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Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup

Zyphra, the San Francisco-based AI lab behind the ZAYA1 model family, released ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview — a preview of its early work […]

Best AI Agents for Software Development Ranked: A Benchmark-Driven Look at the Current Field

The AI coding agent market looks almost unrecognizable compared to 2024 or even early 2025. What started as inline autocomplete […]

Supertone Releases Supertonic v3: On-Device Text-to-Speech Model with 31-Language Support, Fewer Reading Failures, and Expression Tags

Supertone released Supertonic 3, the third generation of its on-device, ONNX-based text-to-speech system. Supertonic 3 ships with 31-language support, improved […]

Poetiq’s Meta-System Automatically Builds a Model-Agnostic Harness That Improved Every LLM Tested on LiveCodeBench Pro Without Fine-Tuning

Poetiq has just published some very interesting results showing its Meta-System reached a new state-of-the-art on LiveCodeBench Pro (LCB Pro), […]

Cline Releases Cline SDK: An Open-Source Agent Runtime Now Powering Its CLI and Kanban, With IDE Extensions Being Migrated

Cline became ‘agentic’ before it was cool, but building on the bleeding edge usually leads to some structural debt. Over […]

Nous Research Releases Token Superposition Training to Speed Up LLM Pre-Training by Up to 2.5x Across 270M to 10B Parameter Models

Pre-training large language models is expensive enough that even modest efficiency improvements can translate into meaningful cost and time savings. […]