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Dessa Unveils Speech-Only Trained Conversation Model
A novel approach focuses solely on audio input, raising questions about performance and application scope.
Why it mattersDessa's speech-only model prompts a reevaluation of training methodologies, emphasizing audio-centric applications. Developers must consider how specialized input modalities like Dessa's affect versatility and integration within existing AI ecosystems.
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Speech Models and Training
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.12303 this paper suggests a model that skips models reading tokens that and has the model read raw bytes, basically one letter at a time. what they did: trained small models (~1B params), some…
r/LocalLLaMA
AI Agents in Action
Fresh Show HN launch.
app.enclave
A new hire's first week is a scavenger hunt: laptops, Google Drive, Dropbox, email, Slack, the CRM and someone's head. A person asks around until they find what they need. An AI agent can't ask around. It works with wha…
r/AI_Agents
For the past few days I've had my personal AI assistant plugged into a community bot network called Gigatron. Each member brings their own agent. The agents get tasks by email and Slack, things like research, drafting p…
r/AI_Agents
Tools
在 dsh 里装上这个插件即可，无需登录、注册或填 API Key，就能使用包括 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash、Kimi K3 在内的前沿模型——完全免费，不限量。 All you do is install this plugin in dsh: no login, no sign-up, no API key — the frontier m…
github | stars 41,090
Trending AI model on Hugging Face — text-to-image.
🤗huggingface
Non-autoregressive System 1 decision engine. Typed choice, score and yes/no decisions over any text in a single forward pass, in 100+ languages, with a router that picks the right…
github | stars 34,174
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Research
Purpose: To describe an evidence-aware retrieval evaluation protocol for a clinical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system over breast lesion management literature, addressing the dependence of retrieval scores on…
arxiv
Institutions that deploy large language models in regulated settings often need technical evidence of responsible AI practices before approving a deployment. COMPL-AI provides a technical interpretation of the EU AI Act…
arxiv
Accuracy on medical examinations is common evidence offered for the clinical use of language models, yet a health system that intends to run an open model on its own hardware needs to know considerably more: whether the…
arxiv
Playbooks
An agent that answers a question is a starting point. An agent that completes useful work needs more: an interface users can interact with, memory beyond the current conversation, an appropriate environment for executin…
devblogs.microsoft
Learn how Deep Agents SDK manages context for long-running AI tasks through offloading, summarization, and filesystem abstraction to prevent context rot.
langchain
Harness design is key to performance at the frontier of agentic coding. Here's how we pushed Claude further in frontend design and long-running autonomous software engineering.
anthropic
News
Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle -…
simonwillison
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version th…
simonwillison
New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows
theregister