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Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day
Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, the C++ and Python library it has used for over 9 years to place shards, servers and traffic. It handles about 40 million assignment problems a day, using local search or MIP solvers like Gurobi, FICO Xpress and HiGHS. It is pip-installable under Apache 2.0. The post Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day appeared first on MarkTechPost.
A Developer’s Guide to Laya: Zero-Shot Decisions and Calibration
Explore a comprehensive coding guide to Laya, the open-source zero-shot decision engine. Learn how to implement typed decisions, fit custom temperatures, and build reliable abstention gates using real-world CLINC150 banking data. The post A Developer’s Guide to Laya: Zero-Shot Decisions and Calibration appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product
Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.
How AI decision models could change content moderation
On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.
AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO
Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.
The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new standard aims to help.
Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4
Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 maps 5 input types into one 768d space and ships today under Apache 2.0. The post Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4 appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy
The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.
Mistral AI Releases Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk): A 1.05T Parameter Multimodal MoE Model
Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, as a public preview. It is a 1.05 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model with 49 billion active parameters, native image input, and a 1 million token context window, trained on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in Mistral's own European datacenters. The API is live now; open weights ship end of October 2026. The post Mistral AI Releases Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk): A 1.05T Parameter Multimodal MoE Model appeared first on MarkTechPo
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior
Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research and brand strategy.
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits
"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of models, rather than through the models alone."
LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.