AI phone agents, server management, and a macOS focus app. Also a strong v4 release from imgproxy for self-hosters.
Massive day. Google I/O dropped Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity 2.0, and Gemini Omni. Karpathy left OpenAI orbit for Anthropic. Intel leaked a 160GB GPU that sidesteps HBM shortages.
OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla Autopilot lead Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to lead a new team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research under team lead Nick Joseph.
A huge coup for Anthropic. Karpathy left Eureka Labs (his AI education startup) saying "the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative." Signals growing confidence in Anthropic's trajectory.
More from the local AI and research scene.
LTX 2.3 ecosystem keeps growing. New RL-LoRA for audio+video sync, RTX upscaler node, and SDR-to-HDR conversion.
Plex just tripled its lifetime pass to $750. Plenty of new macOS apps: a native Google Calendar client, a batch photo editor, screen recorder, and more.
Starting July 1, the Lifetime Plex Pass jumps from $249.99 to $749.99. Current holders keep everything. Monthly and annual plans unchanged.
Plex says recurring subscriptions sustain development better, but instead of killing the lifetime option, they're pricing it to reflect "real, ongoing value." If you've been on the fence, you have until July 1.