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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 […] The post Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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 […] The post DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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. […] The post 20 Jev Alternatives: The Decision Models Taking On TypeSafe in 2026 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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 […] The post StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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 […] The post Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design
This article is brought to you by COMSOL. These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries. Despite the plethora of localized fulfillment and distribution centers that have cropped up to meet the demand, delivery trucks still need to make considerably long drives, often over highways. To reduce fuel and maintenance costs as well as carbon emissions, companies are investing in electric trucks for their delivery fleets. While turning to electric trucks is
Liquid AI Releases d1-ultra: A Multimodal Decision Model That Scores 65 on the AA Decision Index
Liquid AI released d1-ultra, a text and image decision model that returns calibrated probabilities in 1 forward pass. It scores 65 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index and costs $0.042 per million input tokens. The post Liquid AI Releases d1-ultra: A Multimodal Decision Model That Scores 65 on the AA Decision Index appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight MoE model with 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context. It leads open models on MCP-Atlas and runs on 2 M5 Ultra Mac Studios. The post Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context appeared first on MarkTechPost.
When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitness for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B-parameter multimodal MoE model with 12B active parameters, 1M-token context and NVFP4 weights that run on 1 DGX Spark, plus 2 Bolt edge models. The post NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model appeared first on MarkTechPost.