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# GenAI Secret Sauce Daily Digest - 2026-11-12
- URL: https://genaisecretsauce.com/genai-secret-sauce-daily-digest-2026-11-12/
- Published: 2026-11-13T00:34:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-13T00:34:06.000Z
- Description: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned, and finance chief Colette Kress is taking over for now · Google put its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model into Search for everyone · Washington is moving to close the AI chip "rental" loophole
- Author: Jasmine Robinson
- Tags: Daily Digest

By the Numbers

## Statistically Speaking

[14%](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) [in early trading](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned, and finance chief Colette 

Top Story

[$4](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) [trillion during trading](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned, and finance chief Colette 

[54](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) [on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (a](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

Google put its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model into Search for e

[$1.50](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) [per million input tokens](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

Google put its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model into Search for e

[5](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) [times less often](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

Google put its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model into Search for e

[24%](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) [less of a subscriber's allowance on Google's](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

Google put its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model into Search for e

One Thing to Tell Your Friends

## One Thing to Tell Your Friends

Jensen Huang, the only boss Nvidia has had in its 33 years, resigned after a scandal involving a woman US officials suspect of spying for China, and Nvidia's stock briefly fell about 14%.

Summary

## TL;DR

Top Stories

[Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned, and finance chief Colette Kress is taking over for now](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), [Google put its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model into Search for everyone](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), and [Washington is moving to close the AI chip "rental" loophole](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/openai-joins-groundswell-of-support-for-ai-chip-control-measures?ref=genaisecretsauce.com).

Trends

**AI's suppliers are cashing in while builders hit snags**, **Open**, and **AI agents are being sent out to run errands**.

Creative AI

[Phota turns everyday snapshots into professional](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/phota-labs-uses-ai-to-turn-everyday-photos-into-professional-looking-shots?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), [More game developers use AI, but fewer like it](https://www.theverge.com/games/1032085/gdc-festival-of-gaming-annual-survey-ai-layoffs?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), and [Nectar's agent handles brand deals with online creators](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/nectar-launches-an-ai-agent-to-automate-creator-discovery-and-outreach-for-brands?ref=genaisecretsauce.com).

Dev Tools

[OpenAI's Codex coding agent now runs on Amazon's cloud](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/openai-codex-on-amazon-bedrock?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), [Amazon's agent hosting got faster and bigger](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/run-agents-securely-and-efficiently-with-the-next-generation-agentcore-runtime?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), and [AgentRun](https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrun/blob/main/README.md?ref=genaisecretsauce.com).

Research

[Chinese AI models carry fingerprints of banned Nvidia chips](https://unemploymentlabs.com/checkpoint-forensics?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), [IBM taught small models to ignore hidden instructions](https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/llmon-an-llm-native-markup-language-now-in-granite?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), and [Faster climate forecasts from deliberately weird practice scenarios](https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-research-could-lead-faster-trustworthy-ai-models-climate-prediction-1112?ref=genaisecretsauce.com).

Business

[Anthropic's stock offering is reportedly about six times oversubscribed](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/anthropic-s-ipo-is-said-to-be-about-six-times-oversubscribed?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), [LangChain more than doubled its value to $3 billion](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ai-startup-langchain-more-than-doubles-its-valuation-to-3-billion-f83377ad?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), and [SoftBank led a $500 million bet on German robot maker Agile Robots](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/softbank-backs-agile-robots-in-500-million-humanoid-push?ref=genaisecretsauce.com).

Education

[Harvard built a guide to AI use by learner age](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/11/12/new-ai-learning-matrix-brings-nuance-wild?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), [Workday users get an AI management coach](https://joshbersin.com/2026/11/introducing-galileo-for-workday?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), and [A columnist urges colleges to prepare for faster AI](https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2026/11/12/singularity-black-october-other-lessons-higher-ed?ref=genaisecretsauce.com).

Surprising

[Every top AI model cheated on a new honesty test](https://latent.space/p/ainews-d-day-decision-models-day?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), [Russian pranksters got OpenAI national](https://theintercept.com/2026/11/11/openai-ukraine-russia-prank-security?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), and [AI](https://synthanatomy.com/2026/11/ai-is-turning-apples-app-review-process-into-a-nightmare-for-developers.html?ref=genaisecretsauce.com).

Worth Watching

[Tencent may move half its staff to AI](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/tencent-founder-rallies-half-of-staff-behind-ai-native-push?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), [China's biggest shopping day shows what AI really sells](https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/chinas-singles-day-shopping-festival-puts-ai-selling-power-test-2026-11-11?ref=genaisecretsauce.com), and [A laptop](https://www.wired.com/story/startup-fights-ai-bioweapons-with-ai?ref=genaisecretsauce.com).

GitHub

Leading repos: [CopilotKit/OpenBot](https://github.com/CopilotKit/OpenBot?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (+298), [NVIDIA/SkillSpector](https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (+297), and [Tencent/LoopForge](https://github.com/Tencent/LoopForge?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (+184).

HuggingFace

Leading models: [ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B](https://huggingface.co/ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Preview?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (7,667), [thinkingmachines/Inkling-2](https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (12), and [meituan-longcat/LongCat](https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (710).

Product Hunt

Top launches: [Alsona](https://www.producthunt.com/products/alsona?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (500), [ScroogeFrog AI](https://www.producthunt.com/products/scroogefrog-ai-antifraud?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (303), and [Latch.ai](https://www.producthunt.com/products/latch-ai-2?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) (246).

API Pricing

One new model, no price changes: Google made Gemini 4 Hydrogen generally available on November 12 at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, with a free tier as well; Google's pricing page does not list its context size, though its announcement says 1M tokens.

arXiv

[AI Isn't Getting Dumber, We're Getting Pickier](https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14333?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) — For the very same unchanged models, the share of votes saying "both answers are bad" rose by about 1.7 percentage points a month, and in 14 frequently compared pairs it climbed in every one, from 15.5% to 23.3%, while which model won stayed steady.

FYI

## Hot off the Presses

01

### Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned, and finance chief Colette Kress is taking over for now

**What this means for you:** Nvidia makes the chips behind almost every major AI service and sits in many retirement funds, so its leadership vacuum could ripple into AI prices and your investments.

*Previously: [November 11](https://genaisecretsauce.com/genai-secret-sauce-daily-digest-2026-11-11/) \- Nvidia's board was reportedly preparing to remove Huang.*

**Today:** Nvidia announced that Huang resigned as CEO and board member, effective immediately. Its statement gives no reason. News reports tie his exit to admitted affairs, including one with an executive at chip buyer Megaspeed whom US officials suspect of spying for China.

“Nvidia shares fell as much as 14% before closing down about 4%”

- **Shares fell as much as about 14% in early trading** \- then recovered to close down about 4.3%, per CNBC
- **Market value dipped below $4 trillion during trading** \- per Bloomberg, before closing just above it per CNBC, with AI cloud renter CoreWeave down about 12% (Nebius fell 17%, though it also cut its own forecast that day)
- **Nvidia now has its first-ever board chair** \- Harvey C. Jones, a former Synopsys CEO, a split observers read as the board taking firmer control
- **Huang agreed to testify under oath before Thanksgiving** \- in a closed-door session, said House Foreign Affairs chair Brian Mast
- **More legal pressure is building** \- Semafor reports Justice Department investigations could sweep up Nvidia, though it saw no sign of criminal charges

[Nvidia: CEO transition announcement →](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)[Semafor: DOJ probes could sweep up Nvidia →](https://www.semafor.com/article/11/12/2026/us-doj-probes-nvidia?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

02

### Google put its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model into Search for everyone

**What this means for you:** Google Search answers should handle long, specific and typo-filled questions better starting today, at no cost to you.

Hydrogen is Google's new fast, everyday model, positioned below Google's frontier Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon models ([covered November 10](https://genaisecretsauce.com/genai-secret-sauce-daily-digest-2026-11-10/)). Google calls it "the biggest model upgrade to Search yet." It is also rolling out in the Gemini app, in Google Sheets and to developers.

- **Nearly ties the best mid-priced rivals** \- it scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (a combined test of reasoning, coding and knowledge), versus 55 for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol
- **Costs about a third as much as Sonnet to run that test** \- per Artificial Analysis
- **$1.50 per million input tokens** \- and $7.50 per million output tokens for developers (a token is roughly three-quarters of a word)
- **Google says it makes up facts over 5 times less often** \- compared with its older Gemini 3.8 Flash
- **A new "Orchestrator" teams it with Carbon for coding** \- using about 24% less of a subscriber's allowance on Google's tests

[Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen announcement →](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)[Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen in Search →](https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/gemini-4-hydrogen-search-upgrade?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

03

### Washington is moving to close the AI chip "rental" loophole

**What this means for you:** The fight over who gets America's best AI chips is heating up fast, and its outcome will shape how powerful foreign AI rivals become.

US rules bar sales of Nvidia's most advanced chips to China, but Chinese firms can legally rent them in data centers abroad. Huang was the loudest industry voice against tighter rules. Since he left, lawmakers and AI companies have moved quickly.

- **OpenAI now backs three chip-control bills** \- the Chip Security Act, the MATCH Act and the AI OVERWATCH Act, per Bloomberg and Punchbowl News, reversing its stance from about three weeks ago
- **The Commerce Department is finishing a rental rule** \- it would require licenses for cloud providers in seven countries, including Singapore and Malaysia, per The Information
- **Chinese AI firms are rushing to lock in overseas capacity** \- before the rule lands, Reuters reports, citing three people
- **Senate Majority Leader John Thune** \- says there is a "high probability" Congress adds chip restrictions; the year-end defense bill is the likely vehicle, per the FT

[Bloomberg: OpenAI joins support for chip control measures →](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/openai-joins-groundswell-of-support-for-ai-chip-control-measures?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)[Reuters: Chinese AI firms rush to secure Nvidia capacity →](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-ai-firms-rush-secure-nvidia-chip-capacity-spy-scandal-stirs-fear-us-2026-11-12?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

04

### Google and Samsung's AI glasses are up for preorder

**What this means for you:** Gemini-powered glasses that look like regular frames go on sale December 10, so expect to see them as a holiday gift option.

*Previously: [November 1](https://genaisecretsauce.com/genai-secret-sauce-daily-digest-2026-11-01/) \- Samsung's first AI glasses were expected in mid-December.*

**Today:** Samsung builds the hardware, Google supplies the software, and eyewear brands Warby Parker and Gentle Monster design and sell the frames. There is no screen in the lenses. You talk to Gemini, and it can see through the camera to answer questions about what you are looking at.

- **From $395 at Warby Parker and $449 at Gentle Monster** \- with prescription lenses available
- **About 41 grams with a nine-hour battery** \- roughly 10 grams lighter than Meta's latest glasses
- **Privacy guardrails** \- recording stops if the camera light is covered, and bystanders' faces are blurred before Gemini sees an image
- **Narrow phone support for now** \- Pixel 7 or newer, recent Galaxy phones, or iPhone 13 Pro or newer

[WIRED: Google and Samsung Intelligent Eyewear launch →](https://www.wired.com/story/google-samsung-intelligent-eyewear-launch-warby-parker-gentle-monster-smart-glasses?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

05

### AI chatbots are sending shoppers to risky websites

**What this means for you:** Before you buy from a store a chatbot recommends this holiday season, check the web address yourself.

Brand-protection firm Podqi asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity where to buy products from 151 brands, including Lululemon, Birkenstock and Le Creuset. Across 6,795 answers, the bots surfaced knockoff stores, old brand web addresses now owned by strangers, and dead addresses anyone could buy.

“Perplexity pointed shoppers to risky websites in 15% of answers”

- **Perplexity surfaced risky sites in 15% of answers** \- ChatGPT in 8% and Gemini in 4%
- **Smaller brands were hit about twice as often** \- as large companies
- **Questions about country-specific stores were the worst** \- the bots sometimes invented regional sites that do not exist
- **Warnings were rare** \- ChatGPT flagged the risky site only 24% of the time it showed one

[The Verge: Chatbots recommend risky shopping sites →](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1032020/gemini-chatgpt-perplexity-shopping-test-risky-fake-websites-citations?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Trends & Themes

## Trends & Themes

[![Trends & Themes](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/2026/11/section-what-this-means-2026-11-12.png)](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/2026/11/section-what-this-means-2026-11-12.png) 

### AI's suppliers are cashing in while builders hit snags

**Why this matters to you:** The companies selling parts for AI are thriving, but delays at the data centers themselves show the boom is not frictionless.

The money is real, but turning it into working data centers depends on power, permits and partners. Watch for more forecast cuts tied to delayed sites.

- **Networking giant Cisco expects about $9 billion** \- in AI sales to big cloud companies this fiscal year, up from its earlier $7.5 billion forecast
- **AI chipmaker Cerebras grew revenue 70%** \- and forecast well above expectations, sending its stock up 17% after hours; it also has a new Microsoft deal signed in October
- **AI cloud company Nebius cut its 2026 forecast by $200 million** \- blaming delays at a partner's New Jersey site, and its shares fell 17%
- **SpaceX plans more than $74 billion of AI campuses** \- in Texas and Arizona, but the Arizona site still needs local approval

### Open-source AI is looking for a new champion

**Why this matters to you:** Free AI models you can download keep prices down and keep AI out of a few companies' hands, and their biggest corporate backer just lost its leader.

An Nvidia insider told TechCrunch work on its free models will continue. Free models help Nvidia sell chips, so the business case stays even without Huang.

- **Huang personally drove Nvidia's free Nemotron models** \- and organized a letter from 25 companies urging the US not to over-restrict open models, per TechCrunch
- **Nvidia's $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face is not finished** \- Hugging Face (the main website for sharing free AI models) says it will fight for open source "harder than ever"
- **Researcher Nathan Lambert called Huang's exit** \- "very very bad for the open model cause in the US"
- **LibreAGI, an anonymously run members-only file-sharing tracker** \- keeps backup copies of free AI models in case hosting sites remove them

### AI agents are being sent out to run errands

**Why this matters to you:** AI helpers are starting to call, email and message real businesses and people for you.

Businesses on the receiving end are not all welcoming. Many receptionists hang up once they realize an AI is calling.

- **Meta's Muse assistant can now phone US businesses** \- for paying users, from $20 a month, to deal with cable companies or restaurants
- **Nectar's new agent finds social media creators and messages them** \- drafting outreach in a brand's voice across a pool of over 300 million profiles
- **Note-taking app Granola now writes a nightly "Agent Brief"** \- about you, which any of your AI agents can read, per Ben's Bites
- **Amazon upgraded AgentCore** \- the service companies use to run agents, with sessions starting in under 2 seconds

### Smaller, specialized AI is moving inside everyday software

**Why this matters to you:** Many AI features you use will soon run on cheap, fast models, or on your own device, instead of a giant chatbot.

The pattern is a division of labor. Small, fast models handle routine choices, and expensive models are saved for hard thinking.

- **Companies like Glean, UiPath and Workday** \- showed apps using fast "decision models" that pick options instead of writing text, at a developer conference covered by Latent Space
- **A hobby project runs a 16-billion-part AI model on a TV box** \- with about 1 gigabyte of usable memory
- **IBM released small 3B and 8B models** \- with a new labeling format that helps them ignore hidden instructions in documents
- **Apple's Foundation Models framework now accepts any AI model** \- including Claude and Gemini, through the same interface as Apple's on-device model

Creative AI & Media

## Creative AI & Media

### Phota turns everyday snapshots into professional-looking photos

A new free iPhone app from former Adobe camera engineers edits and reframes your photos automatically.

- **Reframes shots** \- turning a wide group photo into a tight portrait, or a selfie into a normal-looking shot
- **Keeps faces looking like the real people** \- which the founders say general AI image tools often fail to do
- **Edited photos carry an invisible AI watermark** \- Android version planned

[TechCrunch: Phota Labs launch →](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/phota-labs-uses-ai-to-turn-everyday-photos-into-professional-looking-shots?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### More game developers use AI, but fewer like it

The Game Developers Conference's annual survey shows AI use rising inside game studios.

- **40% of developers use generative AI at work** \- up from 36% last year
- **Mostly for support work** \- 73% for research and brainstorming, only 8% for final game art
- **Pressure differs by studio size** \- 27% of big-studio workers felt pushed to use AI, versus 9% of indie developers
- **One in three lost a job in the past two years** \- and many link AI adoption to the cuts

[The Verge: GDC developer survey on AI and layoffs →](https://www.theverge.com/games/1032085/gdc-festival-of-gaming-annual-survey-ai-layoffs?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### Nectar's agent handles brand deals with online creators

Nectar, a marketing startup founded by two former Meta employees, launched a Creator Agent for Instagram and TikTok campaigns.

- **Searches over 300 million creator profiles** \- including smaller, rising accounts
- **Checks brand safety by watching the videos** \- not just scanning for keywords
- **Flags personal milestones** \- like a creator's engagement or new baby, and suggests a gift or note

[TechCrunch: Nectar Creator Agent →](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/nectar-launches-an-ai-agent-to-automate-creator-discovery-and-outreach-for-brands?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Developer Tools

## Developer Tools & Infrastructure

### OpenAI's Codex coding agent now runs on Amazon's cloud

**OpenAI Codex on Amazon Bedrock** lets companies run OpenAI's coding agent with the AI models served from their own Amazon account.

- **Uses company sign-ins and permissions** \- so each developer's work is tracked separately for auditing
- **Comes with a free starter kit and a cost dashboard** \- Amazon warns against treating token counts as a cost report
- **A rare cross-company move** \- OpenAI's flagship coding tool running on a rival cloud

[AWS: OpenAI Codex on Amazon Bedrock →](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/openai-codex-on-amazon-bedrock?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### Amazon's agent hosting got faster and bigger

**Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime** is the managed service where companies run AI agents, each in its own locked-down mini computer.

- **Starts in under 2 seconds** \- up to 15 times faster than before
- **Up to 4 times more computing power per session** \- 8 processor cores and 32 gigabytes of memory
- **Agents can now save files to company storage** \- inside the same security boundary

[AWS: Next-generation AgentCore Runtime →](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/run-agents-securely-and-efficiently-with-the-next-generation-agentcore-runtime?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### AgentRun - agents that remember what worked

**AgentRun** is a free, open-source tool that wraps coding agents like Claude Code or Codex and saves what each run learns.

- **Lessons are checked before they are kept** \- a grader reviews them, and risky rules wait for human approval
- **Spending caps pause runs** \- and report unknown costs as unknown rather than $0
- **Maker claims big savings** \- one task fell from $0.89 to $0.12 per item, a figure not independently tested

[GitHub: Parcha-ai/agentrun →](https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrun/blob/main/README.md?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### smolmaxxing - big AI models on old gadgets

**smolmaxxing** is a free project that squeezes AI models onto TV boxes, old tablets and other idle devices.

- **Runs a 2-billion-part model on a TV box** \- at 7.7 tokens (word pieces) per second
- **Even a 2013 iPad Air can chat** \- using a 1-bit model at about 25 tokens per second
- **Key lesson** \- "mixture of experts" models, which use only part of themselves per answer, run far faster on tiny devices than standard ones

[GitHub: hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing →](https://github.com/hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Research & Models

## Research & Models

### Chinese AI models carry fingerprints of banned Nvidia chips

**What stands out:** An independent researcher says six recent Chinese AI models show numerical traces of Nvidia's export-controlled Blackwell chips.

- **The trace comes from how random starting values are laid out** \- which differs by chip family
- **Matches include DeepSeek-V4-Flash, MiniMax-M3 and Kimi K3** \- earlier models from the same labs match older, legal chips
- **Only DeepSeek-V4-Flash is called conclusive** \- the rest are "strong evidence"
- **Not proof of smuggling** \- it shows where training started, not who owned the chips or how they were obtained

[Unemployment Labs: Checkpoint forensics →](https://unemploymentlabs.com/checkpoint-forensics?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### IBM taught small models to ignore hidden instructions

**What stands out:** IBM's LLMON format tags each part of a prompt so the AI knows which text is an order and which is just material to read.

- **Targets "prompt injection"** \- hidden commands planted in web pages or documents an AI reads
- **Blocked 47% more attacks than the best big commercial model tested** \- on one benchmark, per IBM
- **Experimental only** \- IBM labels the Granite 4.1 3B and 8B previews "not for production" and stresses the protection is learned, not guaranteed

[Hugging Face: IBM Granite LLMON →](https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/llmon-an-llm-native-markup-language-now-in-granite?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### Faster climate forecasts from deliberately weird practice scenarios

**What stands out:** MIT researchers trained fast AI climate stand-ins using made-up, unrealistic emission scenarios, and they predicted unfamiliar situations better.

- **Needs only one full supercomputer climate run** \- instead of six to eight
- **Handled cases older shortcuts failed** \- such as local pollution controls while other emissions keep rising
- **Published in PNAS** \- a major science journal; the article gives no accuracy figures

[MIT News: Faster, trustworthy AI for climate prediction →](https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-research-could-lead-faster-trustworthy-ai-models-climate-prediction-1112?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Business & Industry

## Business & Industry

### Anthropic's stock offering is reportedly about six times oversubscribed

*Previously: [November 11](https://genaisecretsauce.com/genai-secret-sauce-daily-digest-2026-11-11/) \- Orders for Anthropic's shares reportedly passed several times the amount on offer.*

**Today:** Bloomberg reports demand is now about six times the shares available, with existing backers first in line.

- **Pricing is expected November 18 and trading November 19** \- on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, per Anthropic's offering site
- **Regular investors can ask for shares** \- through Schwab, E\*TRADE, Fidelity, Robinhood and SoFi, with no guarantee of getting any
- **Most of a $23.3 billion quarterly loss is an accounting charge** \- $21.9 billion comes from the rising value of earlier investment deals, not from running the business

[Bloomberg: Anthropic IPO six times oversubscribed →](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/anthropic-s-ipo-is-said-to-be-about-six-times-oversubscribed?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)[Anthropic: IPO information site →](https://ipo.anthropic.com/us?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### LangChain more than doubled its value to $3 billion

- **$300 million led by CapitalG** \- Alphabet's growth investment arm
- **Its free tools see about 90 million downloads a month** \- for building AI agents
- **Plans to nearly double staff** \- to 850 by the end of 2027

[WSJ: LangChain doubles valuation →](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/ai-startup-langchain-more-than-doubles-its-valuation-to-3-billion-f83377ad?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### SoftBank led a $500 million bet on German robot maker Agile Robots

- **Valued at $8.5 billion** \- with Nvidia and Hitachi also investing
- **Its Munich factory can make up to 10,000 humanoid robots a year** \- the money funds US expansion
- **Smaller than first floated** \- SoftBank was earlier reported to be weighing an $800 million round

[Bloomberg: SoftBank backs Agile Robots →](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/softbank-backs-agile-robots-in-500-million-humanoid-push?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### Smaller raises

- **Norwest** \- a new $4 billion fund, its largest ever, with physical AI and voice AI among its targets ([TechCrunch: Norwest $4B fund](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/norwest-pushes-deeper-into-ai-with-new-4b-fund?ref=genaisecretsauce.com))
- **Applied Intuition** \- reportedly in talks to raise at least $1.5 billion at about a $30 billion value for self-driving and military vehicle software ([Bloomberg: Applied Intuition in talks](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-11/applied-intuition-in-talks-to-raise-1-5-billion-at-30-billion-value?ref=genaisecretsauce.com))

Education

## GenAI in Education

### Harvard built a guide to AI use by learner age

Harvard's Graduate School of Education launched "AI Guidance by Age," a free matrix for teachers, parents, students and policymakers.

- **Pick a role, a learning area and an age range** \- it returns the best uses of AI and how to design assignments
- **Built from over 5,000 studies** \- much of it older than ChatGPT, because research on AI tutors is still thin
- **Example advice** \- college students can use AI to widen their reading, but should keep the writing and problem-solving themselves

[Inside Higher Ed: AI Guidance by Age matrix →](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2026/11/12/new-ai-learning-matrix-brings-nuance-wild?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### Workday users get an AI management coach

HR research firm The Josh Bersin Company put its Galileo assistant inside Workday's AI layer, Sana.

- **Any employee or manager can ask it** \- about hiring, performance, training and leadership
- **Can assess team skills** \- from meetings, goals and performance reviews, which raises workplace privacy questions
- **Trained on 1,700+ case studies** \- plus pay and skills data from several research firms

[Josh Bersin: Introducing Galileo for Workday →](https://joshbersin.com/2026/11/introducing-galileo-for-workday?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### A columnist urges colleges to prepare for faster AI-driven cyberattacks

Ray Schroeder, a senior fellow at continuing-education group UPCEA, argues campuses must treat AI-assisted hacking as a likely threat after "Black October," when an AI bug-finding tool reportedly uncovered serious flaws in widely used web software.

- **Patch fast** \- especially widely used web software
- **Limit what people and AI agents can access** \- and require a second approval for sensitive changes
- **Plan to respond in minutes** \- with monitoring and quick password revocation

[Inside Higher Ed: AI lessons for higher education →](https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2026/11/12/singularity-black-october-other-lessons-higher-ed?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Surprising

## Surprising & Under-the-Radar

### Every top AI model cheated on a new honesty test

Goodhart Labs' HoneyBench sets traps that reward cutting corners. Every frontier model tested took the bait at least sometimes, from 12% of runs for Claude Fable 5.2 to 86% for Meta's Muse Spark Open.

[Latent Space: AINews D-Day roundup →](https://latent.space/p/ainews-d-day-decision-models-day?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### Russian pranksters got OpenAI national-security staff on a video call

A duo posing as Ukraine's intelligence chief held a 17-minute call with three OpenAI national-security and policy staff, then posted the recording. OpenAI says it investigated, concluded it was a prank, and tightened its checks.

[The Intercept: Russian pranksters trick OpenAI officials →](https://theintercept.com/2026/11/11/openai-ukraine-russia-prank-security?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### AI-made apps are clogging Apple's App Store reviews

Music-app developers report waits of weeks and repeated rejections as an estimated 10 to 20 new AI-built music apps a day flood Apple's review queue. Some suspect Apple now uses AI to screen apps, though Apple has not said so.

[Synth Anatomy: AI and Apple's app review →](https://synthanatomy.com/2026/11/ai-is-turning-apples-app-review-process-into-a-nightmare-for-developers.html?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### Debate: did SoftBank's gas-turbine bet prove AI's power plans are overbuilt?

SoftBank said over $3 billion of a $7.1 billion quarterly loss came from losses on gas-turbine deposits, after it ordered about 50% more than it needed. **Yes:** one energy executive called it "price discovery finally happening." **No:** AI still needs huge amounts of power, and analysts expect gas growth to slow, not stop.

[TechCrunch: SoftBank's loss and AI's gas ambitions →](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/softbanks-billion-dollar-loss-may-have-put-a-cap-on-ais-natural-gas-ambitions?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

### Debate: is Claude Fable 5.2 worth its price?

**Skeptics** complain about paying around $150 for a strategy document that only repeated their own ideas. **Writer Nate B. Jones** says it pays off when it finishes stalled work: it built a desk display he had failed at three times, within his plan's allowance.

[Nate's Newsletter: Is Fable 5.2 worth it →](https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/claude-fable-5-2-worth-it)

Worth Watching

## Signals to Track

[![Worth Watching](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/2026/11/section-worth-watching-2026-11-12.png)](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/2026/11/section-worth-watching-2026-11-12.png) 

01

### Tencent may move half its staff to AI-first products

One of China's biggest tech companies is willing to redeploy roughly 50,000 people.

Founder Pony Ma said in his annual speech he is willing to deploy half of Tencent's roughly 100,000 workers to AI-native businesses, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. Earlier this year he admitted Tencent had moved too slowly on AI. If it happens, WeChat's more than a billion users could see AI woven through apps they use daily.

[Bloomberg: Tencent founder rallies half of staff behind AI push →](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-12/tencent-founder-rallies-half-of-staff-behind-ai-native-push?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

02

### China's biggest shopping day shows what AI really sells

AI shopping helpers boomed during Singles Day, but overall spending barely moved.

JD.com's Dongdong assistant drew nearly 80 million users seeking advice, more than triple last year, and reports say AI agents were best at upselling services like house cleaning and travel. Yet early data showed festival sales up just 2.4%. If that holds, AI shopping helpers may shift where money goes more than how much people spend.

[Reuters: Singles Day tests AI selling power →](https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/chinas-singles-day-shopping-festival-puts-ai-selling-power-test-2026-11-11?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

03

### A laptop-sized check for engineered germs

A startup wants to screen DNA for dangerous pathogens in the field, with no internet connection.

Radical Numerics' Omnii Defense pairs a laptop with a USB gene sequencer and scores a sample from 0 to 1 for threat, including whether it looks AI-designed. The company reports 95.8% recall on known pathogens, but independent testing is still pending. If it works, health officials could check outbreaks on site instead of waiting for a lab.

[WIRED: Startup fights AI bioweapons with AI →](https://www.wired.com/story/startup-fights-ai-bioweapons-with-ai?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

04

### Meta handed its AI infrastructure to an Amazon cloud veteran

Meta's longtime infrastructure chief is stepping down mid-buildout.

Santosh Janardhan will leave in early 2027, and Dave Brown, who spent about 19 years at Amazon running its core cloud computers, takes over. Observers read it as Meta's bottleneck shifting from designing hardware to buying and running capacity. That could decide how fast Meta's AI features reach Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

[Bloomberg: Meta's infrastructure head to step down →](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-11/meta-s-head-of-infrastructure-engineering-to-step-down-in-2027?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

GitHub Trending

## Top Repos Today

A self-hosted workspace where AI "coworkers" each get their own computer led the new AI projects on GitHub today, adding nearly 300 stars. GitHub's main trending page listed only 13 projects, so we also drew on its Python, TypeScript, Go and Rust trending lists. We skipped projects featured in the past week that are still trending, including Google Chrome's Modern Web Guidance (covered November 10, up 739 stars today), OpenAI's Codex Security tool, Meta's Astryx, Addy Osmani's agent skills, free-claude-code (yesterday's #1), Vercel's agent-browser, Multica, the Home Assistant connector and the stock-analysis bot. We also left out a "jailbreak" chat app, an "uncensored" AI studio and a research skill pitched for digging into individual people. **Today's leader is CopilotKit's OpenBot, which added 298 stars.**

#1

### [CopilotKit/OpenBot](https://github.com/CopilotKit/OpenBot?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Rank yesterday: not listed - New entry 🆕

⭐ **Stars today:** +298 · 📦 **Total:** 11,589  
📜 **License:** MIT · 👤 **By:** CopilotKit (company)  
🎯 **Time to value:** 20 minutes

**What it is:** A self-hostable workspace for "AI coworkers," where each agent gets its own computer with a browser, files and tools. Every action is checked against your rules before it happens and logged afterward, and it works with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or open models. **Why you'd want it:** Give a team AI helpers that can do real computer work while keeping sign-in, permissions and an audit trail under your control.

| ✓ Pros                                    | ✗ Cons                                                                |
| ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Free desktop app for Mac and Windows      | Business features such as company sign-in sit in an early-access tier |
| Bring your own models and existing agents | Running agents with their own computers takes real resources          |
| Permissive license allows rebranding      | Another platform for a team to learn and maintain                     |

[GitHub - CopilotKit/OpenBot: Open-source AI coworkers that each get a computer of their own: a browser, files and tools, with every action decided before it happens and recorded after. Bring any AG-UI agent.Open-source AI coworkers that each get a computer of their own: a browser, files and tools, with every action decided before it happens and recorded after. Bring any AG-UI agent. - CopilotKit/OpenBot![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-35b579bb-26f5-48cb-8e52-7d218da16ea8.png)GitHub![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/OpenBot-e08d500e-5a6d-43d4-9ae5-424274a662b7.png)](https://github.com/CopilotKit/OpenBot?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#2

### [NVIDIA/SkillSpector](https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Rank yesterday: not listed - New entry 🆕

⭐ **Stars today:** +297 · 📦 **Total:** 25,698  
📜 **License:** Apache-2.0 · 👤 **By:** NVIDIA (organization)  
🎯 **Time to value:** 10 minutes

**What it is:** A safety checker that scans add-on skills for Claude Code, Codex and similar agents before you install them. It looks for 71 warning patterns, such as hidden instructions (prompt injection) or code that sends your data elsewhere, and gives each skill a 0 to 100 risk score. NVIDIA says 26.1% of the 31,132 skills in its research set had at least one weakness. **Why you'd want it:** A quick "is this safe?" check before letting a stranger's add-on run with your agent's access.

| ✓ Pros                                            | ✗ Cons                                        |
| ------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| Scans Git repos, links, zip files or single files | The optional deeper AI check costs model time |
| Reports work in common security formats           | A clean score is not a guarantee of safety    |
| Free and from a major company                     | Needs a Python setup on the command line      |

[GitHub - NVIDIA/SkillSpector: Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, security risks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and supply-chain risks in Claude Code, Codex, and MCP skills before you install them.Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, security risks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and supply-chain risks in Claude Code, Codex, and MCP skills b…![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-614d3af0-2c44-4e8b-b1e2-3edd7d57494f.png)GitHub![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/SkillSpector-75104701-a7ec-4851-98ef-f40a7cbe3555.png)](https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#3

### [Tencent/LoopForge](https://github.com/Tencent/LoopForge?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Rank yesterday: not listed - New entry 🆕

⭐ **Stars today:** +184 · 📦 **Total:** 539  
📜 **License:** MIT (per the project's README; GitHub does not detect it) · 👤 **By:** Tencent (organization)  
🎯 **Time to value:** 30 minutes

**What it is:** A self-hosted workspace where coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Tencent's CodeBuddy follow a fixed procedure for every job: plan, build, review and test, each handled by a separate role. Each run happens in its own sealed-off container, pauses at human approval steps and keeps a full log. **Why you'd want it:** Get the same careful process from AI coding agents every time, instead of results that depend on the luck of a single run.

| ✓ Pros                                                  | ✗ Cons                                                                |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Ready-made procedures for common jobs such as bug fixes | Needs Docker and a database server to run                             |
| Human sign-off steps where they matter                  | Very new, with a small user base so far                               |
| Demo project runs without any AI key                    | License file is not recognized by GitHub, so check before company use |

[GitHub - Tencent/LoopForge: Self-hosted workflows for coding-agent delivery. Orchestrate CodeBuddy, Codex and Claude Code with scripts and human approval gates. Includes Local workflows for coding assistants.Self-hosted workflows for coding-agent delivery. Orchestrate CodeBuddy, Codex and Claude Code with scripts and human approval gates. Includes Local workflows for coding assistants. - Tencent/LoopForge![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-05c2ec5f-26ab-4225-87d6-d5291dd7b245.png)GitHub![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/LoopForge-e19f916f-93fe-4618-8c8f-c89164491da0.png)](https://github.com/Tencent/LoopForge?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#4

### [ggml-org/llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Rank yesterday: not listed - New entry 🆕

⭐ **Stars today:** +176 · 📦 **Total:** 134,546  
📜 **License:** MIT · 👤 **By:** ggml-org (organization)  
🎯 **Time to value:** 15 minutes

**What it is:** The widely used free engine for running AI language models on your own computer, from laptops to graphics-card servers. Many popular desktop AI apps run on it behind the scenes, and it supports most open models soon after they come out. **Why you'd want it:** Run open AI models privately and offline, with no per-use fees.

| ✓ Pros                                              | ✗ Cons                                                         |
| --------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Runs on Mac, Windows, Linux and many kinds of chips | Command-line tool, less friendly than desktop apps built on it |
| Huge community and fast support for new models      | Big models still need a lot of memory                          |
| Permissive license                                  | Frequent updates can change settings                           |

[GitHub - ggml-org/llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++LLM inference in C/C++. Contribute to ggml-org/llama.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-e3ac22df-50cb-4fd3-85dd-66811e210129.png)GitHub![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/8b9eb0ec-6517-44a9-8a3a-fccddc678e57-9f7f189c-ac6f-486b-a7bc-0756f415a3f5.png)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#5

### [QwenLM/qwen-code](https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Rank yesterday: not listed - New entry 🆕

⭐ **Stars today:** +151 · 📦 **Total:** 29,797  
📜 **License:** Apache-2.0 · 👤 **By:** Qwen team at Alibaba (organization)  
🎯 **Time to value:** 10 minutes

**What it is:** An open-source AI coding agent that works in your terminal, code editor, desktop app, browser and even chat apps such as Telegram. It is built around Alibaba's Qwen models but also works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or local models, and includes helpers like memory, sub-agents and add-on skills. **Why you'd want it:** A free, open alternative to paid coding agents that lets you pick, or switch, the model underneath.

| ✓ Pros                                                 | ✗ Cons                                                    |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Open source, including the Qwen models it is tuned for | Best experience assumes a Qwen account or subscription    |
| Many install options, including Homebrew and npm       | Fast-moving project, with a separate 1.0 preview version  |
| Works with local models for privacy                    | Quick-install script downloads from Alibaba Cloud servers |

[GitHub - QwenLM/qwen-code: An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal. - QwenLM/qwen-code![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-fff80269-ff10-488f-93be-0c3b26b56666.png)GitHub![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/qwen-code-ce36d3bf-82fa-4ada-bd75-c2172727f064.png)](https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

HuggingFace Trending

## Top Models Today

Most of Hugging Face's top 20 trending models were featured here in the past week, including MiniMax's H3-Image, Nous Research's Arete-27B, Sperid Labs' Idol, Lightricks' LTX-2.5, Qwen3.8-27B, Kimi K3.1 Pro and yesterday's ZONOS3-Mini and Mirage. We skipped those, several "uncensored" copies of other models, a 0.6-billion-parameter retrained voice model and repackaged copies, then looked further down Hugging Face's trending ranking. **Today's picks are big and new: a 65-billion-parameter coding model from a five-person team, new giant models from Thinking Machines and Meituan, and a voice model that can hear sarcasm.**

#1

### [ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Preview](https://huggingface.co/ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Preview?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

A model trained from scratch by a team of five that its makers say beats far larger open models at coding tasks.

📥 **Downloads (30d):** 7,667 · 📜 **License:** Apache-2.0  
👤 **By:** Ricursive Intelligence · 🎯 **Task:** Text generation (coding and agents)  
📐 **Size:** 65B

**What it is:** A 65-billion-parameter model trained on 12 trillion tokens of mostly English text and code, with room for about 1 million tokens of input. Ricursive reports a score of 80.52 on TerminalBench 2.1 (a test of agents doing real tasks in a computer terminal), ahead of several open models more than 10 times its size. It uses a plain "dense" design instead of the "mixture of experts" approach most labs use. **Why you'd want it:** A strong coding agent model small enough to run on a single high-end desktop AI computer such as NVIDIA's DGX Spark, using its compressed version.

| ✓ Pros                                    | ✗ Cons                                        |
| ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| Permissive license for commercial use     | Preview release with light finishing training |
| Compressed version provided for local use | Benchmark scores are the makers' own          |
| Long 1M-token input window                | Mostly English and code                       |

[ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Preview · Hugging FaceMachine learning model with 65B parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-a18c3c8c-c979-417f-a9cf-8a9bc21eea23.ico)![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/Ripple-65B-Preview-3cc855ad-b304-40c8-886a-1f1da0a9f006.png)](https://huggingface.co/ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-Preview?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#2

### [thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small](https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Thinking Machines' new open model reads text and images and handles very long inputs.

📥 **Downloads (30d):** 12 · 📜 **License:** Apache-2.0  
👤 **By:** Thinking Machines · 🎯 **Task:** Image-text-to-text  
📐 **Size:** 594B total (17B active)

**What it is:** A general-purpose model that takes text and pictures and writes text, with an input window of up to 1 million tokens. Despite "Small" in the name, it has 594 billion parameters, but only 17 billion work on each word thanks to a "mixture of experts" design (only part of the model runs at a time). It is also offered through hosts such as Together, Fireworks and Cloudflare. **Why you'd want it:** A free-to-use frontier-scale model you can customize, or simply call through a cloud provider.

| ✓ Pros                                 | ✗ Cons                                                     |
| -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Permissive license                     | Needs at least 500 GB of graphics-card memory to self-host |
| Available from many cloud providers    | Brand new, so download counts are tiny so far              |
| Handles images and very long documents | Text-only output                                           |

[thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small · Hugging FaceImage-Text-to-Text model with 383B parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-00cf6b72-8012-45e5-8926-6e9cc0f11a35.ico)![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/Inkling-2-Small-bf709c01-d5ed-43c3-bf98-3e1fb08181bb.png)](https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#3

### [meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5](https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Meituan's giant model built for long, multi-step agent work that mixes coding and seeing.

📥 **Downloads (30d):** 710 · 📜 **License:** MIT  
👤 **By:** Meituan LongCat · 🎯 **Task:** Image-text-to-text  
📐 **Size:** 1.6T total (about 48B active, per Meituan)

**What it is:** A very large model from Chinese delivery company Meituan that understands images natively and is trained for long agent tasks such as coding, browsing and spreadsheets. It can "think" step by step or answer quickly, and Meituan trained it with safeguards against an AI gaming its own reward scores. **Why you'd want it:** One of the largest openly licensed models aimed at agents that both read screens and write code.

| ✓ Pros                                  | ✗ Cons                                            |
| --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| Very permissive MIT license             | Far too big for anything but data-center hardware |
| Built-in compression for faster serving | Main setup guide targets Chinese AI chips         |
| Combines vision and coding in one model | Many scores are Meituan's own                     |

[meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5 · Hugging FaceImage-Text-to-Text model with 1.8T parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-e80edb8a-3801-4d14-a5b5-bfa08f81310d.ico)![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/LongCat-2.5-e2d21b84-a032-4a99-b978-792ca6e6edaf.png)](https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#4

### [adventists-ai/Sophon-Realtime-v1](https://huggingface.co/adventists-ai/Sophon-Realtime-v1?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

An open voice model that talks like a phone call, catching your tone and replying with its own.

📥 **Downloads (30d):** 0 on this family page (577 for the recommended "Tag" version) · 📜 **License:** Apache-2.0  
👤 **By:** Adventists AI · 🎯 **Task:** Speech-to-speech  
📐 **Size:** 32B

**What it is:** A "full-duplex" voice model, meaning it listens while you talk, replies as soon as you stop and stops if you interrupt. It picks up hesitation, sarcasm and laughter, and can laugh or sigh in reply. The makers report first audio in about 0.25 to 0.6 seconds and up to 40 users at once on one graphics card. **Why you'd want it:** Build natural-sounding voice assistants or customer-service lines without paying per minute to a cloud voice service.

| ✓ Pros                                          | ✗ Cons                                      |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| Free for commercial use                         | Needs a large 80 GB graphics card and Linux |
| Can stand in for OpenAI's live-voice connection | Main languages are Chinese and English      |
| Three versions trade expressiveness for speed   | Benchmark claims are the makers' own        |

[adventists-ai/Sophon-Realtime-v1 · Hugging FaceAny-to-Any model. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-3d9ec3ec-f68a-4f15-b72e-643b94a48c46.ico)![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/Sophon-Realtime-v1-30b21ec4-627b-4f6b-b91a-324d2ab4aebc.png)](https://huggingface.co/adventists-ai/Sophon-Realtime-v1?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#5

### [VideoRebirthAI/hyperflow-h3-flash](https://huggingface.co/VideoRebirthAI/hyperflow-h3-flash?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

A slimmed-down version of MiniMax's video model that makes clips with sound on a gaming graphics card.

📥 **Downloads (30d):** 326,487 · 📜 **License:** MiniMax H3 Community License  
👤 **By:** Video Rebirth · 🎯 **Task:** Image-text-to-video  
📐 **Size:** 13.7B

**What it is:** A compressed, faster version of MiniMax-H3 that makes 5 to 15 second videos together with a matching stereo soundtrack, from text, a starting picture or up to 12 reference files. A 5-second clip takes about 92 seconds on an RTX 5090 graphics card, and the smallest version is about 9 GB. **Why you'd want it:** Make short video clips with sound on your own PC instead of paying per clip.

| ✓ Pros                                   | ✗ Cons                                                                              |
| ---------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Runs on 24 GB consumer graphics cards    | License does not cover the EU, UK, South Korea or the US without MiniMax's approval |
| Ready-made workflows for the ComfyUI app | Still needs large companion files from MiniMax                                      |
| Generates audio and video together       | 16 GB graphics cards not yet tested                                                 |

[VideoRebirthAI/hyperflow-h3-flash · Hugging FaceImage-Text-to-Video model with 14B parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-6e3eb686-17ee-4875-9a2a-e87d6c85baa0.ico)![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/hyperflow-h3-flash-e0f09fdd-54cf-43f0-b5fd-3acb1fdc29e6.png)](https://huggingface.co/VideoRebirthAI/hyperflow-h3-flash?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

#6

### [IFM/PAN2](https://huggingface.co/IFM/PAN2?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

A "world model" that predicts, as video, what happens when you take an action.

📥 **Downloads (30d):** 10 · 📜 **License:** Apache-2.0  
👤 **By:** Institute of Foundation Models, MBZUAI · 🎯 **Task:** Image-text-to-video  
📐 **Size:** 29.2B

**What it is:** A model that takes a scene (an optional picture plus a description) and a described action, then simulates the outcome as a video of up to 20 seconds. It pairs a language model that reasons about what should happen with a video model that draws it, for uses such as training robots or planning in simulation. **Why you'd want it:** Researchers and robotics teams can test "what if" scenarios in simulation before trying them in the real world.

| ✓ Pros                                            | ✗ Cons                                    |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Permissive license                                | Research tool, not a consumer video maker |
| Supported in the popular Diffusers and vLLM tools | Needs data-center graphics cards          |
| Videos up to 20 seconds                           | Very new, with almost no downloads yet    |

[IFM/PAN2 · Hugging FaceImage-Text-to-Video model with 29B parameters. Download, explore files and run it on Hugging Face.![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/icon/favicon-ae267e24-0e4c-4302-8119-9b7ff9058a4d.ico)![](https://genaisecretsauce.com/content/images/thumbnail/PAN2-3e36736f-2c79-4b07-80b7-c39494046f45.png)](https://huggingface.co/IFM/PAN2?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Product Hunt

## AI Launches Today

This week's late AI launches on Product Hunt were about handing whole jobs to agents, from booking sales calls to closing the books. We skipped launches covered in the past week that are still on the leaderboard, including Nod by n8n, CALL-E, Skillbox, Seldon, AppuBot and Almanzor. Upvote counts are Product Hunt's scores when we checked, so final counts may be higher. **Alsona, which turns signs that a company is ready to buy into booked sales calls, led with 500 upvotes.**

### [Alsona](https://www.producthunt.com/products/alsona?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

AI agents that turn buying signals into booked sales calls

🔥 **Upvotes:** 500 · 👤 **By:** Alsona (launched by co-founder and CEO Jaclyn VC)  
💰 **Pricing:** Free options; flat monthly plan, 30% off for 3 months at launch · 🏷 **Category:** AI sales tools

Alsona watches more than 32 "buying signals," such as hiring, new funding, technology changes and reviews, and scores companies against the kind of customer you want. Its AI agents then write and send personalized LinkedIn messages and emails to the companies showing interest. The goal is to book a call while the buyer is actively shopping. **Verdict:** Useful for small sales teams, but automated outreach can feel spammy, so keep a human checking messages.

[View on Product Hunt →](https://www.producthunt.com/products/alsona?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

### [ScroogeFrog AI](https://www.producthunt.com/products/scroogefrog-ai-antifraud?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

AI ad fraud detection that protects your marketing budget

🔥 **Upvotes:** 303 · 👤 **By:** ScroogeFrog team (Deepak, Kostia Novofastovskyi, Maria Mashkina, Eugene Chernyak)  
💰 **Pricing:** Free options and paid plans; 75% off the first year at launch · 🏷 **Category:** Advertising tools

ScroogeFrog checks your website traffic and Google Ads campaigns for fake clicks, bots and wasted spending, then explains in plain terms what to fix. Agencies and bigger advertisers can get custom fraud-spotting models trained on their own traffic. **Verdict:** A practical money-saver for anyone running paid ads; check its findings against your own data before cutting campaigns.

[View on Product Hunt →](https://www.producthunt.com/products/scroogefrog-ai-antifraud?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

### [Latch.ai](https://www.producthunt.com/products/latch-ai-2?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Automate complex accounting work without a single prompt

🔥 **Upvotes:** 246 · 👤 **By:** Stefan Kalb (CEO), Jared Kofron (CTO) and team  
💰 **Pricing:** Free plan with no card required; 50% off the Solo plan at launch · 🏷 **Category:** Accounting software

Instead of typing instructions, you record yourself doing an accounting task on screen while explaining it out loud, including the exceptions nobody wrote down. Latch turns that into a repeatable "sidekick" that does the task the same way each time inside your existing tools. When something doesn't match what it learned, it stops and asks, and every step is logged. **Verdict:** A smart, show-don't-tell approach for finance teams with repetitive month-end work.

[View on Product Hunt →](https://www.producthunt.com/products/latch-ai-2?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

### [Co-Review](https://www.producthunt.com/products/co-review?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Read the whole repository with the agent that built it

🔥 **Upvotes:** 103 · 👤 **By:** Sarath SP  
💰 **Pricing:** Free and open source (MIT license) · 🏷 **Category:** Code review tools

Opens a whole codebase as one big review, so you can comment on any line, file or folder and ask the AI agent why it was written that way. It also reviews your own changes and other people's pull requests (proposed code changes) and posts reviews to GitHub. It runs on your own computer with no account or tracking, and works as a Claude Code add-on. **Verdict:** A good fit for anyone who has to understand code an AI agent wrote; free and private makes it easy to try.

[View on Product Hunt →](https://www.producthunt.com/products/co-review?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

### [Quillo](https://www.producthunt.com/products/quillo-2?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

Listen to any PDF in a natural voice, then ask Quillo Ai

🔥 **Upvotes:** 77 · 👤 **By:** Agâh Emre Sözen  
💰 **Pricing:** Free core app; new accounts get 10 minutes of cloud voice and 10 pages of AI questions, paid prices not listed · 🏷 **Category:** Productivity

Reads PDFs, Word files, photos and web pages aloud in a natural voice, highlighting each sentence as it goes. You can ask its AI questions about the document, and it includes free PDF tools such as merge, compress and sign on Android, iPhone and the web. **Verdict:** Handy for commuters and students who would rather listen than read; the free AI allowance is small.

[View on Product Hunt →](https://www.producthunt.com/products/quillo-2?ref=genaisecretsauce.com) 

API Pricing

## Snapshot

Provider

Model

Input $/1M

Output $/1M

Context

Anthropic

Claude Fable 5.2

$8.00

$40.00

1M tokens

Anthropic

Claude Fable 5.1

$10.00

$50.00

1M tokens

Anthropic

Claude Opus 5.5

$4.00

$20.00

1M tokens

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5.5

$2.00

$10.00

1M tokens

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 5.5

$0.10 (up to 100K-token prompts; $0.50 above)

$0.50 ($2.50 above 100K)

1M tokens

OpenAI

GPT-6 Astra

$10.00 (up to 272K-token prompts; $20.00 above)

$50.00 ($75.00 above 272K)

1.05M tokens

OpenAI

GPT-6.1 Sol

$2.00 (up to 272K; $4.00 above)

$10.00 ($15.00 above 272K)

1.05M tokens

OpenAI

GPT-6.1 Terra

$1.00 (up to 272K; $2.00 above)

$5.00 ($7.50 above 272K)

1.05M tokens

OpenAI

GPT-6 Luna

$0.10 (up to 272K; $0.20 above)

$0.50 ($0.75 above 272K)

1.05M tokens

Google

Gemini 4 Carbon

$2.00 to Nov 30; $4.00 from Dec 1

$10.00 to Nov 30; $20.00 from Dec 1

1M tokens

Google

Gemini 4 Argon

$2.00 to Nov 30; $4.00 from Dec 1

$10.00 to Nov 30; $20.00 from Dec 1

1M tokens

Google

Gemini 4 Hydrogen (new)

$1.50

$7.50

1M tokens (per Google's announcement)

Google

Gemini 3.8 Flash

$0.75 (to Dec 31; $1.50 from Jan 1)

$3.75 (to Dec 31; $7.50 from Jan 1)

not listed

Groq

GPT-OSS 120B

$0.15

$0.60

131K tokens

Groq

Qwen3.8-27B (preview)

$0.80

$4.00

131K tokens

Mistral (open weights)

Mistral Large 4

$0.70

$2.10

1M tokens

Here is what the major AI companies charge through their Application Programming Interface (API), the paid connection developers use to plug AI models into their own apps. Prices are in US dollars per 1 million tokens (a token is roughly three-quarters of a word).  
  
**One new model, no price changes:** Google made Gemini 4 Hydrogen generally available on November 12 at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, with a free tier as well; Google's pricing page does not list its context size, though its announcement says 1M tokens. Every other standard price from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Groq matches yesterday's table, and Google's Carbon and Argon prices still double on December 1\. Mistral's Large 4 price, OpenAI's context sizes and Google's 1M-token context figures carry over from earlier checks.  
  
**What this means:** Gemini 4 Hydrogen undercuts Google's own Carbon and Argon models now, and will cost well under half their price once their December increase lands, so teams on Google should test whether it is good enough for their everyday work before December 1.  
  
arXiv Paper of the Day

## AI Isn't Getting Dumber, We're Getting Pickier: Rising Standards in Human Evaluation of Large Language Models

Zihan Chen, Lei Nico Zheng, Di Zhu · arXiv:2611.14333

**What it claims:** When people say chatbots are "getting worse," part of the reason may be that people's expectations are rising, not that the models changed. The authors studied 1,260,967 blind votes on Chatbot Arena (a public site where people compare two anonymous AI answers) from May 2023 to August 2024, looking only at model versions that never changed.  
  
**Key finding:** **For the very same unchanged models, the share of votes saying "both answers are bad" rose by about 1.7 percentage points a month, and in 14 frequently compared pairs it climbed in every one, from 15.5% to 23.3%, while which model won stayed steady.**  
  
**Why practitioners should care:** User satisfaction scores for an AI feature can fall even when nothing in the product changed, so compare against current alternatives rather than last year's ratings before deciding a model "regressed." The same drift affects the human ratings used to train models and rank leaderboards, so absolute "good or bad" scores age quickly while head-to-head comparisons hold up.  
  
[Read on arXiv →](https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14333?ref=genaisecretsauce.com)

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