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Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%
Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token…
AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google each released an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. All 4 use the same find, disprov…
Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost
Samaya AI’s Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per…
Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model
Edge0 released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B open-weight zero-shot voice cloning TTS model under Apache 2.0. It supports 23 languages and add…
Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens
Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B open-weight decision model that returns calibrated probabilities instead of text. It runs at 20 ms P50 lat…
Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE: Trainable Fused MoE Kernel, 3.11x Faster Forward Pass
Prime Intellect released Prime Mega MoE, a backward pass for DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. It makes the kernel trainable and speeds Qwen…
Infini-AI-Lab Releases Hermit, an Open-Source Harness Adapter Framework for AI Agents
Infini-AI-Lab released Hermit, an Apache-2.0 harness adapter framework that trains an external layer of instructions, skills, memory and too…
Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech
Block’s AI lab released Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation audio. It runs locally on a MacBook P…
AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents
AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model for voice agents. It costs $15 per 1M characters, offers unlimited…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM with 4.3B active parameters. It transcribes 40 languages, adds speaker l…
Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Top Model for Cyber Defense and Coding
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model that scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and 88.2% on SEC-b…
MiniMax Open-Sources MCode Stack: 15 Agent Skills Its Coding Team Uses Daily
MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, an MIT-licensed repo of 17 SKILL.md skills and 5 checklists that its MiniMax Code team uses daily for…
Polymathic AI and Princeton Researchers Release FlashMap, a Flow Map Drafter for 6.14x Faster LLM Decoding
FlashMap is a speculative decoding drafter from Polymathic AI, Princeton and USC ISI researchers. It drafts 16 tokens jointly in one pass an…
Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio
Google DeepMind released Genie 4 as a research preview. The real-time world model adds native audio, live dialogue and text steering, with G…
Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB
UC Berkeley’s LEANN vector index stores a pruned graph and recomputes embeddings at query time. It matches HNSW accuracy at 90% recall using…
Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models
Liquid AI released LFM3, 6 open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, audio, omni and decisions. LFM3-1.7B uses a tri-hybrid backbone, a…
Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context
Mirendil released Fern 0.1, its first model, pretrained from scratch with a 10M-token context window. It targets agentic AI R&D work, scores…
vLLM Semantic Router Releases d3-ultra: A 27B Open Multimodal Decision Model
vLLM Semantic Router released d3-ultra, a 27B open-weight multimodal decision model. It reads text, images and video once, then returns prob…
Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited OCR 2 for Hundred-Page Document Parsing
Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, an MIT-licensed 3B OCR model that parses hundred-page documents in one request. Its SR-SWA attention kee…
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Halving GPT-6.1 Sol’s API Price for Agent Work
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast computer-use and vision model priced at $1/$5 per million tokens. It matches GPT-6 Astra’s medium-effo…