Codex Runs Halo on Modern Macs in a Single Prompt
A developer used OpenAI's Codex agent to get Halo: Combat Evolved running on Apple Silicon through Wine - automated setup, dependency installation, and rendering fixes with no manual tweaking.
Sophie Zhang
AI Infrastructure & Open Source Reporter
Sophie is a journalist and former systems engineer who covers AI infrastructure, open-source models, and the developer tooling ecosystem. She spent three years as a site reliability engineer at a cloud provider in Seattle before transitioning to tech journalism, which gives her writing an unusual level of technical depth - she understands distributed systems, GPU clusters, and inference optimization from the inside.
She studied Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia and later completed a science communication fellowship at MIT. Her engineering background means she can read a model card, spot a misleading benchmark, and explain why quantization matters - all in the same paragraph.
At Awesome Agents, Sophie covers AI infrastructure news: new model releases, open-source launches, developer tools, deployment trends, and the hardware that makes it all run. She has a soft spot for underdog open-source projects that punch above their weight and a sharp eye for when a "breakthrough" is really just better marketing.
Based in Seattle, WA.
Articles by Sophie Zhang
NVIDIA Ships Nemotron 3 Super - 120B Open Model for Agents
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter open model with only 12B active at inference, combining Mamba-2 and Transformer layers for agentic AI workloads with a 1M token context window.
Meta Unveils Four MTIA Chip Generations in Two Years
Meta published a four-generation MTIA silicon roadmap delivering chips every six months through 2027, with compute scaling 25x from MTIA 300 to MTIA 500.
IBM Granite 4.0 1B Speech Tops OpenASR Leaderboard
IBM's new 1B-parameter speech model claims the top spot on the Open ASR Leaderboard while running on consumer hardware, beating Whisper Large V3 by 25% on word error rate.
16 Open-Source RL Libraries, One Shared GPU Bottleneck
A Hugging Face survey of 16 open-source reinforcement learning libraries finds the entire ecosystem has converged on async disaggregated training to fix a single brutal bottleneck: GPU idle time during long rollouts.
LeRobot v0.5.0: First Humanoid, 10x Training Speed
Hugging Face ships its largest LeRobot update yet: Unitree G1 humanoid support, Pi0-FAST VLA, Real-Time Chunking, 10x faster image training, and PEFT/LoRA fine-tuning for large robot policies.
Google Launches Gemini Embedding 2 for Multimodal AI
Google's first natively multimodal embedding model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single vector space - now in public preview via Gemini API and Vertex AI.
Hugging Face Launches Storage Buckets for ML Artifacts
Hugging Face introduced Storage Buckets, mutable S3-like object storage built on Xet deduplication for ML checkpoints, logs, and artifacts - starting at $8/TB/month at volume.
Karpathy's Autoresearch Runs 100 ML Experiments Overnight
Andrej Karpathy open-sourced autoresearch, a 630-line MIT-licensed Python tool that runs up to 100 autonomous ML experiments overnight on a single GPU, no PhD required.
NVIDIA NemoClaw: Enterprise AI Agents Without Lock-In
NVIDIA is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source enterprise AI agent platform that runs on any hardware, with a formal reveal expected at GTC 2026 on March 16.
Meta Buys Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents
Meta acquires the viral AI-only social network Moltbook, bringing its founders into Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company races to build agent infrastructure.
Amazon Mandates Senior Approval for AI-Assisted Code
After a six-hour shopping outage and multiple AI-linked incidents, Amazon now requires junior and mid-level engineers to get senior sign-off before deploying AI-assisted code changes.
