Meet Lume and Horizon Model
We don’t usually talk about robotics here, but this video of what looks like a lamp folding laundry inside a bedroom just blew my mind. Most household robots have tended to look like clunky vacuums or humanoids that trip over slippers. Lume flips the script: instead of adding another appliance, it camouflages itself as décor. That small shift could finally let robots—and messy bedrooms, studio apartments, and design-conscious humans—coexist. I don’t know much about Lume’s makers or whether this project will ever ship, but the fact it even feels remotely possible? Aren’t we living in a wild time?
Horizon Models Take the Stage
There’s also buzz around Horizon, mysterious AI model now available on OpenRouter. They pack a 256,000-token context window, support multimodal text-image inputs, and generate tokens at up to 150 tokens/sec. Horizon Alpha is already flexing its muscles in benchmarks like EQ-Bench— excelling at emotional intelligence tasks, long-form creative writing, and complex coding. Rumor has it these are early versions of OpenAI’s next-gen tech, and they’re free to test today. From financial modeling to strategic planning, the possibilities are endless—so dive in and explore the future of AI!
On a personal note, I ran a few tests on these Horizon models—like “take this screenshot of a design and turn it into HTML and CSS.” The code they returned was so good that I actually had to step away from my desk for a moment. If you’ve been hunting for something to spark your own “wow” moment, give them a spin.
Happy exploring!