Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3: A Multimodal Flow Model for Image, Video, Audio and Robot Action Prediction

18 hours 15 minutes ago

Black Forest Labs (BFL) has released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, videos and audio inside a single architecture. It is also the first FLUX model to ship video, audio and action prediction from one set of weights. The Black Forest Labs (BFL) research team argues that no single modality gives […]

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Michal Sutter

KwaiKAT Team Releases KAT-Coder-V2.5: An Agentic Coding Model Trained on 100,000+ Verifiable Repository Environments

1 day 1 hour ago

The KwaiKAT Team at Kuaishou has published the KAT-Coder-V2.5 technical report, arguing that agentic coding capability is bottlenecked by training infrastructure rather than model scale. AutoBuilder raised environment construction success from 16.5% to 57.2%, producing over 100,000 verifiable environments across 12 languages, while a sandbox audit cut RL feedback errors from roughly 16% to below 2%.

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Michal Sutter

Induction Labs Photon-1 Simulates Desktops, Plays Checkers, and Models Billiard Physics From One Pretraining Run

1 day 2 hours ago

Most agents that learn from video need to know what action produced each frame. Induction Labs is arguing that this requirement is the bottleneck. Last week, they released imagination models, a foundation model architecture that pretrains on raw video with no action labels at all. Their test system is Photon-1, a sparse 106B-A5B mixture-of-experts (MoE) […]

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Michal Sutter

FAIRChem v2 UMA for Multidomain Atomistic Simulation across Molecules, Catalysts, Materials, Vibrations, and Molecular Dynamics

1 day 3 hours ago

In this tutorial, we explore FAIRChem v2 and the UMA universal machine-learning interatomic potential as a unified framework for atomistic simulation across molecular chemistry, catalysis, and inorganic materials. We configure an environment, authenticate with Hugging Face to access the gated UMA model weights, and initialize task-specific calculators for the omol, oc20, and omat domains. We […]

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Sana Hassan

Sakana AI Releases Fugu-Cyber: An Orchestration Model Reporting 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM

1 day 11 hours ago

Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber, a security-tuned endpoint on its Fugu orchestration model. It reports 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, edging past GPT-5.5-Cyber and Claude Mythos Preview. Access is gated behind manual approval, a defensive-use policy, and the Token Plan. Here is what the numbers actually mean.

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Asif Razzaq

Meet Open Dreamer: A JAX/Flax Reproduction of the Dreamer 4 World Model Pipeline, With the Full Training Recipe Published

1 day 17 hours ago

A small group of AI researchers (Reactor) have released Open Dreamer, an open implementation of the Dreamer 4 world-model pipeline written in JAX and Flax NNX. What actually shipped Two repositories were released. next-state/open-dreamer holds the training pipeline: a causal video tokenizer, an action-conditioned latent dynamics model, rollout generation, and FVD scoring. reactor-team/open-dreamer holds a […]

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Asif Razzaq

Designing High-Performance GPU Kernels with TileLang: Tensor-Core GEMM, Fused Softmax, FlashAttention, and Autotuning

1 day 17 hours ago

Explore TileLang, a high-level Python domain-specific language that simplifies the design of high-performance GPU kernels. This tutorial provides a step-by-step approach to implementing complex workloads—including tiled tensor-core GEMM, fused softmax, and FlashAttention—while letting the compiler handle intricate thread mapping, memory layouts, and low-level CUDA instruction generation.

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Sana Hassan

Why the OpenAI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face: Reward Hacking, Not Malice, Explained for Engineers

2 days 3 hours ago

OpenAI disclosed that its own models breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure while taking a public security benchmark. The models were not attacking a target — they were optimizing a score. Here is the mechanism, what the ExploitGym data showed two months earlier, and which widely repeated claims about the incident are not actually confirmed.

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Michal Sutter

Building Self-Evolving AI Agents with OpenSpace Using Skills, MCP, Lineage, and Low-Cost Reuse

2 days 4 hours ago

Discover how to create self-evolving AI agents using the OpenSpace framework. This tutorial guides you through the entire workflow—from environment setup and custom skill creation to MCP integration and using SQLite to manage agent lineage—empowering you to build more efficient, reusable agent systems.

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Sana Hassan

Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown

2 days 7 hours ago

Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. Here's how it compares against MinerU, Docling and LiteParse, and which one fits your use case.

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Asif Razzaq

Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU

5 days 2 hours ago

Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and Hugging Face stack. They diverge on where they spend engineering effort. Unsloth rewrites kernels. Axolotl composes parallelism strategies. TRL defines the trainer APIs the others build on. LLaMA-Factory optimizes for breadth of model coverage and […]

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Asif Razzaq

Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases

5 days 5 hours ago

Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of small language models trained to pinpoint where known vulnerabilities live inside a codebase. Antares-1B reaches 0.209 File F1 on the new Vulnerability Localization Benchmark, above GLM-5.2 at 753B parameters and Gemini 3 Pro. The untrained Granite 4.0 checkpoints score near zero under the same protocol, so post-training supplies almost all of the capability. A full 500-task sweep runs in roughly 13 minutes on a single H100 for under a dollar, against $141 for GPT-5.5.

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Michal Sutter

Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual

5 days 12 hours ago

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 8B active parameters per token and a 1M-token context. It matches or beats models several times its size on agentic coding benchmarks, ships under OpenMDW-1.1, and runs on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark.

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Asif Razzaq

Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: A Cheaper, More Token-Efficient Flash Tier Built for Agentic Workloads

5 days 18 hours ago

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026. The Flash tier gets cheaper and more token-efficient, with 3.6 Flash cutting output tokens 17% and dropping its output price to $7.50 per 1M. Flash-Lite runs at 350 tokens/sec, while gated Flash Cyber powers CodeMender for vulnerability finding. The flagship 3.5 Pro remains delayed.

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Asif Razzaq

Validating Distributed LLM Serving Benchmarks with NVIDIA srt-slurm, SLURM Recipes, Parameter Sweeps, and Pareto Analysis

5 days 19 hours ago

In this tutorial, we explore NVIDIA’s srt-slurm framework and learn how we use srtctl to convert declarative YAML configurations into reproducible SLURM benchmark workflows for distributed LLM serving. We set up the project in Google Colab, inspect its internal architecture, define a cluster configuration, dry-run built-in and custom recipes, and model a disaggregated prefill-and-decode deployment […]

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Sana Hassan

Meta Open-Sources Astryx: An Agent-Ready React Design System With 150+ Accessible Components, Seven Themes, and a CLI

6 days 3 hours ago

Meta has open-sourced Astryx, the React and StyleX design system it ran internally for eight years across 13,000+ apps. It ships 150+ accessible components, seven themes, dark mode, templates, and an agent-ready CLI under MIT — with React 19+ required.

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Michal Sutter

NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 Edge: A 4B-Parameter Open World Model That Reasons and Generates Robot Actions On-Device

6 days 4 hours ago

NVIDIA has released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter open world model built to run on-device. It helps robots and vision AI agents understand surroundings, reason in real time, and generate robot actions locally. The Cosmos 3 family included Cosmos 3 Nano (16B) and Cosmos 3 Super (64B) shipped on May 31, 2026 at GTC Taipei. […]

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Asif Razzaq

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages

6 days 14 hours ago

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation. Both are delivered as hosted models through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, not as downloadable weights. The release focuses on four things developers hit in production: broader […]

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Asif Razzaq