Author: uet200
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LittleBit-2: Samsung’s Sub-1-Bit LLMs via Latent Geometry Alignment
Lead — On July 23, 2026, Samsung Research published LittleBit-2, the successor to a compression method that pushes large language models below one bit per weight. Presented at ICML 2026, LittleBit-2 keeps the original LittleBit architecture from NeurIPS 2025 but changes one thing: how the compressed weights are initialized. That single change takes the method […]
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JetBrains Ships Mellum2.1, a 12B Open Model for Coding Agents
JetBrains released Mellum2.1 on October 8, 2026 — the next version of the 12-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model it open-sourced in June. The architecture is unchanged, the license is still Apache 2.0, and the weights are on Hugging Face. What changed is everything after pre-training: JetBrains says the update was driven by scaling up reinforcement learning in […]
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The 8 GB Accelerator That Becomes 64 GB: cmpunlocker v0.5
On 5 October 2026, the open-source project cmpunlocker released version 0.5, adding error-correcting code (ECC) on both DRAM and SRAM, and four more streaming multiprocessors (SMs), to a card it has spent more than a year re-enabling: the NVIDIA CMP 170HX. The board is a GA100 accelerator — the same Ampere die that sits in […]
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Mistral Large 4: Europe’s 1T Open-Weight Model Enters Preview
On October 6, 2026, Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4 — a 1.05-trillion-parameter, natively multimodal model with 52 billion active parameters. Nicknamed “le Chonk” and unofficially ML4, it is the Paris-based lab’s largest model to date and, on Mistral’s own numbers, the strongest open-weight model developed outside China. The preview API […]
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Google’s EmbeddingGemma 2 Puts Multimodal Search on the Device
Lead — On October 6, 2026, Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter open model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single shared 768-dimensional vector space. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture and shipped under the commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license, it is designed to run on phones and laptops rather […]
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Liquid AI Releases Open-Weight d1 Decision Models for the Edge
On October 7, 2026, Liquid AI released two open-weight “decision models”: d1-3B and d1-omni-600M. Unlike the generative Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) they are built from, neither writes text. Given a state — text, JSON, one or more images, or, for the smaller model, a voice clip of up to 30 seconds — plus a set […]
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DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Ships as a Desktop App for macOS and Windows
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.2 on September 29, 2026, and with it the first official desktop installers for macOS (Apple silicon) and Windows. Seven weeks ago Harness debuted as a developer-preview agent runtime that you launched from a terminal with npx. It now installs like an ordinary desktop app: sign in, pick a local folder […]
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OpenAI’s Decisions API Picks Answers Instead of Writing Them
OpenAI introduced the Decisions API at DevDay on September 29, 2026 — an endpoint that does not write text at all. Developers define a question and a finite set of allowed answers, pass in text or an image as context, and get one of those answers back. It runs on a specialised version of GPT‑6 […]
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OpenAI Launches Dots, Always-On Agents Powered by GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI launched dots at DevDay on September 29, 2026: always-on personal agents, powered by GPT‑6 Astra, that run on their own cloud computers and keep working on your goals when you aren’t in the chat. OpenAI calls them “remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything.” The pitch is a change of interaction model. You […]
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TeleOCR Parses Crumpled, Photographed Pages Without Dewarping
A research team at China Telecom’s AI subsidiary (TeleAI) has released TeleOCR, a 1.2-billion-parameter vision-language model that parses both clean digital documents and photographed ones — folded, curled, or crumpled — with no separate dewarping step. The weights first went up on Hugging Face on August 17, 2026 under the name NaviDC-OCR. The team renamed […]