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ServiceNow AI Research Lab has launched Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker, a 15-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal reasoning mannequin educated with a data-centric mid-training recipe—continuous pretraining adopted by supervised fine-tuning—with out reinforcement studying or desire optimization. The mannequin attains an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index rating of 52 with 8x value financial savings in comparison with SOTA. The checkpoint ships underneath an…

Local LLMs matured quick in 2025: open-weight households like Llama 3.1 (128K context size (ctx)), Qwen3 (Apache-2.0, dense + MoE), Gemma 2 (9B/27B, 8K ctx), Mixtral 8×7B (Apache-2.0 SMoE), and Phi-4-mini (3.8B, 128K ctx) now ship dependable specs and first-class native runners (GGUF/llama.cpp, LM Studio, Ollama), making on-prem and even laptop computer inference sensible should…

In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the capabilities of Zarr, a library designed for environment friendly storage & manipulation of enormous, multidimensional arrays. We start by exploring the fundamentals, creating arrays, setting chunking methods, and modifying values immediately on disk. From there, we broaden into extra superior operations comparable to experimenting with…

Table of contents What architecture powers MobileLLM-R1? How efficient is the training? How does it perform against other open models? Where does MobileLLM-R1 fall short? How does MobileLLM-R1 compare to Qwen3, SmolLM2, and OLMo? Summary Meta has launched MobileLLM-R1, a household of light-weight edge reasoning fashions now obtainable on Hugging Face. The launch contains fashions…

IBM has quietly constructed a robust presence in the open-source AI ecosystem, and its newest launch exhibits why it shouldn’t be neglected. The firm has launched two new embedding fashions—granite-embedding-english-r2 and granite-embedding-small-english-r2—designed particularly for high-performance retrieval and RAG (retrieval-augmented technology) techniques. These fashions should not solely compact and environment friendly but additionally licensed underneath Apache…