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Clippy, a tiny teammate for Claude Code and Codex
Clippy, a free macOS app, surfaces approval requests and questions from Claude Code and Codex agents via a small animated buddy on each window, using localhost hooks that fail safely to the terminal prompt if the app is closed or unresponsive.
blogAI Socratic August 2026 — Escaping The Sandbox
OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — then Anthropic found three more in 141,006 of its own eval runs. Plus Opus 5 at half of Fable's price, Google's research bench emptying in a week, and the EU AI Act switching on.
newsGemma 4 31B (free)
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 31B, a free open-weights multimodal model with 256K context, configurable reasoning mode, native function calling, and support for 140+ languages under Apache 2.0 license.
newsMeta becomes a cloud company
Meta launched Meta Compute on July 1, offering hosted AI models and raw GPU capacity to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, converting its $115-135B annual infrastructure spend into a revenue stream.
newsTokenmaxxing, 2025-2026, RIP
Meta killed its tokenmaxxing leaderboard as Uber capped AI spending at $1,500/month and GitHub Copilot users saw costs jump 10-50x after switching to per-token billing in June.
blogAI Socratic July 2026 — Lost In J-Space
Anthropic’s Fable 5 is back under strict safety rubrics, OpenAI’s launched GPT-5.6, Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 model and Meta Compute.
newsBun rewrite in Rust
Bun completed a 535,000-line rewrite from Zig to Rust in 11 days using 64 parallel Claude loops, eliminating memory safety bugs that caused crashes when Zig's manual memory management clashed with JavaScriptCore's garbage collector.
newsKimi K3
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8T parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model.
newsKimi K2.7 Code
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code, a coding-focused model designed to handle end-to-end programming tasks over long contexts.
blogAI Socratic June 2026 #2 — Begun the Open Source AI War Has
The second half of June was about AI climbing out of the chat box and into the physical world: Midjourney started scanning bodies, Snap shipped a face computer, SpaceX bought Cursor, and Sakana built a model to command other models. Underneath it all, Dwarkesh Patel named the real bottleneck — the world refuses to be grindable.
newsMiniMax M2.7
MiniMax released M2.7 on June 16, 2026, an open-weights model designed for autonomous task execution with multi-agent collaboration, scoring 56.2% on SWE-Pro and 1495 ELO on GDPval-AA.
blogAI Socratic June 2026 - Hoist by Its Own Fable
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model, and 72 hours later a national-security directive pulled it offline worldwide. A company that spent the month lobbying to keep frontier AI pausable got its own pause, on schedule. Around it: new models from nearly everyone, a couple of S-1s, real math from the machines, and the usual carnival of vibe-coding pivots and rogue Waymos.
newsGLM 5.2
Z.ai released GLM 5.2, an open-weights reasoning model with a 1M-token context window designed for long-horizon agent workflows, software engineering, and multi-step automation tasks.
blogAI Socratic May 2026 — The Selfish Gen AI
DeepSeek v4, GPT 5.5, Trump x Xi meeting, Richard Dawkins, Estimating model sizes
newsDeepSeek V4 Pro
DeepSeek released V4 Pro on April 22, 2026, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 1.6T total parameters, 49B activated parameters, and a 1M-token context window.
newsDeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek released V4 Flash, an efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts model with 284B total parameters and 13B activated, supporting a 1M-token context window.
newsUpcoming Events: AI Socratic Europe & China Chapter Tour
Fed and Anissa are launching AI Socratic chapters across Europe and China, meeting with local leaders in London, Lisbon, and Berlin before spending a month in China visiting Alibaba, Qwen, x.AI, and robotics factories.
blogAI Socratic April 2026 — The Era of Mythos
Mythos, Claude Code leak, Anthropic surpass OpenAI on MRR
newsGLM 5.1
Z.ai released GLM-5.1 on April 3, 2026, an open-weights model with major gains in coding capability and long-horizon task handling.
blogAI Socratic March 2026 — #2
NVIDIA GTC, Anthropic win all, TurboQuant and more
blogAI Socratic March 2026
Top AI updates from Jan 15 to Feb 15 2026
newsAI Socratic February Events
AI Socratic is hosting dinners in NYC (Feb 18), Milano (Feb 19), DC (Feb 23), and Madrid (Feb 26).
blogAI Socratic February 2026
Top AI updates from Jan 15 to Feb 15 2026
newsQwen3 Coder Next
Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen3 Coder Next, an open-weight language model designed for coding agents and local development workflows.
newsGLM 4.7 Flash
Zhipu AI released GLM-4.7-Flash, a 30B open-weights model positioned as a performance-efficiency balance in the SOTA class.
newsNew AI Socratic chapter launches in Madrid
Jorge Ordovás and Iago Suárez, PhD are launching a new AI Socratic chapter in Madrid, with the first event scheduled for January 8th.
blogAI Socratic Jan 2026
Claude Code, Ralph Wiggum, DeepSeek mHC, Platonic Representation Hypothesis and more
newsModels Leaderboard
AI Socratic's leaderboard ranks large language models by performance across benchmarks and real-world tasks.
newsKimi K2.6
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, an open-weights multimodal model designed for long-horizon coding, UI/UX generation, and multi-agent orchestration.
blogAI Socratic Dec 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month: Nov 15 - Dec 15. GPT-5.2, Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, the Agentic IDE Wars, Genesis Mission, and more.
newsNemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free)
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, a free open-weights mixture-of-experts model optimized for efficient inference and agentic AI systems.
blogAI Socratic Nov 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month: Oct 15 – Nov 15.
blogAI Socratic Oct 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month: Sep 15 – Oct 15.
blogAI Socratic Sep 2025 Part 3 — Frontier Tower Edition
Language models hallucinate because their training and evaluation reward guessing over admitting uncertainty. Models are unable to say “I don’t Know” because they focus on accuracy. Guessing can impro
blogAI Socratic July-Sep 2025 Part 2 — Match the Tempo 🎶
We totally recommend this event. Currently working on getting a group discount for our community and a discount code for our readers. In the meantime if money are not a problem for you, go ahead and s
blogAI Socratic July-Sep 2025 Part 1 — The Genie3 Is Out of The Box 🍌
This time around we’ll have 2 events, one in New York, and one for the first time in San Francisco at the Frontier Tower. We’ll discuss the top news and updates from this blog post using the Socratic
blogAI Socratic July 2025 — The CLI War
The most important AI news and updates from June 15 to July 15.
blogAI Socratic June 2025 — The Recursive Illusion Of Thinking
The most important AI news and updates from last month: May 15 - June 15.
blogAI Socratic May 2025
The most important AI news and updates from last month (April 15 - May 15). A beefy month!
blogAI Socratic Apr 2025
All the AI updates from mar 15 to apr 20. Including GPT o3, o4-mini, 4.1 to Gemini 2.5, the controversial AI-2027 blog post, A2A and more.