Most production recommenders are cascades. Candidate generators feed a pre-ranker, which feeds a heavy ranker built on hundreds of engineered […]
Category: Machine Learning
The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T
In April 2023, Alibaba Cloud demoed a chatbot whose name roughly means ‘truth from a thousand questions.’ Three and a […]
Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks
Cantina Security, with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1, an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability research. It is a reinforcement […]
Google Research Moves Federated Learning Into TEEs: Gboard Now Trains With Externally Verifiable Differential Privacy
Google Research has announced a next-generation Federated Learning (FL) system built on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). The research team claims […]
Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model built for German and English. Kolibri has 78.1B total […]
IBM Brings Bob to Self-Hosted and Air-Gapped Environments: Agentic Software Development Without Moving Your Code
IBM has made a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob generally available. Bob is IBM’s agentic software development platform. It […]
Prime Intellect Launches Prime Inference: Serverless and Reserved Serving for Frontier Open Models
Prime Intellect has launched Prime Inference, a serving platform for frontier open-source models. It offers serverless endpoints and reserved capacity […]
NVIDIA Announces DGX Spark 64GB: A 1-PetaFLOP Grace Blackwell Desktop for Local AI Agents, Fine-Tuning, and Inference
NVIDIA announced a new 64GB configuration of DGX Spark — from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI — its […]
Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks
Datalab has released OmniExtractBench, an open benchmark for structured document extraction. It tests how accurately a system fills a JSON […]
AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms
AWS Strands Labs releases Strands Decider 2B, an open source decision model. It does not generate text. It reads a […]