New models, papers, and benchmarks
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Xiaomi just gave away one of the harder pieces of the voice stack. On September 11 the company released and open-sourced Xiaomi-CocktailASR-1, an end-to-end speech recognition model built to solve the cocktail party problem — transcribing one specific person's speech from an audio mix
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The models that cracked competition math still can't find a new particle — and Princeton's Mengdi Wang thinks she knows why. Large models learn "the most likely" answer, and science lives in the long tail. That was the core of a keynote from Mengdi Wang,
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Coding agents stopped being a two-horse race today. Cognition has launched SWE-2, the model behind Devin, and by its own published numbers it lands closer to the frontier than any release in the company's history — while undercutting the models it trails on cost. On the FrontierCode
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Sber's GigaChat team has open-weighted a 432-billion-parameter reasoning model under an MIT licence, and the numbers put it within touching distance of DeepSeek V4 Flash. GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning runs 28 billion active parameters, trains natively in FP8, and mixes multi-head latent attention with
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Alibaba's mapping arm used its Street Stars anniversary to make a bigger claim: it now has a world model that generates explorable 3D space, not just renders it. Two smaller stories round out the hour — a computer-vision benchmark that found audio evidence beats extra parameters, and a
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Three stories from Shanghai's Bund Summit and the Chinese feeds this morning: an energy company's weather model just took the crown on the field's most-cited benchmark, Alipay's assistant started booking real travel, and a Nobel laureate put a number on what
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DeepSeek's mid-morning release isn't just a new checkpoint. It's a new architecture, an open-weights drop, and a forced migration for anyone still calling its flagship — all in one announcement. DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash on Wednesday, the first model in a new
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Two stories this morning are about the same underlying bet: that AI earns its place by being right about something narrow and measurable. One is a gastric cancer model validated on thousands of real patients; the other is a regulator deciding that some uses of AI are too socially expensive
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A Millennium Prize problem appears to have fallen, and the interesting part is not the proof. It is that the institutions mathematics uses to decide who discovered something — priority, publication, peer review, the two-year wait before a prize — all assume a human pace and a human author. OpenAI'
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A distillation-detection paper went looking for stolen reasoning traces and found something stranger: feed Moonshot's open-weight model a few words of Claude's thinking and it starts writing like Claude. Plus DeepSeek's next Flash model is about to swallow its own Pro tier,
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Two releases worth your attention this morning: OpenAI has turned its image model into a two-tier product line, and the former head of Huawei's Pangu model has shipped his first model out of a startup built on watching other models work. OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5
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Two releases worth your attention this morning: a fully open six-model fleet from Abu Dhabi's Institute of Foundation Models that ships with an audit of its own benchmark numbers, and a robotics hire that says where embodied AI thinks the bottleneck now sits. IFM published its own