China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the funding round, and existing shareholders Tencent, HSG (formerly known as Sequoia China), ZhenFund and others also participated.
Architect Launches Liquid Inference, a Real-Time Auction for LLM Inference
Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for every request. Liquid Inference is an LLM inference marketplace from Architect where providers bid to serve each prompt. The buyer pays the lowest offer that meets its rules. For developers, it...
NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From Pivotal Mistakes
NVIDIA researchers introduced PivotOPD, an on-policy distillation method that trains multi-turn LLM agents to avoid early pivotal mistakes and recover from them, posting the best average against 13 baselines on 3 agent benchmarks.
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Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA
Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-late comes in 2 sizes: a 0.6B model built to run on edge devices, and a 9B model for building high-quality indexes. Its best score is 92.4% on MADQA, and its weakest is 61.2% on ViDoRe v3 Markdown. Both are MIT-licensed and ready to self-host.
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What Happens When a Trusted Model Repo Changes? Unsloth Studio Re-Checks Before It Runs
Unsloth's October 6 security overview explains how Studio checks code, weights, packages and tools before anything runs. Custom model code is scanned and approval is bound to its fingerprint. Flagged weight files are blocked in the load path, package-content findings fail CI, and tools run in probed...
Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: A Small Model With 1M Context Priced at $0.10 per Million Input Tokens
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10 per million input tokens, keeps 1M context, scores 72.4% on OSWorld.
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Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.
Meta’s Muse launches on iPad just a month after its mobile debut
Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.
Liquid AI Releases Open-Weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M: Multimodal Decision Models With Zero Output Tokens
Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family. d1-3B reads text and images. d1-omni-600M reads text with an image, or text with audio. Neither model writes text. Each returns calibrated, typed answers in one forward pass with zero output tokens. Th...
ChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
7 reasons small language models belong in your 2027 AI roadmap
A frontier model reformatting JSON is expensive overkill. Here are seven sourced reasons small language models earn a place in your 2027 roadmap, and how to start.
Google’s new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media
Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI.
Choosing the Right Agentic AI Framework for 2026: A Decision-Tree Approach
In this article, you will learn how to choose the right agentic AI framework for your production system by working through a structured decision-tree based...
This is the final post in a four-part series about post-training. If you missed them, check out part 1, part 2, and part 3. Time to get your hands dirty! I’ll take you through implementing the key pieces of the classic ChatGPT pipeline: SFT, then reward model training, then PPO. The goal isn’t to re...
Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day
Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, the C++ and Python library it has used for over 9 years to place shards, servers and traffic. It handles about 40 million assignment problems a day, using local search or MIP solvers like Gurobi, FICO Xpress and HiGHS. It is pip-installable under Apache 2.0.
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The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.
Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 maps 5 input types into one 768d space and ships today under Apache 2.0.
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