Cohere's Rerank 5 comes in Pro and Fast tiers with a 32K context window, passage extraction and calibrated relevance scores. The Pro version scores 82.2 on the BRIGHT benchmark and costs $0.05 per million tokens.
Gradium released Phonon, a family of on-device text-to-speech models. The English Phonon 31m model is under Apache 2.0, takes 64.5 MB and starts speaking in about 7 ms on a laptop CPU.
The Allen Institute for AI has released OlmoEarth v1.3, a satellite map embedding model, along with precomputed annual embeddings of the whole planet and a browser-based mapping tool. At its finest resolution, the model condenses a year of satellite observations into a numerical fingerprint for each 10-by-10-meter patch of ground.
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.
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.
A Hugging Face post covers ensemble forecasting with IBM's Granite time-series models, combining several models' predictions.