The Hallway Track

agentic

17 tracked signals on agentic.

Introducing Muse Glimmer

Simon Willison · Aug 10, 2026

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weights agentic model under Apache 2.0 license

“Muse Glimmer achieves strong success rates on full-task benchmarks including DeepSearch QA, MCP-Atlas, 𝛕-Bench and SWE-Bench, which measure its ability to work within scaffolds, write and debug code, and resolve multi-turn requests from start to finish.”
Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Jul 30, 2026

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is the first open-weight model in the 3 trillion parameter class

“Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model that represents the first open-weight system to reach the 3 trillion parameter class”
Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 13, 2026

Amazon Quick brings AWS-connected agentic AI directly into Microsoft 365 apps at general availability.

“The value isn't in the underlying agentic model itself. It's in the breadth of connected data that the agent brings to your interactions.”
The Billion Dollar AI Race Just Broke

Two Minute Papers · Aug 05, 2026

Qwen 3.8 Max challenges OpenAI and Anthropic at 5-10x lower API pricing

“it sat there thinking for 16 days, starting from an empty folder, writing, testing, and repairing its own code”
[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open

Latent Space Blog · Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic both launched dedicated finance AI products at concurrent NYC events

“AI skills aren't just features — they need ownership, search, evals, audits, and governance to become enterprise-grade agent infrastructure.”
Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement"

Simon Willison · May 28, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8 reduces hallucinations by being four times less likely to let code flaws pass unremarked

“Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. There's still more to be done: we're working on developing and releasing models that provide many of the same capabilities as Opus at a lower cost.”