Neurodigest for the Week (#114)

Neurodigest for the Week (#114) LLM - Anthropic is tightening subscriptions — The company is changing pricing for enterprise users. They are removing tiers, keeping a basic subscription, and charging API prices for anything above limits. Prices for active users may increase by 2-3 times. - Weights Qwen 3.6 — 35B-A3B model, which now surpasses Qwen 3.5 27B dense due to greater conversational ability. - Opus 4.7 — After the nerf of 4.6, this release is anticipated. Improved benchmarks, new safeguards for cybersecurity, and support for higher resolution in vision. - xAI rents out computers — Musk decided to enter the neo-cloud market. The first client is Cursor, which will train Composer 2.5 on Colossus. Generative Models - ERNIE Image — a new open t2i. A compact 8B model from Baidu (Apache 2.0) competes with Qwen Image and Z-image, rendering text surprisingly well. - Claude Design — Anthropic launched a separate tool for creating presentations and UI. Miscellaneous - SynthID hack — The praised watermark from Google fell victim to reverse engineering. A skilled individual extracted the noise template and wrote a tool that removes it with surgical precision. - No need to build Flash Attention anymore — Hugging Face has released a repository with pre-built kernels for different GPUs, OS, and PyTorch, providing a boost of up to 2.5x.