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May 11, 2026 · Based on tweets from the last 24 hours · 164 tweets analyzed · model: ollama-cloud/minimax-m2.7:cloud

Executive Summary

The AI and developer tools landscape continues to evolve rapidly with significant developments in open-source local AI capabilities and agent frameworks. Qwen 3.6 27B Dense has emerged as the dominant model for consumer-tier single-GPU deployments, with multiple developers confirming it outperforms alternatives on RTX 3090 hardware. OpenAI's new Deployment Company launched with $4B in backing to support enterprise AI implementations, while Hermes Agent's community has grown to 7,000 members and integrated deeper with HuggingFace. Developer productivity tools, particularly Claude Code and Codex, are seeing heavy adoption with new features like prompt trimming, repository context browsers, and multi-provider support. The trend toward self-hosted, open-source AI solutions continues accelerating, with GGUF model uploads nearly doubling in two months.

Key Events

Analysis

Model Performance Trends: The Qwen 3.6 release marks a significant leap in open-weight model efficiency, with the 27B dense variant achieving what previously required much smaller models on consumer hardware. This validates the trend toward larger, well-optimized open models replacing proprietary solutions for local deployment.

Agent Framework Consolidation: Hermes Agent and OpenClaw dominate OpenRouter's token volume (combined 410B tokens/day), indicating market consolidation around a few mature agent frameworks. The 7,000-member community growth demonstrates the importance of organic developer adoption over marketing spend.

Developer Tool Maturation: Claude Code and Codex continue expanding capabilities with multi-provider support (Manus, MiMo, Qwen, Doubao, Venice), automated testing features, and repository context tools. The progression toward "progressive rendering" workflows represents a shift from linear development to iterative AI-assisted refinement.

Security Concern: A malicious HuggingFace repository impersonating OpenAI's Privacy Filter reached trending status, highlighting ongoing supply chain risks in the AI ecosystem.

What to Watch: The May 12th Hermes Agent Jam session in Nous Research Discord will showcase emerging use cases. Continued developments in llama.cpp optimizations and the upcoming Python 3.15 beta features will shape fall/winter development practices.

Tweet Feed

AI Model Releases & Benchmarks

@sudoingX · 2026-05-11T14:38

update: qwen 3.6 27b dense q4 just one shotted octopus invaders game on a single 3090. hermes agent drove the whole thing, ~41 tok/s gen 21gb vram at full 262k context, thinking mode on.

one prompt in and the canonical multi-file space shooter benchmark out, the same exact prompt i ran on qwen 3.5 27b dense back in march on the same card.

3.5 needed one external scope bug fix before the game would even load on first play. 3.6 needed nothing. 11 of 11 files written, 2411 lines of code, zero steering interventions, zero external fixes, playable on first load. 16 minutes 41 seconds wall clock from prompt to playable.

consumer tier king on a single 3090 is locked tonight, and the silicon underneath my desk did not change between march and now. the open source ecosystem just moved the floor. → tweet

@sudoingX · 2026-05-11T14:52

i declare qwen 3.6 27b dense q4 the king of a single rtx 3090 card. not even close.

this model is absolute beast on local ai, ruthless on agentic loops, owns its own thinking. anyone can use it on single 3090, the weights are open, the stack is reproducible, the prompt is canonical, every claim below is verifiable on your own hardware.

if you think a different model is king on a single 3090 right now, name it. drop your card, drop your model, drop your numbers. the throne is not crowded. → tweet

@sudoingX · 2026-05-11T09:45

this is what my setup looks like today. about to test qwen 3.6 27b dense q4 on a single rtx 3090 at ~41 tok/s gen, hermes agent driving.

predecessor model qwen 3.5 dense q4 made it work in one iteration when i ran the same agentic build on the same card. i've been daily driving qwen 3.6 27b dense for weeks now, the model i keep coming back to.

if 3.6 oneshots too, this becomes the best model that runs on a single rtx 3090. consumer tier king. firing the test now will report back soon. → tweet

@Teknium · 2026-05-11T16:36

New free model on Nous Portal, a community favorite, Qwen 3.6 Plus!

Give it a try with Nous Portal free and paid subscriptions at https://t.co/a3EDgltAGQ → tweet

@Ex0byt · 2026-05-10T19:25

oMLX deserves so much more attention than it gets.

(My own NVFP4 implementation) 18k context, on a MacPro M4: prefill 11,565 tok/s · gen 51 tok/s · ttft 0.57s NVDA format, running natively on Apple Silicon. Beautiful framework to work with and build on. → tweet

@louszbd · 2026-05-11T12:58

Tried it in https://t.co/CraVIpuAvi, I think glm-5.1 outdone it.

interactive control panel nighttime vibe wind controls plus fireflies, a moon, a grassy fried (unprompted) → tweet

@Ex0byt · 2026-05-10T19:06

Bullish on Demis and the DeepMind team.

Beautiful result from GoogleDeepMind: (this one has been quite useful to me) Its an ablation on how the chat template can be an extraction plane on open-weight models. Prompting with just the template and the model regurgitates its own SFT/RL training. "distillation" quietly carries a teacher's alignment data with it. → tweet

Agent Frameworks & Developer Tools

@gdb · 2026-05-11T17:07

Introducing the OpenAI Deployment Company, which will help businesses maximally succeed with their deployments of AI.

Starting with 150 Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Specialists, and $4 billion of initial investment from 19 partners. → tweet

@sudoingX · 2026-05-11T06:38

the hermes agent X community just hit 7,000 members.

for context, this is the community for the framework that took #1 globally on openrouter yesterday, throwing openclaw in the dust. the same general agent for everything, running on all of my hardware.

setup help, configs, bug reports, feature requests, community support. all native on X, organized peer to peer by people actually using the thing daily, not paid moderators or marketing teams. → tweet

@Teknium · 2026-05-11T16:09

Check out the awesome new Hermes x HuggingFace layers HuggingFace added! → tweet

@Teknium · 2026-05-10T19:58

Time for another Jam Session in the Nous Research discord on Hermes Agent!

This one focused on all the things you all are building. Come, bring the project(s) you are working on or join in to see all the other things people are using Hermes Agent for!

Tuesday May 12th, 4PM EST! See you then! → tweet

@sudoingX · 2026-05-11T07:14

set your calendars for may 12th, 4pm est. #1 globally on openrouter, the same team that served lobster with himalayan salt yesterday, hosting another hermes agent jam in nous research discord.

interactive session this time, so come with your projects, your problems, your unhinged use cases.

if you follow me for hermes agent, you should be in that room. talent and use case density inside discord is unmatched, real builders shipping real workflows, fastest problem-solving room in the agentic space right now.

show up. → tweet

@Ex0byt · 2026-05-10T19:52

Tokenomics: Hermes Agent and OpenClaw are the top token guzzlers on OpenRouter right now. Combined daily volume on OpenRouter just crossed 410B tokens (May 10, 2026 - Hermes 224B, OpenClaw 186B). → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-10T23:25

🎚️ CodexBar 0.25 is live

🧩 New providers: Manus, MiMo, Qwen, Doubao, Venice + more 🔔 Quota warning notifications 👥 Stacked Codex account switchers 📊 Faster cost history via https://t.co/F8mcKtjWW0

Big one. Menu bar still tiny. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T12:13

Trimmy now has support for Claude Code prompt trimming. I mean, even better if you type that prompt into Codex, but ya know, let's be inclusive.

Oh and since I realize I'm taking over the Menu Bar, you can now hide that icon completely. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T06:02

Built a browser into RepoBar when I select issues/PRs/shas/workflows to have context when I work.

Still a bit vibey but gets the job done. You gotta build yourself the tools to work more efficient. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T11:21

I'm adding new features to https://t.co/o15a6lNZoE and Codex noticed that the API it needs is not enabled, so it started Computer Use and is happily clicking around in Google Cloud Admin to turn on what's needed. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T04:19

🦀📦Crabbox 0.11.0 is live

☁️ Google Cloud provider 🧰 Repo-local job workflows 🖥️ AWS Windows WSL2 hydration 🧯 Blacksmith sync-stall guard

This tool is essential in our org and helped level up QA. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T03:50

RT @davemorin: supacrawl 0.1 is out.

🗄️ Supabase/Postgres → Local SQLite. 🔍 Full text search everything. Offline. 🤖 Your agent can read your data. → tweet

@badlogicgames · 2026-05-11T13:34

RT @mitsuhiko: With the latest fixes in ds4 I can now get it to build and iterate on a little TUI Tetris game just fine. Pretty damn cool (… → tweet

@badlogicgames · 2026-05-11T13:38

RT @bentlegen: 🎙️ State of Agentic Coding with @mitsuhiko and Ben returns

In this episode: - how Armin teamed up w/ @badlogicgames on Pi -... → tweet

Local AI & Open Source

@victormustar · 2026-05-11T15:41

This feature is quite cool to run Hermes Agent locally because: - You can filter on the +60k models compatible with Hermes directly from /models - You can instantly know if it will run on your local hardware from the model page → tweet

@victormustar · 2026-05-11T10:11

Exciting: local ML is (finally) going mainstream 🔥

  • new GGUF uploads on HF nearly doubled in 2 months
  • smaller models (like gemma 4 and qwen 27b) starting to be really good and run on a lot of hardwaers
  • people forking and vibing over llama.cpp (MTP / DS4 / turboquant...) and pulling off really cool stuff → tweet

@TheAhmadOsman · 2026-05-11T06:29

Opensource AI is going to win btw → tweet

@sudoingX · 2026-05-11T15:35

i keep saying this and i will say it again: if you are running local ai on a single gpu, choose llama.cpp. every time.

the question keeps coming in: ollama or lm studio? both are fine if you want one click and walk away. neither gives you what you actually need when you start building.

llama.cpp is the engine the wrappers wrap. when you hit an edge case in agentic workflows or context scaling or quant choices, you need the layer that owns every knob.

the same llama.cpp that one shotted octopus invaders on a single 3090 tonight is the one i recommend for everything. not even close anon. → tweet

@sudoingX · 2026-05-11T15:26

everyone wants the prompting trick. there isn't one. you write a one liner, you watch a hundred models fail in a hundred specific places, you pin every failure as an explicit instruction, you ship the prompt that has already failed every way it can fail. no clever tricks. no chain of thought voodoo. just receipts compounded into one file. → tweet

@gospaceport · 2026-05-11T03:48

Dear 300,000 ppl running ollama endpoints publicly. ARE YOU INSANE?

https://t.co/beMOdqPeRz → tweet

@TheAhmadOsman · 2026-05-11T18:24

If you're interested in Local AI, I highly recommend reading those 2 articles BEFORE making any hardware purchases

Find them under the articles tab on my profile → tweet

AI Coding & Productivity

@karpathy · 2026-05-11T16:20

This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as slideshows, etc.

More generally, imo audio is the human-preferred input to AIs but vision (images/animations/video) is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to vision, it is the 10-lane superhighway of information into brain. As AI improves, I think we'll see a progression that takes advantage:

1) raw text (hard/effortful to read) 2) markdown (bold, italic, headings, tables, a bit easier on the eyes) <-- current default 3) HTML (still procedural with underlying code, but a lot more flexibility on the graphics, layout, even interactivity) <-- early but forming new good default ...4,5,6,... n) interactive neural videos/simulations

Imo the extrapolation (though the technology doesn't exist just yet) ends in some kind of interactive videos generated directly by a diffusion neural net. → tweet

@levelsio · 2026-05-11T09:29

I laugh when I see people in holding their laptops half open so their Claude Code doesn't shut off

All my projects run on a @Hetzner_Online VPS with Claude Code installed next to the sites/apps that I work on and I just SSH in with @TermiusHQ and it keeps going forever even if I disconnect (I use Mosh or Tmux or I just /resume)

My MacBook Pro battery life is also much better as everything happens on the server not my laptop

I work so incredibly fast now, it's like having a secret benefit over everyone else who are still AI coding on a laptop, then deploying to their server, while their battery life dies and they can never close their laptop

And whenever I want I can just switch to Termius on my iPhone and continue working!

My workflow is literally: I have a bug or feature, I open Termius, I type it in the project tab, it fixes it, every fix it auto commits to GitHub but it doesn't actually deploy from there anymore because it's editing the site on the server live → tweet

@thdxr · 2026-05-10T19:55

finally found the right metaphor for this shift in how i use opencode.

i used to treat it like 3D printing, where you build the thing layer by layer and commit to each piece as you go

now it feels more like progressive rendering, you start with a blurry version of the whole thing, then keep making full passes over it, and each pass sharpens the entire shape

doing this with gpt 5.5 and voice prompting is the first time things feel like they're clicking → tweet

@nummanali · 2026-05-10T20:24

All I want to do is prompt I'm buying the Even G2s → tweet

@nummanali · 2026-05-10T10:48

Claude write clean and readable code Codex writes correct but obtuse code

Start with one and have the other refactor → tweet

@kunchenguid · 2026-05-10T22:11

sharing some real data from me using agents on real projects. all my code changes are done with either opus 4.7 or gpt 5.5

a whopping 68% of the changes made by agents had a mistake in it, and got saved by no-mistakes

biggest source of gaps was a change made without updating related documentation, followed by problems caught via code review

i now can't imagine how i could have kept my codebases in order if i didn't have no-mistakes - they would absolutely have turned into a sloppy mess even with the best models we have today → tweet

@jezell · 2026-05-11T06:41

Tried every audio package there is, all of either don't support or suck on flutter web. By suck I mean all of them can't do basic audio streaming without clicks and artifacts every few milliseconds, especially in the debugger.

So, after wasting hours trying everything on https://t.co/EEmvw5udVB and getting crap results with all of them, I just asked codex to write me one that uses JS interop and web audio. Worked great on the first try. Codex is the best package manager. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T13:48

GPT got sassy. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T10:41

Can highly recommend running a claw cron job that sweeps through mentions. GPT is really good at detecting shills and AI reply guy slop. → tweet

Software Development & Tools

@jezell · 2026-05-11T16:13

FlutterFlow CLI incoming?

https://t.co/th1HOVduDo → tweet

@jezell · 2026-05-11T15:52

Lance for storing agent threads and context is pretty damn cool. People are sleeping on this combo. → tweet

@jezell · 2026-05-11T21:32

Working on a unified multimodal agent stack. Same stack for both realtime / non realtime apis, as well as different providers like openai / anthropic, etc. I've always thought it was weird that all the agent frameworks seem to be one or the other rather than being able to properly handle both in a unified manner. → tweet

@jezell · 2026-05-11T07:12

Buttery smooth audio streaming in Flutter web. Thanks codex. Realtime API Websockets under the covers. WebRTC in / out next (it's really a way better mechanism for reliable input / output than PCM, but PCM is nice for demos / testing). → tweet

@jack · 2026-05-10T21:53

RT @owenbjennings: mongoose is nearly ready for others!

what it is: multi-agent orchestration in the cloud w/ "mongeese" that operate w/ s… → tweet

@jezell · 2026-05-11T07:12

RT @matvelloso: Some history:

Back in Windows 8/Windows Phone days, they made many decisions about app restrictions, app store rules, etc. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T07:49

challenged codex to e2e test improvements to the OpenClaw chat completion endpoint WITH openclaw.

Used /side to ask more question while it works. → tweet

Industry & Startups

@TrungTPhan · 2026-05-11T14:07

Based on current growth rate, this is Anthropic's projected annual revenue run rate by end of 2026: → tweet

@TrungTPhan · 2026-05-11T17:16

Jensen securing a decade of DRAM/HBM while crushing Korean fried chicken and chugging Soju and beer with the Chairman of Samsung in Seoul last year may be the most lucrative Happy Hour work dinner in history → tweet

@thdxr · 2026-05-11T13:43

deepseek flash is so cheap that we had to change our aggregation formula in honeycomb to not round away its tiny charges → tweet

@jack · 2026-05-11T17:22

RT @BlockIR: Today, @Square introduced Square for Drive-Thru.

The fully integrated solution is purpose-built to help quick-service resta… → tweet

@levelsio · 2026-05-11T12:24

Owner of billion dollar AI company @magnific (fka Freepik) agrees with a simple stack too → tweet

@MengTo · 2026-05-11T12:38

I made a Mac video editor that auto-zooms, cleans audio, adds captions and makes UGC videos with Images 2.0, Grok Imagine and Seedance 2.0.

I've been using this for all my latest videos. → tweet

@steipete · 2026-05-11T03:49

I built a whole distributed caching layer over gh. Still run into limits. → tweet

Robotics & AI Future

@LinusEkenstam · 2026-05-11T17:44

The future of robotics is one, if not the most thrilling thing to ever happen to you.

you will start to become more and more obsessed with human / machine interaction.

if robots will walk amongst us in ever greater numbers being able to give instructions/commands is critical.

Today Agentic systems is the first generation of the future robotic harnesses that will power everything from your own household crew to blue collar workers, electricians, plumbers etc.

It might seem far away, but we will see specialist humanoids faster than we think.

electricians humanoids most likely will have clippers and screwdrivers as well as dexterous hands.

The future is full of special purpose robotics as well as extremely general purpose robotics.

It will at the time look like an iPhone moment, but reality is it's going to be built on half a century of technological breakthroughs.

the future is robotics and AI. → tweet

@LinusEkenstam · 2026-05-11T17:04

👀 new video model breakthrough 👀 → tweet

@LinusEkenstam · 2026-05-11T15:16

Strong signal🔮

People will stop renewing their subscriptions. Salesforce, Monday, HubSpot...

A death by a thousand cuts. Eating away at the core of these SaaS companies, making it easy for teams to build their own apps

Pendulum swing hard towards owning your own code again. → tweet

Security & Infrastructure

@RydMike · 2026-05-11T17:19

RT @GrapheneOS: Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of se… → tweet

@jezell · 2026-05-11T08:23

RT @TheHackersNews: 🚨 WARNING: A malicious Hugging Face repository impersonating #OpenAI's Privacy Filter model reached #1 trending with ab… → tweet

@RydMike · 2026-05-11T05:00

RT @ulusoyapps: The GCP project of my @FlutterDev @Firebase app got suspended this weekend for abuse, after a single day of €3,167 in unaut… → tweet

@ASalvadorini · 2026-05-11T03:49

RT @ulusoyapps: The GCP project of my @FlutterDev @Firebase app got suspended this weekend for abuse, after a single day of €3,167 in unaut… → tweet

Hardware

@tinygrad · 2026-05-10T21:56

When will there be as good of a deal as $2200 5090s again? 1 PFLOP FP8 + 512-bit GDDR7 @ 2 TB/s + 32 GB.

Please let there be a big RDNA5 die. Think of the gamers! → tweet

@badlogicgames · 2026-05-11T16:29

omg i'm not gonna unified ram poor way earlier than expected. → tweet

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