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FlashML released FreeToken, an edge-native Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) serving engine that runs 290B+ parameter frontier MoE models locally on consumer gaming PCs at interactive speeds. The engine supports heterogeneous edg…
A developer fixed a 58%-reproducible race condition in the disk cache of the Vesuvius Challenge's open-source monorepo, ScrollPrize/villa, which uses machine learning to read carbonized Herculaneum scrolls. The bug cause…
Nvidia's latest demo shows that optimizing the inference stack, not the model weights, is the key to performance, achieving 4.2× higher throughput at half the latency on identical H100 hardware with Llama-3-70B using Ten…
A developer built a cover-only book recommender that fuses CLIP vector embeddings with GLiNER-extracted entities via Reciprocal Rank Fusion, queried against the Hardcover API, and uses a two-tower neural hybrid model wit…
Hugging Face Community leads free AI learning communities with over 300,000 registered users and a Discord server of more than 45,000 members, while Reddit r/MachineLearning exceeds 2.3 million subscribers and Kaggle cou…
Absci, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, is hiring a Senior/Staff AI Scientist for antibody design with a salary of $160k–260k/yr, in a remote position based in the United States. The role involves developing and d…
Absci, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, is hiring a Senior/Staff AI Scientist for Target Discovery with a salary range of $160k–260k/yr for a remote position in the United States. The role involves developing and …
A developer trained a 125M-parameter transformer for real-time MIDI autocomplete, achieving approximately 108 notes per second on an iPhone 15, modeled after GitHub Copilot's code completion approach but for piano perfor…
Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures co-led an undisclosed initial funding round for Discovery Loop, the AI research startup founded by Jeff Dean and three Google veterans, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Lights…
Z.ai and NVIDIA engineers trained GLM-5.2, a 744B-parameter mixture-of-experts model quantized to 4-bit NVFP4, with reinforcement learning to play Super Mario Bros., overcoming arithmetic, distributed-systems, and traini…
VirgilFlow, a Python and eBPF-based infrastructure defense tool, fixed a critical performance bug that caused up to 28% telemetry trace drops under high load. The team used Google AI Studio with Gemini 1.5 Pro to refacto…
A developer fine-tuned OpenAI's whisper-small speech recognition model on 7.7 hours of Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 4.0 and made it 2.6 times worse, with word error rate rising from 10.8% to 28.0% on held-out …
Waymo LLC, the autonomous driving unit of Alphabet Inc., revealed details of its in-vehicle compute system, including a new purpose-built 5nm ASIC designed to process raw sensor data for its Waymo Driver. The company sai…
North.cloud released v3, adding Azure support, AI spend tracking, and an ML-powered commitment engine called Autobot to unify cloud, AI, and data costs into one financial view. CEO Matt Biringer said the release reflects…
Lila Sciences is hiring a Research Scientist I/II in Computational Organic Electronics in Cambridge, MA, offering $176k–304k/yr, to apply computational methods and AI to accelerate discovery and design of organic electro…
A new method called COPA reduces attack success rates by 6.3× versus the best static baseline and 4.4× on average across lifelong attack streams, while retaining 92% defense on month-old attacks compared to 61% for repla…
Liquid AI released DSpark draft model checkpoints for three LFM2.5 models, enabling speculative decoding that speeds up inference by up to 3.18x on GPUs and 2.87x on-device without changing output quality. The draft mode…
Swayable, a Y Combinator-backed AI and data science platform founded in 2018, is hiring a Senior AI/ML Engineer for its San Francisco office with a salary range of $175k–250k/yr. The role requires 5+ years of experience …
A developer launched a Speculative Decoding Speedup Calculator in OmniTool Hub to help developers configure local inference setups. The technique, which uses a small draft model to speculate tokens and a larger target mo…
Google researchers introduced the Biomarker Discovery Framework, a multi-agent system that prioritizes candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data with human oversight. Across three cohorts totaling 9,279 participant-…