13 tracked signals on reasoning.
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Simon Willison · Aug 01, 2026
OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solved 10 decade-old unsolved math problems for under $2,000 each.
“He envisions a future of large-scale, decentralized collaborations between humans and machines, where complex mathematical tasks can be diced and sliced, with humans claiming the creative parts and AI doing the lion's share of the technical grunt work.”
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · May 20, 2026
OpenAI model disproves 80-year-old unit distance conjecture in discrete geometry
How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Jul 29, 2026
Two API settings tripled OpenAI's GPT-5.6 scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on Building the Dynamo of the Intelligence Age
Jensen Huang · Sequoia Capital · Jun 10, 2026
NVIDIA's Jensen Huang frames the AI factory as the largest infrastructure buildout in history and the best enterprise investment of the next decade.
“you can't think if you don't generate words”
Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk
Simon Willison · Oct 06, 2026
Mistral releases 1 trillion parameter Large 4 model, reclaiming competitive position
“it's great to see Mistral put out a model that's back to being maybe about 6 months behind the frontier”
A model guide for the GPT-6 family
OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Oct 02, 2026
OpenAI publishes official GPT-6 family model guide for startup production workflows
Introducing Hy4 Preview
Simon Willison · Aug 29, 2026
Tencent releases Hy4, a 770B open-weight LLM with 1M token context window
Leverage Private Cloud Compute in your app
Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 25, 2026
Apple launches zero-cost server LLM for developers via Private Cloud Compute with no API keys
“there are no token costs to you, the developer”
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)
Simon Willison · Aug 12, 2026
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 launches with 1.7T open weights and reasoning-level-dependent outputs.
“I've not noticed this kind of difference from any other model”
GLM-5.2: Open Weights, Near-Frontier Intelligence — Zixuan Li, Z.ai
AI Engineer · Sep 27, 2026
Zhipu releases GLM 5.2 as open-weights near-frontier model expanding intelligence beyond math benchmarks
“we were actually one of the first labs to explore large language models, along with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind”
Generate Trajectories, Reasoning Traces, and Auto-Labels with NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super
NVIDIA Developer Blog · Aug 04, 2026
NVIDIA releases Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B-parameter reasoning vision model for autonomous vehicles
llm-gemini 0.33
Simon Willison · Aug 13, 2026
llm-gemini 0.33 adds Gemini 3.7 Flash support with reasoning traces and server-side tools
Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens
Hugging Face · Hugging Face Blog · Aug 11, 2026
Hugging Face claims ACE reasoning tasks can be done with fewer tokens