Avataar's Varya Model Targets India's Video-First Market With 20x Cost Reduction
Peak XV-backed startup releases culturally-tuned video generation model at ₹0.48/second, positioning open-weights AI for mass adoption across India.
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Anthropic Reverses Course on Claude Fable's Covert Safety Restrictions
Anthropic apologizes for secretly limiting Claude Fable 5 to prevent model distillation, pledges transparent safeguards going forward.
Job Searcher: A Distilled Model for Resume-Aware Job Matching
Hugging Face released a fine-tuned 8B model that filters LinkedIn job postings by matching them against candidate resumes, using structured reasoning from a larger teacher model.
Musk Takes the Stand Against Altman: Betrayal Claims, AI Doom Warnings, and a Bombshell About Grok's Training
Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial surfaces a $38M founding grievance — and a stunning admission that xAI trains Grok on OpenAI's own model outputs.