1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (475+ words) The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents along with a full training recipe. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (172+ words) the-decoder.com Claude Fable 5.1's language is less "load-bearing" than its predecessor's Arena.ai analyzed how Anthropic's Claude's writing changed from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1 across tens of thousands of high-reasoning Text Arena outputs. Fable 5.1 uses fewer agreement openers, fewer em…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (509+ words) Deepseek's new multimodal model is built mainly to cut the operating costs of long contexts. The biggest gain is in memory use, though Deepseek also promises better model performance. According to the technical report, Deepseek has a clear goal with…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (483+ words) Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released their first real-time audio perception model. It transcribes speech, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries during live conversation. The Spark-family model breaks incoming audio into 80-millisecond chunks. After each one, it decides whether to…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (647+ words) Abliteration.ai removes trained refusal mechanisms from powerful open-weight models and sells access to the modified versions as a service. There's a legitimate market for that, but the same setup creates a difficult security trade-off. Anyone with access to an…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (825+ words) A brief conversation with a language model can reduce conspiracy beliefs right after a crisis, even when hard evidence is thin on the ground. The effect carries over to new events weeks later, according to researchers. Within a week of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (374+ words) Google is adding agent-based video analysis to several Gemini models. Instead of scanning a video frame by frame at a fixed rate, the model hunts for relevant sections on its own, which Google says cuts token usage and costs by…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (392+ words) AI company Runway has unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls "Interface World Models." Instead of running code, the system generates the user interface frame by frame as you interact with it. Runway lists several use…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (544+ words) Researchers at Google Research have introduced WikiSkill, a framework that pairs AI agents with a persistent knowledge base. Instead of throwing away what the agent learned after each run, the system collects knowledge about failures and successes in a wiki-like…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (419+ words) Alibaba's Qwen team is introducing Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model that serves as an architecture preview of Qwen4. It aims to match much larger models at a fraction of the training cost. The model has 125 billion total parameters but only activates…...