The Loop  ·  Issue N°033

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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  1. · News

    The default just moved — Databricks made a Chinese open-source model its house coding engine, put the numbers on the record, and did it on the same day Anthropic published a memo on how to use less of Opus

    On July 8 Databricks published an internal benchmark and made Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2 the default coding model for its own engineers. GLM 5.2 tied Opus 4.8 at 34% lower per-task cost — $1.28 vs $1.94 — on Databricks' multi-million-line codebase.

    Jul 10, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  2. · News

    The architect of RSS shipped a directory layer for AI agents — Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Databricks and seven other names co-signed the specification. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is on the list.

    On June 17, 2026, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Databricks and seven others co-shipped Agentic Resource Discovery — a spec for how AI agents find the tools they may call. The author is Ramanathan Guha, the engineer behind RSS and Schema.org.

    Jun 20, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor