ThursdAI weekly: Qwen 27B and GLM 5.3 beat GPTs; OpenAI pauses RL for security
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-08-21
ThursdAI — the weekly high-signal AI news show from Weights & Biases hosted by Alex Volkov (8,000+ subscribers) — covers this week's highlights:
- Qwen 27B and GLM 5.3 beat the GPT models in benchmarks;
- OpenAI announces pausing RL training to focus on security;
- HeyGen introduces HyperFrames, framing video editing as a coding problem, open-sourced so agents can adopt it (full breakdown in the linked letter).
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