On this day: Jun 17

8 records from this date, 2021 to 2026, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.

2026

This year · 1 record
What is an AI Agent Harness?Databricks

Takes an enterprise view, counting observability and governance as part of the harness

2025

1 year ago · 2 records
Inception Labs announces MercuryInception Labs et al.

Claims up to 10× the speed of speed-optimized frontier models. The first time a diffusion LM entered a commercial track

YC AI Startup School keynote Software Is Changing (Again) lays out Software 3.0Andrej Karpathy

Extends the 2017 Software 2.0 frame to natural-language programming, and proposes a human review loop, rather than full automation, as a design principle

2024

2 years ago · 4 records
MIPRO publishedKrista Opsahl-Ong et al. (Stanford, UC Berkeley and others)

The theoretical basis of DSPy's optimizers

τ-bench publishedShunyu Yao et al. (Sierra)

Measures policy compliance over multiple turns rather than one-off tool calls

Nemotron-4 340BNVIDIA

The data-generation pipeline itself became the product

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-Coder-V2DeepSeek

An open-weight code model that DeepSeek claimed matched GPT-4 Turbo on code-specific tasks

2021

5 years ago · 1 record
LoRAMicrosoft (Edward J. Hu et al.)

Freezes the weights and trains only low-rank matrices, cutting trainable parameters to 1/10,000 for GPT-3 175B, with no increase in inference latency