Who we follow in AI
Keeping up with agent engineering means reading maybe thirty places, most of which publish nothing for a month and then something that changes your architecture. This is the full list we read for you, checked four times a day, with the duplicates removed when the same release lands in several of them.
36 sources, 2,779 stories collected so far. Everything on the news hub comes from here.
Labs and model providers
They announce the releases first. Everything downstream is a retelling, usually a day later and usually shorter.
- Anthropic34 stories, latest Aug 7, 2026
Model launches, safety work and company news, straight from the lab.
Their stories on the hub → - Anthropic Engineering23 stories, latest Jun 6, 2026
How Anthropic builds with Claude: agent design, tool use, evaluation.
Their stories on the hub → - OpenAI713 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
Releases, system cards and product notes from OpenAI.
Their stories on the hub → - Mistral AI51 stories, latest Aug 4, 2026
Open-weight and commercial model releases out of Paris.
Their stories on the hub → - Google AI11 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
Google's own account of what it shipped across its AI products.
Their stories on the hub → - Google DeepMind67 stories, latest Jul 30, 2026
Research announcements and model releases from DeepMind.
Their stories on the hub → - Liquid AI42 stories, latest Aug 5, 2026
The LFM family: small models built to run on the device in front of you.
Their stories on the hub → - Pleias13 stories, latest Jun 24, 2026
Open models and datasets trained on permissively licensed text.
Their stories on the hub → - Fastino16 stories, latest Aug 5, 2026
Task-specific small models, and what they cost to run.
Their stories on the hub → - Fastino Research6 stories, latest May 1, 2026
Fastino's papers on small-model training and extraction.
Their stories on the hub → - LMSYS43 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
Chatbot Arena, SGLang, and the evaluation work around both.
Their stories on the hub → - Distil Labs12 stories, latest Aug 5, 2026
Distilling large models into small ones you can own outright.
Their stories on the hub → - Arcee AI31 stories, latest Jul 22, 2026
Open-weight small models and the merging techniques behind them.
Their stories on the hub → - Ai220 stories, latest Aug 7, 2026
Olmo, Tulu, and the fully open research stack underneath them.
Their stories on the hub → - EleutherAI29 stories, latest Apr 15, 2026
Open research on interpretability, training and evaluation.
Their stories on the hub → - Answer.AI11 stories, latest Mar 12, 2026
Practical research from the lab Jeremy Howard co-founded.
Their stories on the hub → - Apple Machine Learning Research10 stories, latest Aug 7, 2026
Apple's published research, much of it about running models on device.
Their stories on the hub → - METR51 stories, latest Jul 24, 2026
Independent evaluation of frontier model capability and autonomy.
Their stories on the hub → - Berkeley AI Research9 stories, latest Jul 29, 2026
Berkeley's AI research blog, written by the authors themselves.
Their stories on the hub → - Microsoft Research8 stories, latest Aug 3, 2026
Research announcements from across Microsoft's labs.
Their stories on the hub →
Serving, tooling and platforms
How the models actually get run: inference engines, agent frameworks, and the performance work nobody else writes up.
- Google Developers50 stories, latest Aug 6, 2026
Developer-facing posts on Gemini APIs, tooling and agent frameworks.
Their stories on the hub → - vLLM49 stories, latest Aug 7, 2026
The open-source serving engine, and the release notes that come with it.
Their stories on the hub → - Baseten37 stories, latest Aug 4, 2026
Inference performance engineering, written up in public.
Their stories on the hub → - Fireworks AI28 stories, latest Aug 5, 2026
Serving, fine-tuning and function calling on hosted open models.
Their stories on the hub → - Ollama54 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
Running models on your own machine, and which ones just landed.
Their stories on the hub → - Modular73 stories, latest Jun 18, 2026
MAX, Mojo, and the argument for rebuilding the inference stack.
Their stories on the hub → - LangChain91 stories, latest Aug 7, 2026
Agent framework releases and the evaluation practice around LangSmith.
Their stories on the hub → - Mixedbread20 stories, latest Jul 27, 2026
Embedding and reranking models, plus how they measure retrieval.
Their stories on the hub → - NVIDIA Developer88 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
Kernel-level and deployment notes from the people who make the hardware.
Their stories on the hub → - Together AI93 stories, latest Aug 6, 2026
Open-model serving and fine-tuning, with the inference research behind it.
Their stories on the hub → - Hugging Face535 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
The community blog: releases, recipes and model cards worth reading.
Their stories on the hub →
People writing in the open
Individuals with no press office, explaining what changed and why it matters. Often the only readable account of a technique.
- Interconnects14 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
Nathan Lambert on post-training, RLHF and the open model ecosystem.
Their stories on the hub → - Sebastian Raschka20 stories, latest Jul 18, 2026
Sebastian Raschka on LLM architecture and training, from first principles.
Their stories on the hub → - Lil'Log37 stories, latest Jul 4, 2026
Lilian Weng's long-form explainers on agents, safety and reinforcement learning.
Their stories on the hub →
Where everything else surfaces
The wide nets. Noisy by nature, so both are filtered hard before anything reaches the hub.
- arXiv cs.AI373 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
New cs.AI and cs.CL preprints, filtered down to agent work.
Their stories on the hub → - Hacker News17 stories, latest Aug 10, 2026
What engineers are arguing about, filtered to agents and LLMs.
Their stories on the hub →
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