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1X Unveils 1XWM World Model for Realistic Robot Simulation
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1X showcased 1XWM, a 'world model' that simulates a realistic, interactive world around a virtual robot
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 juin 2025
With a few initial real-world frames and action trajectories, it simulates the result of those exact actions, including the physics of objectspic.twitter.com/w5GuZTZhbc1X showcased 1XWM, a 'world model' that simulates a realistic, interactive world around a virtual robot With a few initial real-world frames and action trajectories, it simulates the result of those exact actions, including the physics of objects
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ElevenLabs Adds Model Context Protocol Support for Voice Agents
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ElevenLabs said its Conversational AI offering now supports Anthropic's open Model Context Protocol (MCP) The development will enable ElevenLabs users to build voice agents that can easily connect to data from third-party apps like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Gmail
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Groq Integrated as Inference Provider on Hugging Face Playground
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Groq announced it is now directly integrated as an inference provider on the Hugging Face Playground and API
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 juin 2025
The move adds to the list offered by HF, giving users the flexibility to choose their preferred inference with unified access and billingpic.twitter.com/zyXqtKdPEzGroq announced it is now directly integrated as an inference provider on the Hugging Face Playground and API The move adds to the list offered by HF, giving users the flexibility to choose their preferred inference with unified access and billing
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Moonshot AI Launches Kimi-Dev-72B Open-Source Coding Model
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Moonshot AI launched Kimi-Dev-72B, a new open-source coding model for software engineering tasks It achieves SOTA results on SWE-bench Verified software tasks, surpassing open-source rivals like DeepSeek R1, V3, and Devstral
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Nvidia Launches Isaac Sim 5.0 and Isaac Lab 2.2 for Robot AI Development
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Nvidia launched Issac Sim 5.0 and Issac Lab 2.2 in early preview on GitHub
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 juin 2025
These open frameworks now come with extensions for synthetic data generation and robot models — streamlining how devs build, train, and test AI robots in physics-based simulationspic.twitter.com/rAwpgcTaw7Nvidia launched Issac Sim 5.0 and Issac Lab 2.2 in early preview on GitHub These open frameworks now come with extensions for synthetic data generation and robot models — streamlining how devs build, train, and test AI robots in physics-based simulations
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MiniMax M1: Open-Source Reasoner LLM with 1M Token Context
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MiniMax dropped M1, a new open-source reasoner LLM with: —World’s largest context window: 1M-token input, 80k-token output
—SOTA agentic use among open-source models
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OpenAI Wins $200M U.S. Department of Defense Contract
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OpenAI won a $200M U.S. DoD contract
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 juin 2025
The one-year pilot will see OAI deliver frontier AI to address national security challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains"
This marks the lab's foray into defense tech, while sticking to its usage policiespic.twitter.com/Sc636XFwCqOpenAI won a $200M U.S. DoD contract The one-year pilot will see OAI deliver frontier AI to address national security challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains" This marks the lab's foray into defense tech, while sticking to its usage policies
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OpenAI Wins $200M Defense Department Contract, AI Industry Updates
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AI NEWS: OpenAI just won a $200M contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Plus, more news from MiniMax, Nvidia, Moonshot AI, Groq, ElevenLabs, and 1X. Here's everything you need to know: