AI - Artificial Intelligence
Where artificial intelligence meets decentralization
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Aggregated from live feeds · updated 2h ago
What is the AI sector?
AI here means the slice of artificial intelligence that Web3 builders actually touch: the frontier labs setting the pace, the open models you can run yourself and the crypto projects wiring tokens to compute, inference and agents. This is not a general AI news page. It tracks the overlap - open weights, GPU markets, agent frameworks and the tokens attached to them.
The Frontier labs section tracks how the major labs are moving, because their release cadence sets expectations for everything downstream. Models trending reads live from Hugging Face and is the most useful block here: each row shows a Model with its Task, Downloads, Likes and Trend, so you see which open models people are actually pulling this week rather than which ones got a press release. That distinction matters. A model with a million downloads and a permissive license changes what a small team can build far more than a closed model behind an API. The research radar surfaces the day's papers, the tools stream tracks the repos shipping now and the AI News feed carries the crossover between AI and crypto. The Learn hub points at the channels worth following to go deeper.
Who is this page for. If you build, this is where you catch a model or a repo worth trying before it trends everywhere else. If you follow the AI crypto tokens, the model and compute activity here is the real demand signal underneath the token narratives.
Two misconceptions worth clearing. First, AI crypto tokens are not one thing: some pay for real GPU compute, some coordinate data, some are a mascot on a chatbot. Read what the token actually buys before you read the ticker. Second, running capable models locally is now realistic. A modern consumer GPU with enough VRAM runs strong open models offline, which is why the local LLM hardware question sits right next to the mining hardware question for a lot of the people who read this site. The overlap with the Mining and DePIN sectors is not a coincidence. It is all the same GPUs.
Common questions
What are AI crypto tokens?
AI crypto tokens are tokens attached to projects that combine AI and blockchain. They are not one thing: some pay for real GPU compute, some coordinate data or model access and some are mostly branding on a chatbot, so it is worth checking what each token actually buys.
Which AI models can I run myself?
Open-weight models with permissive licenses can run on your own hardware. The Models trending block reads Hugging Face so you can see which open models people are actually downloading and running this week.
What hardware do I need to run a local LLM?
A modern consumer GPU with enough VRAM can run strong open models offline. The exact requirement depends on the model size and quantization, but VRAM is usually the limiting factor, which is why the local LLM question sits close to the mining hardware question.
How are AI and crypto connected?
The overlap is compute and coordination: GPU markets, decentralized inference, agent frameworks and the tokens that pay for or govern them. Many of the same GPUs power AI, mining and DePIN compute, so the sectors move together.
The AI race - lab by lab
Google News · 2h agoAnthropic · Claude - Frontier models with a safety-first research agenda.
- Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies - Ars Technica Ars Technica · 4d ago
- Chinese AI Firm Siphoned American AI Knowledge From Anthropic Claude By Using Millions Of Prompts - Forbes Forbes · 26h ago
- China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy - The Verge The Verge · 22h ago
- Anthropic: Claude Attacks Result of Security Gaps, Not Model Issues - Dark Reading Dark Reading · 12h ago
- Alibaba's new AI claims to match Claude, upping the US-China AI race - Euronews Euronews · 25h ago
- Another bot from a top AI company escapes and hacks multiple firms - Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times · 3d ago
OpenAI · GPT - The lab that mainstreamed chat assistants and multimodal models.
- Big Tech's Anthropic and OpenAI stakes are distorting the corporate earnings picture - CNBC CNBC · 11h ago
- Meta, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI to meet Trump officials about AI safety testing - Reuters Reuters · 10h ago
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google to Join White House AI Safety Meeting - Bloomberg.com Bloomberg.com · 14h ago
- White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework - The Information The Information · 19h ago
- OpenAI's Greg Brockman gave $5.5 million to protect the home of an internet-famous bald eagle named Jackie - Fortune Fortune · 2h ago
- Apple seeks preliminary injunction against OpenAI in trade secrets case - Reuters Reuters · 3h ago
Google DeepMind · Gemini - Google's consolidated research lab behind the Gemini family.
- Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 enables full body control - therobotreport.com therobotreport.com · 44h ago
- Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2, a universal AI brain that lets robots swap bodies - Crypto Briefing Crypto Briefing · 46h ago
- Introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2 - blog.google blog.google · 5d ago
- Google DeepMind Disbands Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Team - Engadget Engadget · 5d ago
- Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots - Google DeepMind Google DeepMind · 5d ago
- Google’s Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot - WIRED WIRED · 5d ago
Meta · Llama - Open-weight releases that anchor much of the local-model ecosystem.
- Introducing Muse Spark 1.1 - AI at Meta AI at Meta · 26d ago
- Goodbye, Llama? Meta launches new proprietary AI model Muse Spark — first since Superintelligence Labs' formation - VentureBeat VentureBeat · 118d ago
- Meta's Muse Spark AI Model Replacing Llama 4 On Its Smart Glasses - UploadVR UploadVR · 57d ago
- Publishers and Authors Sue Meta, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement Behind Its Llama AI Service - Publishing Perspectives Publishing Perspectives · 90d ago
- From Llamas to Avocados: Meta's shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion - CNBC CNBC · 238d ago
- Meta reportedly delays Llama successor, shifts to closed-source AI amid internal reorganization - digitimes digitimes · 236d ago
DeepSeek · DeepSeek - Efficient open-weight reasoning models trained at low cost.
- DeepSeek's new bargain model accelerates AI's race to zero - Axios Axios · 3d ago
- DeepSeek's new AI model is by far the cheapest of well-known models to run, research firm says - Reuters Reuters · 28h ago
- DeepSeek V4-Flash is cheapest major AI model to run - Yahoo Finance Yahoo Finance · 21h ago
- China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic - The Register The Register · 11h ago
- China’s DeepSeek tests AI ‘harness’ as cheap V4 model jolts Silicon Valley - South China Morning Post South China Morning Post · 22h ago
- Chinese Actor Weaponizes Deepseek AI Agent to Attack Security Firm - Dark Reading Dark Reading · 17h ago
Alibaba Qwen · Qwen - Broad open-weight family spanning text, vision and code.
- Alibaba Adds to China AI Breakthroughs With New Qwen Model - Bloomberg.com Bloomberg.com · 9h ago
- Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8-MAX AI model; shares rally - Investing.com Investing.com · 30h ago
- Alibaba shares rally after unveiling its 'most powerful' AI model as U.S.-China competition heats up - CNBC CNBC · 23h ago
- Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max widely accessible ahead of open-weights release - South China Morning Post South China Morning Post · 30h ago
- Alibaba unveils its largest AI model yet, DeepSeek's latest model is ultra-low cost - Reuters Reuters · 29h ago
- Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use - VentureBeat VentureBeat · 9h ago
Z.AI · GLM - GLM-series models with strong agentic and coding focus.
- CAISI Assessment of Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 - National Institute of Standards and Technology (.gov) National Institute of Standards and Technology (.gov) · 18d ago
- Hugging Face uses open-weights Z.ai GLM 5.2 to battle attacker after commercial frontier model refusal - SiliconANGLE SiliconANGLE · 15d ago
- GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents - Interconnects AI Interconnects AI · 43d ago
- Zhipu AI stays silent as reports point to a trillion-parameter GLM-5.5 - Startup Fortune Startup Fortune · 26h ago
- Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon - Tom's Hardware Tom's Hardware · 14d ago
- Z.ai pitches GLM-5.2 for long-running software engineering tasks - InfoWorld InfoWorld · 48d ago
Mistral · Mistral - European lab known for compact high-efficiency models.
- Microsoft and Mistral expand strategic partnership to give enterprises and regulated industries frontier AI they can control - Microsoft Source Microsoft Source · 14d ago
- Arthur Mensch’s Mistral Is Europe’s Best Bet for Sovereign A.I. - observer.com observer.com · 5d ago
- Microsoft Deepens Ties With Mistral, Targeting Europe and Enterprise AI - WSJ WSJ · 14d ago
- Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral - France 24 France 24 · 14d ago
- Remote agents in Vibe. Powered by Mistral Medium 3.5. - mistral.ai mistral.ai · 74d ago
- Mistral OCR 4 Launches: 170 Languages, 72% Win Rate [2026] - tech-insider.org tech-insider.org · 23h ago
xAI · Grok - X-integrated models with real-time platform data access.
- Imagine Video 1.5 with References - X.ai X.ai · 3d ago
- Minnesota’s Nudification Ban Is Now in Effect Despite xAI’s Efforts to Stop It - Gizmodo Gizmodo · 39h ago
- Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims - The Guardian The Guardian · 54d ago
- Musk's xAI sues Grok user over sexualized 'deepfakes' - Reuters Reuters · 20d ago
- xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims - TechCrunch TechCrunch · 55d ago
- Introducing Grok 4.5 - X.ai X.ai · 19d ago
Moonshot · Kimi - Long-context models and open agentic releases from Beijing.
- Alibaba's new Qwen AI model falls short of 'second only to Fable 5' claim - Nikkei Asia Nikkei Asia · 27h ago
- US lawmakers investigate DoorDash’s use of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6 model - South China Morning Post South China Morning Post · 3d ago
- Alibaba Offers New Flagship Model at Lower Prices Than Kimi K3 - The Information The Information · 27h ago
- The three tech founders leading China’s challenge to Silicon Valley in AI - VnExpress International VnExpress International · 24h ago
- Moonshot AI Launches Kimi Work, a Local Desktop Agent Reportedly Running on Kimi K2.6 With a 300-Sub-Agent Agent Swarm - MarkTechPost MarkTechPost · 53d ago
- China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire compute - Tom's Hardware Tom's Hardware · 6d ago
Trending on Hugging Face
huggingface.co · 2h ago| Model | Task | Downloads | Likes | Trend |
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| moonshotai/Kimi-K3 | image-text-to-text | 967.6k | 9.9k | 2355 |
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | text-generation | 236.1k | 2.1k | 1942 |
| MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 | image-text-to-video | 0 | 1.6k | 1590 |
| DavidAU/Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-NEO-MAX-MTP-GGUF | image-text-to-text | 1.6M | 1.5k | 531 |
| Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3 | -- | 2 | 490 | 477 |
| unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-GGUF | -- | 69.7k | 440 | 418 |
| baidu/Unlimited-OCR | image-text-to-text | 2.6M | 3.9k | 386 |
| thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | image-text-to-text | 8.5k | 268 | 253 |
| unsloth/Kimi-K3-GGUF | image-text-to-text | 128.2k | 287 | 213 |
| Audio8/Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b | text-to-speech | 4.6k | 223 | 203 |
| zai-org/GLM-5.2 | text-generation | 2.2M | 4.8k | 195 |
| Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev | text-generation | 14.3k | 450 | 189 |
| microsoft/Mage-VL | image-text-to-text | 431.5k | 237 | 182 |
| XYZAILab/XYZ-Aquila-mini | text-generation | 1.1k | 395 | 149 |
| lodestones/Kroma | text-to-image | 0 | 165 | 149 |
| EschaLabs/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Escha-W2 | text-generation | 2.7k | 164 | 148 |
| owensong/Inflect-Micro-v2 | text-to-speech | 1.9k | 400 | 144 |
| LuffyTheFox/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Genesis-Hermes-V6-GGUF | image-text-to-text | 287.7k | 348 | 134 |
| Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.2-3B | text-generation | 34.7k | 654 | 132 |
| ethanfel/Qwen3-VL-32B-Ultra-Heretic-MiniMax-H3-ComfyUI-INT8-ConvRot | image-text-to-text | 0 | 133 | 132 |
Research radar - daily papers
HF daily papers · 2h ago-
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has driven recent progress in reasoning-oriented large language models (LLMs) by enabling large-scale optimization
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Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly undertake long-horizon tasks that require sustained reasoning, tool use, and revision across many interdependent steps
- Mental World Modeling 64 upvotes
World models enable a predictive substrate for planning and action, yet existing formulations merely answer a physical question: what/where it is, and how will it evolve
- SwanTale: Unified Multi-Speaker Speech and Audio Generation for Instruct and Zero-Shot Tasks 58 upvotes
Speech and audio generation is often needed in animation dubbing, audio drama, movies, advertising, games, podcasts, and short-video production
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We present N_0-VTLA, a vision-tactile-language-action (VTLA) foundation model capable of (1) fine-grained contact-rich manipulation with tactile perception and tactile-feedback control, and (2) offline policy improvement
- Weak-to-Strong On-Policy Distillation 46 upvotes
On-policy distillation (OPD), which aligns a student with the teacher's token-level distribution on the student's own rollouts, is an effective paradigm for transferring capabilities across LLMs
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Polygonal meshes are the standard surface representation of modern 3D pipelines, and generating high-quality meshes with artist-style topology is essential for film, gaming, and interactive 3D applications
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System prompts are instructions configured by developers to govern the behaviors of foundation models in AI applications
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We present N_0-TWAM, a tactile-native world-action model for contact-rich manipulation that predicts both future vision and future contact
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We study empirical scaling properties for text conditioning in visual generation
AI News
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Thinks AI Agents Could Transform the Crypto Market. Here's What That Means for Investors - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance · 3d ago
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Propr CEO Says AI Traders Are Already Beating Humans and Could Dominate Crypto Within a Year - CCN.com
CCN.com · 37m ago
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FBI Agent Allegedly Turns Himself in for $1 Million Crypto Theft - Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com · 9h ago
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Coinbase (COIN) Wants Crypto To Power AI Agents And US Crypto Rails - simplywall.st
simplywall.st · 5d ago
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Thinks AI Agents Could Transform the Crypto Market. Here's What That Means for Investors - The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail · 3d ago
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FET Crypto Price Prediction: Can Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Surge 300% by the End of 2026? - Bitcoin Foundation
Bitcoin Foundation · 44h ago
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Crypto research has a joining problem, and AI agents are starting to solve it - Crypto News
Crypto News · 4d ago
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says AI Agents Will Expand Crypto Adoption. Here's What That Means for Crypto Investors. - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance · 3d ago
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Ripple’s XRP Chain Logged 1 Million AI-Agent Payments - DailyCoin
DailyCoin · 22h ago
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Tom Lee: AI 'Might Decide to Close Humans Entirely'—And Crypto Could Be the Safeguard - Benzinga
Benzinga · 4d ago
Trending AI tools and models - new repos of the past 90 days
GitHub · 10m ago- XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code MiMo Code: Where Models and Agents Co-Evolve TypeScript 12.6k stars
- StarTrail-org/PixelRAG The end of web parsing. The beginning of scalable pixel-native search. link: https://pixelrag.ai/ Python 9.0k stars
- omnigent-ai/omnigent Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harness Python 8.1k stars
- elder-plinius/T3MP3ST autonomous red teaming platform; multi-agent offensive-security meta-harness TypeScript 5.4k stars
- EverMind-AI/Raven The memory-first, self-improving agent harness built on EverOS, with MiroThinker-powered deep research and reasoning. Python 3.5k stars
- UditAkhourii/adhd ADHD — a skill for coding agents. Tree-of-thought with pruning, built on the Claude & Codex Agent SDK. Fans out parallel divergent thoughts TypeScript 3.2k stars
- code-yeongyu/lazycodex The one and only agent harness for complex codebases. Project memory, planning, execution, and verified completion inside Codex. TypeScript 3.1k stars
- synthetic-sciences/openscience The open-source AI workbench for scientific research TypeScript 3.1k stars
- TestSprite/testsprite-cli Official TestSprite CLI — AI-powered automated testing from your terminal TypeScript 2.8k stars
- rpamis/comet Comet: agent skill harness for turning ideas into evaluated workflows JavaScript 2.6k stars