Applications – The TechBriefs

IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models

IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. Unlike […]

Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together

Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone. […]

Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps

Perplexity has released Portable Computer, a local-first build of its agentic Computer platform that runs the agent harness, orchestrator, planner, […]

Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet

Training and serving frontier models is now a networking problem as much as a compute problem. Collective operations like all-reduce […]

Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction

Information extraction teams face a recurring choice. Small encoder models are cheap but rigid, and large language models are flexible […]

Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo

Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop […]

Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings

A team from Google Research and USC has released Mobility-Embedded POIs (ME-POIs), a framework that folds aggregate human movement into […]

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