agentic AI – The TechBriefs

H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder

Most visual document retrievers in production today are hand-me-downs. ColPali and the models that followed it take a generative vision-language […]

A team of researchers from UC Berkeley have released CUA-Lite, an open platform for computer-use agents (CUAs). The argument behind […]

GitHub has released Project HydraFusion, a research preview that stops treating model choice as a one-time setting. Instead of routing […]

The hard part of running an open-weights model locally was never the model. It was everything before it, reading VRAM […]

Video has been the most expensive modality to reason over. A Gemini model handed a 90-minute lecture has, until now, […]

Today, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it its most intelligent and aligned model, and positions it primarily as […]

Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the […]

This week, Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.3. It is the fourth Muse Spark release in five months, and […]

Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. It is a single-process runtime: […]

Coding agents spend a large share of their tool budget on search. When the target is a known symbol, ripgrep […]