Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude
Zyphra has released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models at 1.2B, 2.7B, and 7B parameters. The models use a hybrid Mamba2 state-space and Transformer backbone, shipping under Apache 2.0. They stay competitive with comparable Transformer VLMs while cutting time-to-first-token by about a...
A Coding Implementation on MONAI for End-to-End 3D Spleen Segmentation Using UNet on Medical CT Volumes
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end 3D medical image segmentation pipeline using MONAI to segment the spleen on the Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task09 dataset. We work with volumetric CT scans, apply medical imaging transformations such as orientation alignment, voxel-spacing normalization, ...
xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch
Grok Build's in-terminal marketplace bundles skills, agents, hooks, and MCP servers, with commit-SHA verification on every remote plugin.
The post xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch appeared first on Ma...
MIT affiliates win 2026 Hertz Foundation Fellowships
The fellowships in applied sciences, engineering, and mathematics recognize doctoral students who are pursuing solutions to the most pressing challenges in science and technology.
DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos
The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.
Text classification typically boils down to scenarios where a product review is "positive" or "negative", or a customer inquiry belongs to one category or another.
The benchmark gap, explained: What AI leaderboards measure and what they miss
Every frontier model now scores above 88% on MMLU. So why does a 37% gap still exist between lab benchmark scores and real-world AI deployment performance? We explain why the tests keep lying, and what rigorous evaluation actually looks like.
When Context Collapses: Teaching Agents to Detect and Recover from Lost Memory
This is the eighth article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, part five here, part six here, and part seven here. “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”—Bill Gates (allegedly) If you’re building AI agents ...
Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow
The Hermes Agent dashboard now builds complete agent profiles in one flow, replacing multi-step CLI setup for users.
The post Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding
Cohere's first developer coding model is a 30B mixture-of-experts running on a single H100 with 256K context length.
The post Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding appeared first on MarkTechPost.
xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims
A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.
A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison
We implement an instrumented workflow for Microsoft SkillOpt end to end. We set up the repository, connect OpenAI-compatible model access, and configure the optimizer and target models. We evaluate the original seed skill as a baseline, then run a real optimization loop with rollout, reflection, agg...
Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation
DiffusionGemma is Google DeepMind's experimental 26B open model using text diffusion for up to 4x faster generation on GPUs.
The post Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.