Harness²: Improving AI Agent Performance Without Model Upgrades
India's Most Futuristic AI Conference Is Back – Bigger, Sharper, Bolder
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GELU Activation Function Explained: How It Works and Why Transformers Use It
India's Most Futuristic AI Conference Is Back – Bigger, Sharper, Bolder
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Top 5 Local AI Models and How to Get Them
India's Most Futuristic AI Conference Is Back – Bigger, Sharper, Bolder
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7 Best AI Agent Collaboration Platforms in 2026
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GPT Image 2.6: The Best Image Generation Model Just Got an Upgrade!
India's Most Futuristic AI Conference Is Back – Bigger, Sharper, Bolder
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Google Releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: 15-Second AI Video at $0.07 per Second
Google has released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, the newest version of its video generation and editing model. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generates and edits clips up to 15 seconds natively. It also cuts the price by 30% compared with Omni 1.1 Flash. The model is generally available on Google Cloud and the Gemini API. For developers, the takeaways are longer clips, fewer re-renders and a lower bill per second.
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Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE With 17B Active
Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling 2 Small, the first model of its second Inkling generation. The Inkling 2 Small model is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) with 594B total and 17B active parameters. It accepts text and images, and supports variable reasoning effort. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores 31. Its predecessor, Inkling Small, scores 13 on the same index. The model is live on Tinker for fine-tuning and inference.
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Zyphra ZYFA: FP8 FlashAttention for AMD MI355X, Up to 1.76x Faster
Zyphra has released ZYFA (Zyphra FlashAttention on AMD), a set of FP8 and BF16 prefill attention kernels for AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs. ZYFA is Zyphra’s FP8 attention engine for long-context prefill, and the code is open source under Apache 2.0. On real model activations, its FP8 kernels run 1.16-1.76x faster than AITER, AMD’s default kernel library. At head dimension 128, ZYFA’s FP8 error is 62-78% lower than AITER’s.
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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 an inference control plane for Kubernetes and vLLM. It sits in front of a fleet of vLLM workers and decides where each request goes. It applies routing policies, token rate limits, KV-cache-aware load balancing and per-tenant metrics in one layer. For dev teams serving many open-weight models to many internal clients, it targets the layer above the model server. The project is Apache 2.0 licensed on GitHub. The current release is v0.1.0-alpha.7.
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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 form a shared block that can be applied once, twice, three, or four times for every token. Each extra pass, or loop, spends more computation per token without adding a single parameter, so one checkpoint can run at four different compute budgets with no retraining. We build the llama.cpp branch that NVIDIA’s model card pins, download the 3.7 GB GGUF, and read the architecture straight from the file to predict what each loop should cost in parameters and cache memory. We then check those predictions against the running server, measure decode speed at every loop count, test whether the cheaper…
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Build Your First Multi-Tool AI Agent with Ollama and Python
AI Agents for Beginners, Part 2: The agent picks between three database tools, uses each result to choose its next call, and stops at an eight-turn circuit-breaker if it gets stuck.
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How to Manage Python Environments with uv Instead of venv and pip
A side-by-side walkthrough of venv plus pip and uv init, uv add, uv run, and uv sync, with a lockfile that recreates the project on another machine.
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How to Measure AI Adoption, Performance, and ROI With 12 KPIs
Includes a worked example with 50 users and $110,000 in first-year cost, plus baselines, targets, and ownership rules for every AI initiative.
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How to Prioritize Product Feedback by Revenue at Risk
Bellwether joins support tickets, store reviews, sales calls, and NPS to CRM accounts, then stress-tests the ranking on 6,693 synthetic signals.
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Timestral, t0, Tabby, and Morpheus-2.0 Compared on GIFT-Eval
All four time-series foundation models scale, patch, and predict quantiles; the real split is how series share information.
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