I've got a co-worker like that; every email I get from him is just him copy-and-pasting text from his pet AI, and when I reply, he forwards my email on to his AI to read and generate the next reply for him.

Which raises the question... exactly what value is my co-worker providing there? Sooner or later management will notice that they are paying six figures of annual salary to what is essentially just a very slow meat-based email relay, and they'll lay him off and just have me communicate with the AI directly instead. There's a fine line between "all in" and "all redundant".

It all depends on one thing: Will your speech-driven AI agent reliably accomplish the tasks that you told it to do? If so, great, we've entered the glorious Star Trek future. OTOH if it screws up, even just 5% of the time, it'll be kicked to the curb, because a "timesaver" that you have to stand over and supervise to make sure it doesn't go wrong is no timesaver at all.

It's over an order of magnitude heavier than the largest of those (Helios).

There's a difference between an aircraft being built to lift itself and perhaps a tiny payload and be paperlight vs. an aircraft designed for actual commercial service carrying passengers.

The feet are needed to accelerate the plane to takeoff velocities in order to conserve battery mass.

Also, the big AI companies get a number of advantages, such as large batch sizes and being able to balance on-peak and off-peak workloads better.

Is most of your daily driving "a race"?

This is a midrange model. This is competitive midrange pricing. For my midrange work I've been using GLM-5.2 - Gemini 3.7 flash is a bit cheaper and a bit better on the benchmarks, so yeah, I'll probably switch so long as the prices stay low.

Sometimes you need a high-end model (Claude Fable, GPT 5.6 Sol, Kimi K3, etc). Sometimes a low-end model is fine (GPT 5.6 Luna, DeepSeek 4 Flash 0731, etc). Usually a midrange model is the best balance.

There are to be three variants of the ES-300: an all-electric 200km version, a hybrid 30-seat 400km version, and a hybrid 25-seat 800km version. And the ES-300 airframe very much is not some existing airframe.

EV fires are rarer than ICE fires (and slower spreading as well), so given that the competition is fuel-based....

It is a perfectly cromulent statement. 1MW = power, $5 = a cost of energy. They are providing both power and (indirectly) energy.

They didn't bother to install a co-pilot, a seat for the co-pilot, passengers, seats for the passengers, the hybrid gen set as you say, fuel for the gen set, and who knows if they installed a full production sized battery or just a smaller one

Are you just learning about the concept of a prototype in this comments section?

That's not correct. There are three modes. All-electric, hybrid-30 passenger, and hybrid-25 passenger, with ranges of 200km, 400km, and 800km, respectively. The airframe is to be certified for 20k feet (FL200), with optimal cruise altitudes from 10-15k feet, but this was explicitly described by the company as a "low-altitude test flight".

And to all the people going, "LOL, that's never going to cross the Pacific!" or similar range comments... and? Long haul flights (over 4000km) are only 5% of commercial flights. Very short / regional flights are 27% of total flights. There's very much a market for puddle jumpers, and airlines very much will buy them if they offer competitive advantages.

Great! But the lawsuits and regulations need to stop naming "Meta glasses" and be widened to cover ANY AND ALL recording without consent.

Laws and regulations need to be put into place on recording in public and what is allowed to be done with those recordings without consent. It's that simple. The concepts of privacy and consent that we have relied on as a society for the past few hundred years were not built to withstand the type of technology that is available today.

If you record in public without consent, the only thing you should be allowed to do with that video is maintain it in private and use it for security or investigative purposes for a fixed time window. Any other use should be prohibited, and yes that this includes use by the media.

If we want to let the media go around and record anyone they want without consent then you should have to get some kind of a license or pass some kind of a minimum bar that is invented because what's going on right now is just not OK.

There are HUNDREDS of brands of camera smart glasses on the market, most of them WITHOUT recording lights.

There are also THOUSANDS of types of OTHER wearable cameras, in every form factor you can think of - pins, pendants, buttons, you name it.

These things have existed FOR YEARS.

THIS IS NOT NEW TECHNOLOGY.

1) 30B, dense. Optimized to fit Q4 quantized in a 24GB card with a speculative decoding model as well.

2) Because reporters don't know what weights are and assume you don't know either.

3) Way better than Gemma 4 on text tasks, slightly better on multimodal. Numbers below are all: Benchmark: Muse Glimmer score Gemma 4 31B score difference

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: Muse Glimmer: 35 30 +5
MCP Atlas (Public): 75.5 54.2 +21.3
DeepSearch QA: 74.6 61.7 +12.9
SWE-Bench Pro: 51.2 36.9 +14.3
SWE-Bench Verified: 76.0 66.6 +9.4
OSWorld-Verified: 65.9 58.5 +7.4
GAIA2: 43.3 36.4 +6.9
WildClawBench: 47.6 37.6 +10.0
TerminalBench 2.1: 51.7 43.4 +8.3
Tau3-Banking: 23.5 15.1 +8.4
MMMU Pro: 74.0 73.0 +1.0
Charxiv Reasoning: 78.8 77.7 +1.1
OmniDocBench v1.5: 75.8 72.5 +3.3
ScreenSpot Pro: 75.4 75.9 -0.4

4) 128k tokens

5) No, sadly.