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.
NVIDIA presents Kumo Relational, a model for relational data. According to the headline, it beats supervised machine learning on such data without any training.
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.
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.
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.
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.