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Why I couldn't build Jev at OpenAI — Diogo Almeida, TypeSafe Co-founder & CEO
Diogo Almeida joins swyx on Latent Space days after Jev’s launch to argue the next wave of AI will not look like chat: System One Models built for code, calibrated decisions and intelligence per dollar rather than benchmark scores.
blogAI Socratic September 2026 — Jev AI Classifiers, Astra, and Pace the Frontier
Astra ships and Amodei asks everyone to slow down. The Hugging Face postmortem, Fable 5.1, Fermat in Lean, the distillation report, the China front, Nvidia–Hugging Face, Cursor's swarm, robotics and hardware — plus Jev's classifier comeback and the papers on how agents actually fail.
newsExo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs
A Latent Space deep dive with Alex Krentsel on Exo, an agent harness that can rewrite every part of itself at runtime — prompts, memory, tooling, even its own policy — held in check by one immutable event log, and shown cutting production costs 96%.
blogAI Socratic March 2026
Top AI updates from Jan 15 to Feb 15 2026
newsGoogle Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, a distilled lightweight model designed for speed and cost-efficiency in tasks like PDF extraction, OCR, and summarization.
newsCornell's vec2vec translates embeddings between models it has never seen
Cornell researchers' vec2vec translates text embeddings between models with no paired data or encoder access, hitting up to 0.92 cosine similarity and 100% top-1 accuracy, and recovering readable info from up to 80% of test emails via zero-shot inversion.