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MiniMax Releases MiniMax M3 with MSA Architecture Supporting 1M-Token Context, Native Multimodality, and Agentic Coding

MiniMax officially released MiniMax M3 on June 1, 2026. The model introduces MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention), a new sparse attention […]

Meet Memory OS: A 6-Layer Open-Source Memory Stack Built on Top of Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent already remembers across sessions. The open-source agent from Nous Research ships with curated memory files and full-text session […]

Parallax: A Parameterized Local Linear Attention That Keeps Softmax and Adds a Learned Covariance Correction Branch

The Transformer’s attention mechanism has barely changed since 2017. Most efficiency work has tried to replace softmax attention outright. A […]

Trajectory Releases a Concurrent Multi-LoRA Training Stack for Continual Learning, Reporting a 2.81× Experiment-Throughput Gain

Trajectory’s concurrent multi-LoRA stack reports a 2.81× experiment-throughput gain over single-tenant RL, with all code in the NovaSky-AI/SkyRL GitHub repository. […]

Genesis AI Releases Nyx, Quadrants, and Genesis World 1.0 Physics Platform for Scalable Robotics Foundation Model Evaluation

Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0. The platform consists of four components: the Genesis World physics engine, Nyx (a real-time […]

Hermes Agent Ships Tool Search for MCP: Anthropic Evals Show 49% to 74% Accuracy Gain on Opus 4

Nous Research’s open-source Hermes Agent now ships a Tool Search feature. It directly addresses a growing bottleneck in AI agent […]

NVIDIA Introduces X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer KD That Outperforms GOLD by +3.82 Average Points on Llama-3.2-1B

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers “dark knowledge” from a large teacher model to a smaller student. The student learns from the […]

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