From Product Hunt
Local AI models and a slick e-ink accessory stood out today.
Alpie Core — 4-bit reasoning model with frontier performance
32B reasoning model at 4-bit precision. Claims to beat GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on reasoning benchmarks. Apache 2.0, OpenAI-compatible API, 65K context. Free tier with 5M tokens. Runs on 16-24GB VRAM.
Xteink X4 — Ultra light magnetic E-reader for phone
74g e-ink reader that magnetically attaches to your phone. 4.9mm thin, paper-like display, physical nav keys. $69, no subscription. Week-long battery.
Year in Code — Spotify Wrapped for Claude Code
Visualize your Claude Code usage: tokens, streaks, top models. Run npx ccusage and upload JSON. 100% privacy-first, open source.
rep+ — AI security copilot for HTTP requests
Burp Suite Repeater inside Chrome DevTools. No proxy setup. Capture/replay HTTP with AI attack suggestions via Claude. Secret scanner, Intruder-style attack modes.
From Reddit
Big week for AI. Anthropic's Claude Code team is shipping features written entirely by Opus 4.5, and new open-source models keep pushing boundaries.
Boris Cherny (Anthropic engineer) shares that the Claude Code team is now shipping features written 100% by Opus 4.5. Not recursive self-improvement, but a significant milestone in AI's ability to write production code without human intervention.
Tencent WeDLM 8B — Diffusion Language Model
Diffusion-based LLM that runs 3-6x faster than vLLM-optimized Qwen3-8B on math reasoning. Apache 2.0 license. A new paradigm for faster inference that's worth watching.
MiniMax M2.1 is Open Source
10B active / 230B total MoE architecture. Claims SOTA on SWE/VIBE benchmarks, beating Gemini 3 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5. Some community skepticism about the benchmarks, but worth testing.
NVIDIA and Groq Enter $20B Licensing Deal
Non-exclusive licensing agreement (not acquisition as initially reported). NVIDIA gets access to Groq's LPU inference technology. Signals major investment in fast inference infrastructure.
Quick hits from research.
Software Agents Self Improve Without Human Labeled Data
SWE-RL research paper on self-improving agents. Progress toward autonomous AI systems.
From Reddit
Quiet week for GenAI. One infrastructure note worth tracking.
ComfyUI Repo Moving to Comfy-Org on Jan 6
Repository migrating from comfyanonymous to Comfy-Org organization. Redirects will be automatic. Update your bookmarks.
From Reddit
A new MCP-compatible Mac app that's directly relevant to Claude Code users.
Macuse — AI Controls Native Mac Apps
Let Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI read and control Mail, Calendar, Notes, and other native Mac apps. Works with Raycast. V1.0 just shipped. Perfect for power users who want AI to interact with system apps.