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3 Ways to Boost MoE Inference on NVIDIA DGX Spark

Generating tokens faster starts with identifying what limits inference performance. In the batch-size-1 evaluation of Ling-3.0-flash from Inclusion AI on NVIDIA...

Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context

Mirendil released Fern 0.1, its first model, pretrained from scratch with a 10M-token context window. It targets agentic AI R&D work, scores 100% on RULER single needle at 10M, but trails frontier models on agentic coding. The post Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context appeared first on MarkTechPost.

“Achieving high scores” does not equate to “being able to deliver”: AI rankings are undergoing a reassessment of credibility.

Old benchmarks approach perfect scores, yet new benchmarks consistently fall short in real-world performance. As large-model evaluation itself has become a business, companies are shifting their selection criteria from ranking-based assessments to cost‑benefit analyses.

Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited OCR 2 for Hundred-Page Document Parsing

Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, an MIT-licensed 3B OCR model that parses hundred-page documents in one request. Its SR-SWA attention keeps per-step decoding cost nearly flat, scoring 77.1 on MarathonDocBench The post Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited OCR 2 for Hundred-Page Document Parsing appeared first on MarkTechPost.

The first AI-powered theatrical film has been poorly received, with an average of 0.1 viewers per screening.

The first theatrical feature film with deep AI involvement, “Sanxingdui: Tales from the Future,” released on October 23, has seen box-office performance that starkly contrasts with the capital market’s earlier enthusiasm for the AI‑in‑film concept. According to Maoyan Professional Edition, as of noon on October 26, this 100‑minute movie had accumulated a total box office of RMB 1.192 million, with 8,469 screenings that day, an attendance rate of 0.1%, and an average of just 0.1 ticket sold per screening. On October 24 and 25, the film averaged only 2 tickets sold per screening. Data from Lighthouse Professional Edition…

How Data Culture measured its way from zero trust to a shippable AI analytics agent

Data Culture built a 3-step evaluation framework that took one AI analytics deployment from 0% accuracy to 94.7%.

Optimizing Streaming Speech Recognition on Arm® Edge Devices with ExecuTorch

When you’re speaking to a device, you expect text to appear as you talk. That makes streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) a different challenge from batch transcription, where the model... The post Optimizing Streaming Speech Recognition on Arm® Edge Devices with ExecuTorch appeared first on PyTorch.

AWS releases a managed Bedrock knowledge base intelligent retrieval reference implementation based on CDK.

On October 26, 2026, AWS published a blog post introducing an enterprise-grade agentic retrieval reference implementation built using AWS CDK, specifically designed for the Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base. It supports cross-knowledge-base semantic routing, iterative retrieval, cited provenance-based answers, and seven-layer observability.

Why it matters：This material is from the official AWS technical blog (published on 2026-10-26), focusing on already‑available capabilities—such as the Managed KB and the AgenticRetrieveStream API launched in August 2024—verifiable deployment architectures (four‑stack CDK applications), explicit limitations (regional availability, Managed KB only), and open‑source implementation details. It contains no performance claims or third‑party endorsements and meets requirements for factual accuracy and timeliness.

Nace AI Releases Drex for Search for AI Agents: 92.05% on BrowseComp-Plus With 12.6 Search Calls

Nace AI has released Drex for Search, bringing its Drex decision models to document search for AI agents. Nace reports 92.05% on BrowseComp-Plus with 12.6 search calls, and fewer agent turns on OfficeQA Pro. The post Nace AI Releases Drex for Search for AI Agents: 92.05% on BrowseComp-Plus With 12.6 Search Calls appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Kimi releases K3.1 Pro, offering more features at a lower price to challenge Opus 5.5.

Author | Yu Hang Yuan Editor | Jing Yu On the morning of October 23, Kimi officially posted a 24-second video on X and its Video Account. The scene shows a retro‑style vintage computer, with Kimi Code running on the screen and lines of Three.js code being typed into the terminal, generating a complex 3D scene. Keen-eyed netizens quickly spotted the answer in the model bar at the top left: “Model: Kimi K3.1.” Kimi’s official teaser video for K3.1 | Image source: X @Kimi_Moonshot Using an antiquated machine to run some of today’s most cutting‑edge 3D code—this stark contrast itself conveys what Moonshot AI is trying to say. A dozen hours later, just after midnight on October 24, right on Programmer’s Day, Kimi K3.1 Pro officially launched, accompanied by a Highspeed version that’s two to three times faster. The company promises that the full model weights will be released before November 4. More than three months have passed since the previous generation, K3, was unveiled. In those three months, Moonshot AI has experienced more than most companies see in an entire year. 01 “More for the same price”—what’s new in 0.1? First, let’s clarify what K3.1 Pro is. It isn’t an entirely new model. Moonshot AI explicitly states that K3.1 Pro is a post‑training variant of K3; the underlying architecture remains unchanged—still a hybrid expert architecture with 2.8 trillion total parameters and 104 billion activation parameters, still featuring a 1 million‑token context window, and still natively supporting image and video inputs. What has changed is the post‑training phase. According to the company, they’ve invested “significantly increased post‑training compute power,” conducting large‑scale joint reinforcement learning across hundreds of downstream tasks. To support this, they completely reengineered the underlying infrastructure—including the reinforcement learning framework, sandbox environment, and long‑context reasoning capabilities. In essence, the same brain has been retrained from scratch on how to perform its tasks. The results are reflected in benchmark scores. On Terminal‑Bench 4.0, which evaluates coding agents, K3.1 Pro achieved 65.7%, surpassing GPT‑6 Astra’s 58.2% and falling short of Claude Opus’s 66.4% by less than one percentage point. As for the previous generation, K3…

Recursive releases Flint: a lightweight, AI-driven programming model that can run locally.

AI startup Recursive has unveiled Flint, an open-source coding model that it claims was developed primarily using its in-house AI research system, Eureka Machine. With just 40 billion parameters and only 2.5 billion activations in practice, the model can run offline on a standard laptop—such as an M4 Pro MacBook—at an inference speed of 131 tokens per second, outperforming most models of comparable size on benchmarks like SWE-Bench.

NVIDIA releases Kumo Relational: the first foundation model for structured data that outperforms supervised learning without any training.

NVIDIA has launched Kumo Relational, a pre-trained relational foundation model that can perform predictive tasks—such as churn prediction, fraud detection, and demand forecasting—directly on enterprise‑grade relational databases, without the need for task fine-tuning, feature engineering, or table flattening. In 41 benchmark tests spanning 15 databases, it outperformed supervised models like XGBoost across the board, and on the SAP SALT enterprise benchmark, its MRR metric surpassed AutoGluon by 8%. The model supports databases with up to 500 billion rows and enables zero‑code predictive queries via Predictive Query Language (PQL).

ALTK-Evolve: Without model weight updates, relying solely on learning-based memory, it tops the τ²-bench customer service benchmark.

IBM Research has introduced the ALTK-Evolve method, which leverages GPT-4.1 to automatically extract structured behavioral guidelines—such as identity verification and refund confirmation—from its own task trajectories. These guidelines are then injected into the ReAct agent system via a purely prompt-engineering approach, significantly improving the accuracy and reliability of customer-service tasks without updating model weights or relying on human annotations. Its retail branch achieved a Pass⁴ score of 67.5%, ranking first on the τ²-bench leaderboard as of October 12, 2026, surpassing all state-of-the-art models and fine-tuned systems.

Advancing Coding in Low-Resource Programming Languages

Learn how OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.

ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review

We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluation, and production-aligned metrics. The post ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

Introducing MentalHealthBench

MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.

How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

Building standards for the next phase of AI

OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.

The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language