A small group of AI researchers (Reactor) have released Open Dreamer, an open implementation of the Dreamer 4 world-model pipeline […]
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Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown
Datalab has released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline. Marker converts PDF, image, PPTX, […]
Datalab’s Marker 2 vs MinerU, Docling and LiteParse: 76.0 on olmOCR-bench at 5× MinerU’s Throughput
Datalab has released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline. Marker converts PDF, image, PPTX, […]
Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing
Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 […]
Andrew Ng Just Released OpenWorker: An Open-Source, Local-First Desktop AI Coworker That Returns Finished Deliverables Instead of Chat
Andrew Ng has announced OpenWorker, an open-source desktop agent that produces finished work rather than conversation. OpenWorker asks the user […]
You Didn’t Get the AI Model You Paid For
The line in the response object You call the API. You pass model: “claude-fable-5”. You get back a completion, a […]
Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
Tokenization is the one part of the language modeling stack that almost nobody profiles. Gigatoken, released by Marcel Rød (a […]
Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases
Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of security small language models (SLMs) built for one narrow security task. […]
Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding. It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model […]
Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: A Cheaper, More Token-Efficient Flash Tier Built for Agentic Workloads
Developers building production agents need higher token efficiency, lower latency, and more reliable performance. Today, Google has released three new […]