Applications – The TechBriefs

Can LLMs Engineer Their Own Agent Harness? ByteDance Seed’s HarnessDev Says Only 34 of 64 Changes Generalize

An agent harness is the code around a model: execution loop, tools, context, state, recovery, and verification. Per the Terminal-Bench […]

Anthropic Adds Plugin Evals to Claude Code: 6 Grader Types, a No-Plugin Baseline, and a CI Gate for Skills

Anthropic has published a new plugin evals workflow for Claude Code. The claude plugin eval command runs a plugin against […]

Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages

Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight machine translation model from Cohere and Cohere Labs. It is a sparse […]

Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration

Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, 2 new models in its Sakana Fugu family. Fugu is […]

Google Research Releases ToolGrad: Answer-First Framework Hits 99.8% Pass Rate for Tool-Use Data Generation

Training an LLM to call tools reliably requires datasets that pair user queries with correct tool-use chains. Producing that data […]

Meet Redis LangCache: A Managed Semantic Cache That Cuts LLM API Costs by Up to 90% and Returns Cache Hits Up to 15x Faster

Production LLM applications rarely receive a question nobody has asked before. Support assistants and RAG pipelines field the same intents […]

NVIDIA Details BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR): 2.90x Higher Boltz-2 Folding Throughput and 58.5K Residues per GPU-Hour on 8xH100

Biomolecular structure prediction has shifted from single-target runs to proteome-scale worklists. The bottleneck is no longer whether a model can […]

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