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Liquid AI releases weights for d1-3B and d1-omni-600M for local decision-making

Liquid AI has released the open weights of d1-3B and d1-omni-600M. The models return decisions in a single pass without generating tokens. They support text with images, and the experimental d1-omni-600M also supports text with audio.

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GitHub is moving checks for leaked credentials to a new specialized model

Starting on the day of the announcement, GitHub is automatically moving existing AI credential checks to a new model. They remain available to GHSP and GHAS customers at no additional charge. According to the company, the model uses the context of the surrounding code to recognize passwords that lack a typical format.

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ChatGPT with GPT-6 models adds interactive forms and responses during reasoning

The Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT also includes interactive forms. GPT-6 models can respond while reasoning, which OpenAI says reduces waiting time by 44 %. The rollout is global and is proceeding gradually by plan.

New: Intelligent UI also supports interactive forms.; OpenAI says it trained GPT-6 to decide when to use interactive visualizations and how to format them.

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Claude Haiku 5.5 released with a context window of one million tokens

Claude Haiku 5.5 is available through Claude API and four cloud offerings. It has a context window of one million tokens, a maximum output of 128 thousand tokens and support for adaptive thinking with the effort parameter.

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Musubi releases PolicyLM-1.7B for moderation based on natural-language rules

Musubi released PolicyLM-1.7B with open weights. It uses rules written in English to decide whether content belongs to a specified category. According to the company, evaluation takes less than 50 milliseconds, and changing the rules does not require retraining.

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Google released EmbeddingGemma 2 for local search across text, images and audio

Google released the open model EmbeddingGemma 2, which converts text, code, images, video and audio into a shared space of numerical vectors. It has 740 million parameters, uses the Apache 2.0 license and can run locally without an API key.

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Sources disagree on the availability of weights for Mistral Large 4

The WIRED article describes Mistral Large 4 as available with open weights, while other sources describe their release as still planned. The public API preview has safety restrictions; selected partners are testing a version with reduced moderation.

New: The public endpoint has safety restrictions.; The weights are scheduled for release in three weeks, after safety testing is completed.; According to the company, it trained the model on its own infrastructure with 4 000 Nvidia GPUs.; Benchmark results are not yet available.

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T-Search released with open weights for multi-step retrieval of evidence passages

The authors released T-Search, a testing environment and a live demo. The model searches for evidence passages in a given corpus over several rounds. According to the authors, it achieves an average Recall@10 of 56.0 in a single run and 61.3 when combining three runs.

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Beam is available with open weights and through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Reflection AI has released the weights for Beam under the Apache 2.0 license. The model for coding and agent tasks is also available through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart in two US regions. It offers a million-token context window, but self-hosting requires multiple GPUs.

New: Beam is available through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart at launch.; Availability in JumpStart includes the US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio) regions.; BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 variants are available.

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Technical report on Kolibri describes training on 24 trillion tokens

The technical report on Kolibri describes training on 24 trillion tokens and reinforcement learning on more than 1.2 million tasks. The German-English model from Aleph Alpha has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license.

New: Training involved 24 trillion tokens.; The training data includes over two trillion German tokens obtained through an in-house web pipeline and synthetic generation.; Post-training included reinforcement learning on more than 1.2 million internally prepared tasks.

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Liquid AI has made d1 available for decisions based on text and images

The d1 model from Liquid AI processes both text and images and returns answer probabilities without generating tokens. It is available through the API and d1 Playground. The company lists a price of 0.04 USD per million input tokens and a text-based decision time of 200–300 ms.

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Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1 for creating and editing transparent images

The Qwen-Image-2.1 model from Alibaba natively generates and edits transparent images, creates images in 2K and processes up to ten reference images. Its weights are available, and it also runs on an NVIDIA 3090 GPU. Commercial use requires a separate license.

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Cloudflare releases Clef and Clef-flash models for AI agent decision-making

Cloudflare has released the Clef and Clef-flash models, which assign probabilities to predefined options. They support both text and images and are available on the Workers AI platform as well as under the Apache-2.0 license on the Hugging Face platform.

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AstaBrief 8B model released for scientific reports with citations, weights and training data also available

The AstaBrief 8B model generates scientific reports with citations and is available in the Fast mode of the Asta service. The authors are releasing both the weights and the training data. According to their measurements, the entire process takes an average of 51.1 seconds compared to 178.5 seconds in Thinking mode.

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Microsoft releases three models for speech transcription and generation for voice agents

Microsoft has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. They offer transcription in 60 languages and speech generation in 23 languages. The introductory transcription price is 0.54 USD per hour of audio until the end of the year.

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Griffin generates video at a resolution of 720p in 350 ms chunks, according to Tavus

According to Tavus, Griffin generates video at a resolution of 720p in 350 ms chunks and responds to speech and visual input during a call. Griffin-Lite is available to selected testers as a research preview.

New: The system generates video at a resolution of 720p.; Video is generated in 350 ms chunks.

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Ideogram releases Ideogram 4.5 model for targeted image edits

The Ideogram 4.5 model is available on the Ideogram platform and via API. According to Ideogram, it changes only the requested parts of an image. It offers four quality tiers at native 2K resolution for 0.8 to 22 cents per image.