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Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It needs no training. It targets a common production job: picking one answer from a fixed set instead of writing a…
Kyutai has released Voice of Reason, 2 open-weight speech-to-speech models built on GLM-4-Voice-9B. Supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning lift spoken GSM8K accuracy from 27.3% to 77.1%. There is no transcription step and no text LLM in the loop. Both checkpoints…
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, 2 lower-cost models trained with methods similar to GPT-6 Astra. Sol costs $2/$10 and Luna $0.10/$0.50 per 1M tokens. Both are available now in the API, ChatGPT Work and Codex. They come…
Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then…
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then…
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with…
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The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.
Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the…
With GPT-6 Sol and Luna, OpenAI adds two cheaper models that deliver their predecessors' performance at half the token price and take aim at Anthropic's pricier offerings. Independent analyses find little gain in actual intelligence, though, and OpenAI likely didn't…
