Models
New and updated models, and how they score.
Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash
Following last week’s release of Clef and Clef-flash, Cloudflare’s open-weight decision models, we decided to bring forth more gifts.
ConwayResearch/Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0
ConwayResearch published the model Underdog-Saluki-27B-1.0 on Hugging Face.
mistralai/LIDstral-Arabic
mistralai published the model LIDstral-Arabic on Hugging Face.
[AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open Model
It’s been over a year since Reflection launched with us with big goals on coding (and hinted about their RL approach):
OrcaRouter Releases OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 Cybersecurity Model With 1M Context
OrcaRouter has released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a model for authorized vulnerability research.
VideoStop Renting Intelligence: The Train-to-Deploy Loop for Specialized AI — Fireworks AI
Jetashree Ravi, who leads part of the applied machine learning team at Fireworks AI, explains how teams move from closed models to open ones without losing quality.
llm-mistral 0.16
Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4.
Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
Last Week in AI #345 - 5 new models, 9 misalignment incidents, some Dots
Anthropic and OpenAI race to release smarter and cheaper models
Sonnet 5.5 is worth a try
I’ll be at OpenAI DevDay today.
One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO
Starting from Nemotron 3, our teams used supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning (RL), and feedback-driven inference to create systems that reached gold-medal level at both IMO 2026 and IOI 2026.
microsoft/AesCode-32B
microsoft published the model AesCode-32B on Hugging Face.
ibm-granite/ensemble-forecasting-with-ibm-granite-time-series
ibm-granite published the model ensemble-forecasting-with-ibm-granite-time-series on Hugging Face.
VideoWhich is The Best Qwen3.8-27B?
Which is the best fine-tune of Qwen3.8 27B that reduces the amount of thinking and reasoning tokens but still keeps the best accuracy for your particular use case?
VideoWhy Deep Learning Failed on Tables for a Decade - Frank Hutter
Frank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, on why deep learning struggled with tabular data for a decade: tables are messy and heterogeneous, hyped models like TabNet did not generalise to new datasets, and there was no ImageNet of tables.
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An 11MB local model for typed decisions in one pass
nerkyor/Qwen3.8-27B-Coder390-EfficientThink-Opus5.5-GPT6Astra-Grok4.7-DSV4Pro-K3-SFT-RLOO-MTP-DFlash2
nerkyor published the model Qwen3.8-27B-Coder390-EfficientThink-Opus5.5-GPT6Astra-Grok4.7-DSV4Pro-K3-SFT-RLOO-MTP-DFlash2 on Hugging Face.
alesha-pro/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-abliterated-GSQ-RCO-Strata-GGUF
alesha-pro published the model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-abliterated-GSQ-RCO-Strata-GGUF on Hugging Face.
LiquidAI/d1-omni-600M
LiquidAI published the model d1-omni-600M on Hugging Face.
perplexity-ai/pplx-decider-v1.1-27b
perplexity-ai published the model pplx-decider-v1.1-27b on Hugging Face.
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1
Aleph-Alpha published the model Kolibri-1 on Hugging Face.
[AINews] not much happened today
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Mistral Large 4
llm -m gpt-6.1-sol 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'
Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
Holo4 is our new series of agentic models.
The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself
Last week, I wanted a small version of the prompt rewriter that ships with Qwen-Image 2.1.
EmbeddingGemma 2
My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News.
Nace AI Open-Sources Drex 1.5: A 9B Decision Model That Scores Options, Not Text
Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a 9B decision model for agents and backend workflows.
Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning
TLDR 👉 new TTS leaderboard focused on open-source and multilingual