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Oct 23
Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox
This is the follow up to our first blog post, The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. ThinkingBox-Training is now available on GitHub . We built ThinkingBox to evaluate an agent's work by comparing the final database state with the expected outcome.
OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet
Today, we’re releasing OlmoEarth v1.3, a state-of-the-art satellite embedding model. Alongside OlmoEarth v1.3, we’re sharing precomputed, annual embeddings for the whole planet (10m, 64- and 128-dimensions), plus a new browser-based tool to explore and customize maps based on those embeddings — the OlmoEarth Embeddings Explorer.
Oct 22
Recursive shows first result of its AI-driven research process with Flint
The AI startup Recursive is unveiling Flint, its first language model, a 40-billion-parameter MoE for local coding developed by former DeepMind researchers. It was created in four months using the company's in-house AI system, "Eureka Machine," which independently tests and optimizes architectures. Recursive has yet to prove whether this approach will actually lead to self-improving AI.
NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models
To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints.
How Specializing the Vocabulary of SLMs Can Cut Inference Cost by 77% in Real Applications
Models specialized for a domain or a task by fine-tuning general open-source models, such as Qwen and Gemma, inherit a vocabulary built for many domains and general applications. In an essay grader we run in production, that vocabulary split the text the model writes most into many tokens.
NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training Required
NVIDIA Kumo Relational is a pre-trained relational foundation model that makes predictions directly on enterprise databases. Given a predictive query, it gathers up to 10,000 historical examples as context and predicts outcomes such as churn, demand, or fraud in a single forward pass. It needs no task-specific training, no feature engineering, and no flattening of tables.
Oct 21
GTC Berlin 2026: Live Updates From NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote
Founded in a tent near the Berlin Wall in 1980, the Tempodrom moved several times before settling near Anhalter Bahnhof in 2001. Its permanent home has since hosted concerts, galas and political events. Today, it hosts a different kind of spectacle.
NVIDIA Open Models Advance Europe’s Sovereign Intelligence Across Industries
NVIDIA is expanding its family of open models across language, robotics, biology, and quantum computing, giving developers, researchers and enterprises what they need to build applications tailored to local languages and industries The portfolio includes the new NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt models; new NVIDIA Nemotron Retriever models for embedding, reranking and document parsing; the new NVIDIA Kumo family open weight foundation models and libraries for structured business data; NVIDIA Cosmos 3.5 world models; NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Edge for autonomous vehicles; NVIDIA BioNeMo for healthcare and scientific discovery; and NVIDIA Ising for quantum computing.
[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback
DeepSeek has open sourced DeepInfer, the production inference framework behind V4.1 Flash. Customised from vLLM under the Apache 2.0 licence, it supports distributed inference, speculative decoding, SWA Bounded Replay and structured output, and covers both NVIDIA and Huawei Ascend platforms.
Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
Hugging Face ❤️ TorchTPU: TPUs, Natively
If you ever tried to run PyTorch on a TPU, you probably ported your code to torch_xla, or you ended up having to learn JAX. With TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend, TPU is now just another device. It opens up native support of TPU in the Hugging Face ecosystem.
NVIDIA Cosmos3-H-Dreams: Bringing Clinical Surgery to Life Through Generative Simulation
Today, we take the next step and introduce Cosmos3-H-Dreams, bringing interactive generative simulation to the visual and procedural complexity of clinical surgery with our most convincing in-body imagery to date. To our knowledge, this is the first real-time generative surgical simulator trained on clinical cholecystectomy recordings to support live kinematic control.
Oct 20
TorchNeuron: running HF models on AWS Trainium is easier than ever
TorchNeuron provides a new native backend for PyTorch on AWS Trainium. Transformers, Diffusers and Kernels natively support it, making it easier than ever to run models on Trainium and to share them on the HF hub. Starting Oct. 20, 2026, TorchNeuron will be available as a public beta.
Oct 17
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 beats larger rivals in agentic tasks while once again massively cutting per-task costs
Deepseek has released V4.1-Flash-1017 as an open-weight model that posts better benchmarks, finishes tasks faster, and produces shorter outputs than its predecessor. The company is also opening up its internal search engine through new Search and Fetch APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 calls. API users in tools like Claude Code and Codex get free access for now.
Oct 16
Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS
Reflection AI's Beam is an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks. This post shows how to deploy Beam on AWS: start with an Amazon SageMaker JumpStart real-time endpoint, or use Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference with JumpStart, SGLang, or vLLM for Kubernetes-native control over distributed GPU infrastructure.
Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
Beam by Reflection is out on Hugging Face! It is the first model from the new US lab, Reflection, and it’s open! It's a mixture-of-experts (MoEs) model with 501B parameters (23B active per token), supports text as input, has a context window of 1M tokens, and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race
Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs roughly on par with the most capable open-weight Chinese AI models on benchmarks and is optimized to run locally on Apple's M5 Ultra.
Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint
Introduced last spring, the Granite Switch project enables a modular approach to model development. Now Granite Switch 4.1 models, armed with a Decision adapter and the fastest ASR model on the OpenASR leaderboard, can move efficiently between natural-language responses, general and specialized decisions, and speech-to-text tasks—all from one hosted endpoint.
Black Forest Labs' open-weights image model FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on consumer GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weights image model that supports native 4K generation, pixel-precise editing, and generation with up to ten reference images. With 38 percent fewer parameters than its predecessor, it still outperforms proprietary competitors in internal tests and runs on GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM.