Google taught an LLM to sleep.

2026-10-29 07:20

Google taught an LLM to sleep. The Sleep framework flips a model between awake and asleep. Awake, it works and dumps everything it learns into short-term memory, which is volatile by design. Then it goes offline: input off, MoE expansion writes that memory into the weights, and random experts "dream" over it to refine things.

Artificial Analysis is out with Intelligence Index v5.

Biggest change: 60% of the weight now sits on private test sets and held-out answers. So the public benchmarks everyone spent two years tuning against don't measure much anymore. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) is first at 58. GPT-6 Astra 57, GPT-6.1 Sol 55. Close at the top, at least for now. Open vs closed went from a 3 point gap to 12. Kimi K3.1 Pro is the best open model at 46 and the weights aren't out. The best one with downloadable weights, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, gets 32. That's under Claude Haiku 5.5. Open weights aren't one tier behind anymore. They're two.

2026-10-29

shipped Argon two weeks ago

. Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon today. $2/M input, $10/M output. Same price Argon had two weeks ago, with cached input at half that. They haven't said anything yet about params, context window, or when the API opens. Right now it's in voluntary pre-release testing with the US government. Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 65.2%, eight points above Argon. GraphWalks long context at 96.2%. WebDev Arena up 89 points, fourth place.

2026-10-29

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.

You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

2026-11-01

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.

Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.

2026-11-01