OpenAI’s $500B Valuation & Sora 2 Pro Redefine AI as Huawei’s SINQ Quantization Breaks Speed Barriers

New AI Models & Research

Sora 2 Pro - 15-Second Single-Shot High-Quality Video Generation: OpenAI’s Sora 2 Pro introduces a major upgrade, generating 15-second high-quality videos in a single shot. Users highlight its potential for content creation and improvements over previous versions.

• Sora 2 Pro - 15 second single shot, high quality
• Sora 2 is PRETTY good at anime fights
• south park episode made in sora 2

Preview of Gemini 3.0 Pro: Google DeepMind’s upcoming Gemini 3.0 Pro promises advanced capabilities, with discussions focusing on its potential industry impact and performance improvements.

• Preview of Gemini 3.0 Pro
  • External preview (X)

IBM Granite 4.0 Language Models Released: IBM launches Granite 4.0, including 32B-A9B, 7B-A1B, and 3B dense models, emphasizing efficiency and accessibility for various applications.

• Granite 4.0 Language Models - a ibm-granite Collection
  • Hugging Face Collection (Models)
• Granite-4.0-H-Tiny vs. OLMoE: Rapid AI improvements

Huawei’s SINQ Quantization Method: Huawei introduces SINQ, a new LLM quantization technique that is 30x faster than AWQ and eliminates the need for calibration data.

• Huawei Develop New LLM Quantization Method (SINQ)
  • Hugging Face Paper

AI Tools & Products

Onyx: Open-Source Chat UI with RAG & Web Search: Onyx debuts as a fully open-source chat interface featuring RAG, deep research, and MCP capabilities, aiming to enhance AI accessibility.

• Introducing Onyx - a fully open source chat UI with RAG, web search, deep research, and MCP

Comet AI Assistant Now Globally Available: Perplexity AI’s Comet, a powerful personal AI assistant, is now accessible worldwide, offering advanced AI-driven support.

• Comet is now available to everyone in the world
  • Perplexity Comet

AI in Fact-Checking & Knowledge

GPT-5 Used to Identify Wikipedia Errors: OpenAI’s Noam Brown leverages GPT-5 Thinking to uncover errors in Wikipedia, including critical inaccuracies, sparking debates on AI’s role in fact-checking.

• Noam Brown of OpenAI has been using GPT-5 Thinking to find errors in every Wikipedia page
  • Reddit Gallery

AI Industry & Valuation News

OpenAI Valued at $500B, Surpassing SpaceX: OpenAI completes a secondary share sale at a $500B valuation, making it the world’s most valuable startup, with discussions on its future impact.

• OpenAI completed a secondary share sale that let staff sell ~$6.6B at a $500B valuation
  • Bloomberg
• OpenAI Valuation Soars to $500 Billion, Topping Musk’s SpaceX
  • Yahoo Finance

AI Research & Community

Prime Intellect AMA Session: Research lab Prime Intellect hosts an AMA, discussing open-source RL efforts, AI models, and future research directions.

• AMA with Prime Intellect — Ask Us Anything!
  • Prime Intellect Research
  • GitHub (Verifiers)
  • GitHub (Prime-RL)

GLM-4.6 & Model Performance on Diff Edits: Data from millions of Cline operations tests GLM-4.6 and other models on diff edits, showcasing advancements in AI precision.

• GLM-4.6 and other models tested on diff edits

AI for Social Impact

AI Transforms Life for Individual with Rare Condition: A user shares how AI tools (via "Vibecoding") enabled custom software development to help their brother communicate, highlighting AI’s potential in accessibility.

• We Changed My Brothers Life —Thanks to Vibecoding