yes! multi-model (especially open-source and smaller/faster/cheaper specialized models) for the win!
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SAM 3D team earns Best Paper Honorable Mention at #CVPR26
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Big congrats to our SAM 3D team for receiving a Best Paper Honorable Mention at #CVPR26! This prestigious recognition underscores their incredible work pushing the boundaries of computer vision.
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 5 juin 2026
Read the paper here: https://t.co/jr59xlzwlX pic.twitter.com/jNIt2N0AoOBig congrats to our SAM 3D team for receiving a Best Paper Honorable Mention at #CVPR26! This prestigious recognition underscores their incredible work pushing the boundaries of computer vision. Read the paper here: https://
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Cohere & Hugging Face Webinar: Future of Far-Field ASR & Real-World Evaluation
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Want to hear about where ASR is headed? Check out @HuggingFace
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Early preview of Oceanus checkpoint from upcoming Mythos model
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MYTHOS 🔥: Another early preview of recently spotted "Oceanus" checkpoint output.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 5 juin 2026
"Oceanus" is rumored to be a version of the upcoming Mythos model, which is planned for public release within "weeks", according to Anthropic.
"Oceanus" prompt 👀 pic.twitter.com/MVew8mQX7zMYTHOS : Another early preview of recently spotted "Oceanus" checkpoint output. "Oceanus" is rumored to be a version of the upcoming Mythos model, which is planned for public release within "weeks", according to Anthropic. "Oceanus" prompt
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“Good enough” local AI is here: Gemma 4 12B on a 16GB laptop is unlimited, free, offline.
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The most underrated thing in AI right now is that “good enough” local intelligence has arrived. Gemma 4 12B on a 16GB laptop covers everything everything normal users need. Unlimited, free forever, and completely offline.
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Verifier Costs Amplify During RL Post-Training with Cheaper Rewards
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Verifier costs can amplify during RL post-training. LLM-as-judge systems turn task rubrics into reward signals, and cheaper reward signals make it practical to run more experiments, audit more rollouts, and iterate more quickly.
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Elliot Chen on Fei-Fei Li’s “disciplined” approach to ‘world models’
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After reading Professor Fei-Fei Li's piece, I felt like what she's doing is actually something quite restrained—taking a term that's been beaten to death and giving it some new discipline. Nowadays, everyone claims they're building a "world model," but video models, physics
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Pope Leo XIV excommunicates ChatGPT, the soulless AI but shareholder
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Someone had to eventually excommunicate ChatGPT. It will be the Pope. Leo XIV, the first American pope in history, has just brought before the court of morality the most American industry there is. The algorithm has no soul. But it has a shareholder.
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New book on architecting GenAI applications with LLMOps best practices
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Highly rated new book from @PacktPublishing @PacktDataML … "Architecting Generative AI Applications: Build, deploy, and scale production-ready GenAI systems with LLMOps best practices" See it at http://
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New book ‘Time Series with PyTorch’ from Packt Publishing
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NEW book from @PacktPublishing @PacktDataML … "Time Series with PyTorch: Modern Deep Learning Toolkit for Real-World Forecasting Challenges", available at http://
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