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Apple MLApple ML

Scaling Categorical Flow Maps

Scaling Categorical Flow Maps demonstrates training a 1.7B base flow on 2.1T tokens to self-distill into CFMs for few-step, high-quality text generation, while introducing a semi-discrete likelihood bound and LM benchmarking.

8/7/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Beyond Next-Token Prediction: A Performance Characterization of Diffusion versus Autoregressive Language Models

Performance characterization comparing Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) and Autoregressive Language Models (ARMs), revealing that DLMs gain arithmetic intensity through parallelism but struggle with long-context scaling, with block-wise decoding and reduced sampling steps as key routes to competitive latency and throughput versus ARMs.

8/7/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Scaling Categorical Flow Maps

Scaling Categorical Flow Maps demonstrates training a 1.7B-parameter base flow on 2.1T tokens to enable diverse, high-quality text generation in as few as four inference steps using CFMs, while introducing a semi-discrete likelihood bound and practical guidance on loss weighting and time scheduling for large-scale diffusion-flow models.

8/7/2026
Ink and SwitchInk and Switch

The Object Model in Livelymerge

An in-depth look at LM's object model for representing JavaScript objects, arrays, and closures inside an Automerge-backed persistent heap, using a transpiler and proxies to serialize, deserialize, and share state for multi-user collaboration while preserving invariants and performance.

8/7/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work

Data-driven analysis of how ChatGPT moves from asking to doing across the world, revealing work-focused adoption, rising multimedia use, and demographic shifts via OpenAI Signals.

8/6/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI

Collaboration between OpenAI and the American Psychological Association to align AI development and use with psychology-grounded, evidence-informed safeguards for youth well-being, emphasizing developmentally appropriate design and practical resources for families, clinicians, and schools.

8/6/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users

A technical overview of GPT-5.6 Sol improvements in ChatGPT, the expansion of GPT-5.6 Luna to free users with unlimited chats, and the new Think button and reasoning slider for higher-quality, safer outputs.

8/6/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work

From asking to doing: a data-driven look at how ChatGPT is moving from simple queries to task-oriented work across the globe, fueled by country-by-country adoption and rising multimedia use.

8/6/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI

OpenAI collaborates with the American Psychological Association to bring psychological science into responsible AI for youth, outlining evidence-based safeguards, developmentally appropriate design, and tools for families, clinicians, and schools.

8/6/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work

A data-driven look at how ChatGPT is moving from answering to doing tasks worldwide, with country-by-country adoption, rising multimedia use, and demographic shifts shaping its deployment.

8/6/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users

Details the rollout of GPT-5.6 Sol improvements in ChatGPT for Plus/Pro users and the expansion of GPT-5.6 Luna to Free users, introducing a Think button and a response-depth slider to balance speed, accuracy, and deeper reasoning.

8/6/2026
OpenAIOpenAI

Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI

OpenAI partners with the American Psychological Association to align youth AI use with evidence-based psychology, building safeguards, practical tools for families and clinicians, and developmentally appropriate design.

8/6/2026