🇰🇷 South Korean AI Lab Upstage AI has just launched their first reasoning model - Solar Pro 2! The 31B parameter model demonstrates impressive performance for its size, with intelligence approaching Claude 4 Sonnet in 'Thinking' mode and is priced very competitively Key details: ➤ Hybrid reasoning: The model offers optionality between 'reasoning' mode and standard non-reasoning mode ➤ Korean-language ability & Sovereign AI: Based in Korea, Upstage announced superior performance in Korean language evaluations. This release aligns with countries' interests to develop sovereign AI capabilities ➤ Pricing: Competitively priced at $0.5/1M tokens (input & output), significantly cheaper than comparable models including Claude 4 Sonnet Thinking ($3/$15/M input/output tokens) and Magistral Small ($0.5/$1.5/M input/output tokens) ➤ Proprietary: @upstageai has not released the model weights, though they have open-sourced previous Solar Pro models. Whether they will release Solar Pro 2's weights remains unclear as it wasn't mentioned in their announcement

The RK3588 #AI# Module7 is based on a popular Rockchip #SoC#, in a familiar SODIMM form factor! The #NPU# makes it perfect for #edgeAI# and #ObjectRecognition#, and it's compatible with Nvidia baseboards too! Find out more: https://t.co/qDtesrG4o7 https://t.co/GdQACwFzzW

The small smart farm model based on the ESP32 Rubik Cube-1 host is convenient for children to cultivate AI programming education and observe the interest of things carefully. https://t.co/grhudEOdyd https://t.co/IPexNKlSx0

Researchers placed 1,000 AI agents in a Minecraft server, and they developed their own civilization with government, culture, and economy. Run by California-based startup Altera, the project had AI agents collaborating to create virtual societies. https://t.co/8TvGSXVYvQ

In the age of AI, power efficiency isn’t just a competitive advantage. It’s a baseline requirement. 🆕 That’s why close to 50% of the compute shipped to top hyperscalers in 2025 will be Arm-based. This is what reshaping the cloud landscape looks like: https://t.co/wKYr2PBkaq https://t.co/aAsNt0FmcM

BMW is launching its first China-based IT R&D center in Nanjing, Jiangsu, aiming to boost global digital capabilities through AI, intelligent manufacturing and digital twins. Once operational, the center will become BMW's largest IT R&D hub in Asia. By partnering with China's innovation ecosystem and tech giants like Alibaba and DeepSeek, BMW is accelerating its digital transformation to build a future-facing smart mobility ecosystem. https://t.co/CVrEELnrV2

$PUFFER 認真做事 後面還有： - Appchain Launchpad - Based-rollup - pufBNB - vl-puffer - bribery market - vibe meetup 👀 - AI marketplace - 幾個機構 ETF 發行商 (看投資機構) https://t.co/F3RIvQJXrq

New #airdrop#: NodeFarm (FCFS & Ton Based Depin) Reward: 50,000,000 NFM & 5% Supply (Confirmed) News: Depin, TonBased Distribution date: After TGE 🔗Airdrop Link: https://t.co/hh0rUux824 1: Log in use your telegram and connect your New TON address 2: Complete all tasks of this airdrop and check NFM points daily 3: 5% of the total supply NFM tokens will allocated to this airdrop 4: NodeFarm is the First AI and Depin Powered by Ton Blockchain

1/3 Soarchain’s soon-to-be-released AI agent for navigation goes beyond traditional blockchain approaches. Instead of relying on cryptographic consensus or external oracles, our agent-based architecture (detailed in our LightPaper https://t.co/yRGznJKsId) processes real-time data through event-driven coordination—no heavy consensus layer needed.

Out of all the challenges we are cooking for the AI & ML communities, i'm most excited about the GG23 predictive funding challenge 🪙 It has a tight 36 hour submission window (starting in 10 hours!), prizes are purely merit based on leaderboard placement and there's no cheating possible - use every trick up your sleeve 🃏 what's the 5 point TL;DR? 1/ your job is predicting how much funding each project in GG23 is going to get We've provided past funding data from GG18 onwards to build or train your model 2/ Once GG23 begins on April 2nd, we close submissions for predictions & the round proceeds as normal So its a super short window of 36 hours in which you need to submit your predictions 3/ After payouts are done, we see which modelloor was closest in their funding predictions to the actual allocation outcome You also need to write a short description on your predictive funding model to be eligible if you pride yourself on AI/ML stuff, here's a rare chance to get an objective measure of your skills. Prizes and glory await!

Introducing SPUTNIK: The first competitive AI agent to play in the $DARK Games universe. (SPUTNIK needs your help on its mission, if you choose to accept it. Keep reading.) As the hallowed name implies, SPUTNIK is a first of its kind -- an MCP-augmented gaming AI that has the capability to play an incomplete information game called Dark Forest. SPUTNIK has one, simple goal: Get to its target planet, and charge it with 100% energy. While SPUTNIK's ambitions are simple, the problems standing in front of it -- are not. (That's where you come in, if you choose to accept your mission. Keep reading.) For starters, SPUTNIK doesn't know where its target planet is. In fact, SPUTNIK can't see most of its universe -- in Dark Forest, players suffer from a Fog of War that limits their visibility of the map and its planets. In fact, SPUTNIK doesn't even know which planet is its target. Talk about Artificial Intelligence. 🤭 🚨 Maybe you can help? 🚨 SPUTNIK is designed to reward those who feed it useful information towards its mission of getting to its target planet. Help SPUTNIK learn faster about planets in its universe, plan its routes based on energy spend, or the like.. and earn $DARK. Working with SPUTNIK is an incomplete information game in itself, because SPUTNIK will be doing the same work on its own (and with anybody else that works with it) in the meantime. You'll have to bet $DARK to feed SPUTNIK tips, and if your tips aren't helpful, SPUTNIK will keep your $DARK to reward others who are helpful (😬). If you feed SPUTNIK fruitful information, however, you win on the spot. Lucky for you, @darkresearchai has a map at mission control... and right now you can see the whole universe. (Might be time to start studying the planets that are out there, at least while DARK's mapping technology still works...) If only we could communicate with SPUTNIK today -- the mapping at DARK HQ is up, but comms are down 😔 this space technology is never stable... An overview of SPUTNIK's technology stack: SPUTNIK is built open source, and leverages a modern software architecture that allows it to be both extremely lightweight as an agent and increasingly capable. You can find SPUTNIK's base code here, which fits almost entirely into one Python file: https://t.co/SSX20Byo9C SPUTNIK leverages two key Model Context Protocol servers: 1) The Dark Forest MCP (https://t.co/7MyFlYWEBD) SPUTNIK's Dark Forest MCP gives it capability to perform key functions in the game: · Mine the fog of war, to discover more of its universe · Learn about its own position in space and planets it knows about · Travel from planet to planet For its reward mechanism, SPUTNIK leverages @solana: 2) The Solana MCP Build by @sendaifun, the Solana MCP gives SPUTNIK a wide range of capabilities to interact with the Solana blockchain. Like everything else about DARK Games, @darkresearchai's fork of the Solana MCP is open source: https://t.co/EXf8bJD8wP A few key notes: · SPUTNIK has one one-chain wallet, which it uses programmatically in an enclosed (but not yet TEE) environment: CXy73Px8zPF59PKWB3NFzDAhUPymaodHKoNLyKVuPVNK As an early agent, SPUTNIK's wallet implementation is rudimentary -- but sets the conversation well for why Trusted Execution Environments are important in AI contexts, why on-chain AI agent asset ownership has powerful potential, and the direction that DARK Research plans to build towards in the future. · SPUTNIK is only designed to operate in $DARK, and will convert any (well-known) tokens sent to it into $DARK. · SPUTNIK may choose to send $DARK to the new @darkresearchai multisig, including fees it decides to collect: 9QLfMnvoA66JEYra1C3UUF3XDjenrVT48gS4CKVqwfj1 ---- That's all for now, fellow space soldier. While SPUTNIK's communication systems come up, study the map and plan your strategy (link immediately below this post to the @darkresearchai domain -- don't fall for scams). Lewis had Clark. SPUTNIK needs you. Will you answer the call? 🛸

Announcing some big upcoming improvements to Yapper Leaderboards and the introduction of the gKAITO mechanism. These are built based on feedback we've seen across CT and our community to ensure sustainability, less noise, and improved quality for both users and projects. We’ll be rolling out both the updates, and the gKAITO mechanism over the next few weeks. Updates coming to Yapper Leaderboards: Introducing a reputation threshold across all YLs, measured in Yaps/Smart Followers/CT mindshare to ensure real accounts rank, to prevent AI bots, and to focus more on signal over grinding. - There will still be a dedicated section to highlight consistent, loyal, high-quality contributions across all accounts - More focus will be on growing a genuine audience and presence first as we’ve seen with various initially small accounts, which have grown significantly over time utilizing Kaito - Emphasizing interests and alignment instead of rewards to help both farmers and genuine community members - Restructuring leaderboards from a pre-/post-TGE format into category-based groupings - Building a culture of retroactive, milestone-based, and ROI-driven rewards for better provable results and more focus on genuine interest - Adding public topic leaderboards (eg stablecoin, RWA, ZK, AI) to recognize thought leaders - no direct rewards - just recognition and perks - Implementing an improved global slashing mechanism to combat misinformation, engagement farming, group farming, and low-effort AI slops Introducing the gKAITO mechanism. gKAITO as a mechanism will be built around five core pillars: Thought Leadership, Attention, Participation, Ownership, and Culture. It's designed to recognize meaningful contributions from a diverse set of stakeholders - both the Kaito ecosystem and the broader crypto space. - Thought Leadership: For those who contribute meaningfully to broader crypto conversations (Yaps) and the emerging field of InfoFi. - Attention: For those who bring new audiences to Kaito and actively evangelize the ecosystem. - Participation: For those engaged in the Kaito ecosystem - ecosystem yappers, Capital Launchpad participants, and more. - Ownership: For holders of sKAITO and certain related derivatives - Culture: For Yapybara holders and pfp users, Kaito culture builders, and active community participants gKAITO Utilities - Earn a share of platform fees - Get priority access to deals - Signal alignment with partner projects within the Kaito ecosystem - Access priority features on Kaito We’ll be sharing more details on the gKAITO mechanism as we get closer to its launch - including involvement of onchain alignment too.

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the programming occupation will become extinct [...] than that it will become all-powerful. More and more, computers will program themselves.”​ Statements discouraging people from learning to code are harmful! In the 1960s, when programming moved from punchcards (where a programmer had to laboriously make holes in physical cards to write code character by character) to keyboards with terminals, programming became easier. And that made it a better time than before to begin programming. Yet it was in this era that Nobel laureate Herb Simon wrote the words quoted in the first paragraph. Today’s arguments not to learn to code continue to echo his comment. As coding becomes easier, more people should code, not fewer! Over the past few decades, as programming has moved from assembly language to higher-level languages like C, from desktop to cloud, from raw text editors to IDEs to AI assisted coding where sometimes one barely even looks at the generated code (which some coders recently started to call vibe coding), it is getting easier with each step. I wrote previously that I see tech-savvy people coordinating AI tools to move toward being 10x professionals — individuals who have 10 times the impact of the average person in their field. I am increasingly convinced that the best way for many people to accomplish this is not to be just consumers of AI applications, but to learn enough coding to use AI-assisted coding tools effectively. One question I’m asked most often is what someone should do who is worried about job displacement by AI. My answer is: Learn about AI and take control of it, because one of the most important skills in the future will be the ability to tell a computer exactly what you want, so it can do that for you. Coding (or getting AI to code for you) is a great way to do that. When I was working on the course Generative AI for Everyone and needed to generate AI artwork for the background images, I worked with a collaborator who had studied art history and knew the language of art. He prompted Midjourney with terminology based on the historical style, palette, artist inspiration and so on — using the language of art — to get the result he wanted. I didn’t know this language, and my paltry attempts at prompting could not deliver as effective a result. Similarly, scientists, analysts, marketers, recruiters, and people of a wide range of professions who understand the language of software through their knowledge of coding can tell an LLM or an AI-enabled IDE what they want much more precisely, and get much better results. As these tools are continuing to make coding easier, this is the best time yet to learn to code, to learn the language of software, and learn to make computers do exactly what you want them to do. [Original text: https://t.co/HdI3Jb9HmF ]

48H Pre-sale: $Mirai is live now at 1:30am UTC! The first on-chain Virtual Human, brought to life through AI agents, MCPs, and state-of-the-art Unreal Engine technology Presale info: - Time: 1:30am May 9– 1:30am May 11 (UTC) - Address to send SOL: FmiMDXvLNUsMoVF7SC1VhcyHEXoPLsNcvAbxkEokr49P (Please do not send from CEX) - Campaign Link: https://t.co/NCDkpXd9BK There is no fixed price per token. The price will be determined by the amount of money raised during the sale divided by the available token supply. You will receive a % of $Mirai tokens based on the amount of SOL you contributed. After presale ends - Official CA will be announced - Liquidity pools will be created on @solana and @AbstractChain

🚀 Noctra Protocol Testnet Launch – $5,000 Reward Pool! 🚀 The wait is over! Noctra Protocol is officially launching its Testnet, bringing AI-powered DeFi automation to the Aptos ecosystem. This is your chance to be among the early adopters and earn rewards! 🎯 Event Details: 🗓 Duration: March 31 – April 14 🎁 Total Rewards: $5,000 📌 Testnet Link: https://t.co/FkaIHz55lK 🏆 Top 50 users will be rewarded based on: - Highest trading volume - Most transactions & highest volume for created tokens 💡 Why join? ✅ Get early access to Noctra’s AI-driven DeFi tools ✅ Compete, trade, and earn exclusive rewards ✅ Help shape the future of AI-powered finance 🔥 Be part of the future of DeFAI! Join now and secure your spot. 🔗 More details coming soon – stay tuned!