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Sakana AI releases 100 billion parameter hybrid expert model Namazu and deploys it on the Modal platform

Sakana AI has released Namazu, a hybrid expert model with 1 trillion parameters, for Japanese business contexts, web search, and code execution. The Modal team achieved memory and throughput improvements for Namazu on the Modal platform through NVFP4 precision quantization, custom DFlash model training, and kernel-level optimization, and it supports real-time training of 3 billion tokens. After deployment, the model's inference speed increased by 40%, the acceptance rate improved by 43%, and the latency decreased by 52%.

Microsoft launched its AI medical diagnostic system MAI-DxO: complex case accuracy rate of 83%, results published in Science.

Microsoft's AI diagnostic system MAI-DxO achieved an accuracy rate of 83% in the New England Journal of Medicine's complex case simulation evaluation, which is 1.7 times the level of human doctors. The system simulates expert consultations by orchestrating multiple AI agents, with the standout model in the test being OpenAI GPT-5 and GPT-5.5.

Replit Monitoring Agent: Provides a dedicated autonomous operation and maintenance team for internal application developers

Replit Monitoring Agent can automatically investigate, fix, and deploy production environment issues without manual intervention. The agent can access production logs and metrics, automatically verify repair solutions at the time of the problem, and report them via email. Users can choose whether to automatically publish the fix, currently no open-source version or specific parameter scale is announced.

Modal releases open-source Tinker compatible training server Spindle

Modal releases open-source Tinker compatible training server Spindle, supporting operation in Modal workspaces, replacing token billing with GPU time billing, customizable configurations, and supporting hundreds of concurrent training tasks. Spindle supports full-parameter training and multiple LoRA on various open-source models, with a distributed control plane and container auto-scaling at its core, suitable for teams needing custom training loops and cost reduction.

deepagents-code 0.2.0 release

`deepagents-code` 0.2.0 version now requires Python 3.14 and has removed low-value startup tests.

Discord now correctly formats Markdown previews

Discord's latest update correctly renders Markdown previews, no longer displaying garbled text, which is helpful for LLMs and AI agents that rely on Markdown files for instruction and context transfer. Nitro members can now upload files up to 1GB.

Meta has launched its personal AI agent Muse, planning to build a large-scale agent network

How to use IskayPet with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases to unify enterprise knowledge bases

IskayPet has built an enterprise knowledge assistant using Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Bases, which can answer employee questions in four areas (retail operations, veterinary care, HR onboarding, and procurement), across three countries and four languages, without managing RAG infrastructure.

Overview of the Qiskit SDK v2.6 release.

Qiskit SDK v2.6 released, adding compiler pass-manager framework in C API, QPY serialization and custom operations, supporting use in non-Python environments, QPY format upgraded to v18, minimum Python version requirement 3.10, source code build requires Rust 1.89.

Microsoft claims its AI tool's diagnostic accuracy is four times that of doctors.

Microsoft claims its AI tool has four times the diagnostic accuracy of human doctors in simulated medical scenario tests, with related research published in the journal 'Science'. The tool is called Diagnostic Orchestrator, which collaborates multiple AI agents to reason symptoms and make diagnoses, achieving 83% accuracy in medical report tests and 80% in emergency data tests, superior to human doctors by about 47%.

SageMaker AI launches model customization without GPU management

SageMaker AI introduces model customization features without GPU management, allowing users to control post-training logic through training sessions without managing underlying infrastructure. Supports technologies such as SFT, DPO, RLVR, RLAIF, and multi-round RL, with options for LoRA or full fine-tuning.

Hugging Face releases OlmoEarth v1.3: Global satellite embedding model achieves new milestones

Hugging Face releases OlmoEarth v1.3, a satellite embedding model, offering global pre-computed embeddings (10m resolution, 64 and 128 dimensions), available to users without login or technical knowledge. The model performs best in 27 evaluations, with 128-dimensional embeddings scoring highest in 20 evaluations and 64-dimensional embeddings leading in 18. Training costs are reduced by 53% compared to v1.2 and 18% compared to v1, with corresponding reductions in carbon emissions. Weights, data, and code are all open source.

NVIDIA DGX Spark supports running cutting-edge AI models across 8 nodes.

NVIDIA DGX Spark can connect more nodes, support parallel running of cutting-edge AI models, requiring hundreds of GB of memory; developers can orchestrate multiple models and perform chained inference.

Google API Gateway supports streaming: Real-time AI-ready APIs without changing specifications.

Google API Gateway now supports streaming, allowing real-time API calls without changing the specification. Streaming supports Server-Sent Events (SSE), chunked transfer encoding, HTTP response streaming, and WebSocket, with the longest connection time up to one hour. During the public preview, the streaming feature was enabled when creating the gateway using the `--enable-streaming` flag, and it is planned to be automatically enabled in the official release without additional configuration.

Spotify views AI agents as a key growth engine.

Spotify's third-quarter users reached 7.88 billion, with revenue close to $5.6 billion. The CEO believes its model is particularly suitable for the AI agent era, interacting through dialogue rather than direct app interaction, becoming the preferred music service for agents. Spotify has integrated Meta Muse, ChatGPT, and Claude, emphasizing that user data is not leaked, and agents complete recommendations by making API calls to Spotify's own system.

NVIDIA has launched the Minerva platform, providing end-to-end observability for AI factories.

NVIDIA announced the Minerva platform today, which integrates telemetry data from infrastructure and AI workloads and applies proprietary AI models to transform it into timely, actionable insights, helping teams identify problems earlier and maintain the productivity of their AI factories.