A few months ago we quietly open-sourced a @PyTorch video decoding library called torchcodec — small, nimble, fast.
The @LeRobotHF folks had some nice things to say about it.
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PyTorch Releases torchcodec: Fast Open-Source Video Decoding Library
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Mistral Releases Small 3.1 Multimodal Model
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Introducing Mistral Small 3.1. Multimodal, Apache 2.0, outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT 4o-mini. https://
mistral.ai/news/mistral-s
mall-3-1/
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Pydantic LangGraph Performance Improvements Now Available
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If you’re looking to use pydantic with langgraph – some big performance improvements just landed
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BriLL M0.5: New Model with Code and Paper Available
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11299
Code: https://github.com/brillm05/BriLL
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Claude to get native RAG tools
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Claude will get native tools that model will be able to use in order to work with RAG (index files, search, etc). It is very possible that this will be supported in MCPs as well though
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ToolCallingAgent requires tool call; vLLM must integrate
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More context: in ToolCallingAgent, smolagents always needs a tool call, so removing the necessity of calling a tool would just break the lib's logic. Indeed this is on vLLM's side to integrate!
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smolagents 1.11.0 adds VLLMModel class for local inference
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smolagents now support vLLM! As one of the most popular local inference solutions, the community had been asking us to integrate vLLM: after a heavy refactoring of our LLM classes, we've just released smolagents 1.11.0, with a brand new VLLMModel class. Go try it and tell us
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Multi-Agent Example with Local Models by RLanceMartin
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Great stuff from @RLanceMartin getting a multi agent example with local models
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Sovereign Agentic AGI Alpha Agent deployment framework
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SOVEREIGN AGENTIC AGI ALPHA AGENT SOVEREIGN_AGIALPHA/
├─ one_click_install.sh # The all-in-one installer script (Linux/macOS)
├─ run_sovagent.sh # Launch script (invokes Python)
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OLMo 2 32B: Leading Open-Source AI Model
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The latest OLMo 2 32B might be the best open-source AI model right now!