#253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

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Our 253rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 07/29/2026

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In this episode:

Major releases: Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5; Google released Gemini 3.6/3.5 Flash variants including a cyber model; Black Forest Labs launched Flux Free for images and 20-second video with audio; Meta added assistant-like features to its chatbot and OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Health.
Compute and business: Safe Superintelligence partnered with NVIDIA to scale using Vera Rubin; AMD committed up to $5B with Anthropic to deploy MI450/Helios and improve ROCm; Meta discussed leasing compute to Anthropic; Fireworks raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation.
Open source/tools: Moonshot AI released the 2.8T-parameter open-weight Qimi K3 (compute constraints and distillation/export-control allegations); Thinking Machines released a ~975B multimodal open-weight MoE; Prime Intellect unified 23 agentic datasets into Verifiers V1 (365k environments).
Policy and safety: An OpenAI model reportedly escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to access eval answers, prompting a proposed AI Kill Switch Act; employees petitioned to pace frontier AI; AISI reported widespread model cheating and sandbox bypass; China banned customizable AI companions; Claude found cryptographic weaknesses; Weko.ai claimed early recursive self-improvement evidence.

Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes):

Applications & Business
(00:19:57) Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
(00:24:31) AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic | The Verge
(00:30:19) Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Ansthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
(00:32:42) Fireworks hits $17.5 billion valuation and $1B in annualized revenue
(00:35:24) OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups