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Stanford and UC Berkeley's TokenGate makes long-context prefill up to 11.3x faster

TokenGate is a learned token-pruning module that can be dropped into existing language models. Its authors report a 1.4x to 11.3x reduction in time to first token on long contexts and 1.5x to 3.4x lower peak memory, with no loss of accuracy.

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Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labelling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra

Nvidia's open data engine Flora labels an hour of robot video for 72 cents, against $88 with GPT-6 Astra, with slightly higher quality scores. Built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, it is far better at spotting errors in robot actions but sometimes less accurate in its descriptions, and Nvidia sees it as part of a push to cover the whole robotics value chain.