Daily AI CatchupAI Catchup — Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Tuesday, October 20, 2026Model
New wave of fast models: Mercury 3, MiniMax, Exa 3
Three new releases chase speed and cost over raw scale: a diffusion LLM, a cheaper agent model, and a faster search engine.
OtherMeta details gigawatt-scale Prometheus AI supercluster
Meta published the engineering behind its million-GPU-scale data center plans, including closed-loop liquid cooling.
FundingAnthropic and Nscale reportedly discuss second $45B deal
Just a month after a $45B compute deal, the same two companies may be negotiating another one of the same size.
ResearchAI lab trades free home repairs for robot training data
HUMXN is covering plumbing and HVAC bills in three US cities in exchange for camera footage to train robots.
ToolsOpenAI improves AI coding for COBOL and Fortran
OpenAI says it made big gains on coding in legacy languages that power old banking and government systems.