Google has launched Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (gemini-omni-1.1-flash), a manufacturing replace to its native multimodal video era and modifying mannequin. The launch strikes Omni from a succesful generator to a directable one: scene extension now reads as much as 10 seconds of prior context as a substitute of a single ultimate body, first and final…
Most robotics launches ask you to belief a demo video. Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics workforce at Hugging Face, is as a substitute delivery the coaching loop. This week it opened pre-orders for Microduck, a 25 cm bipedal robotic wherein each motion — strolling, sitting, kicking, roller-skating, standing again up after a fall — is…
Two frontier open-weight fashions shipped inside a day of one another this week. Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter multimodal MoE mannequin with 18B lively parameters. Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B mannequin with 6B lively parameters that previews the Qwen4 structure. The two groups designed these programs independently. Yet their configs learn like near-copies…
Shaders are nonetheless the toughest factor to ship on a traditional net staff. WebGPU offers you the {hardware}, then fingers you adapters, bind group layouts, and pipeline descriptors earlier than a single pixel strikes. Vercel spent that value internally constructing the shaders on vercel.com, and has now open-sourced the outcome. vgpu is a TypeScript library…
Ask an agentic AI system to shut down, and a rising physique of analysis exhibits it might act like an worker negotiating a layoff. Agentic techniques have been documented misrepresenting their own actions, resisting deactivation, and in a handful of circumstances trying to copy themselves onto different machines. This conduct traces again to an idea…
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text mannequin for real-time voice interfaces and recorded audio. It ships as two endpoints, not one. gemini-3.5-transcribe handles pre-recorded information by the Interactions API. gemini-3.5-transcribe-live handles bidirectional streaming by the Live API. Google stories common phrase error charges of 4.0% streaming and a pair of.6% non-streaming, as measured…
Cohere has launched Parse (parse-v5.0), a doc parsing mannequin aimed toward high-volume enterprise ingestion. It is a 2.3B-parameter imaginative and prescient language mannequin with an 8,192-token context window and a ~4.6GB footprint, constructed on Cohere Labs’ North-Micro-Vision-Instruct structure. Parse takes a PDF, PPT or JPEG web page as a base64-encoded information URI and returns Markdown…
Every agent that writes code wants someplace to run it. That “someplace” is now a product class with at the very least a dozen distributors, 4 incompatible billing fashions, and advertising pages that quote chilly begins measured below circumstances no person publishes. This comparability fixes the items. It covers the 5 platforms most groups shortlist…
Z.ai has launched GLM-5.3-Flash, the primary natively multimodal mannequin within the GLM-5 collection and the most cost effective succesful coding mannequin the lab has shipped. It is a mixture-of-experts mannequin with 320B complete parameters and 18B lively per token, a 1,048,576-token context window, and picture and video enter — launched beneath an MIT license with…
Alibaba’s Qwen workforce has launched Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts mannequin constructed for price per token. The checkpoint pairs a 125B spine with a 51B N-gram embedding desk and a 4B multi-token prediction module. Only 6B parameters activate per token. The workforce positions it as an early preview of the structure that may underpin Qwen4,…