Nscale/Anyscale: Ray becomes the neocloud's new customer lock-in
Nscale acquires the company behind Ray - the open-source distributed-compute framework ML teams actually write against. The prize is placement, not code.
Jul 30, 2026 at 19:38 11 14
Inkling: Thinking Machines Lab ships its first open-weights model - a 975B MoE, Apache-2.0, multimodal
The first open-weights model from Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati) is here: Inkling, MoE 975B params (41B active), multimodal, Apache-2.0 license. The most discreet box in the frontier scene enters the open market through the front door.
Jul 16, 2026 at 21:46 25 8
Flash-MSA: Train on a million tokens without breaking the compute bank
A sparse attention kernel that makes long-context training finally affordable - if the benchmarks hold up outside the lab.
Jul 13, 2026 at 02:20 3 11