Pathway bets on life after the Transformer at a $500M valuation
AI research company Pathway, which develops models based on what it calls a Post-Transformer BDH architecture, has closed a $30 million seed round at a $500 million valuation.
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Top-ranked DeepSeek V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks
DeepSeek's leaderboard-topping V4 Flash completed only 53.8% of complex agent tasks in testing. Thirty hard tasks were run across eight different agent harnesses.
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DeepSeek made three moves at once: model, open source, price rise
DeepSeek took V4-Pro out of testing, open-sourced its agent software and raised API prices. The new rates make usage outside Chinese business hours cheaper.
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A 3-billion-parameter agent closes in on models ten times its size
Microsoft Research's open-source Orchard framework provides shared infrastructure for agent training. Orchard-SWE scores 69.7 percent on SWE-bench Verified.
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A 45-million-parameter model that fits in a 14MB binary
Cactus Compute's open model Needle 2 is built for tool calling. It ships as a single 14MB binary and runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM.
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Writer's pitch: the cost saving is in the harness, not the model
Writer has launched Palmyra X6, built on the open source GLM-5.2. Its own research says harness efficiency cuts costs more reliably than choosing a different model.
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NVIDIA releases a 30-billion-parameter open model for agents
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for long-running agentic workloads, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an open source library that routes each request to the most suitable model.
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DeepMind brings sign-language-to-text translation to the phone
Google DeepMind's SL2T model translates sign language into text and enters a consumer product for the first time, starting with American Sign Language on the Pixel 11.
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Grok 4.6 lands: not a bigger model, a longer training run
SpaceXAI's new model invests in post-training rather than a larger base. Grok 4.6 brings a 500K-token context, an agent focus and API pricing that undercuts rivals.
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Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights
Alibaba's Qwen team has published the 27-billion-parameter multimodal Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 licence. The model handles a 262,000-token context natively.
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Google Gemini 3.7 Flash: Low-Cost Coding Model
Google announced Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash's release, offering improvements in coding and agent tasks while halving its price.
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Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3 Using the Same Base Model
Z.ai has introduced GLM-5.3, using the same 743-billion-parameter base model as GLM-5.2; all improvements came from post-training scaling.
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Alibaba's Qwen Models Surpass 3 Billion Downloads in 6 Months
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen model family surpassed 3 billion downloads globally in six months, outpacing Google and Meta. According to Hugging Face data, Qwen has become the most-derived model in the open-source ecosystem.
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