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Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost

Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling, a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 […]

Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model

Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a […]

Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens

Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B model from its in-house research lab, Base Labs. The joey-1 decision model returns a […]

Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE: Trainable Fused MoE Kernel, 3.11x Faster Forward Pass

Prime Intellect has released Prime Mega MoE, a training extension of DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. DeepSeek’s kernel only ran […]

Infini-AI-Lab Releases Hermit, an Open-Source Harness Adapter Framework for AI Agents

Infini-AI-Lab has released Hermit, an open-source harness adapter framework for AI agents. Hermit is a framework from Infini-AI-Lab that trains […]

Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech

Block’s AI research lab has released Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on human conversation. Block announced it on […]

AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents

AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model, now generally available. The AssemblyAI-TTS-1 text-to-speech API targets voice agents running on […]