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AI News Brief — May 20
GitHub velocity is led by warpdotdev/warp; paper attention is clustering around Code as Agent Harness; social attention is tilting toward Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI; biggest mover: earendil-works/pi (+2). 10 repo signals, 10 paper picks, and 10 community items made today's cut.
GitHub velocity is led by warpdotdev/warp; paper attention is clustering around Code as Agent Harness; social attention is tilting toward Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI; biggest mover: earendil-works/pi (+2). 10 repo signals, 10 paper picks, and 10 community items made today's cut. This fallback brief keeps the page live when the optional Gemma pass times out.
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Repositories and papers
Keep the full repo and paper scan above the fold, then read the day as one short brief below.
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Repository Momentum
Fresh GitHub projects worth scanning before the feed turns over.
warpdotdev/warp
Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal. Updated 1h ago. 59128 stars, +800/7d, created 1776d ago.
affaan-m/ECC
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond. Updated 1h ago. 1…
earendil-works/pi
AI agent toolkit: coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI & web UI libraries, Slack bot, vLLM pods. Updated 1h ago. 51637 stars, +800/7d, created 283d ago. Up 2 spots from the previous run.
ggml-org/llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++. Updated 1h ago. 111397 stars, +800/7d, created 1166d ago.
dyad-sh/dyad
Local, open-source AI app builder for power users ✨ v0 / Lovable / Replit / Bolt alternative 🌟 Star if you like it! Updated <1h ago. 20378 stars, avg 50.5/day, created 404d ago.
rerun-io/rerun
Visualize, query, and stream to train on multimodal robotics data. Updated <1h ago. 10763 stars, avg 7.2/day, created 1502d ago.
oumi-ai/oumi
Easily fine-tune, evaluate and deploy Gemma 4, Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6, gpt-oss, DeepSeek-R1, or any open source LLM / VLM! Updated <1h ago. 9232 stars, avg 12.4/day, created 742d ago.
SillyTavern/SillyTavern
LLM Frontend for Power Users. Updated <1h ago. 27868 stars, avg 23.3/day, created 1195d ago.
screenpipe/screenpipe
YC (S26) | Give AI the ability to live your experience. Records everything you do, say, hear 24/7, local, private, secure. Updated <1h ago. 18779 stars, avg 26.9/day, created 699d ago.
MemPalace/mempalace
The best-benchmarked open-source AI memory system. And it's free. Updated 17h ago. 52490 stars, +521/7d, created 45d ago. Down 4 spots from the previous run.
Top list
Fresh Papers
New research worth bookmarking for a deeper read.
Code as Agent Harness
Large language models are increasingly used as operational substrates for agent reasoning and execution in agentic systems, with code serving as a unified infrastructure layer across multip…
OProver: A Unified Framework for Agentic Formal Theorem Proving
OProver is a unified framework for agentic formal theorem proving in Lean 4 that improves proof generation through iterative training with verified proofs and compiler feedback. Surfaced vi…
SkillsVote: Lifecycle Governance of Agent Skills from Collection, Recommendation to Evolution
SkillsVote is a governance framework for long-horizon LLM agents that manages reusable skills through structured collection, recommendation, and evolution processes. Surfaced via Hugging Fa…
LongLive-2.0: An NVFP4 Parallel Infrastructure for Long Video Generation
LongLive-2.0 presents an NVFP4-based parallel infrastructure for long video generation that addresses training and inference bottlenecks through sequence-parallel autoregressive training an…
Code-as-Room: Generating 3D Rooms from Top-Down View Images via Agentic Code Synthesis
A novel MLLM-based agentic framework called Code-as-Room generates 3D indoor rooms by converting top-down images into executable Blender code through a structured execution harness with cro…
Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation
Zero-Expert Self-Distillation Adaptation (ZEDA) enables efficient dynamic Mixture-of-Experts models by converting static models into adaptive ones with reduced computational costs and impro…
Vision-OPD: Learning to See Fine Details for Multimodal LLMs via On-Policy Self-Distillation
Fresh arXiv paper from the ai cluster, posted 23h ago.
Collaborative Air-Ground Sensing, Communication, Computing, Storage, and Intelligence for Low-A…
Fresh arXiv paper from the ai cluster, posted 1d ago.
EgoExoMem: Cross-View Memory Reasoning over Synchronized Egocentric and Exocentric Videos
Fresh arXiv paper posted 23h ago and surfacing in the current feed.
XCTFormer: Leveraging Cross-Channel and Cross-Time Dependencies for Enhanced Time-Series Analys…
Fresh arXiv paper posted 1d ago and surfacing in the current feed.
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The day in one pass
GitHub velocity is led by warpdotdev/warp; paper attention is clustering around Code as Agent Harness; social attention is tilting toward Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI; biggest mover: earendil-works/pi (+2). 10 repo signals, 10 paper picks, and 10 community items made today's cut.
The quickest scan starts with warpdotdev/warp, Code as Agent Harness, and Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, while 10 GitHub-led signals anchor the repo side of the brief.
Use the structured digest below when you need the full wire, raw links, and the longer tail of items that did not make the front narrative.
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