November 4, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry Nothing CEO Carl Pei said the company’s first screen-free AI device will launch in December. IT之家 ↗
- Models Huawei said Ascend 0-Day support is available for deploying Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3.1 Pro. IT之家 ↗
- Research Anthropic helped researchers build a three-dimensional library containing 96 copies of a bacterial protein for faster experimentation. IT之家 ↗
- Agents Baseten introduced Router, reporting 72% lower coding costs than Opus 5.5 in its benchmark and better performance than random routing. X / Baseten ↗
- Open Source webAI released TwIL-8B, an 8.8-billion-parameter reasoning model that reportedly scores 98.2 on MATH-500. MarkTechPost ↗
- AIGC HeyGen brought HeyGen Video 1 to mobile, letting users describe a video and generate it inside the app. X / HeyGen ↗
- Open Source Vercel Labs open-sourced fx, a Zig-based coding agent designed for embedded applications. InfoQ 中文 ↗
- Agents Together AI introduced Together Compiler, which continually optimizes inference for production traffic and claims up to 2.6× higher speed. X / Together AI ↗
- Agents Google made Gemini API computer use generally available, adding production-ready stability for browser, mobile, and desktop interactions. X / Google AI Studio ↗
- Safety Harbor added Docker Sandboxes, allowing reproducible AI-agent evaluations inside isolated microVMs. InfoQ 中文 ↗
- Open Source Qdrant 1.20 introduced turbo8 and turbo16 vector formats that reduce storage to one-quarter or one-half of float32 while preserving recall. X / Qdrant ↗
- Agents Sourcegraph added MCP connectors to Agentic Batch Changes, linking coding agents with Linear, Confluence, Buildkite, and other tools. X / Sourcegraph ↗
- Models Cohere released Embed 5 and Rerank 5 on OpenRouter, offering two embedding models in one shared space and a new reranker. X / Cohere ↗
- AIGC Hyper3D introduced prompt-editable rigging that can add or remove bones for humans, animals, and fantasy creatures. X / DeemosTech ↗