Alibaba ATH's video generation model HappyHorse-1.0: API test status on Model Studio, open weights availability, Mac local inference reality, and which GPU to pick on RunPod.
Rethinking the evolution of CLI, GUI, chat UI, and AI agents as interface design for the development workflow. Covers why CLI rather than CUI emerged as GUI's counterpart, and the context-window cost difference between MCP and CLI.
Records of rewriting captions for the 53 training images for the WAI-Anima character LoRA retrain after side ponytail direction control failed last time. Wrote position information into natural language so Qwen3 TE could pick it up, and dropped the IL-era strategy of absorbing the entire hairstyle into the single 'kanachan' trigger by promoting hairstyle to independent Danbooru tags. Includes notes on year tag necessity, the bikini/nude swapped-caption discovery, and blazer color recognition drift.
Trained a WAI-Anima character LoRA on RunPod (AnimaLoraToolkit + sd-scripts) for $1.22, but at inference the side-ponytail direction won't shift with Danbooru tags or natural language — a directional bias from Anima base. Full verification record.
I dropped the nervous sample identified as the culprit last time, plus 5 others, and retrained the LoRA under otherwise identical conditions. The sweat drops on ep08 angry are gone, and as a bonus, ep06 produced the closed-mouth restrained anger that the previous training never managed to reproduce.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro on the API. A practical rundown of the 1M+ context, the new reasoning.effort default, image input behavior, prompt caching, and pricing.
Training an Illustrious-XL LoRA on RunPod for around $1 by doing env setup on a $0.08/hr CPU Pod and renting the 4090 only for actual training. Network Volumes attach to both pods at the same time, so there's no idle GPU billing. Four sd-scripts gotchas hit on the way included.
WAI-Illustrious SDXL v17 tested on M1 Max 64GB ComfyUI against v16 with the same seed. Hires fix now auto-corrects hands and feet, the four rating tags (general/sensitive/nsfw/explicit) still drive NSFW output, and v16-trained LoRAs mostly carry over — with one case where they don't.
TRACER, a recent arXiv paper, takes the input/output logs of an LLM classification endpoint and reuses them as training data, then swaps in a lightweight surrogate only on regions that pass a parity gate to cut inference cost. The surrogate absorbs 83–100% of traffic on a 77-class intent dataset and 100% on a 150-class one, while correctly refusing to deploy on an NLI task — that refusal behavior is the interesting part.
Japan's Digital Agency released parts of Gennai, the generative AI platform it runs for central-government staff, on GitHub under MIT / CC BY 4.0. The web app and cloud-specific AI templates for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are bundled together so local governments and private companies can redeploy the same stack.
Xiaomi launched two MiMo-V2.5 models at once. MiMo-V2.5-Pro hits SWE-bench Pro 57.2, Claw-Eval 63.8, and τ3-Bench 72.9 — frontier-tier — while MiMo-V2.5 brings native omnimodality plus a 1M context. Both are API-only for now; open weights are promised but unscheduled.
