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Stephen A. Weis announced September 19 that he factored the 896-bit RSA challenge using Claude to port CADO-NFS to GPUs and orchestrate a run across up to 2,048 GPUs at Anthropic as a background job, taking 10 days and about 30 GPU-years. It beats the 829-bit record standing since 2020. Weis is explicit that the number field sieve itself wasn't meaningfully accelerated and RSA-2048 is unaffected. The read he offers: RSA-1024 is now within reach of anyone with a datacenter GPU fleet and spare cycles.
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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a sparse mixture-of-experts activating 16 of 896 experts per token. That's about 1.8% of the pool live at any moment, with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Two new architectural pieces show up: Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residu...
Announced at Code with Claude, this is the largest single capacity expansion by any AI lab. Directly addresses the rate limiting and availability issues Claude users have been hitting.
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The repo holds drop-in kits for AlphaFold 3 (JAX and Torch), Boltz-2, OpenFold3, ColabFold, ESM C and RFdiffusion3, produced by Claude working inside Claude Science optimizing more than 30 models in under four weeks for about 4x average speedup, plus a low-memory mode predicti...
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