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Visit website →Free cloud model access ends November 9, 2026, shifting users to pay-as-you-go
Free plan accounts automatically switch to pay-as-you-go on November 9, 2026, requiring credits for cloud models like gemma4:31b and gpt-oss:120b.
NVIDIA Releases AlpaJudge Learned Judge Models for Autonomous Driving Reasoning
The family includes reference-based and reference-free variants released on Hugging Face under OpenMDW-1.1 and Apache 2.0 licenses.
OpenEBFM: 1B-Parameter Energy-Based Model Outperforms GPT Baseline on Zero-Shot QA
The largest 1B-parameter model achieves 44.71% average zero-shot QA accuracy, surpassing the 39.79% of the corresponding GPT baseline.
Arc-Transcriber: ~70 MB streaming speech model integrates ASR and entity linking in one step
The ~70 MB model uses 200+ trained heads on a shared encoder to output transcripts, linked names, and metadata every 100 ms.
Microsoft Q1 revenue hits $92.3 billion as Azure cloud growth accelerates to 48%
Azure cloud revenue grew 48% year-over-year, driving total first-quarter revenue to $92.3 billion and profit to $36.6 billion.
OpenClaw v2026.10.9 fixes update recovery and agent data repair issues
The patch release includes 38 pull requests that fix Git rollback failures and stale search index repairs.
Workhorse and RHAELM Sign $10M Agreement for TerraPod AI Infrastructure Manufacturing
The deal includes a non-binding intent to supply 150 TerraPod systems by December 31, 2026.
UkisAI Releases Swift GLM-5.3-Flash and Ornith 9B with Reduced Token Usage
Swift GLM-5.3-Flash achieves -61.4% thinking tokens on MMLU-PRO with -0.46% average accuracy loss across nine benchmarks.
ServiceNow Releases Apriel Voice 27B Preview: Open Model for Speech, Reasoning, and Tool Use
The open-source model uses a Gemma 4 backbone and Whisper encoder to handle speech, reasoning, and tool calls, outperforming other open-source systems on voice benchmarks.
Hyperparam releases HypAware, an open-source tool for analyzing Claude Code session logs
The tool indexes local Claude Code session histories to identify broken workflows and silent regressions, such as agents failing to load skills due to edited descriptions.
Rochester and NVIDIA researchers develop pixel-space diffusion model for precise AI image editing
The model enables precise pixel-level changes without unintentionally altering unrelated details, addressing a common limitation of latent-space generators.
SafeAgents: Open-Source Proxy Intercepts Coding Agent Tool Calls Before Execution
SafeAgents is an open-source local proxy that uses up to three checks, including 110 deterministic detectors, to intercept and block malicious or out-of-scope tool calls before execution.
Hemmingway-1.5: 27B Open-Weight Model Claims 90% Success Rate Against AI Detectors
The 27B parameter open-weights model is free for non-commercial use and outperforms real human writing in detector evasion tests.
JSSA Achieves 6.43x Decoding Throughput on B200 GPUs for 128K Context
The method maintains near-full-KV accuracy while supporting 700B scale models at 96-99% of DSA throughput.
LIMe Reduces LLM Training Compute by 15% Without Quality Loss
Presented at EMNLP 2026, the method reuses key-value buffers from earlier layers to mitigate representation collapse in ~1B parameter models.
libstrix plugin delivers up to 31x faster prefill for vLLM on Strix Halo APUs
The open-source plugin targets gfx1151 hardware to optimize MoE GEMMs and attention layers, reducing 256k prompt prefill time from over two hours to four minutes.
OpenAI Reportedly Plans to Buy Google TPUs to Reduce Nvidia Reliance
Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet plan to spend up to $600 billion combined on AI infrastructure this year.
Generic feedback matches self-written critiques in hindsight self-distillation for financial reasoning
A study on GPT-OSS-20B shows that a fixed generic feedback line yields the same ~3-point performance gain as self-written critiques in multi-step financial reasoning.
OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 and MiniCPM-OCR-Jev for local document parsing and verification
The 1B OCR model runs locally on mobile devices while the 2B verifier model checks output accuracy against original images.
AuroraIMG2-50M-Preview: 90M Parameter Text-to-Image Model Runs on 2016 Laptop CPU
The model features a 50M parameter denoiser and generates images in 11 seconds at 20 steps on an Intel i5 7200U.