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Hey folks,

What an absolute packed week this week, which started with yet another crazy model release from OpenAI, but they didn't stop there, they also announced GPT-5 winning the ICPC coding competitions with 12/12 questions answered which is apparently really really hard!

Meanwhile, Zuck took the Meta Connect 25' stage and announced a new set of Meta glasses with a display! On the open source front, we yet again got multiple tiny models doing DeepResearch and Image understanding better than much larger foundational models.

Also, today I interviewed Jeremy Berman, who topped the ArcAGI with a 79.6% score and some crazy Grok 4 prompts, a new image editing experience called Reve, a new world model and a BUNCH more! So let's dive in! As always, all the releases, links and resources at the end of the article.

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Table of Contents

* Codex comes full circle with GPT-5-Codex agentic finetune

* Meta Connect 25 - The new Meta Glasses with Display & a neural control interface

* Jeremy Berman: Beating frontier labs to SOTA score on ARC-AGI

* This Week’s Buzz: Weave inside W&B models—RL just got x-ray vision

* Open Source

* Perceptron Isaac 0.1 - 2B model that points better than GPT

* Tongyi DeepResearch: A3B open-source web agent claims parity with OpenAI Deep Research

* Reve launches a 4-in-1 AI visual platform taking on Nano 🍌 and Seedream

* Ray3: Luma’s “reasoning” video model with native HDR, Draft Mode, and Hi‑Fi mastering

* World models are getting closer - Worldlabs announced Marble

* Google puts Gemini in Chrome

Codex comes full circle with GPT-5-Codex agentic finetune (X, OpenAI Blog)

My personal highlight of the week was definitely the release of GPT-5-Codex. I feel like we've come full circle here. I remember when OpenAI first launched a separate, fine-tuned model for coding called Codex, way back in the GPT-3 days. Now, they've done it again, taking their flagship GPT-5 model and creating a specialized version for agentic coding, and the re