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Google AI Releases Elephant-Goldfish Model Plugin for Spec-First Coding

Google has open-sourced the Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM) plugin, a design-and-review layer for AI coding agents. The Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin makes […]

Which Routing Does Each MoE Model Use? DeepSeek, Qwen, Mixtral, Llama 4, gpt-oss Compared

Open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models share one idea but disagree on almost every routing detail. Expert counts range from 8 to […]

MoE Routing Strategies Explained: Top-K, Expert-Choice, Sigmoid Gating and Dynamic Routing (2026 Guide)

Every Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model repeats one decision for every token: which experts should process it. That decision belongs to the […]

Nous Research Releases Arete-27B that Cuts Qwen3.8-27B Propaganda From 22% to 0.9%

Nous Research has released Arete-27B, a supervised fine-tune of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B. Arete-27B is a 27B open-weight model that strips Chinese […]

How to Run NVIDIA Dory 4B with llama.cpp: Loop by Loop Guide

In this tutorial, we work with Dory 1.0 4B, a small reasoning model from NVIDIA’s Nemotron Labs whose middle layers […]

Buoyant Releases Kinference: An Open Source Inference Control Plane for Kubernetes and vLLM

Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, has released Kinference, an open source project for building inference platforms on Kubernetes. Kinference is […]