Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding. It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 8B activated parameters per…

Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: A Cheaper, More Token-Efficient Flash Tier Built for Agentic Workloads

Developers building production agents need higher token efficiency, lower latency, and more reliable performance. Today, Google has released three new Gemini models. The lineup is…

Validating Distributed LLM Serving Benchmarks with NVIDIA srt-slurm, SLURM Recipes, Parameter Sweeps, and Pareto Analysis

In this tutorial, we explore NVIDIA’s srt-slurm framework and learn how we use srtctl to convert declarative YAML configurations into reproducible SLURM benchmark workflows for distributed LLM serving. We set…

Meta Open-Sources Astryx: An Agent-Ready React Design System With 150+ Accessible Components, Seven Themes, and a CLI

Meta has released Astryx, an open source design system that is fully customizable and built to be operated by both people and the AI agents working alongside them. It is…

NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 Edge: A 4B-Parameter Open World Model That Reasons and Generates Robot Actions On-Device

“> What does world model do here A world model learns how an environment changes over time. It represents objects, motion, spatial relationships, and the effects of actions. Consider a…

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages

Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation. Both…

Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model

A community developer, GnLOLot, has published a 1B model that runs fully on local hardware. The model is MiniCPM5-1B-Claude-Opus-Fable5-Thinking, with GGUF builds for llama.cpp-compatible runtimes. It needs no API key…

Best Local LLMs You Can Run on a Single 24GB GPU in 2026: Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek Compared

A single 24GB card is the practical floor for serious local inference. It is enough for genuinely capable models, and small enough to sit on one GPU. An RTX 3090…

Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch

On July 19, Alibaba’s Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, the next flagship in the Qwen family. The research team describes it as a 2.4 trillion-parameter model,…

Feyn AI Releases SQRL, a Text-to-SQL Model Family That Inspects the Database Before Writing a Query

Most text-to-SQL systems treat the task as translation. Feyn AI (YC-backed startup) reframes it around inspection. The Feyn team has released SQRL, a family of models that turn natural language…