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Freedom Intelligence Daily Brief — 2026-07-24

First daily brief. Field landscape is covered by the baseline survey (research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md). This file is a delta plus lab boot status — not a second full survey.

Headline deltas

  • Lab live: Freedom Intelligence foundation committed and pushed (b5f9111); workplans FI-WP-0001…0003 active.
  • Baseline research persisted with P0/P1 open-weight collection recommendations and catalog candidates.
  • Activity-core path designed: fi-daily-research-brief definition drafted (enabled: false); fi_brief_status resolver landing in activity-core.
  • No major same-day open-weight release confirmed beyond the baseline window; public trackers still show a quiet open-source week after earlier 2026 waves (Gemma 4, GLM-5.1, DeepSeek V4-class, etc.).
  • Frontier pricing structure unchanged at order-of-magnitude: ultra-cheap DeepSeek-class APIs vs expensive flagship output tokens — re-check provider pages before budget moves.

Frontier & commercial (axis A)

Item Delta Sources Lab relevance
Gemini 3.6 Flash (tracked ~2026-07-21) Recent fast-tier closed release in public trackers release trackers / Google product notes (verify) Budget automation tier via llm-connect if quality fits
Claude Code default model churn (Sonnet 5-class reporting) Harness defaults and promo pricing still fluid mid-2026 Anthropic release notes / coding-agent digests Compare closed agent quality bar; not a local collect

(No new flagship price sheet change verified for this brief day — treat baseline §2 as still current.)

Edge / local / open (axis B)

Item Delta Sources Lab relevance
Open-source weekly feed quiet Trackers report few/no new open releases this week llm-stats / open LLM update pages (directional) P0 spine from baseline remains valid; no catalog displacement today

Training & specialization (axis C)

(none — no new homelab-method release flagged today.)

Harness & fleet (axis D)

Item Delta Sources Lab relevance
FI daily rhythm design activity-core emit → playbook → fi_daily_brief this repo activity-definitions + docs Enables weekday automation once resolver + path registered
Closed agent productization Claude for Government / Code beta notes continue Anthropic product updates Axis D awareness only; sand-boxer remains Coulomb execution place

Collection candidates

No new candidates beyond baseline seed. Existing P0 catalog entries stand:

Candidate Source / revision License Est. size Why reserve Priority
Qwen3-8B HF Qwen/Qwen3-8B Apache-2.0 (confirm) ~516 GB Default local + FT high
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct HF meta-llama Llama community ~26 GB Edge high
BGE-M3 HF BAAI/bge-m3 MIT ~2 GB Multilingual RAG high
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B HF deepseek-ai MIT ~928 GB Local reason high
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 HF nomic-ai Apache-2.0 <1 GB Light embed high

See inventory/catalog/*__candidate.yaml. Blocked on backup storage pin (FI-WP-0001-T04).

Lab implications

  1. Operator: pin backup path + soft quota in docs/backup-storage-policy.md.
  2. activity-core: ship fi_brief_status, register external activity-definitions/, dry-run, then enable schedule (FI-WP-0002).
  3. After pin: approve/download P0 (FI-WP-0003).
  4. Tomorrows brief: pure external delta only — baseline + this boot day already recorded.

Notes / caveats

  • Same calendar day as baseline survey; external signal intentionally thin.
  • Price and leaderboard figures remain directional until re-verified on official pages.