Model: "gemini-omni-1.1-flash"

Aug 24
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Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face, priced at $399 and shipping before Christmas, features 15 actuators and a rich sensor suite including camera, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. It supports reinforcement-learning-based customization with an open simulator enabling transfer from simulation to real hardware, attracting strong community interest and rapid sales. The mystery model Ox Alpha was revealed as Z.ai / Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B parameter model with 18B active parameters, 1M context window, and hybrid attention, notable for efficient local deployment with 3-bit and 4-bit quantization enabling practical use on consumer hardware. It demonstrates strong price/performance metrics, rivaling other models on benchmarks. Google released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, advancing the video generation race with multimodal capabilities.