# Latent.Space The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al! Page: Feed: --- ## [\[AINews\] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-death-of-params-zai-ceo-jie) _2026-08-20_ Every lab CEO is on X now ## [\[AINews\] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-memory-prices-up-500-in-12) _2026-08-19 · Latent.Space_ the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels ## [Frontier Model Cost and Open-Weights Popularity is Driving Demand for Model Routing](https://www.latent.space/p/glean-model-routing) _2026-08-18 · Richard MacManus_ Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains why model routing helps control AI costs for organizations, and how human feedback loops at scale improve its routing systems. ## [\[AINews\] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-stripe-buys-openrouter-for) _2026-08-17_ No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution. ## [React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue](https://www.latent.space/p/flue-2) _2026-08-15 · Richard MacManus_ Flue 2 takes its inspiration from React. Creator Fred Schott, of Astro fame, tells Latent Space why he added hooks and why agents are defined by their harnesses. ## [\[AINews\] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closes](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-cursors-60b-acquisition-by) _2026-08-14_ Congrats to the team! ## [\[AINews\] Gemini 3.7 Flash brings GDM back to the forefront](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-gemini-37-flash-brings-gdm) _2026-08-14_ Down, but not out! ## [\[AINews\] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-spacexai-grok-46-and-grok) _2026-08-13_ AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet ## [\[AINews\] How to steal a Reasoning Trace](https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-how-to-steal-a-reasoning-trace) _2026-08-12_ Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet ## [Get started with Turso (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hoQbS1AQEqxS) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Create your Turso account to access the app. ## [🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery](https://www.latent.space/p/chai-discovery) _2026-08-11 · RJ Honicky_ Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209779219/6d3e16128540b5067502128632b9952b.mp3)