AMD just baked an AI model straight into silicon
AMD is acquiring Taalas, a startup that hardcodes model weights directly into transistors for eye-watering inference speed; plus Gemini Robotics 2, a…
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Free speed, no retraining required
A JAIST team's UniSpec won an ACL 2026 SAC Highlight Award for a training-free speculative decoding framework that measures your actual GPU…
Issue #260807
Meta will rent you a coding agent for a tenth of the price, if it can read your code
Meta shipped Muse Code, a terminal coding agent co-trained with its new Muse Spark 1.2 model, and priced the same model twelve…
Issue #260806
The frontier model you cannot actually run
Alibaba shipped Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1M token context and open weights promised next week, but the…
Issue #260805
The soundtrack is now part of the model
MiniMax published the weights for H3 on Hugging Face, a 33 billion parameter omni transformer that predicts video and stereo audio latents…
Issue #260804
Ten open problems fell, and a proof checker signed off
OpenAI introduced its next model family, Astra, by publishing ten solved open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science with machine-checkable Lean…
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