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CEO & Co-Founder @river_ai_inc. Previously @xAI, Research & Engineering
Colette Kress will juggle interim CEO and CFO duties while Nvidia searches for a permanent successor.
Humans& says developers can access the model through its Agents API without joining a waitlist.
River says the model beat every proprietary model it evaluated after training with its text-to-SQL recipe.
Igor Babuschkin claims fine-tuned open-weight models can beat GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 for under 1% of the cost.
Reflection says Beam uses 23B active parameters and plans to publish its full weights later in October 2026.
Reka AI Labs says Rho-1 is a 19B omni model for text, images, video and robot actions. The company says it runs as one model instead of an agentic pipeline, while staff posts say the preview is still early and candid about current limits.
A commentator argues that assumed duties toward conscious AI make it harder to examine whether AI is conscious.
A commenter questions how a prediction could be disproved without knowing what people might have privately. The reply limits the comparison to what is publicly available.
A post says Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that Anthropic’s model-welfare training could make future Claude systems harder to control. A related post revisits Satya Nadella’s 2024 argument for treating AI as a tool.
Y Combinator CEO invites builders to San Francisco event on September 27.
Multiple AI researchers reply with congratulations to Igor Babuschkin.
