Nous Research’s open-source Hermes Agent now ships a Tool Search feature. It directly addresses a growing bottleneck in AI agent […]
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NVIDIA Introduces X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer KD That Outperforms GOLD by +3.82 Average Points on Llama-3.2-1B
Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers “dark knowledge” from a large teacher model to a smaller student. The student learns from the […]
StepFun Releases Step 3.7 Flash: A 198B MoE Vision-Language Model for Coding Agents and Search Workflows
StepFun today released Step 3.7 Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model targeting agentic use cases. It adds native vision input and […]
Meet mKernel: A Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernel Library for GPU-Driven Communication
GPU communication overhead is a measurable bottleneck in production AI workloads. According to data cited by the mKernel project, communication […]
Hexo Labs Open-Sources SIA: A Self-Improving Agent That Updates Both the Harness and the Model Weights
Most AI agents stop improving once a human stops tuning them. The model is fixed. The scaffold around it is […]
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An On-Device MoE Model With 8.3B Total and 1.5B Active Parameters
Liquid AI just shipped LFM2.5-8B-A1B. It is an on-device Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model built for tool calling. The model holds 8.3B […]
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Alongside Dynamic Workflows and Cheaper Fast Mode, With Workflows Capped at 1,000 Subagents
Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 4.8. Also, there two Claude Code updates shipped with it. Dynamic workflows run many subagents […]
Perplexity AI Open-Sources Unigram Tokenizer That Achieves 5x Lower p50 Latency Than Hugging Face tokenizers Crate
Perplexity AI’s research team reimplemented their Unigram tokenizer from scratch in Rust and open-sourced the code in pplx-garden, their inference […]
Sakana AI Proposes DiffusionBlocks: a Block-wise Training Framework That Converts Residual Networks into Independently Trainable Denoising Modules
Researchers from Sakana AI and the University of Tokyo propose DiffusionBlocks. It trains transformer-based networks one block at a time. […]
NVIDIA Releases Polar, a Token-Faithful Rollout Framework for GRPO Training Across Codex, Claude Code, and Qwen Code
Reinforcement learning for language agents is growing more complex. Agents now manage multi-turn tool use, long-running contexts, and multi-agent orchestration. […]