Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
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Sep 29
NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction
NVIDIA released Kumo Tabular, an open-source tabular foundation model that predicts labels for new rows in a single forward pass given labelled rows, without training, tuning or feature engineering. It supports classification and regression, offers three sizes from 28M to 215M, and was pretrained solely on artificially generated tables.
AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months.
Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1
Deploy a text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI with the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container and stream generated speech over a persistent bidirectional connection. This Part 1 tutorial deploys Qwen3-TTS and streams speech through a Gradio application.
Sep 28
Hallo, Deutschland!
Mistral opens a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI research, partnering with German industry.
Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?
Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
H released the Holo4 agent model family, comprising 27B dense and 35B-A3B MoE versions. Both are available through H Models API, with weights open-sourced on Hugging Face in BF16, FP8, NVFP4 and 4-bit GGUF formats.
Welcome RL Environments to the hub
Reinforcement Learning environments give new capabilities to agentic AI systems, and they’re a great way to measure and improve performance in your agents. Therefore, Hugging Face Hub now has a special place for RL Environments.
Sep 26
Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput
Learn how to scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS using Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and DeepEP. This post presents an architecture that combines Amazon EKS, EFA, and Amazon S3 and increased aggregate reinforcement learning rollout throughput by 40% for large-scale RLHF and GRPO training.
Deploying real-time personalized speech with Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI
Deploy the publicly available Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a fully managed, real-time endpoint, and clone a voice from a short reference clip. Cross-lingual cloning preserves the speaker's identity across languages.
Sep 25
AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework.
Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI
The AWS WhisperX Deep Learning Container packages Whisper, wav2vec2 forced alignment, and speaker diarization into a GPU-ready image. Learn how to deploy it to Amazon SageMaker AI real-time and asynchronous endpoints for word-level, speaker-labeled transcription, plus the production details that matter: the GPU AMI pin, scaling, and cost controls.
Sep 24
Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark
Liquid AI released experimental draft model LFM2.5-VL-DSpark for vision-language model LFM2.5-VL-3B. Speculative decoding speeds it up without changing output quality: decoding improves by up to 3.13x on devices and 2.66x on H100, with end-to-end gains of up to 2.62x and 2.27x respectively.
How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic
When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The next pandemic may not offer the same head start.
Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads.
Sep 23
At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia
NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is offering attendees opportunities to explore the hands-on training, expert-led sessions and advanced tools to accelerate their work in AI and high-performance computing.
Sep 22
NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development
To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, developers need new physical AI models and tools. The ROS open framework is a project from Open Robotics that helps humans build robots.
[AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
Xiaomi released the MiMo-V2.6 family, including omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, plus MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed with up to 20 times faster output.
Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
oMLX creator and maintainer Jun Kim joined Hugging Face full-time to support MLX. oMLX moves from a side project to a funded long-term effort, remaining Apache 2.0 open-source under Jun's leadership to improve stability and accelerate development.
Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
Hugging Face added GGUF support to transformers. Users can choose a quantised checkpoint from the Hub and pass gguf_file to from_pretrained for local generation without additional configuration.
From Enablement to Execution, Egypt’s AI Ecosystem Reaches Production Scale
Today, Egypt’s AI builders gathered in the Grand Egyptian Museum for a reception that highlighted the nation’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem — spanning AI natives, developers, researchers, startups and enterprises — building applications across industries. The event included a keynote from Paolo Guglielmini, vice president of EMEA at NVIDIA.
Sep 17
[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.
Sep 16
Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser
Open, private and multilingual AI is coming to your web browser. Mistral and Mozilla team up to put powerful, trustworthy AI where you already browse.
University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK
Air pollution is a serious public health risk, contributing to an estimated 30,000 deaths in the U.K. alone last year. Data-driven insights can help — but computing air quality with traditional chemistry-based models is expensive, which limits how detailed they can be and how regularly they can be run.
Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?
Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.
Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?
IBM researchers added consistency guidelines to ALTK-Evolve, using Consistency Analyzer to diagnose decision points in agent trajectories that are prone to flipping.
Sep 10
Cloudera and Mistral Partner to Bring Specialized, Sovereign Intelligence to Enterprise Data
Cloudera and Mistral join forces to bring specialized, sovereign AI intelligence to enterprise data, helping regulated industries innovate on their own terms.
Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL
TRL v1.14's AsyncGRPOTrainer now supports training and synchronising only LoRA adapters to vLLM. A rank-1 adapter is just a few MB and can transfer through a Storage Bucket mounted to each job, without NCCL.
Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
The Hugging Face team rebuilt most AUTOMATIC1111 functionality as the Workflow1111 canvas using Gradio Workflow. Its 11 media pipelines and 73 nodes cover text-to-image, high-resolution fixes, image-to-image, prompt matrices, VLM reverse prompting, detection-generated inpainting masks, ControlNet-style annotators, background removal, PNG Info and image-to-video.
Sep 8
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
Sep 4
A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain
Google Research partnered with HHMI Janelia, the University of Cambridge and others to publish in Cell a complete connectome of a male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system. It contains over 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections, making it the largest brain map to date by neuron count.
Sep 3
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Hugging Face released funes, an open-source persistent memory layer for Claude Code, Codex, pi, Hermes and other coding agents. It indexes existing local sessions and performs embedding and reranking locally by default.
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
A Hugging Face blogger reproduced Surya Narreddi's idea of having a language model paint watercolours using TRL and OpenEnv. The model paints through around 150 lines of JavaScript with p5.brush, with datasets, RL environments, training scripts and models all open-source.
Sep 1
Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
Hugging Face’s WebAI team released @huggingface/kernels, a lightweight library for loading and running optimised WebGPU kernels from the Hugging Face Hub. An initial collection of 207 kernels is also available as separate repositories under Apache-2.0.
TimesFM-3: A zero-shot foundation model for multivariate forecasting
Google Research released TimesFM-3, its first time-series foundation model pretrained natively for multivariate forecasting, with 330 million parameters and over 1 trillion pretraining time points.
Aug 28
The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
Voice Arena and Hugging Face added Monsoon en-IN and Monsoon hi-IN evaluation datasets to Open ASR Leaderboard, making Hindi its first Indian language.
Aug 25
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
The IBM Granite team released Granite 4.2, its first dense, decoder-only reasoning model family, in 3B, 8B and 30B sizes, all open-source under Apache 2.0.
Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
Multiverse Computing published a paper proposing Quantization-Aware Healing (QAH). After compressing GPT-OSS 120B to 60B parameters and quantising it to MXFP4, the method distils directly from the original uncompressed model rather than a reconstructed bfloat16 checkpoint.
Mistral x HUMAIN
Mistral and HUMAIN announced a strategic partnership covering infrastructure, advanced models and deployment, initially focusing on cybersecurity and voice, with frontier models strong in Arabic planned. Worth hundreds of millions of euros, it includes exploring HUMAIN data centres and joint market strategies for regulated Saudi industries.