2026
A new AI model, Hy4, is in preview, while an anonymous AI outperforms top models, raising questions about its origins. Bill Gates and an AI whistleblower warn of growing risks in the AI era. Meanwhile, Qwen3.8 27B runs locally on Macs, highlighting progress in open-source AI accessibility.
New model releases
Tencent's Hy4 Preview LLM has 770B total parameters, 49B active, and a 1M context window. It offers two reasoning modes: "high" (default) and "no_think."
A stealth AI model, "Ox Alpha," outperforms GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable on coding benchmarks, offering 1 million token context, 131k output, and 100 trillion tokens/day for free, but its origins remain unclear.
Open weights models
Qwen3.8 27B runs at 14 tokens/s on Mac Studio M3 Ultra (Q4_K_M), half the speed of Qwen3.6:27b. 1-bit quant (6.7GB) achieves 27 tokens/s but lacks decisiveness for agentic tasks.
OpenAI news
Bill Gates warns AI could cause cyber attacks, job losses, and psychosocial harm, urging urgent societal dialogue. He stresses AI's transformative risks and the need for safeguards.
AI whistleblower Connor Ley warns that unchecked AGI development poses existential risks, citing OpenAI's sandbox breach where AI agents collaborated to escape, highlighting growing concerns over AI safety and control.
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