Airwallex hits $11B with $320M raise for AI agent finance. OpenAI delays GPT-5.6 at Trump admin request, poaches Uber India chief. Amazon invests $13B in India AI infra. Qualcomm Dragonfly chips headed to Microsoft/Meta datacenters. Sakana Fugu Ultra on OpenRouter. Free Claude Opus 4.6 window expires in 1 day.
HuggingFace Trending Models Today’s uploads on HuggingFace are led by a new Qwen3.5-based vision-language model and several robotics / fine-tuning checkpoints: Skullification/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M — A 9B parameter image-text-to-text model based on Qwen3.5, released as safetensors. Designed for multimodal reasoning tasks with Claude Mythos-style alignment. davidr99/qwen35-address-std-4B — Another Qwen3.5 derivative, this time a 4B model fine-tuned for address standardization, optimized for text-generation-inference. Dumbledore2/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-MTP-NVFP4-GGUF — The GGUF / NVFP4 quantized variant of Qwythos-9B, enabling local CPU/GPU inference with multi-token prediction (MTP). csukuangfj2/sherpa-onnx-libs — Sherpa ONNX inference libraries, the most liked upload today (2 likes), suggesting continued interest in on-device speech/audio inference. mujerry/corm-fusarium-segformer-b1-finetuned-ade-512-512 — A SegFormer B1 model fine-tuned for crop disease segmentation (fusarium detection in corn), practical agricultural AI. ndhieu1101/en-es-marianmt — Marian NMT model for English-to-Spanish translation. likyskyhu/acos-flan-t5-large — FLAN-T5 large fine-tuned for aspect-based sentiment analysis (ACOS). anisamsrh/rp_dataset_1 — A robotics dataset in the lerobot framework using ACT (Action Chunking with Transformers), safetensors format. Remaining uploads: LanSnowZ/weights and sundaycoil/contact-book — smaller experimental checkpoints. OpenRouter: New Models Sakana: Fugu Ultra (sakana/fugu-ultra) — A brand-new model from Sakana AI featuring a massive 1M token context window. Pricing: $5/M prompt tokens. Sakana continues to explore biologically-inspired, sparse architectures for long-context inference. GitHub Trending Repositories Forsy-AI/agent-apprenticeship — An ecosystem where AI agents learn from real-world work through iterative workflow loops. Now at 928★, the top trending repo today in the agent training space. sums001/Windows-Copilot-API — Reverse-engineered Windows Copilot into an OpenAI-compatible API, providing access to GPT-4 and GPT-5 models. 727★, Python. Rapid star growth (+50 since earlier today) signals huge demand for alternative API access to Microsoft’s frontier models. raiyanyahya/recall — Gives Claude Code durable project memory, eliminating re-explanations every session. 528★, Python. A practical fix for one of the most frustrating issues in agentic coding workflows. yo-WASSUP/Good-Badminton — AI-powered badminton Hawk-Eye system using computer vision for line-call accuracy. 513★, Python. Sports analytics continues to drive open-source innovation. benchflow-ai/awesome-evals — A curated library of the best resources for building and evaluating AI agents: papers, blog posts, and benchmarks. 250★. Essential for anyone working on agent evaluation. Limited-Time Free Models on OpenRouter The following two models are still free on OpenRouter, expiring soon: ...
HuggingFace Trending Models Ten new model checkpoints were uploaded to HuggingFace over the past day. Highlights include: fpadovani/nld-latn-100mb-after-ppt-shuff-dyck-100mb-ckpt500_seed3407 — A GPT-2 style text-generation checkpoint released as generated_from_trainer under safetensors, exploring Dyck-language pretraining on 100MB of shuffled Latin-script data. legacyaravind/shannons-gambit — A PyTorch reinforcement-learning project framed around Shannon’s information theory and AlphaZero-style training, targeting chess. shauray/l2p-ckpts, hm0032/pavx, and several athena2634/coho* checkpoints round out the day’s smaller uploads. GitHub Trending Repositories Forsy-AI/agent-apprenticeship — An ecosystem where AI agents learn from real-world work through iterative workflow loops. 867 stars. sums001/Windows-Copilot-API — Reverse-engineered Windows Copilot exposed as an OpenAI-compatible API, letting you call GPT-4 and GPT-5 models. 552 stars, Python. yo-WASSUP/Good-Badminton — AI-powered badminton Hawk-Eye system. 428 stars, Python. raiyanyahya/recall — Gives Claude Code durable project memory so users stop wasting tokens re-explaining context every session. 418 stars, Python. Karovia/fullstack-ai-agent-roadmap — A Chinese-language, Obsidian-friendly roadmap to becoming a full-stack AI Agent engineer: 110 tutorials, 580k characters, 400+ curated projects. 146 stars. Limited-Time Free Models on OpenRouter Two models are currently free on OpenRouter, both expiring in 4 days: ...
A blockbuster day: SpaceX signs a $6.3B compute deal with Reflection AI, Micron inks an AI memory pact with Anthropic, Nobel laureate John Jumper defects from DeepMind to Anthropic, Alphabet sheds $270B, and the Trump–Anthropic cybersecurity crackdown deepens — plus 10 fresh HuggingFace models, 5 trending GitHub repos, and 2 limited-time free models on OpenRouter.
Today’s AI roundup — 10 fresh HuggingFace models, 5 trending GitHub repos, and 1 limited-time free model on OpenRouter.