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a16z's new school takes about 50 students in its first year, charges no tuition and awards no degree, replacing traditional higher education with self-directed projects and company practice.

The paper proposes Wiki Foundation Model, which turns an LLM wiki into a graph and retrieves from it with query-conditioned message passing, plus a training protocol that runs 10.5x faster.

A Higgsfield demo shows Opus 5.5 turning a single 2D character sheet into a full 3D pilot model in Blender, ready for previz, turnarounds and final shots.

Higgsfield shows Opus 5.5's 3D modeling: it generates an editable scene so designers can test layouts, swap materials, and compare lighting.

The author used Opus 5.5 with Lean and TLA+ to formally verify the Agent SDK, getting 16 PRs that fix bugs and race conditions from a few short prompts.

Higgsfield shows Claude Opus 5.5 building an octopus asset in Blender, from modeling to animation, described as AAA-quality and game-ready.

Claude Opus 5.5 and Higgsfield turn a charcoal drawing into a 3D Blender scene that keeps the sketch's texture as the camera moves around it.

Higgsfield showed Claude Opus 5.5 working with Blender and Unreal Engine to rebuild a painting as an explorable 3D scene.

Epoch AI reports that at a given level of performance, AI cost has fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023, far faster than DNA sequencing, compute or lithium batteries.

Higgsfield showed Claude Opus 5.5 modeling a Shinkansen in Blender with 5,112 separate objects, including all 430 seats inside.

Perplexity published research on hint-guided self-distillation that teaches its Computer model from its own errors, cutting tool-call failures by 21.2% relative in a live A/B test.

Across nine new languages no single open-weight TTS model dominates: Boson AI, Fish Audio, Mistral and BreezeBlue each lead in some languages, and open-weight coverage stays far thinner than proprietary models.