Neolabs ship four releases in 24 hours: $1B Series A, open coding model, agent-accelerated pretraining
ChengleiSi · x · 2026-10-22
A roundup of what small AI labs ('neolabs') shipped in 24 hours: humansand's ampersand (RL'd against a user model), flappyairplanes ($1B Series A plus megakernels demos), RecursiveSI's Flint (an open coding model with impressive local inference), and mirendil's agent-accelerated pretraining showing strong results. A dense burst of progress read as a signal that small labs are moving fast.
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