Introducing LocateAnything-3B, a vision-language model for fast, precise visual grounding from NVIDIA. Up to 2.5x throughput improvement over prior methods. 🤖 modelscope.ai/models/nv-comm… Trained on 12M images, 138M queries, 785M bounding boxes across natural scenes, robotics, autonomous driving, GUI, and document understanding. 🎯 Object detection, phrase grounding, GUI element locating, scene text detection, document layout, pointing — all in one model. Already integrated into NVIDIA Nemotron Nano Omni for production-grade VLM grounding. 📄 Non-commercial research use only.

For over a decade, we’ve accepted that end-to-end backprop is the only way to train deep networks. But holding the entire network in memory all at once is why AI training is hitting a resource wall. We found a new way to break the network into blocks and train them independently. The trick? Treating the network’s forward pass like a diffusion model denoising a signal. This reinterpretation slashes the memory needed to train deep models. In our #ICLR2026 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2506.14202), we matched end-to-end performance across ViTs, DiTs, and LLMs. We did this while training just one isolated block at a time.

Looks like they have nerfed the Fable 5 since release, typical anthropic.

#minimax M3 is here and its pricy, also as usual benchmaxxed, also not on par with DS v4 PRO but priced higher than v4PRO. Not a good direction for @MiniMax_AI

No more starter plans for you, peasants - Says @MiniMax_AI

The 10 fastest growing GitHub repos this week: 1. codegraph ( 14.1K stars) Pre-indexed code knowledge graph for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Hermes Agent — fewer tokens, fewer tool calls, 100% local github.com/colbymchenry/code… 2. openhuman ( 17.1K stars) Your Personal AI super intelligence. Private, Simple and extremely powerful. github.com/tinyhumansai/open… 3. academic-research-skills ( 11.6K stars) Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize github.com/Imbad0202/academi… 4. RuView ( 6.8K stars) π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video. github.com/ruvnet/RuView 5. agentmemory ( 6.9K stars) #1 Persistent memory for AI coding agents based on real-world benchmarks github.com/rohitg00/agentmem… 6. supertonic ( 3.6K stars) Lightning-Fast, On-Device, Multilingual TTS — running natively via ONNX. github.com/supertone-inc/sup… 7. CloakBrowser ( 7.0K stars) Stealth Chromium that passes every bot detection test. Drop-in Playwright replacement with source-level fingerprint patches. 30/30 tests passed. github.com/CloakHQ/CloakBrow… 8. ViMax ( 2.7K stars) "ViMax: Agentic Video Generation (Director, Screenwriter, Producer, and Video Generator All-in-One)" github.com/HKUDS/ViMax 9. 12-factor-agents ( 1.9K stars) What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers? github.com/humanlayer/12-fac… 10. bun ( 2.0K stars) Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one github.com/oven-sh/bun The theme this week: agent memory, context efficiency, and on-device intelligence are making AI infrastructure the hottest build category. Bookmark this. Next week's list will look completely different.

It's been *almost* a bit quiet around LLM architecture releases in the past two weeks 😅 Interesting tidbit is the parallel block design. Via the Cmd-A the tech report "equivalent performance but significant improvement in throughput compared to the vanilla transformer block."

Command A from @cohere is out now :) its our best model yet and its open source apache 2.0

gemini flash output pricing over time: 1.5 Flash: $0.30 2.0 Flash: $0.40 2.5 Flash: $2.50 3.0 Flash: $3.00 3.5 Flash: $9.00 that's a 30x price increase across five generations. for the "cheap fast model." 3.5 Flash costs $9/M output. 2.5 Pro was $10/M. your new flash model costs the same as last year's pro. at this rate gemini 3.5 pro is going to be $30/M and we'll need deepseek just to afford the flash tier

Btw you’ll never fucking guess who canceled Ebola prevention

JUST IN: Classrooms have seen a 30% increase in “A” grades since the launch of ChatGPT, study reveals

‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed. GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision. What happened?: ▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated. ▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead. ▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed. ▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out. The bigger picture: ▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature. ▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...

If you are using @OpenRouter for production, please block @Cloudflare as provider. The amount of bad results I get from models hosted their is absurdly high. #llm #api They don't even show up as failed the output are just bad compared to other providers. Extremely low quality

I am getting 4-10 request at most from codex 30$ enterprise plan for 5.5 low reasoning coding tasks today, what gives ? #openai @OpenAIDevs @sama This seems very much abnormal, one request and it down by 20%

Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…

OPENAI: The nonprofit’s president, Greg Brockman, used the fact he AND Elon Musk were donating as inducement to convince others to donate. Greg even told Sam, Elon, and employees he donated $100K. He didn’t donate a dime. It wasn’t true.

IQ test disguised as cartoons.

Why is GPT-5.4 suddenly completly dumb ? @OpenAI @sama

deepseek v4 is now the cheapest sota model available at 1/20th the cost of opus 4.7. for perspective, if uber used deepseek instead of claude their 2026 ai budget would have lasted 7 years instead of only 4 months.