Gemini Robotics 1.5: DeepMind’s ER↔VLA Stack Brings Agentic Robots to the Real World

Can a single AI stack plan like a researcher, reason over scenes, and transfer motions across different robots—without retraining from scratch? Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 1.5 says yes, by splitting…

Top 10 Local LLMs (2025): Context Windows, VRAM Targets, and Licenses Compared

Local LLMs matured fast in 2025: open-weight families like Llama 3.1 (128K context length (ctx)), Qwen3 (Apache-2.0, dense + MoE), Gemma 2 (9B/27B, 8K ctx), Mixtral 8×7B (Apache-2.0 SMoE), and…

What is Asyncio? Getting Started with Asynchronous Python and Using Asyncio in an AI Application with an LLM

In many AI applications today, performance is a big deal. You may have noticed that while working with Large Language Models (LLMs), a lot of time is spent waiting—waiting for…

The Latest Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview is Now the Fastest Proprietary Model (External Tests) and 50% Fewer Output Tokens

Google released an updated version of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite preview models across AI Studio and Vertex AI, plus rolling aliases—gemini-flash-latest and…

How to Build an Intelligent AI Desktop Automation Agent with Natural Language Commands and Interactive Simulation?

In this tutorial, we walk through the process of building an advanced AI desktop automation agent that runs seamlessly in Google Colab. We design it to interpret natural language commands,…

Meet Qwen3Guard: The Qwen3-based Multilingual Safety Guardrail Models Built for Global, Real-Time AI Safety

Can safety keep up with real-time LLMs? Alibaba’s Qwen team thinks so, and it just shipped Qwen3Guard—a multilingual guardrail model family built to moderate prompts and streaming responses in-real-time. Qwen3Guard…

Hugging Face Releases Smol2Operator: A Fully Open-Source Pipeline to Train a 2.2B VLM into an Agentic GUI Coder

Hugging Face (HF) has released Smol2Operator, a reproducible, end-to-end recipe that turns a small vision-language model (VLM) with no prior UI grounding into a GUI-operating, tool-using agent. The release covers…

Sakana AI Released ShinkaEvolve: An Open-Source Framework that Evolves Programs for Scientific Discovery with Unprecedented Sample-Efficiency

Sakana AI has released ShinkaEvolve, an open-sourced framework that uses large language models (LLMs) as mutation operators in an evolutionary loop to evolve programs for scientific and engineering problems—while drastically…

Google AI Ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Data Commons, Giving AI Agents First-Class Access to Public Stats

Google released a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Data Commons, exposing the project’s interconnected public datasets—census, health, climate, economics—through a standards-based interface that agentic systems can query in natural…

OpenAI Introduces GDPval: A New Evaluation Suite that Measures AI on Real-World Economically Valuable Tasks

OpenAI introduced GDPval, a new evaluation suite designed to measure how AI models perform on real-world, economically valuable tasks across 44 occupations in nine GDP-dominant U.S. sectors. Unlike academic benchmarks,…