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Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation

Kyutai, with Inria and École des Ponts, has released REKI, a 2.4B vision-language-action model (VLA) for robot manipulation. The REKI vision-language-action model is pretrained only on public data. It also carries a cheap memory of its recent past. On three out-of-distribution benchmarks, only models about twice its size beat it. All weights are live on […]

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How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models

In this tutorial, we implement Structured Data Models, NVIDIA’s new library that puts several pretrained foundation models for tables behind one PyTorch interface, and use it to make predictions without training. The library wraps TabICLv2 and KumoTabular for single tables and KumoRelational for whole relational databases, and each of them answers by in-context learning: we […]

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DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API

DeepSeek has just released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, a new checkpoint of its V4.1-Flash model. It is live on the DeepSeek website, app and API. DeepSeek claims stronger scores, faster task completion and shorter outputs than the September V4.1-Flash release. The company calls it a Pareto improvement in performance and cost. Alongside it, DeepSeek opened its Search and […]

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Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won’t play nice? In recent weeks, […]

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Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites

After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page: … Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, […]

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Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents

Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind every task in Perplexity Computer. The Perplexity SPACE sandbox gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM. Credentials and outbound traffic are controlled from outside that VM. The code ships under Apache 2.0 on GitHub. For teams building coding or browsing agents, this is a production-tested isolation […]

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StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context

StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights. FP8 and BF16 checkpoints are live on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Step 5 Preview is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model from StepFun built for long-horizon agentic work. It has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and up to 1M tokens of context. For developers, this is […]

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20 Jev Alternatives: The Decision Models Taking On TypeSafe in 2026

TypeSafe launched Jev on September 15, 2026. It is a decision model, not a chatbot. You define the allowed answers, and Jev returns a label, a score or a yes/no probability. In about 4 weeks, at least 20 Jev alternatives shipped. They come from Cloudflare, OpenAI, Perplexity, Liquid AI, AWS’s Strands Labs and independent developers. […]

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