not much happened today

**Microduck**, a **25 cm open-source biped robot** from **Pollen Robotics** and **Hugging Face**, priced at **$399** and shipping before Christmas, features **15 actuators** and a rich sensor suite including camera, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. It supports reinforcement-learning-based customization with an open simulator enabling transfer from simulation to real hardware, attracting strong community interest and rapid sales. The mystery model **Ox Alpha** was revealed as **Z.ai / Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash**, a **320B parameter** model with **18B active parameters**, **1M context window**, and hybrid attention, notable for efficient local deployment with 3-bit and 4-bit quantization enabling practical use on consumer hardware. It demonstrates strong price/performance metrics, rivaling other models on benchmarks. Google released **Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash**, advancing the video generation race with multimodal capabilities.