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Token Times
Issue #006Friday, November 6, 2026Updated 4:10 AM PST51/56 sources live

Token Times

The daily dispatch from the AI arms race. 763 stories from 129 feeds, ranked by heat and rebuilt every morning.

Everything in the issue, ranked by heat.

01Front page

The stories with the most heat right now, plus one pick from every corner of the AI world.

Repo of the day

thedotmack/claude-mem

Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini,…

114k+9.3k this weekTypeScript9.9k
Paper of the day

Advances in Agentic Computer Graphics

This report proposes a unified taxonomy and literature system for agentic computer graphics driven by large language models, analyzing trends and open challenges in human-agent collaboration and long-horizon planning.

143 upvotes4University of Texas at Austin
Launch of the day

Cloptima

AI Gateway, Guardrails & LLM FinOps

#1 in today’s AI feed

03Arms race tracker

Who is shipping, who owns the news cycle, where the compute is, and what the money thinks happens next.

United StatesChinaEuropeOther / unknownColors follow the country of the lab, in every chart.

Who has the best model?

Live Polymarket odds on which company tops the leaderboard. Market prices, not predictions or advice.

Which company has the best AI model end of November? · $823k traded

Which company has best AI model end of 2026? · $4M traded

Who owns the news cycle

Share of today’s stories mentioning each lab. Merged coverage counts once.

Open-weights race

Where the 50 hottest Hugging Face models come from. Fine-tunes and quantized builds count for the base model’s lab.

United States 9 18%China 23 46%Europe 2 4.0%Other / unknown 16 32%

Frontier compute

Largest known training run each year, in FLOP (log scale). From Epoch AI’s 1.1k notable models.

USChinaEurope
101910201021102210231024102510261027201620182020202220242026USChinaEurope
Show as a table
YearUSChinaEurope
20161e21.821e19.811e21.28
20171e20.93–1e20.81
20181e21.94–1e20.23
20191e22.831e19.581e23.03
20201e23.51e21.221e21.48
20211e24.311e24.021e23.8
20221e24.441e23.551e23.76
20231e25.71e24.111e23.89
20241e25.581e25.41e22.7
20251e26.71e25.18–
20261e26.971e25.31e25.09

Latest additions to Epoch’s notable-model list

Release radar

33 models landed on OpenRouter in the last 30 days, out of 453 listed. Price is dollars per million tokens, input / output.

United States 14 42%China 7 21%Other / unknown 12 36%
AddedModelMakerContext$ / 1M tok
Nov 5 Gemini Omni 1.2 FlashGemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the successor to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. It generates clips up to 15 seconds long with native... US Google 131k $1.5 / $9
Nov 5 Auto RouterAuto is OpenRouter’s flagship model router, built for general-purpose usage. It adapts to each request, choosing cost-optimal models and adjusting reasoning effort. It balances task difficulty,… OTH openrouter 2M $-1000000 / $-1000000
Nov 5 Auto CodeAuto Code is OpenRouter’s router built specifically for coding agents and harnesses. It uses the same routing engine as the [Auto Router](https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/auto), with every request… OTH openrouter 2M $-1000000 / $-1000000
Nov 4 Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashGemini Omni 1.1 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the generally available successor to Gemini Omni Flash Preview. It is suited for text-to-video,… US Google 131k $1.5 / $9
Nov 4 ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-PreviewRipple-65B-Preview by ricursiveAI, a 65B model with native tool calling, served in BF16. OTH ricursiveai 1M $0.2 / $0.6
Nov 3 Hy4The official release of Hy4 delivers comprehensive and substantial improvements over Hy4 Preview, with particularly strong gains in agentic capabilities and performance across a wide range of… CN Tencent 1M $0.417 / $1.25
Nov 2 Crouton AlphaCrouton Alpha is a lightweight model built for scalable coding, agentic, and multimodal workflows. It's ideal for executing agentic sub-tasks, tool use, and document analysis in high-volume,… OTH stealth 1M free
Nov 2 GLM 5.3 FlashX LegalGLM-5.3-FlashX-Legal (GLM-Legal) is Z.ai's legal-domain variant of GLM-5.3-FlashX, a native multimodal model that accepts text, image, and video input and produces text. It adds legal-domain… CN Z.ai 1M $0.37 / $1.25
Oct 28 Particle-1Particle-1 is a token-efficient agentic coding model from Particle AI, post-trained on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. It is suited for software engineering work such as terminal workflows, codebase changes,… OTH Particle AI 1M $0.05 / $0.5
Oct 26 GPT-6.1 Terra ProGPT-6.1 Terra Pro is the same underlying model as [GPT-6.1 Terra](https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6.1-terra), served with `reasoning.mode` set to `pro` for higher-quality responses on complex… US OpenAI 1.1M $1 / $5

Biggest training runs, last 24 months

Notable models released in the last 12 months: 127.

United States 79 62%China 36 28%Europe 1 0.79%Other / unknown 11 8.7%

What the money expects

The busiest AI prediction markets on Polymarket and their current front-runner. Market prices, not predictions or advice.

Anthropic IPO Closing Market Cap
Leader: $1.5–$1.75T 28%+2.8 pts 24h$3.7M tradedends Dec 31, 2027
Will Anthropic’s valuation hit __ by December 31?
Leader: ↑$1.5T 83%-8.8 pts 24h$6.8M tradedends Jan 4, 2027
GPT Astra 6.1+ released by...?
Leader: December 31 99%-0.1 pts 24h$863k tradedends Dec 31, 2026
GPT Astra 6.1+ released on...?
Leader: November 12 21%+13.6 pts 24h$86k tradedends Nov 30, 2026
Anthropic IPO Closing Market Cap (Lower Brackets)
Leader: 600B+ 96%-0.6 pts 24h$570k tradedends Dec 31, 2027
Louisiana enacts data center moratorium by...?
Leader: December 31, 2028 32%$891k tradedends Dec 31, 2028
Gemini Carbon released on...?
Leader: November 10 34%+11.3 pts 24h$185k tradedends Nov 30, 2026
Gemini Carbon released by...?
Leader: December 31 98%+0.1 pts 24h$246k tradedends Dec 31, 2026

04The feed

Everything in today’s issue. Filter it, search it, and share the link: the URL keeps your filters.

ModelHugging Faceheat82

speridlabs/idol

image-to-3d · license apache-2.0

85719kOTH speridlabs
+1 more story from 1 other outlet
RepoGitHubheat80

pbakaus/impeccable

The design vocabulary for your coding agent. Steer with polish and bolder, review with critique and audit, catch AI slop before it ships.

104k+9.3k this weekRust6.2k
ModelHugging Faceheat80

moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro

image-text-to-text · license other

1.4k18kCN moonshotaialso in Hacker News
RepoGitHubNEWheat79

Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

Turn Claude Code into a full game dev studio — 49 AI agents, 72 workflow skills, and a complete coordination system mirroring real studio hierarchy.

36k+6.7k this weekShell4.7k
LabNVIDIA BlogNEWheat83

Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents

AI agents do more than generate answers. They search for information, query databases, write and test code and take action. Each of those steps relies on a CPU, with agents moving between GPU reasoning and CPU execution throughout a task. As businesses put…

Threadr/ChatGPTCodingNEWheat78

How do you keep local coding agents running on a MacBook with the lid closed?

I run Codex and other coding agents locally on my MacBook. When a task is still running, I'd like to close the lid, leave the laptop plugged in on my desk, and come back to the results later. The confusing part is that…

#1 today in r/ChatGPTCoding
ModelHugging Face Spacesheat79

Qwen Image 2.1 Uncensored

Uncensored Qwen-Image-2.1 generate + edit

292gradio
RepoGitHubheat79

Nutlope/hallmark

Anti-AI-slop design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

49k+7k this weekCSS2.6k
ModelHugging Faceheat78

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

image-text-to-text · license apache-2.0

19k7.8MCN Qwen
+1 more story from 1 other outlet
RepoGitHubheat78

obra/superpowers

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

313k+5.1k this weekShell28k
LabNVIDIA BlogNEWheat82

The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open Models

Chris Alexiuk has a simple rule about open source AI: If you believe in it, be loud about it. “We should be shouting about this technology from the rooftops,” said Alexiuk, a Toronto-based senior product research engineer in deep learning at NVIDIA who…

ModelHugging Face Spacesheat78

Wan2.2 14B Preview

generate a video from an image with a text prompt

1.3kgradio
ReadSimon WillisonNEWheat77

Quoting Paul Ford

The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day . — Paul Ford , The Web Is More Than Enough Tags: browsers , paul-ford , web-development

LabNVIDIA BlogNEWheat82

‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Gets a Magical NVIDIA DLSS 5 Upgrade on GeForce NOW

Hogwarts Legacy receives an NVIDIA DLSS 5 upgrade with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering today, bringing lifelike lighting and materials to the wizarding world on GeForce NOW . Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft: Forever also opens a new chapter in Azeroth,…

Threadr/MachineLearningNEWheat77

How do you build visibility through open source contributions?[D]

I’m an MSc CS student with a background in 3D computer vision, trying to figure out how to build visibility and credibility in the AI/ML community. I’ve been thinking about contributing to established open source…

#3 today in r/MachineLearning
ModelHugging Face Spacesheat78

Idol

One image to a 3D object (Gaussian splats)

163gradio
ReadSemiAnalysisNEWheat77

The Iron(wood) Throne: Google's TPU Stakes Its Claim on Inference

In November 2025, we published a newsletter saying that Google is selling TPUs to external customers. Since then, we have been proven right over and over again with Oracle, OpenAI , Anthropic, and Meta all becoming customers of TPUs just as our Accelerator…

Bryan Shan
RepoGitHubheat77

calesthio/OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

77k+4.1k this weekPython10k
ReadDon’t Worry About the Vase (Zvi)NEWheat77

AI #193: Progress May Dramatically Accelerate

Anthropic is warning us. Its modified S-1 now says that ‘we may imminently meet our Responsible Scaling Policy’s definition of ‘dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI.’ That is a highly scary sentence to have a company put in its S-1. This…

Zvi Mowshowitz

05Wire room

Every source that fed this issue, and whether it answered.

51/56Sources answered
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Newsrooms

  • ok TechCrunch15 items
  • ok The Verge10 items
  • ok MIT Technology Review8 items
  • ok Ars Technica6 items
  • ok WIRED10 items
  • ok The Guardian15 items
  • ok The Decoder10 items
  • ok MarkTechPost10 items
  • ok IEEE Spectrum3 items
  • ok Financial Times15 items
  • problem VentureBeatHTTP 429
  • ok Techmeme10 items
  • ok BBC News2 items
  • ok The New York Times9 items
  • ok Axios5 items
  • ok Rest of World2 items
  • ok South China Morning Post11 items
  • ok Google News (18 beats)252 items

Labs

  • ok OpenAI8 items
  • ok Google DeepMind6 items
  • ok Google AI Blog4 items
  • ok Hugging Face Blog8 items
  • ok NVIDIA Blog6 items
  • ok Mistral AI4 items
  • ok Apple Machine Learning2 items
  • ok AWS Machine Learning4 items
  • ok GitHub Blog: AI2 items
  • ok Anthropic12 items

Deep reads

  • ok Simon Willison6 items
  • ok Import AI (Jack Clark)2 items
  • ok Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)4 items
  • ok Latent Space4 items
  • problem One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)no fresh items
  • ok Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)1 items
  • ok SemiAnalysis4 items
  • ok Andrej Karpathy1 items
  • ok Don’t Worry About the Vase (Zvi)3 items
  • ok Ben’s Bites4 items
  • problem AI Snake Oilno fresh items
  • ok Gary Marcus3 items
  • ok ChinaTalk4 items
  • problem Lil’Log (Lilian Weng)no fresh items
  • problem Every: Chain of Thoughtno fresh items

Community

  • ok Hacker News46 items
  • ok Reddit (14 subs)101 items
  • ok Lobsters1 items

Code

  • ok GitHub Trending17 items
  • ok GitHub new AI repos33 items

Models

  • ok Hugging Face trending models50 items
  • ok Hugging Face trending Spaces24 items

Research

  • ok Hugging Face Daily Papers45 items

Video

  • ok YouTube (29 channels)50 items

Launches

  • ok Product Hunt: AI30 items

Arms race

  • ok Polymarket AI markets1 items
  • ok OpenRouter model catalog1 items
  • ok Epoch AI notable models1 items