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Berkeley computer science professor and director of the Sky Computing Lab; co-founder of Databricks, Anyscale and Opaque Systems, and an adviser to AI startups.
Anthropic took a license and some engineers from Opaque Systems, a startup valued near $300 million, cryptobriefing.com reported. Opaque's own post confirms an agreement but not those terms, and no price was disclosed.
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American commercial models refused to analyse some of the malicious code, so the investigators used downloadable Chinese weights instead. The Mozilla usage statistic attached to that episode counts ranks on a single marketplace.
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Bonsai 2 27B keeps 98 percent of Qwen3.8 27B's aggregate benchmark score, up from 95 percent for PrismML's first release, and TechCrunch reports the 5.9GB file is small enough for a PC and possibly a high-end phone.
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OPAQUE's new specification turns licence terms into machine-readable policy that a key broker checks before every release of a decryption key. Whether that binds anything depends on parts the preview leaves open.
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FreeToken's preprint puts DeepSeek-V4-Flash on a single RTX 5090 desktop. The GPU holds about a sixth of the machine's memory, and nobody outside the team has run the benchmark yet.
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