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Factory has released Droid 1.0, the largest update yet to the Factory Droid agent harness. The main change is programmatic tool calling, now on by default. The model writes a program that runs its tools. One model request can now drive hundreds of to...
Vercel Labs has released agent-desktop, an open-source CLI for AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux. agent-desktop reads each app through the operating system’s accessibility tree, not through screenshots. An agent gets a JSON snapshot w...
A team of researchers from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley have released TokenEconomizer, an open-source cost controller for coding agents. TokenEconomizer is a plugin that learns from past sessions in a repository to cut waste in later ones. It w...
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google now each ship an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. We checked the repos, docs and technical details behind each one....
Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling, a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters. On Samaya’s FrontierFinance benchmark, it sco...
Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than ...
Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B model from its in-house research lab, Base Labs. The joey-1 decision model returns a label and a calibrated probability instead of generated text. It targets high-volume routing, classification and guardrail checks. ...
Prime Intellect has released Prime Mega MoE, a training extension of DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. DeepSeek’s kernel only ran the forward pass. Prime Intellect added a fast, overlapping backward pass. That makes the fused kernel usable for traini...
Infini-AI-Lab has released Hermit, an open-source harness adapter framework for AI agents. Hermit is a framework from Infini-AI-Lab that trains an external ‘harness adapter’ while the agent’s model and harness stay frozen. The first release, v0.1.0, ...
Block’s AI research lab has released Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on human conversation. Block announced it on October 23, 2026 as a research preview. Dessa is a speech-to-speech model from Block that listens and talks at the same t...
AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model, now generally available. The AssemblyAI-TTS-1 text-to-speech API targets voice agents running on live phone calls. In that setting, latency and pronunciation decide whether a c...
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM built for transcription. One model handles 40 languages and recordings up to 1 hour. A text instruction picks the output style for each request. Options include verbatim, written...
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model to date. Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier model from Google built for long-horizon agentic coding and cybersecurity defense. It ranks #1 on the updated v5.0 Artificial Analysis Intellig...
MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, the workflows and agent skills its team uses to build MiniMax Code. The MiniMax MCode Stack agent skills went public on October 28, 2026 under the MIT license. It is not a prompt collection. Each piece is a SKILL...
Researchers from Polymathic AI, Princeton University, USC ISI, NYU and the Flatiron Institute have released FlashMap. FlashMap speculative decoding replaces the discrete diffusion drafter with a continuous flow map. It drafts a full 16-token block in...
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4 as a research preview for trusted testers. The Genie 4 world model generates explorable worlds from text and image prompts in real time. It also generates the soundscape: ambient noise, music and character dialogu...
UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab built LEANN, an open-source vector index that stores almost no embeddings. The LEANN vector index recomputes embeddings at query time instead of saving them to disk. The repo benchmark shows a 60 million chunk Wikipedi...
Liquid AI has released LFM3, its new generation of Liquid Foundation Models. Liquid AI LFM3 is a family of 6 open-weight, 2B-class models built on one shared backbone. The family covers text, vision, audio, omni and decision tasks. Every model can be...
Mirendil has released Fern, its first AI model. Mirendil Fern is a from-scratch coding model with a context window of up to 10M tokens. Mirendil explains how that equals about 23 MB of code, or roughly half a million lines. That is a codebase on the ...
The vLLM Semantic Router team has released d3-ultra, a 27B multimodal decision model under Apache-2.0. The d3-ultra decision model does not generate text. It reads an input once and returns a probability for every answer to every question. For develo...
Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, an open-source OCR model built for very long documents. The 3B model parses books, filings and reports of hundreds of pages in one request. Its core change is SR-SWA, a sparse attention scheme that keeps per-step d...
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast model for visual reasoning, computer use and writing. It replaces GPT-5.6 Terra and is live in the API as gpt-6.1-terra. Standard pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. For t...
Nace AI has released Drex for Search, which brings its Drex decision models to document search. Drex for Search is a retrieval layer that helps people and agents find evidence. Coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode call it thr...
Tsinghua University and CUHK researchers open-sourced AKV, a serving system for KV cache engineering in LLM agents. Instead of summarizing old history, agents drop selected KV cache entries and keep reusing the rest. Across 3 models and 4 agent bench...
Nanbeige LLM Lab has released Nanbeige4.3-33B on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. Nanbeige4.3-33B is a 33B dense language model built for agentic coding and office-style ‘cowork’ tasks. The lab sits inside the recruitment platform BOSS Zhip...
Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open DNA language model with 14.8B parameters. Carbon-X is a decoder-only model from Hugging Face Bio. It reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English. It predicts whether mutations are benign or pathogenic, f...
Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers released TokenGate, a module for long-context prefill. TokenGate learned token pruning lets an existing LLM skim its input. Only the tokens that matter get full processing. The research team reports 1.4x to 11.3x ...
Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects. The Anthropic OSS Scanner runs the company’s strongest models, including Claude Mythos, against enrolled codebases. Reports go straight to mai...
Microsoft Research has open-sourced Agensh, a decentralized harness for large teams of coding agents. The Agensh multi-agent harness removes the central orchestrator that most agent frameworks depend on. Every worker picks its own sub-task, shares fi...
Cognition has released the Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, a free, open-source set of agent skills. It targets three critical remote code execution (RCE) advisories. They cover PHP2Shell, the Node.js October 21, 2026 security release and a CVSS 10....
In this tutorial, we work with Underdog Saluki 27B, a 7.9 GB build of Qwen3.8-27B that its makers say keeps tool calling intact at about two bits per weight and even edges out the full 54 GB model on their own 120-task benchmark. Saluki is built on I...
In this article, we will discuss newly trending open sourced Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime (srt), the OS-level sandbox behind Claude Code’s sandboxed bash tool. The Anthropic sandbox-runtime limits which files a process can touch and which hosts it can...
In this tutorial, we build a stateful engineering copilot with Letta that demonstrates how agentic memory extends beyond conventional prompt-based conversations. We begin by creating inspectable core memory blocks that the agent can autonomously upda...
NVIDIA has just released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model for fast conversational agents. It targets voice assistants, game NPCs and robot interfaces running locally on RTX, Jetson and Spark hardware. The model is post-trained ...
Kyutai has released CADRE, open causal diffusion representation autoencoders for interactive world models. The Kyutai CADRE video autoencoder targets one problem: action lag. Many world models borrow autoencoders from text-to-video generators. Those ...
Moonshot AI has just released Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in its K3.1 series. Kimi K3.1 Pro is a 3T-class open-weight* model with a 1-million-token context window. Moonshot team positions it against the strongest proprietary models on coding, agen...
An AI search agent can work in a demo but fail under production workloads when retrieval returns incomplete evidence, retries repeat unsuccessful actions, or execution exceeds time and cost limits. TinyFish, which provides web infrastructure for AI a...
Google Cloud has announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service built specifically for AI agents. Google Agent Compute Engine gives each agent its own hardware-isolated microVM. The sandbox holds zero credentials. The service already powers Gemini...
You.com has launched Inference Router, a managed API for running open-weight models in production. The You.com Inference Router is an OpenAI-compatible service that routes requests across 12 live models. It bundles a 99.9% minimum uptime SLA and zero...
Liquid AI just announced Liquid RIPL, short for Real-time Inference Pipeline. RIPL is a low-latency engine that serves Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) inside a live request path. It returns complete generated responses end-to-end in under 50 ms. It a...
Gradium has open-sourced Phonon, a family of small text-to-speech models built to run on the device. The Gradium Phonon on-device TTS model comes in 31M and 40M sizes. The English Phonon 31m ships under Apache 2.0 and fits in a 64.5 MB file. Develope...
Cohere AI has released Rerank 5, a new reranker family in Pro and Fast tiers. Cohere Rerank 5 is a retrieval model that reorders search results before they reach an LLM. It adds 2 developer features: Context Focus, which returns relevant passages ins...