modelSimon Willison
The llm-anthropic 0.26 plugin adds support for three new Anthropic models — claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5 and claude-opus-5. It also brings server-side tools such as WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExecution and AnthropicMCP, callable straight from the LLM interface or from Python.
modelSimon Willison
MiniMax has unveiled MiniMax-H3, a general-purpose omni-modal generative system. It accepts text, images, audio and video, and can produce video clips of up to 15 seconds with audio included. A new Python package ports it to MLX so it can run on Apple Silicon.
modelHugging Face
Liquid AI has published LFM2.5-2.6B on Hugging Face, a new compact model focused on deploying local agents pretty much everywhere. Its small size points toward running directly on devices rather than in the cloud.
announcementTechCrunch
Anthropic has reportedly signed a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta. It is the company's latest move in a string of cloud partnerships over recent months, securing compute capacity for its models.
researchTechCrunch
A new report from SaferAI finds that Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier-level capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations. It renews concerns that powerful open models could outpace the governance and safeguards meant to keep them in check.
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