Arcee AI spent half its venture capital to build an open reasoning model that rivals Claude Opus in agent tasks
US start-up Arcee AI spent roughly half its total venture capital to train Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open reasoning model with 400 billion parameters designed to take on Claude Opus in agent tasks.
Molotov suspect who attacked Sam Altman's home was likely a Pause AI follower with AI extinction fears
A man threw a firebomb at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home in the middle of the night. The suspect apparently followed the “Pause AI” movement and wrote online about AI driving humanity to extinction.
Google's Gemma 4 puts free agentic AI on your phone and no data ever leaves the device
Google’s new open-source model, Gemma 4, processes text, images, and audio completely on-device. Using agent skills, the AI can independently tap into tools like Wikipedia or interactive maps; no cloud required.
AI startup Overworld has released Waypoint-1.5, an update to its real-time world simulation system that generates interactive 3D worlds on consumer hardware. The software now runs on Mac and Windows for the first time, with two model tiers: 720p at 60 frames per second for high-performance systems, and 360p for a broader range of gaming PCs with NVIDIA RTX graphics cards and eventually Apple Silicon.
Compared to the earlier Waypoint 1.0 and 1.1 releases, the new version delivers noticeably better visual quality, improved efficiency, and stronger system performance, all while being half the size. Overworld says the model was trained on roughly 100 times more data than the original version.
Comparison between Waypoint 1.1 and 1.5. The visual quality has increased significantly with better efficiency. | Image: Overworld
Anthropic has added a feature called "Ultraplan" to Claude Code that moves the planning phase of programming tasks to the cloud. Developers start a planning job in the terminal, Claude works out the plan on the Claude Code web interface, and the terminal stays free for other work meanwhile.
The documentation on code.claude.com lists three differences compared to local planning: users can leave comments on individual sections of a plan rather than responding to the whole thing at once, planning runs in the background in the cloud, and the finished plan can be executed either in the browser or back in the terminal. The browser interface also supports inline comments, emoji reactions, and revision requests.
Using Ultraplan requires a Claude Code web account, a GitHub repository, and at least version 2.1.91 of Claude Code. It doesn't work with Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic employee Thariq noted on X that Ultraplan consumes roughly the same number of tokens as the previous plan mode. The feature is currently available as a preview for anyone who has activated Claude Code on the web.
Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis compares the arrival of AGI to ten times the industrial revolution in a tenth of the time. "I sometimes quantify AGI as 10 times the industrial revolution at 10 times the speed. So unfolding over a decade instead of a century," Hassabis says in the 20VC podcast. He sees a "very good chance of it being within the next 5 years," an assessment that hasn't changed since 2010, when co-founder Shane Legg predicted it would take 20 years: "I think we're pretty much on track."
Getting there still requires several major advances, including continuous learning, long-term planning, better memory architectures, and greater consistency. Hassabis describes current systems as "jagged intelligences," "really amazing at certain things when you pose the question in a certain way, but if you pose a question in a slightly different way they can still fail at quite elementary things." Scaling continues to deliver results, "although they're a bit less than they were at the start of all of this scaling."
Hassabis also points to a growing perception gap. "Today and in the next year things are a bit overhyped in AI," he says. But looking further out, "it's still very underappreciated how revolutionary this is going to be in the time scale of about 10 years."
