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Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch
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Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch

Z.ai launched GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, featuring a 1-million-token context window and two thinking-effort levels...

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KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations
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KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

KPMG retracted a report on AI usage after discovering it contained hallucinations generated by AI tools. The incident...

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Open model Kimi K2.7 Code undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude by up to 12x on price per token
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Open model Kimi K2.7 Code undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude by up to 12x on price per token

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7 Code, an open-weights trillion-parameter model for programming that costs up to 12x less...

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Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude
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Zyphra Release Zamba2-VL: Hybrid Mamba2–Transformer Vision-Language Models That Cut Time-to-First-Token by About an Order of Magnitude

Zyphra released Zamba2-VL, a family of open vision-language models in sizes from 1.2B to 7B parameters using a hybrid...

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Building a Code Dataset Pipeline from NVIDIA Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 Metadata with Streaming, Pandas, and tiktoken
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Building a Code Dataset Pipeline from NVIDIA Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 Metadata with Streaming, Pandas, and tiktoken

A tutorial on building a code dataset pipeline using NVIDIA's Nemotron-Pretraining-Code-v3 metadata index for code...

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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? 
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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? 

The article discusses how tech companies are exploring the use of cheaper AI models that can maintain quality...

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Intel gets a second life as Google and Nvidia explore it as a TSMC backup for AI chips
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Intel gets a second life as Google and Nvidia explore it as a TSMC backup for AI chips

Google has ordered over three million AI chips from Intel for 2028, while Nvidia tests Intel's manufacturing technology...

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Xiaomi MiMo and TileRT Push a 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Past 1000 Tokens Per Second on Commodity GPUs
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Xiaomi MiMo and TileRT Push a 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Past 1000 Tokens Per Second on Commodity GPUs

Xiaomi's MiMo team and TileRT have released MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed, a serving mode that achieves over 1000 tokens per...

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Building Reflective Prompt Optimization with GEPA: Multi-Component Prompts, Structured Feedback, and Held-Out Validation
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Building Reflective Prompt Optimization with GEPA: Multi-Component Prompts, Structured Feedback, and Held-Out Validation

This tutorial demonstrates using GEPA, a reflective prompt-evolution framework, to optimize how small language models...

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New open-source voice model listens nonstop and decides every 0.4 seconds whether to speak or stay silent
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New open-source voice model listens nonstop and decides every 0.4 seconds whether to speak or stay silent

A new open-source voice model called Audio Interaction enables continuous listening and can decide every 0.4 seconds...

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 ASR: A 600M-Parameter Cache-Aware Streaming Model Transcribing 40 Language-Locales in Real Time
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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 ASR: A 600M-Parameter Cache-Aware Streaming Model Transcribing 40 Language-Locales in Real Time

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 ASR, a 600M-parameter streaming model capable of transcribing 40 language-locales in real...

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The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs
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The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs

The AI industry is shifting focus from rapid expansion and cost maximization toward implementing cost controls and...

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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: An Open 550B Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer for Long-Running Agents
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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Ultra: An Open 550B Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer for Long-Running Agents

NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B parameter Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba-Transformer model designed for...

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Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights
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Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights

Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8 billion parameter text-to-speech model that uses residual vector...

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Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering
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Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering

Ideogram has released version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model featuring native 2K resolution,...

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Perplexity announces hybrid AI system that decides what runs locally or in the cloud
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Perplexity announces hybrid AI system that decides what runs locally or in the cloud

Perplexity has announced a hybrid AI orchestrator system that intelligently distributes tasks between local and...

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How to Fine-Tune LFM2 Using QLoRA and DPO: A Complete Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial on Google Colab
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How to Fine-Tune LFM2 Using QLoRA and DPO: A Complete Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial on Google Colab

A tutorial on fine-tuning the LFM2 language model using QLoRA and DPO techniques on Google Colab. The guide covers...

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OpenAI vs. Anthropic vs. Google: But the Model Isn't the Point
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OpenAI vs. Anthropic vs. Google: But the Model Isn't the Point

Enterprise customers are prioritizing practical AI solutions and business outcomes over specific AI model providers or...

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JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines
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JetBrains Releases Mellum2: A 12B MoE Model for Fast, Specialized Tasks in Multi-Model AI Pipelines

JetBrains has released Mellum2, a 12B parameter Mixture of Experts model trained on 10.6 trillion tokens, under an...

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