IBM has released two new types of open speech recognition— Granite Speech 4.1 2B again Granite Speech 4.1 2B-NAR – and they make a compelling case for what a ~2B-parameter speech model can do. Both are available from Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. The pair addressed a particular problem that enterprise AI teams … Read more
Cursor, an AI-powered code editor, is opening up the underlying technology behind its coding agents to developers everywhere. The Cursor team has announced a public beta of Cursor SDK — a TypeScript library that gives developers access to the same runtime, frameworks, and models that power the Cursor desktop application, CLI, and web interface. This … Read more
There can be practical issues when it comes to deploying AI models in retail environments. Retail environments can include store-level systems, edge devices, and budget-conscious setups, especially for small to mid-sized retail companies. One such major use case is demand forecasting for inventory management or shelf optimization. It requires the model used to be small, … Read more
South Africa has released its first draft artificial intelligence policy following the discovery of false quotes in a document that appears to have been created by AI. The recall, which came after the revelation of the policy framework’s falsified references, is more than just a bureaucratic embarrassment; it’s the kind of gaffe that would make … Read more
Researchers at FAIR’s Meta lab have released NeuralSet, a Python framework designed to eliminate the most persistent bottleneck in Neuro-AI research: the painful, disparate process of getting brain data into a deep learning pipeline. The Problem: Neuroscience Data is Stuck in the Pre-Deep Learning Era Neuroscience already has excellent, battle-tested software. Tools like MNE-Python, EEGLAB, … Read more
There is so much noise right now that it seems like you have to pick a side between them MCP again Agent skills. It’s set up as a high-level rivalry, but that’s a technical misunderstanding. Skills and MCP are very different things. Just skills message loaded on demandwhile MCP is a Client-Server communication protocol. To … Read more
Poolside AI has released the first two models in its Laguna family: Laguna M.1 again Laguna XS.2. Along with this, the company releases lake — a lightweight terminal code agent and dual Agent Client (ACP) server — the same environment Poolside uses internally for RL agent training and testing, now available as a research preview. … Read more
OpenAI just quietly dropped something worth paying attention to. Released from Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, Privacy Filter is an open, bi-directional tokenization model, designed to identify and reconstruct personally identifiable information (PII) in text. It’s small enough to run in a web browser or on a laptop and fast enough for high-end … Read more
import random, numpy as np, torch, torch.nn as nn, torch.nn.functional as F import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from dataclasses import dataclass from typing import Tuple, Dict, List from torch.utils.data import Dataset, DataLoader try: from tqdm.auto import tqdm except Exception: def tqdm(x, **kwargs): return x SEED = 7 random.seed(SEED); np.random.seed(SEED); torch.manual_seed(SEED) if device.type == “cuda”: torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = … Read more
What if the language model has never heard of the Internet, smartphones, or World War II? That’s not a myth – that’s exactly what the research team led by Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford. They called it speak upand it may be the largest disciplinary language model ever released to the public. Talkie … Read more