What we have planned

Thankfully the AI world knew that it was the 1 year anniversary today and did not release anything major this week. There was GPT 5.6, but that was to a very limited number of people, and I have nothing to add that wasn’t said in the OpenAI announcement, I will cover it more in depth once the public can actually access it.

Here’s what we have planned for the next year at Vector Lab.

YouTube Expansion

The most frequent request we have gotten is to expand the AI news into new modalities, whether that be podcasts on Spotify or YouTube (longform and shortform).

I am happy to announce that the Vector Lab YouTube channel has been made. It will be used to livestream and host the VODs for AI Tools Club (more about that below) and we will also publish a recorded version of the AI news on there as well.

We have already started uploading the archive of AI Tools Club video, and will hopefully be uploading the AI news on there every week (contingent on learning video editing). Just like the written version, we will maintain a high quality for the YouTube videos, only bringing you the best content possible.

Compute Community

Many of you probably don’t know, but we do more than AI news here at Vector Lab.

We care a lot about local models and think they are the future. We estimate that 80% of queries will be able to be done with a model that can run on local hardware (like a M series Mac or a gaming GPU). The issue is that we don’t have any infrastructure to share locally running models with those around us.

This is the idea behind Compute Community our platform for easily sharing and managing LLMs you have deployed at home. Functionality wise it is where we want it for the initial version, we are now just working on styling, branding, marketing, and documentation.

You can try out the site right now (it’s free to use!) and we are targeting a public release by the end of the summer.

Benchmarking

Building and knowing what benchmarks are good is key to LLM analysis, and we lean heavily on it for the AI news. Most major releases get coverage across all the benchmarks that we care about, but the smaller open source models get much less attention on benchmarks.

To fill this gap we are working on building our own benchmark suite, similar to Vals AI and Artificial Analysis. We will take a selection of relevant public benchmarks to run and also are building out our own internal benchmarks as well, which will be used for the AI news and Compute Community.

AI Tools Club

Many long term AI news readers might have noticed that we have switched from having a wide breadth of topic to instead diving deep on just a few.

This is in part due to catering to what readers are most interested in, but also because we have another space where we talk about a lot more models and tools, and that’s at AI Tools Club, a community chat we host with Sundai Club every Tuesday at 5pm in their Discord.

If you wanted to participate or watch/ listen to what was being said, you had to be in the Sundai Discord. Also there was no way to access any recording afterwards to go back and see what was said.

To fix this, we are releasing the archive of recordings on our YouTube channel, and also publishing summaries here on Vector Lab that you can search through. We will also be live streaming the event live on the Vector Lab YouTube channel as well, with the VODs being made available immediately after the meeting.

If you have wanted more AI news, or wanted to ask questions and interact with the community more, I would highly encourage you to check out the AI Tools Club meetings.

Supercharging search

We will be rolling out improvements to the search on Vector Lab, including a better search engine implementation (to get you more relevant results), AI Tools Club content, MCP server creation (so your agents can easily search Vector Lab), and a LLM chat that is powered by Compute Community.

The better search engine has already been rolled out, be on the lookout for the other changes in the coming weeks!

Finish

I hope you enjoyed the news this week and over the past year. It has been great to see the community grow and provide valuable insights to our readers. If you have found the AI news useful, be sure to share it with everyone you know (and subscribe to the YouTube channel!). Here’s to another fantastic year!

Fun fact: the Vector Lab cat was generated locally using Flux 1 with the Cute Japanese Poster Lora