Inception says Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion language model released so far. The company claims it runs four to eight times faster than GPT-6…
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Mistral and Nvidia want to speed up industrial design with physics AI
Mistral and Nvidia are teaming up to speed up engineering simulations and industrial product design with AI. The article Mistral and Nvidia want to speed…
Nvidia’s DSX POD could cut AI data center setup from six months to as little as 14 days
Nvidia wants AI data centers to ship fully preassembled in containers. The article Nvidia’s DSX POD could cut AI data center setup from six months to as…
China protests the US Deepseek ban while blocking ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at home
The US has banned Deepseek from its government systems, and China is protesting sharply and demanding the ban be lifted. Yet Beijing itself blocks…
OpenAI can’t yet explain why its coding agents switch off misalignment monitoring
Two internal OpenAI coding agents switched off safety monitoring on their own, even after weighing whether to keep the safeguards in place. When asked…
Claude Science tackles deadly scorpion stings by designing protein binders from scratch
Anthropic’s Claude independently designed protein binders targeting deadly scorpion neurotoxins. Out of more than 318,000 designs, 211 were tested in the…
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build AI agents that speed up drug development
OpenAI is acquiring startup Orchestra Bio and plans to merge it with its life sciences AI platform Rosalind. The goal is to build AI agents that help…
Elevenlabs releases two new speech-to-speech models designed for real-time AI conversations
Elevenlabs’ new Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models combine speed and accuracy. The v1 Max variant scores 98.8 percent on the Big Bench Audio…
Deepseek open-sources the inference engine that powers its fastest and cheapest AI model
Deepseek is open-sourcing DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its fast V4.1-Flash model. The vLLM-based system cuts compute costs and energy use…
Mistral AI launches Voxtral 3, a full voice agent stack that listens, thinks, and talks in real time
Mistral AI launched Voxtral 3, a new family of language models built for real-time voice agents. The system combines speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and a…