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StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for long-horizon agentic work. It has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and up to 1M tokens of conte...

Datalab released OmniParseBench, an open OCR benchmark with 16,288 yes/no tests on 2,937 pages in 92 languages. Every score is a pass rate you can slice by tag, script or language. The post Datalab Releases OmniParseBench: An Open OCR Benchmark With 16,288 Pass/Fail Tests to Audit OCR Parsers appear...

Marktechpost ranks the 9 best AI gateways for 2026. We compare Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong, TrueFoundry, Cloudflare, Vercel, OpenRouter and Orq.ai on latency, pricing, licensing, governance and deployment. The post 9 Best AI Gateways in 2026: Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong and 5 More Ranked app...

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, 1M-context agent models. Muse Wonder costs $4/$20 per million tokens on Meta Model API. Wonder Full, on Muse Code plans, leads DeepSWE and SWE-Marathon. The post Meta Launches Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: Benchmarks, Pricing and How to Use It appe...

In this comprehensive coding tutorial, we explore Meta's Rebalancer assignment solver using its C++ core and Python bindings. Learn how to build datacenters, manage task placements across racks, handle constraints and goal priorities, and compare local search against the exact HiGHS solver using pub...

vLLM Semantic Router released Decision 3.0, 5 Apache-2.0 multimodal decision models from 0.8B to 27B. They answer choice, yes/no and score questions about text and images in one call, without generating text. The post What is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router’s New Open Decision Models appeared fir...

Sakana AI’s TMLR paper introduces Multi-Layered Review, a 3-agent Claude-based reviewer, and a 1,164-error Contradiction Benchmark. MLR caught 73.43% of core-claim errors, versus 14.81% for the best prior system. The post Sakana AI’s LLM Peer Review System Catches 73% of Core-Claim Errors appeared f...

Explore a comprehensive coding guide to Google Research's RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), detailing how noise bands, cost rules, and leakage screens enable safe, efficient, and self-improving AI agents. The post Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents appeared f...

Explore a comprehensive coding guide to Laya, the open-source zero-shot decision engine. Learn how to implement typed decisions, fit custom temperatures, and build reliable abstention gates using real-world CLINC150 banking data. The post A Developer’s Guide to Laya: Zero-Shot Decisions and Calibrat...

One transformer ran candidate generation and ranking in Yandex Music's A/B test without hand-engineered features, lifting likes 11.42%. The post Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Astra leads computer use, Argon leads legal and finance work, and Sol wins on price for coding agents. The post GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Decision AI models answer typed questions with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. TypeSafe's Jev costs $0.042 per million input tokens and returns responses in 70 to 500 milliseconds. We break down how it works and its benchmarks, then compare it with Fastino's GLiDE, GLiNER2.5-Deci...

Content-based row matching, 6 per-value verdicts and a null rule make OmniExtractBench an extraction benchmark anyone can audit. The post Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks appeared first on MarkTechPost.

In this comprehensive coding guide, we explore Google Research's Kauldron—a JAX training library optimized for research velocity and modularity. Learn how konfig turns experiments into plain dictionaries, kontext wires components via string paths, and ktyping enforces runtime shape checks. The post ...

Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines. Each chunk is embedded with the full document in view. The real change is the training signal. The model learns to retrieve the answer along with the context needed to ...

Gemini 4 Argon tops GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks, but access remains gated today. The post Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work and Cyber Defense appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had forked for its AI-native search stack. Photon now handles retrieval and ranking for all production traffic. It also powers a new Fast Search mode in the Perplexi...

Nebius and NVIDIA are running the 2026 Physical AI Awards for startups with products in the field. Five category winners each get $150,000 in compute credits, joint promotion, executive mentorship, and seats at an executive dinner. Applications close October 25. The post Nebius Opens 2026 Physical A...

Nebius and NVIDIA are running the 2026 Physical AI Awards for startups with products in the field. Five category winners each get $150,000 in compute credits, joint promotion, executive mentorship, and seats at an executive dinner. Applications close October 25. The post Nebius Opens 2026 Physical A...

Fireworks AI has released Ember-1, a post-trained Kimi K3 that learns to produce shorter reasoning traces instead of lowering reasoning effort. Fireworks reports about 40% fewer tokens, with output tokens per task falling from 49.3K to 29.9K in a production A/B test at an essentially unchanged score...

A comprehensive coding tutorial on Google Research's Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB), demonstrating how to implement custom sound encoders, drive classification, clustering, retrieval, and segmentation evaluators, and analyze multi-task benchmark performance. The post A Coding Guide to Goog...

Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including failed ones. The method pairs rejection sampling fine-tuning with hint-guided self-distillation. In a live A/B test, tool-call failures fell from 2.24% to 1.77% betw...

This tutorial provides a complete coding guide to TypeSafe AI's Jev, a System One model designed for non-text, structured judgments. It covers installing the official Python SDK, using primitive question types (Choice, Score, Noul), implementing speculative fan-out, confidence-gated routing, and bui...

We cloned one 10-second voice on 7 platforms and ranked them on reference audio, consent, licensing, and cost. The post Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters appeared first on MarkTechPost.