Author: Ricardo

Tencent has launched AngelSpec, an open-source, torch-native coaching framework for speculative-decoding draft fashions. The launch covers each autoregressive multi-token prediction (MTP) and the block-parallel DFlash household. Most speculative-decoding work searches for one drafter that scores properly on an averaged benchmark combination. Real serving visitors doesn’t appear like that combination. AngelSpec treats workload heterogeneity as a…

Liquid AI has launched two open-weight bidirectional encoders, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M. Both are masked language fashions constructed on the LFM2 hybrid spine. Both carry an 8,192-token context. Encoders sit beneath classifiers, intent routers, security filters, and PII detectors. Those jobs run repeatedly, normally with out a GPU, and more and more on longer inputs. BERT…