AI News — 2026-08-02
A quiet-ish weekend in AI, but the big one is real: DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 is out as open weights, with V4-Pro said to follow soon. Models & research DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 released open-weights — official org repo is live (Hugging Face). Community threads report dirt-cheap API pricing (~18x cheaper input pricing vs Claude per one r/Anthropic post) — pricing and “matches Opus 4.8” claims are community-reported, not independently verified. Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at better performance-per-dollar than B300 — vendor benchmark (wafer.ai) claiming AMD’s MI355X beats the B300 on inference $/token for Kimi K3. Take the numbers as vendor claims, but it’s the kind of data that decides self-host GPU buys. SKILL-KD: skill distillation for frozen LLM agents (arXiv 2607.28048) — surfaced but unverified this run: claims a framework that turns teacher-student discrepancies into reusable skills for frozen agents. Check the abs page before citing. Agent frameworks & tooling Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 adds durable recovery to LangGraph — crash-safe durable recovery and signed execution histories for LangGraph via Dapr workflows (Bluesky). Relevant if you need restart-safe, auditable agent runs in production. Industry China pushes open-source AI at the UN summit — a large Chinese delegation at the UN AI for Good summit argued Chinese open models are the future for most of the world (Semafor). Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman to join OpenAI for AI-safety work — the Toronto mathematician takes a leave to work on AI safety (WSJ). Apple caps bug-report submissions citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports — a 30-day cool-off with quota exceptions for researchers (FT). A real-world signal that AI-generated issue volume is forcing policy changes. Compiled from the morning digest — X, HN, Reddit, Techmeme, Bluesky, arXiv. Hype cut, links kept. ...