We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…

BREAKING: Bland Speech v3 by @usebland debuts as the most human-sounding TTS model on our newest evaluation: Audio Realism Bench. Traditional speech benchmarks increasingly struggle to separate frontier systems that all sound clean, fluent, and intelligible. Audio Realism Bench instead asks a harder question: when two voices read the same transcript, which one sounds more like a real person? Vetted native speakers evaluate recordings blindly across phone agents, conversational assistants, and spoken explainers, judging the subtle qualities that define human-like speech. We also place real human recordings directly into the evaluation pool, testing whether evaluators can distinguish TTS models from actual human speech. Bland Speech v3 takes the top spot in our initial rankings, followed by MAI-Voice-2 by @MicrosoftAI and Grok TTS by @spacexai, all demonstrating important steps toward voice systems capable of sustaining genuinely human-feeling interactions. Congratulations to the @usebland team!

Today, we're introducing @Intelligence_ai. In 6 months, as a team of 10, we scaled from $5M to $60M ARR and 5.5M users across 190+ countries. We raised a $7.9M seed, led by @IndexVentures with participation from @conviction, @A_StarVC, and @combinator to build DesignArena, a universal interface for accessing and evaluating the world's AI capabilities. Most evaluations try to simulate the real-world. We believe the real-world is the ultimate verifier. People come to @DesignArena with a request. Models compete to fulfill the request, and users determine what works best for them. Their live user behavior evaluates the models, improves how work is routed, and helps people access the right intelligence. We've helped the world's leading frontier labs break the news on their SOTA capabilities. What's the limit? Join us and find out.

KISS OF LIFE drops the first music video teaser for 'SWEAT.'

we just hit 100k subs on YouTube! thank you all for the support and for making this possible. Look out for some exciting future videos & drops!

after seeing the @huggingface incident, I built CheatingBench to rank frontier models by how readily they cheat. (spoiler) GPT-5.6 Sol isn’t even at the top.

Discord turns into Vibecoding platform? Discord works a new project called "Vibegrations", that is going to allow users to create custom Channels, Bots and Activities using built-in AI agent Here is a full breakdown of how it works: (1/5)

Design Arena has surpassed 5 million users! Since launch, we've grown from 6 arenas to 30+ and seen our community create millions of designs. What started as a way to compare AI-generated design has become one of the clearest views into how people actually use AI models in the real world. Thank you to everyone building and sharing. We can't wait to see what you design next!

BREAKING: Kimi K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is 1st overall on 3D Design with an Elo of 1450. This is a 6 position and 108 Elo jump from @Kimi_Moonshot's previous model, Kimi K2.6. This performance puts Kimi K2.6 82 Elo ahead of Claude Fable 5 by @AnthropicAI in 2nd and 87 Elo ahead of GLM 5.2 by @Zai_org in 3rd. Congratulations to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this accomplishment!