OpenAI’s Sora 2 Redefines Video AI as AMD Tests 20+ Local Coding Models
New Models and Releases
Sora 2 by OpenAI: OpenAI released Sora 2, a major upgrade to its video generation model, featuring enhanced realism and creative capabilities, including anime-style content and surreal scenes.
- This is Sora 2
- Surfing on a subway
- Sora 2 creates anime
- OpenAI: Sora 2
- Sora 2 realism
- Sora 2 anime capabilities
- Made with Sora, Source: X/Twitter
VibeVoice 1.8.0: Fabio Sarracino released the first 8-bit quantized VibeVoice model, reducing generation time while maintaining quality. The update includes dynamic quantization and a new manual model management system.
- [Release] Finally a working 8-bit quantized VibeVoice model (Release 1.8.0)](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1nuxdd4/release_finally_a_working_8bit_quantized/)
Model Evaluations and Benchmarks
Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.5 and Zhipu-AI’s GLM-4.6: Sonnet 4.5 leads EQ-Bench creative writing evaluations, while GLM-4.6 shows incremental improvements. Zhipu-AI also open-sourced their RL post-training framework, Slime.
- Sonnet 4.5 tops EQ-Bench writing evals. GLM-4.6 sees incremental improvement.
- No GLM-4.6 Air version is coming out
AMD’s Local Model Testing: AMD tested 20+ local AI models for coding, finding only Qwen3-Coder and GLM-4.5-Air performed consistently well, emphasizing the role of quantization and hardware compatibility.
Open-Source and Community Developments
Minecraft LLM Experiment: A developer created a small language model (5M parameters) within Minecraft, trained on the TinyChat dataset, without using command blocks or datapacks.
Open-Source Funding Crisis: A developer spent $3K on community-voted open-source models (e.g., Art-1-20B, AGI-0) but faces financial constraints, seeking sustainable funding solutions like sponsorships or paid access.
Partnerships and Academic Collaborations
King’s College London × Mistral AI: The university partnered with Mistral AI to give students exclusive access to Le Chat, enabling customization and deployment of generative AI models for educational applications.
AI in Software Development
Prototype-First Design with AI Agents: An article explores using AI agents for rapid prototyping in software development, improving efficiency and creativity in the design process.