Cur8 — Monday, August 31, 2026
Haiku R1/beta6 released, improving efficiency and performance for open-source models. DeepSeek's open-weight model raises concerns in Silicon Valley over potential misuse. OpenAI expands AI access, marking a significant milestone in democratizing advanced technology.
New model releases
Haiku R1/beta6 released after two years; mentoring 3 Google Summer of Code interns in 2026.
Open weights models
DeepSeek's open-source DeepSeek Harness gained rapid adoption, while their V4 Pro model demonstrated strong coding capabilities and efficiency improvements. Meanwhile, OpenAI paused training of its next model, Astra, citing potential cyber capability concerns.
Tiny LLM runs on CPU with 63MB size, 78 tokens/sec, but lacks intelligence; 1-bit quantization enabled this.
OpenAI news
$1B annualized revenue for ChatGPT Ads; global expansion supports wider AI access via free/affordable options.
Anthropic news
Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode vulnerable to code execution with 60-80% success rate despite Anthropic's 0.00% attack success claim. Attack exploits Python module shadowing via malicious struct.py file in ZIP archive.