This hands-on guide benchmarks Cactus Compute's 16.9 MB Whistle speech model against Whisper base on a CPU. It compares word error rate, speed, streaming latency, timestamps, keyword spotting and turning speech into tool calls.
NVIDIA has added new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints to its Cosmos platform. World models help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, and the company says Cosmos ranks in the top five on six open model leaderboards.
A Hugging Face post covers ensemble forecasting with IBM's Granite time-series models, combining several models' predictions.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model decrypted a historical message from the Enigma machine on its own, in just two days. ZDNet France sees it as a sign of autonomous agents able to tackle complex business problems.
Hugging Face has released an open-source model that understands the language of DNA. It is designed to help researchers work out how genetic changes affect gene activity and health.
The startup Recursive has released Flint, a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop. The company says its own AI research system did much of the work of building it, making the release an early test of self-improving AI.