not much happened this weekend

**Nous Research** announced **DisTrO**, a new optimizer that drastically reduces inter-GPU communication by 1000x to 10,000x enabling efficient training on slow networks, offering an alternative to **GDM's DiLoCo**. **Cursor AI** gained viral attention from an 8-year-old user and announced a new fundraise, with co-host Aman returning to their podcast. **George Hotz** launched **tinybox** for sale. In robotics, **AGIBOT** revealed 5 new humanoid robots with open-source plans, and **Unitree** showcased its G1 humanoid robot nearing mass production at $16,000. **ETH Zurich** and **Disney** developed an AI system for physics-based robot motion generation from text or images. **UC San Diego** released **ACE**, an open-source teleoperation system for controlling multiple robots. AI21 Labs unveiled **Jamba 1.5**, a multilingual model with 256k context length and permissive licensing. **Luma Labs** released **Dream Machine 1.5** for improved text-to-video generation. **Ideogram** launched **v2** of its text-to-image model with near-perfect text generation. **Nvidia** and **Mistral** released **Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B**, a small model outperforming **Mistral-7B** and **llama-3-8b** on the Open LLM leaderboard.