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Robert Brennan retweeted
Today we’re launching micro1’s PII transformation model, flow-transform 1.0, delivering frontier-level performance across detection, identity synthesis, and transformation of personally identifiable information.
On PrivacyBench, our model reaches 96.0% F1, outperforming every detection baseline we tested, including Tonic Textual, Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, Microsoft Presidio, Haiku 4.5 and GLiNER2.
Some of the most valuable training data for frontier AI models lives inside fully functioning companies. It captures years of real work across decisions, communications, tools, handoffs, exceptions and the relationships connecting them.
The problem is that this data is also full of PII.
Traditional redaction makes the data safe, but it also destroys the very workflows and relationships frontier models need to learn from.
flow-transform 1.0 solves this by turning enterprise operational data into high-fidelity training data for frontier models by replacing real-world identities without flattening the reality the data captures.
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Robert Brennan retweeted
Excited to be welcoming @rbren_dev, @ivanburazin, @alxnails, and Leix Xu to the Open Intelligence Summit.
Open intelligence is more than just open weights, it's providing builders with choice and ownership at every layer of the stack, agents to infra.
Join us!
The first speakers for Open Intelligence Summit are live.
If you're building an AI-native company, the agenda covers the decisions in front of you: who owns your data, what inference costs you, how your agents run, and what your users experience.
Oct 13, SF. Request a seat: do.co/4ArVTlL
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Robert Brennan retweeted
We now run OpenHands in our own cloud. The agent implements a task, reviews its pull request, and repeats review and fixes before handing it to a human. We still decide whether to merge.
hajek.no/posts/2026/shared-a…
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"openhands...the autonomous coding agent has now doubled for four straight months"
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The August ClickPy report is out: overall downloads cooled over summer time, PyPI recorded 176.6B downloads in August 2026, down 4.5% from July.
But MCP and AI-agent tooling are still accelerating. 🤖
Notable packages this month:
🔌 mcp-types: 11.7M → 61.3M (+425%), MCP tooling just became a 60M-download dependency
☁️ google-cloud-parametermanager: 862K → 4.82M (+459%), @googlecloud, a 5.6x jump for Google Cloud’s Parameter Manager client
🎨 skia-python: 167K → 4.02M (+2,312%), Python bindings for Google’s graphics engine suddenly went 24x
🤝 openhands: 1.11M → 2.52M (+128%), @OpenHandsDev, the autonomous coding agent has now doubled for four straight months
📈 metricflow: 4.31M → 8.11M (+88%), @dbt_labs, semantic-layer adoption keeps compounding
Full report here: buff.ly/fscHSko
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Really enjoyed this conversation w/ Laura at Notable!
A developer prompting their way through a Jira ticket gets about 20 to 30% faster, says @rbren_dev. So that's why he says the real gains sit somewhere else.
On the new episode of First Commit, Laura Hamilton sits down with the co-founder and CEO of @OpenHandsDev, the open source project that became one of the most starred AI coding agent repos on GitHub.
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Super happy to see Nemotron continuing to evolve. OSS models are becoming the norm!
We’re proud to be an @NVIDIAAI launch partner and excited to support NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning! ⚡
Always-on agents need fast, customizable models, but they also need infrastructure: harnesses, runtimes, sandboxes, integrations, policies, audit trails, and deployment flexibility. That’s where OpenHands comes in.
Learn how to use Nemotron 3.5 Lightning & OpenHands: openhands.dev/blog/nvidia-ne…
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OpenHands crushed Codex by 2.3× on token efficiency!
We gave both agents the same task on the same model (Qwen3.5 35B): build an 8-bit Space Invaders in 3 iterations (build, fix, polish).
Output:
• OpenHands: 219K tokens,
• Codex: 513K tokens,
@OpenHandsDev beats Codex in local running. The difference is in how they handle context. OpenHands reuses the unchanged data across every pass and only pays for new tokens, while Codex re-sends and re-counts it every iteration. OpenHands finished a bit slower, but on local runs, tokens spent are the real cost.
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Robert Brennan retweeted
OpenAI's agent accidentally hacked into another company's web site, despite protective measures.
What are you doing to prevent agents from hacking into your production infrastructure?
Or do you --dangerously-skip-permissions?
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Robert Brennan retweeted
Agent Canvas 1.3.0 + 1.4.0 updates this week focus on portability and operability
Export automations, export conversations, navigate local workspaces more cleanly, and deploy self-hosted Canvas with Helm.
Thanks: @OpenHandsDev
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Robert Brennan retweeted
We've found this sort of "sidekick" architecture to be very effective at cutting LLM spend because it allows you to do context control and not spend expensive tokens on simple tasks.
Here's a 200-line example of how to do it in the OpenHands SDK :)
gist.github.com/neubig/412ab…
Devin Fusion uses a hybrid-model harness built around two ideas:
First, a “sidekick” agent: a smaller agent runs in parallel with the frontier agent. The frontier agent delegates work, monitors progress, and keeps ownership of planning, ambiguity, and final review.
This lets Fusion stay intelligent while avoiding unnecessary frontier-model spend.
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Robert Brennan retweeted
The longer the task, the more orchestration carries it.
The OpenHands SDK just added three primitives for building robust, long-horizon agent workflows, usable by the model and by you:
Thanks to: @gneubig @juanontech Vasco Alona @OpenHandsDev
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Robert Brennan retweeted
I'd like to create a tutorial on how you can make something similar to Claude Tag but entirely open source.
What are the main features people like about it so I can be sure to add them?
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Robert Brennan retweeted
We loved chatting w/ @ashimmy on #TechstrongTV 📺
Our CEO & Co-Founder @rbren_dev sat down to discuss the importance of #opensource, where we draw the line in terms of monetization, and the overall vision for the OpenHands platform & community ⭐
Full interview here:
techstrong.tv/videos/intervi…
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Robert Brennan retweeted
Our civilization is based on science and technology.
Its future hinges on our ability to understand, independently verify, and access the technology without the decree of a select few.
malhotra5.github.io/blog/con…
mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community
also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy
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Hermes Agent now can orchestrate the @OpenHandsDev agents with a new optional skill!
`hermes update` then do `hermes skills install official/autonomous-ai-agents/openhands`
Reminder: You can already do this for claude code, codex, opencode, and hermes itself, you can force load the skill with `/<agent-name> <prompt>` or just ask hermes to use them, and it should find them.
These ones are all built-in skills :)
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Come hang with us next week in NYC!
Join us on May 26 in NYC for a panel discussion on what it really takes to deploy agents safely and reliably at enterprise scale.
We'll be joined by an incredible group of leaders and experts from @nvidia, @vercel, @AMD, and @alumniventures. You can expect practical insights, candid discussion, and networking with builders shaping the next generation of enterprise AI.
Space is limited so reserve your spot, today! 👇
hubs.la/Q04h2z7L0
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Robert Brennan retweeted
The most extensive independent benchmark of LLMs for software engineering just got a big update!
- How does GPT-5.5 compare to Opus 4.7?
- Are open models catching up, and in what areas?
- How do cost and performance stack up?
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#AIAgents are changing #softwaredevelopment fast — but are you getting the most out of them?
@VMblog sat down with @OpenHandsDev CEO Robert Brennan to talk:
✅ The new Agentic Control Plane
✅ Running AI agents at scale
✅ Open source vs. enterprise
✅ The future of the developer role
piped.video/watch?v=NA-usu66…
#DevTools #OpenSource
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