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. The Drex 1.5 decision model does not write text. It reads…
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Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates and edits images in 8 denoising steps instead of…
OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers
OpenAI has released the Decisions API in public beta. It turns text and images into typed answers your code can branch on. OpenAI team states…
Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling
Underdog, the on-device assistant from Conway Research, has released Saluki 27B under Apache 2.0. Underdog Saluki 27B is a 2-bit GGUF of Qwen3.8-27B that fits…
Google Cloud Launches Gemini Agent, One Universal Agent for Enterprise Work
Google Cloud has introduced the Google Cloud Gemini agent, a single agent for enterprise work. The Gemini agent is a cloud-hosted agent from Google Cloud…
JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model from JetBrains that activates…
Architect Launches Liquid Inference, a Real-Time Auction for LLM Inference
Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for every request. Liquid Inference is an LLM inference marketplace…
NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From Pivotal Mistakes
NVIDIA researchers, with Princeton University and the University of Maryland, have introduced PivotOPD, an on-policy distillation method for multi-turn LLM agents. PivotOPD on-policy distillation trains…