3 January 2026
đ The Daily AI Digest
The Daily AI briefing for 2026-01-03, We checked out 8 sources and 8 stories for you. Here's what you need to know today.
đ° Ai Top News
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NVIDIA announced that generalâpurpose GPUs are becoming obsolete and partnered with Groq to deliver SRAMâbased, disaggregated inference, aiming to retain market lead against TPUs.
venturebeat.com
đ» Hardware
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Anthropic reportedly intends to purchase nearly 1,000,000 Google TPUv7 chips, signaling a huge compute investment to compete with OpenAI and DeepMind.
reddit.com
đ§Ș Research
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DeepSeek's mHC paper introduces doubly stochastic constraints that fix hyperâconnection instability, accompanied by an interactive demo for exploration.
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Stanford's Dream2Flow framework lets robots generate video predictions to imagine tasks before acting, advancing planning via generative models.
đ Open Source
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A user reverseâengineered Meta's Manus agent workflow and released it as a Claude Code skill, exposing core goalâtracking patterns.
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llama.cpp was compiled and run directly on Android devices with Snapdragon 888 and 8âŻGB RAM, enabling onâdevice LLM inference.
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GLMâ4.7 combined with chainâofâthought prompting matches performance of earlier GLMâ4.5/4.0 Sonnet models in user tests.
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PromptSmith, a free Chrome extension, lets users polish prompts inside ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, also supporting local LLMs.
đ§ Models
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Claude users report an insider tweet suggesting upcoming higher rate limits and faster OpusâŻ4.5 / SonnetâŻ5 releases.
x.com
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A betaâtested Grok model called âObsidianâ (likely GrokâŻ4.20) was spotted on DesignArena, delivering better frontâend performance than prior releases.
đ° Tools
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fasterâwhisper provides CTranslate2âaccelerated transcription, delivering noticeable speed improvements over the standard Whisper model.
github.com
đ ïž Developer Tools
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MCPCP (mcpâcontextâproxy) aggregates large responses from multiple model calls, reducing latency for developers.
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Claude Code can now request user assistance via voice prompts, improving interactive debugging and permission handling.
đ° Quick Stats
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$20âŻB NVIDIAâGroq partnership announced to develop specialized inference chips.
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Anthropic plans to buy ~1âŻM TPUv7 chips for massive compute capacity.
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Claudeâs upcoming OpusâŻ4.5 and SonnetâŻ5 models expected with higher rate limits.
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GLMâ4.7 + chainâofâthought matches 4âsonnet performance in user benchmarks.
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