Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a "distraction-free Windows experience" for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft unveiled Project Zenith, a Windows environment for developers that eliminates distractions and supports AI models over 30 billion parameters on systems with at least 64 GB RAM. OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, scoring 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 (99.9% with a provider-adapter) and costing $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.