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AINews will be joining Latent Space under one subscription! Daily News will resume from today onwards, thank you for the patience.

Latent.Space

@latentspacepod

Jan 23

🆕 Scaling without Slop latent.space/p/2026 - @Smol_AI AINews is joining Latent Space - Our lessons from scaling AIE and LS - Latent Space's next podcast - Hiring and plans for the future

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@Smol_AI

Jan 22

[21 Jan 2025] OpenEvidence, the ‘ChatGPT for doctors,’ raises $250m at $12B valuation, 12x from $1b last Feb

OpenEvidence, the ‘ChatGPT for doctors,’ raises $250m at $12B valuation, 12x from $1b last Feb |...

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@Smol_AI

Dec 30, 2025

[29 Dec 2025] Meta Superintelligence Labs acquires Manus AI for ~$4B, at $100M ARR, 9 months after launch news.smol.ai/issues/25-12-2… congrats team!

swyx

@swyx

Dec 30, 2025

if you're wondering what @natfriedman saw in Manus, my team had immaculate timing to drop the Manus AIE workshop video today :)

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@Smol_AI

Dec 17, 2025

[16 Dec 2025] OpenAI GPT Image-1.5 claims to beat Nano Banana Pro, #1 across all Arenas, but completely fails Vibe Checks news.smol.ai/issues/25-12-1… Shipping anything is hard, so we rarely call out misses, and OpenAI rarely misses. But this was clearly a miss.

OpenAI

@OpenAI

Dec 16, 2025

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Introducing ChatGPT Images, powered by our flagship new image generation model. - Stronger instruction following - Precise editing - Detail preservation - 4x faster than before Rolling out today in ChatGPT for all users, and in the API as GPT Image 1.5.

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@Smol_AI

Dec 5, 2025

[4 Dec 2025] news.smol.ai/issues/25-12-0… OpenRouter's State of AI - An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study!

OpenRouter

@OpenRouter

Dec 4, 2025

We collaborated with @a16z to publish the **State of AI** - an empirical report on how LLMs have been used on OpenRouter. After analyzing more than 100 trillion tokens across hundreds of models and 3+ million users (excluding 3rd party) from the last year, we have a lot of

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