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Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals
French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese rivals.
Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans
Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment times, and maintenance needs.
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Reka Releases Rho-1: A 19B Omni-Reasoning Model That Understands, Generates Video and Outputs Robot Actions in One
Reka has released Rho-1, a 19B omni-reasoning model trained from scratch. One network reads and generates text, images, video and robot actions over a shared KV cache. A distilled variant returns a 5.3-second clip in about a second. It is a research preview with no public weights yet. The post Reka Releases Rho-1: A 19B Omni-Reasoning Model That Understands, Generates Video and Outputs Robot Actions in One appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Beyond Domain-Specific World Models: JEPA-Anything Uses 1 Recipe for 7 Fields
JEPA-Anything splits a JEPA's single latent target into 4 orthogonal factors, each with its own predictor. Tested across 7 domains, it beat matched JEPA baselines on all 10 dynamics tasks and cut Interventional Pong intervention error by 34.8%. The post Beyond Domain-Specific World Models: JEPA-Anything Uses 1 Recipe for 7 Fields appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Meet Together Link: A Free CLI That Runs Open Models Like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 Inside Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
Together AI has released Together Link, a free, MIT-licensed CLI that connects Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, and the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps to open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3. One install command sets it up, and an Auto router picks a model for each session. Together claims savings of over 50%. The post Meet Together Link: A Free CLI That Runs Open Models Like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 Inside Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Building a Streaming Robotics Learning Pipeline Using NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID
Discover how to construct an end-to-end streaming robotics learning pipeline using the NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID dataset without local downloads, leveraging byte-range Parquet reads, behavior cloning, and temporal ensembling. The post Building a Streaming Robotics Learning Pipeline Using NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads
Reflection AI has introduced Beam, its first open-weight model. It is a 501B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active parameters, built for coding and agentic work. Reflection says it matches GLM-5.2 on reasoning with 3 to 4x less inference compute. Apache 2.0 weights are due later in October 2026. The post Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads appeared first on MarkTechPost.
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product that would let institutions build their own customized, local AI system by training Reflection’s AI models on their own proprietary data.
Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.
TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
TikTok describes its new Shopping Assistant as a conversational AI agent designed to help users discover and purchase products.