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vLLM announced support for NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2, featuring a hybrid Transformer–Mamba design and tunable "thinking budget" enabling up to 6× faster token generation. Mistral AI Studio launched a production platform for agents with deep observability. Baseten reported high throughput (650 TPS) for GPT-OSS 120B on NVIDIA hardware. Hugging Face InspectAI added inference provider integration for cross-provider evaluation. Thinking Machines Tinker abstracts distributed fine-tuning for open-weight LLMs like Qwen3 and Llama 3. In China, MiniMax M2 shows competitive performance with top models and is optimized for agents and coding, while Zhipu GLM-4.6-Air focuses on reliability and scaling for coding tasks. Rumors suggest Gemini 2.5 Flash may be a >500B parameter MoE model, and a possible GPT-5.1 mini reference appeared. Outside LLMs, Tahoe-x1 (3B) foundation model achieved SOTA in cancer cell biology benchmarks. Research from Stanford introduces a method to detect model provenance via training-order "palimpsest" with strong statistical guarantees.
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LangSmith launched the Insights Agent with multi-turn evaluation for agent ops and observability, improving failure detection and user intent clustering. Meta PyTorch and Hugging Face introduced OpenEnv, a Gymnasium-style API and hub for reproducible agentic environments supporting distributed training. Discussions highlighted the importance of provider fidelity in agent coding, with OpenRouter's exacto filter improving stability. Builder UX updates include Google AI Studio's Annotation mode for Gemini code changes, Microsoft's Copilot Mode enhancements in Edge, and OpenAI's Shared Projects and Company Knowledge features for ChatGPT Business. Claude added project-scoped Memory. In reinforcement learning, Meta's ScaleRL proposes a methodology to predict RL scaling outcomes for LLMs with improved efficiency and stability.
Thinking Machines' Tinker: LoRA based LLM fine-tuning API
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Thinking Machines recently raised $2 billion without shipping a product until now, launching their first product Tinker, a managed service API for fine-tuning large and mixture-of-experts models like Qwen-235B-A22B using LoRA for cost-efficient training. The Tinker API offers low-level primitives for post-training methods and is supported by an open-source Tinker Cookbook library. Influential AI figures like Andrej Karpathy and Lilian Weng praised its design for reducing complexity and boosting research productivity. Meanwhile, OpenAI launched Sora 2, a video+audio model integrated into their consumer social app, sparking viral engagement and concerns over misuse and content moderation. Sam Altman emphasized the product's dual focus on delight and revenue alongside AGI research.
Oracle jumps +36% in a day after winning $300B OpenAI contract
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Oracle's OCI division reported a stunning +359% revenue bookings growth to $455B with cloud revenue guidance of $144B by 2030, driven significantly by a large deal with OpenAI amid tensions with Microsoft. On AI infrastructure, Moonshot AI released Kimi’s checkpoint-engine, enabling rapid weight updates on 1T-parameter models across thousands of GPUs, integrating with vLLM. RLFactory introduced a plug-and-play reinforcement learning framework for tool-using agents, showing smaller models outperforming larger ones. TRL v0.23 added context parallelism for long-context training. Thinking Machines Lab published research on deterministic inference pipelines, making vLLM deterministic for Qwen models. Meta launched BackendBench, a PyTorch benchmarking tool.
Prime Intellect's INTELLECT-2 and PRIME-RL advance distributed reinforcement learning
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Prime Intellect released INTELLECT-2, a decentralized GPU training and RL framework with a vision for distributed AI training overcoming colocation limits. ByteDance launched DreamO, a unified image customization model on Hugging Face. Qwen released models optimized for GPTQ, GGUF, and AWQ quantization. Gemma surpassed 150 million downloads on Hugging Face. Meta released weights for the Dynamic Byte Latent Transformer and the Collaborative Reasoner framework to improve language model efficiency and reasoning. RunwayML introduced Gen-4 References, a near-realtime model requiring no fine-tuning. Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3, a strong multimodal model, and Le Chat Enterprise, an agentic AI assistant for business. Google updated Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview with video understanding and UI improvements. "Airbnb for spare GPUs from all over the world" highlights the ongoing challenges and potential of distributed GPU training.