Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet
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Feature
DeepSeek Harness Developer Preview Moves AI Agents Off the Cloud
Harness's open-source framework allows for local-first AI agents via plugins.
Why it mattersDeepSeek's local-first AI agent framework challenges cloud reliance, offering developers more control and autonomy. This shift emphasizes modular, plugin-based architectures, highlighting a move towards decentralized AI development with local execution.
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New Models on the Block
AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph
Top Hacker News discussion.
run.cosmograph
AI Agents Unpacked
Everyone talks about AI agents. But what does one actually look like from the inside?
This videos answers that in two parts. First, it explains for everyone what an agent really is and how it works: the agent loop, the harness, tools, skills, MCP. Then it follows one real job through all of these layers:…
r/AI_Agents
★ Building a 24/7 working digital clone of yourself is possible if you have a claude or codex subscription
Hi friends, I always wished if I had a clone I'll make it do all my work while I chill and do other important things. So I built Munder Difflin: A local multi-agent harness that uses your existing coding agents like cla…
r/AI_Agents
What I've learned over 726 real world agent runs
We spent the last days running Qwen3.6-35B model through 18 real tasks, over and over — 726 runs in total. File work, cleanup jobs, talking to a live calendar and a CRM. The point wasn't a leaderboard number. The point…
r/AI_Agents
Tools
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
github | stars 102,633
DavidAU/Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-NEO-MAX-MTP-GGUF
Trending AI model on Hugging Face — image-text-to-text.
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nexu-io/open-design
🎨 The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images &…
github | stars 86,189
Research
MARC v1: An Open-Source Multi-Agent Framework for Clinical AI Reasoning and Coordination
We present Multi-Agent Reasoning and Coordination (MARC), an open-source framework that replaces monolithic LLM prompting with deterministic multi-agent orchestration for clinical reasoning. MARC coordinates role-specia…
arxiv
Joint Communication-Control Strategy Optimization with Partially Nested Information Structures: The Linear-Quadratic Case
In this paper, we formalize a joint communication-control strategy optimization (JCCO) problem in multi-agent linear systems with quadratic costs, under the common-information-based (CIB) framework from decentralized st…
arxiv
AutoDesign: Meta-Harness Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Design
Transforming multimodal sources into condensed and structured media outputs can be fundamentally conceptualized as a long-horizon agentic process centered on a model-harness system. While an ideal harness system should…
arxiv
Playbooks
How to Debug AI Agents
Learn how agent observability enables effective evaluation of AI agents. Understand tracing, debugging reasoning, and performance insights to iterate and improve agent behavior.
langchain
Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities
Part 3 of Build your own claw and harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In Part 2 our personal finance assistant learned to work with your data safely: it reads your portfolio, asks before it trades, and remembers wha…
devblogs.microsoft
Inspect AI, An OSS Python Library For LLM Evals
A look at Inspect AI with its creator, JJ Allaire - an open-source framework for building and running LLM evaluations.
hamel
News
llm-gemini 0.33
Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash , gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding…
simonwillison
DataGrout helps enterprises control AI usage, governance and LLM costs
SelectHub has announced the launch of DataGrout, its specialized AI research lab introducing an LLM inference optimization platform and AI governance solution for enterprises. DataGrout’s mission is to drive token reduc…
helpnetsecurity
SelectHub Launches Research Lab DataGrout to Unify Enterprise Agent Deployment and Shrink LLM Costs
New enterprise AI cost optimization platform delivers transformative LLM payload-level visibility, granular token tracking, and automated optimization for chatbots and agentic workflows for CIOs and CFOs AUSTIN, Texas,…
financialpost