AI Tools & Frameworks Directory

IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models. The post IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Tr...

Perplexity and NVIDIA introduced JOLT, a post-training method that trains one model as both teacher and student. On MATH it matched GRPO’s accuracy with 6.5x fewer processed training tokens. The post Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Met...

Researchers analyzing nearly 150,000 Reddit posts uncovered unexpected symptom reports linked by users to unapproved versions of retatrutide, including increased appetite, sleep disturbances, and elevated heart rates. The findings differ from clinical trial results and highlight how AI could help id...

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.

Recursive has released Flint, an Apache 2.0 local coding model with 40B total and 2.5B active parameters. It reports 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 125+ tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro. The post Recursive Releases Flint, an Open-Weight 40B MoE Local Coding Model for Agents with 2.5B Acti...

Vercel released durable-harness, an open-source package that logs every model and tool call so Pi, OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex sessions resume after crashes, timeouts and redeploys on Vercel, Postgres or a laptop. The post Vercel Open-Sources durable-harness for Crash-Proof Coding Agents appeare...

Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.

As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.

Artificial intelligence has changed cybersecurity permanently. While OpenAI’s inadvertent attack on Hugging Face brought AI-generated attacks to everyone’s attention, AI has been on security professionals’ radar for a long time. AI makes attacks possible at a scale that was hard to imagine a few yea...

Mistral AI released Voxtral 3, a family of 3 transcription models, 1 text-to-speech model and a LiveKit-based voice agent SDK. Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 scores 2.1% AA-WER, ranking #3 on Artificial Analysis. The post Mistral AI Releases Voxtral 3: Speech-to-Text, TTS and a Voice Agent SDK appeared ...

Google, Red Hat and IBM released llm-d 1.0, an open-source Kubernetes-native stack for distributed LLM inference. It adds multi-tenant flow control, zero-downtime upgrades and agent-aware routing across vLLM, SGLang, TPUs and GPUs. The post Google Cloud Ships llm-d 1.0 With Cache-Aware Routing for T...

Cover image for the e-Conomy SEA 2026 report titled Building the intelligent economy by Google, Temasek, and Bain and Company. A 3D illustration features a glowing yellow star surrounded by miniature scenes representing digital sectors, including data cen

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.

SpaceX’s data centers and Grok agents have been more profitable than investors expected in second quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as a space company behind to focus on artificial intelligence, which now makes up 52% of its income. Elon Musk’s deep conglomerate reported on Tuesda...

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.

Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.

Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.

DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the Apache 2.0 inference framework that serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in production. It targets NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs, and ships offline inference only. The post DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Inference Framework Behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Fla...

The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.

Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.

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Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for ente...

Exa 3.0 is a search API upgrade from Exa. It adds a larger embedding model, Exa Lite at $4 per 1,000 requests, and Dynamic Highlights, and leads 8 benchmarks Exa ran itself. The post Exa 3.0 Search API Tops Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on 8 Benchmarks appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Cloudflare has previewed Clairic, a System One extraction model on Workers AI that returns typed values with confidence scores in one forward pass. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and charges nothing for output. The post Cloudflare Releases Clairic, a System One Extraction Model on Workers A...