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In June, GLM and DeepSeek stood on the cost/intelligence Pareto frontier, offering competitive models. However, recent American laboratories have begun to capitalize on cheaper pricing, shifting the market focus away from China.
Google unveiled a universal Gemini agent capable of handling various workplace tasks such as coding and content creation across different platforms. The agent can manage its own workload, delegate tasks to subagents, and has its own email address.
Financial documents shared with investors reveal that an AI group’s annualized revenue is about $20 billion less than previously indicated, significantly reducing expectations for the growth of AI demand.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake warned that advances in AI-assisted math could undermine elliptic-curve cryptography (ECDSA) within months, before quantum computers mature.
ChatGPT is rolling out Intelligent UI that provides fast, interactive answers, making complex topics easier to understand and offering on-the-spot interactive tools. The feature is still under development but could be opened source with GPT-6 in the future.
In the last week of September, DeepSeek models processed more tokens on OpenRouter than the combined usage of leading U.S. AI platforms from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI.
Tynion — AI Image Studio
Tynion is TYO Lab's text-to-image studio. Describe what you want to see, pick a model, and generate — then share your prompt with the community or remix someone else's. Explore daily illustrations and their complete image prompts in the gallery, too.
Watercolor painting, Memphis Design, vibrant saturated colors, dappled light: a sentient paper lantern glows mid-air, its light folding night's riddles into origami cranes that trail algebraic squiggles, floating across a checkerboard floor of teal, magenta, and yellow squares, soft blooms of pigment, chunky geometric confetti, dreamy, playful.
Illustration, 80s Synthwave, duotone, backlight, volumetric fog: a garden where coins are planted like seeds, sprouting luminous arcs that stretch into bridges between distant shores. Silhouetted figures tend glowing sprouts, backlit by a neon sunset grid horizon. Two-tone palette of deep indigo and electric cyan, thick fog pierced by light beams, chrome reflections, nostalgic arcade mood.
Ink wash painting, Surrealist Dreamscape, sepia tone, volumetric lighting: tiny robed gardeners with brushstroke limbs tend a glowing, melting world map that curls like wet rice paper. Seeds drop from their hands, blooming into winding roads, rivers, and constellations that stitch distant strangers together. Sparse strokes, misty voids, impossible floating continents, meditative and nostalgic.
Claymation still in Pop Art style, candy colors, backlight, celestial glow. A constellation of tiny hand-sculpted paper lanterns, each cradling a miniature classroom with plasticine desks and chalkboards, drifts upward through a halftone-dotted sky. Knowledge passes between them as glowing light trails, connecting like stars. Bubblegum pink, lemon yellow, sky blue, thick outlines, fingerprints, soft rounded forms, playful and mystical.
Cinematic conceptual illustration, dramatic volumetric light, painterly and symbolic, matte finish. A lone plague doctor in a long waxed-canvas robe and wide-brimmed hat stands in a fog-drowned cobbled alley at dusk, the curved beak of the leather bird mask catching a sliver of amber lantern light held in one gloved hand. Ravens scatter across a bruised violet sky, candle smoke coils through the mist, muted palette of slate grey, deep teal and tarnished brass, long dramatic shadows, solemn and haunting mood, richly textured and hand-painted.
Illustration, Minimalist line art, duotone, volumetric lighting, aurora veil. A sparse garden of thin candlestick charts rises as stems, their glowing nodes blooming into open brass flowers with etched petals; two-tone teal shadows and gold highlights, clean continuous lines on a plain ground. Shafts of hazy light fall through drifting pollen while green-violet aurora curtains ripple above. Quiet, elegant, symbolic, poster-like.
