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20th August - AI News Daily - AI Infrastructure Revolution: Cursor, SkyPilot, and E2B Partner to Scale Trillion-Parameter Models

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Agent Standardization & Infrastructure: A vendor-neutral coding agent protocol launched with adoption from Cursor, Amp, Jules, Factory, RooCode, and Codex, with Factory AI leading a new working group with OpenAI. Cursor achieved 3.5x MoE speedup via MXFP8 kernel rewrite. Multi-node serving for trillion-parameter models like Kimi K2 went live with vLLM and SkyPilot. Hugging Face partnered with E2B, reached GitHub's top 10 orgs, and its open model router exceeded 20M monthly inferences. 

New Tools: Cartesia's Line platform enables instant voice agents that cold-start in seconds. Developers gained Sim for multi-LLM workflows, Catnip for Claude agents, a multi-agent voice toolkit, and DeepAgents for research in TypeScript and Python. Jupyter Agent 2 offers real-time data capabilities with Qwen3-Coder. Higgsfield launched Draw-to-Video, and ex-Meta founders introduced Everlyn.ai for video generation. 

LLM Developments: DeepSeek released an MIT-licensed base model. DeepSeek V3.1 topped non-TTC coding leaderboards over Claude 4 Opus. GPT-5 showed parity with GPT-4o and Gemini 2.5 Flash, excelling in spatial intelligence. GPT-OSS models improved after bug fixes, and ARC-AGI-3 benchmark drew 3,900+ plays. ByteDance teased SeedOSS 36B model. 

Feature Updates: GitHub Copilot added a task delegation panel. Google's Gemini app converts sketches to code. LlamaCloud transforms diagrams into Mermaid text, and LlamaParse extracts knowledge graphs from documents. Runway improved creative control, and MagicPath introduced real-time React UI generation. 

Learning Resources: A survey reviewed diffusion language models. TWIML covered DeepMind's Genie 3, and VS Code Insiders Podcast launched. Practical guides for gpt-oss-120b fine-tuning and running 20B local models appeared. JAX TPU book expanded to GPUs, and Model Context Protocol documentation released. 

Major Company News: OpenAI started GPT-6 development, considered a $500B valuation, released gpt-oss, and launched ChatGPT Go in India. Oracle embedded GPT-5 across its stack. Microsoft and Epic deployed AI medical scribes. Google enhanced various products with AI. xAI released Grok Imagine for Android. 

Industry Trends: Education adoption is rising across multiple regions. MIT found 90% of employees use unauthorized AI tools. Cybersecurity sees an AI arms race. India emerges as an AI VC hotspot. China's AI sector is growing rapidly despite US export controls. Meta is revamping its AI strategy. 

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