Granite Speech 5.0 has been presented on the Hugging Face blog. According to its title, the new version transcribes, translates and attributes speech more accurately and faster than before.
The startup Recursive is betting on using AI to build AI. It argues that the benefits of recursive self-improvement outweigh the risks, and Wired describes its latest model as alarmingly capable.
NVIDIA has presented Kumo Forecast, a time-series forecasting approach. According to the title, it pairs pretrained time-series representations with retrieval of historical patterns and aims to keep its predictions interpretable.
OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing OpenAI's frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini's Model Garden, available through the Google Cloud Marketplace. The move gives companies already working with Google Cloud a direct route to OpenAI's models.
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol migrates 86.6% of the COBOL programs in its test with byte-identical output, against 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol, at 61% of the API cost. ActuIA notes the test was designed and scored by OpenAI and is unpublished, and that on Vals AI's independent code migration benchmark the model ranks fourth of 26, behind Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.
NVIDIA has presented Cosmos3-H-Dreams on the Hugging Face blog, describing it as a way to recreate clinical surgery through generative simulation.