State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
In the AI world, time feels compressed. A few months after our spring report in our biannual analysis worked through the ecosystem, there are quite a few findings that we…
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Using AI_Functions in Your Data Warehouse: Top Use Cases
In most organizations, data warehouses hold structured data, while unstructured data is kept in the data lake. This works well for analytics workloads, which consume structured data at scale, serving…
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How Multilingual AI Scribes Are Bridging Communication Gaps at the Point of Care
Rakhee Langer, Vice President of Healow Ambient listening technologies now facilitate real-time summarization of patient-provider conversations layered within structured documentation. With the 2026 World Cup having just wrapped up after…
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SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities
SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. The company was known as xAI until last…
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VGGT vs. VGGT-Ω (VGGT-Omega): A Complete Guide to Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction
Most 3D reconstruction systems take minutes or hours per scene, running expensive optimization loops that assume the world holds still. Feed-forward reconstruction flips this model: train a single transformer once,…
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OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups
OpenAI shut down its “Preparedness” team at the end of July. The team evaluated whether the company’s AI models could pose serious or catastrophic risks, the Financial Times reports, citing…
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Serve Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a 2.4T-Parameter Model, with Configurable Reasoning on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
Alibaba released the open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Qwen3.8-Max), its largest open-weight model, bringing near-frontier capabilities to the open ecosystem. It has 2.4T total parameters with 95B activated per token. It’s a…
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MIT Researchers Develop AI Model for Faster Physics Simulations
With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios Aug. 14, 2026 — Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and…
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Scaling, Optimizing, and Exporting Transformers with PyTorch Lightning
Access the code to this tutorial and all other 500+ tutorials on PyImageSearch Enter your email address below to learn more about PyImageSearch University (including how…
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Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent
Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)…
