Zhemal Khamidun
Head of AI at Alpina Digital, CPO of AlpinaGPT (~30-person engineering & AI team). Founder of Vibe Academy & Hamidun Consulting, author of the AI channel «Готовим ИИшницу» (@jemal_hamidun).

A Tiny 856K-Parameter Policy Speeds Up the Diffusion LLM LLaDA-8B
A controlled study shows how to train unmasking policies for diffusion LLMs: an 856K-parameter policy gave the best accuracy–NFE balance on GSM8K for…

IQuest-Q1: An Open 320-Billion-Parameter MoE Model for Agentic Coding in the CLI
IQuest-Q1 is an open MoE model with 320 billion parameters, 15 billion of them active. It is trained for agentic coding in the command line and built by merging…

Naive RAG Beat Agentic Memory Systems in Six of Seven Tests
Raw-RAG, which uses dense retrieval and reranking over raw conversation history, took first place in six of seven setups and beat the best agentic memory by…

Anthropic opens a call for life sciences researchers: 8–12 weeks with Claude, free of charge

Anthropic Hands Agent Skills Standard to AAIF: 1 Million Skills, 280 Million Installs

Cohere launches attested confidential inference on H100 GPUs in Azure

Cohere Labs Tested AI With Riddles: 100+ Authors From 50 Countries Found Cultural Gaps

Cognition releases agent plugin to fix PHP and Node.js holes, including a CVSS 9.2 flaw
After the critical PHP2Shell flaws and a Node.js release fixing 10 CVEs, Cognition open-sourced a plugin that has Devin and other coding agents find and patch…

DirCast directs and commentates esports on its own, beating GPT-5
A single streaming video-language model picks the camera and talks for the caster in real time. DirCast's commentary beats GPT-4o in 29.2% of comparisons.

Echo Teaches VLA Robots to Recognize Success and Failure Inside Their Own Actions

HiSTEVE 1.0 Plays Minecraft With a Mouse and Keyboard: 85.0% on MineStudio Bench

Dual Exam: GPT 6 Astra Scores 31.3 Among Multimodal Agents

DISC Learns to Combine Time-Series Similarity Metrics and Predict Transfer Success

UCLA Team Pushes the Speed–Quality Frontier in Speculative Diffusion With Two Knobs
UCLA researchers tune two parameters at once: diffusion effort and how leniently the verifier accepts tokens. Together they extend the Pareto frontier beyond…

PaperFormalizer Turns LaTeX Papers into Verified Lean Code, with the Author in the Loop
Stanford researchers released PaperFormalizer, an agentic pipeline for Claude Code or Codex that finds gaps in proofs and formalizes a paper in Lean.









