Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks

Datalab has released OmniExtractBench, an open benchmark for structured document extraction. It tests how accurately a system fills a JSON schema from a PDF. The benchmark pools 620 documents from…

AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms

AWS Strands Labs releases Strands Decider 2B, an open source decision model. It does not generate text. It reads a state and typed questions, then returns a choice, a yes/no…

Cloudflare Releases Clef and Clef-flash: Open-Weight Decision Models That Return Typed Probabilities Instead of Text

Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, the first models trained by its Workers AI team. They are decision models, not chatbots. Each reads an input state and a schema of…

A Coding Guide to Google Research’s Kauldron: Configs That Are Plain Data, Components Wired by String, and a JAX Trainer You Can Read End to End

In this tutorial, we implement Kauldron, the JAX training library from Google Research that describes itself as optimized for research velocity and modularity, and we take those two words literally…

Cohere Releases Embed 5: How It Compares to Voyage 4 Large, Gemini Embedding 2, and OpenAI

Cohere has released Embed 5, a new embedding model family. It targets enterprise search, RAG, and agentic retrieval. The model family ships in 2 tiers. Embed 5 Pro targets maximum…

NVIDIA Releases Kumo Tabular: Open Tabular Foundation Models That Predict New Rows in a Single Forward Pass

NVIDIA has released Kumo Tabular, a new family of tabular foundation models (TFMs) for classification and regression. If you have followed TabPFN or TabICL, the setup will look familiar. The…

Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview: A Contextual Embedding Model That Retrieves Answers and Their Supporting Evidence

Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines. Each chunk is embedded with the full document in view. The real change is the training…

OpenAI Releases GPT-6.1 Sol: Near-Astra Coding and Computer Use at One-Fifth of Astra’s Token Price

This week, OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol. It upgrades GPT-6 Sol, the mid-tier model in the GPT-6 family. OpenAI’s claim is specific: near-Astra results on agentic coding, computer use, and professional…

Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work and Cyber Defense

Google DeepMind has just announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model and the first model of the Gemini 4 generation. It targets long-horizon software engineering, enterprise knowledge work in…

Perplexity Introduces Photon: A Rust-Based Retrieval Engine That Cuts p99 Latency From 800 ms to 65 ms

Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had forked for its AI-native search stack. Photon now handles retrieval…