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Established Models & releases Release 7d ago
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Thinking Machines Lab Inkling model launch

thinkingmachines/Inkling · Hugging Face

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“A big day for open model supporters in the U.S. Blog: thinkingmachines.ai/news/introdu... Model card: huggingface.co/thinkingmach...”

“Thinking Machines has a real model — 975B multimodal audio + image input it’s a generalist model. built for easy customization, TM has a great finetuning API audio up to 20 minutes, 1M token context for text thinkingmachines.ai/news/introdu...”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Nathan Lambert: Thinking Machines just released with a ~1T param, 41B active, apache-2 model Benchmarks are a clear step up from Nemotron Ultra (55B active), new best American model, and omni input. A bit behind G…
Nathan Lambert: A big day for open model supporters in the U.S. Blog: thinkingmachines.ai/news/introdu... Model card: huggingface.co/thinkingmach...
Ben Recht: Yeah, that part is weird, no? The small model is *much* smaller and yet indistinguishable from the big one on benchmarks? I guess we'll have to wait and see, as it's not available yet.
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New Agents & robotics Research 18h ago
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DeepSearch-World self-distillation search agents paper

DeepSearch-World: Self-Distillation for Deep Search Agents in a Verifiable Environment

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“Xinyu Geng, Xuanhua He, Sixiang Chen, Yanjing Xiao, Fan Zhang, Shijue Huang, Haitao Mi, Zhenwen Liang, Tianqing Fang, Yi R. Fung DeepSearch-World: Self-Distillation for Deep Search Agents in a Verifiable Environment https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07820”

Established Models & releases Resource 8d ago
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Gemma 4 vision token budget resource

Gemma 4 - Vision Token Budget - a Hugging Face Space by google

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“👁️ Vision Options: Want to make Gemma see even better? The default vision bucket is 280 for token efficiency. To capture maximum detail (like sharp OCR and 2.51MP resolution), manually bump max_soft_tokens to 1120! Try our new interactive Space to see how i…”

Established AI field signal Development 15d ago
AfD AI rage bait tool developed

AI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfD – The Irish Times

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“social media platforms that operate to maximize engagement, nazi ideology built on hate and rage, weak regulation and enforcement... democracy is dying before our eyes and big tech is fuel powering it www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...”

Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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YouTube AI video unlabeled

- YouTube

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“How Small Models Learn to Think Like Giants On-policy distillation has emerged as a powerful way to transfer knowledge between models. BUT, how do they work? 🤔 In this video, let's explore knowledge distillation from first principles. youtu.be/YH0YXgDWZXA”

Established Agents & robotics Resource 13d ago
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LingBot-Video HuggingFace collection

LingBot-Video - a robbyant Collection

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“LingBot-Video 🎬 MoE video model built for embodied AI from Ant group huggingface.co/collections/... - 30B/3B - Apache 2.0 - Trained on web videos + 70K hours of embodied data - Tops RBench: ahead of Cosmos3/Veo 3/Seedance 1.5 pro”

Established Vision & synthetic media Resource 3d ago
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EMR workshop ECCV 2026

EMR Workshop @ ECCV 2026

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“ECCV 2026 Workshop on Embodied Multimodal Reasoning in Physical Environments emr-workshop.github.io Sept 8th, 2026 Full paper DL has passed, but extended abstracts can still be submitted: DL July 24, 2026 (23:59 AoE)”

Established AI research Research 13d ago
Whareformer egocentric video tracking paper

Whareformer: Learning to Track What is Where in Long Egocentric Videos

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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“Whareformer @eccv.bsky.social #ECCV2026 fantastic collab bw @compscibristol.bsky.social @naverlabseurope.bsky.social by Jacob Chalk w/ @sinhasaptarshi.bsky.social @skamalas.bsky.social & @dlarlus.bsky.social Paper, Code &models public: jacobchalk.github.io/…”

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Dima Damen: NEW Whareformer: Learning to Track What is Where in Long Egocentric Videos @eccvconf #ECCV2026 paper The first online learning approach to track dynamic objects in ego video reasoning on appearance…
Dima Damen: Whareformer (What&Where former) tackles the OSNOM task - Out of Sight objects remain explicitly in memory so you know where objects are at all times. In natural ego videos, tracking moving objects …
Dima Damen: We train: * embedding network g(.) to combine appearance &location diff * NT token to learn to initialise new tracks * transformer encoder to contrast assignments Memory is updated online based on …
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Established AI business Resource 14d ago
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Olara health AI researcher job openings

Job Openings: Doctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers in Foundation Health Models | News | Omni Language AI Research

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“🏹 Job alert: Doctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers in Foundation Health Models at the ELLIS Institute Finland 📍 Espoo / Turku 🇫🇮 ⏰ 17 August 🔗 https://bit.ly/3QMzVYP”

Established AI business Resource 14d ago
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Omni Language AI health model researcher positions

Job Openings: Doctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers in Foundation Health Models | News | Omni Language AI Research

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“🏹 Job alert: Doctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers in Foundation Health Models at the ELLIS Institute Finland 📍 Espoo / Turku 🇫🇮 ⏰ 17 August 🔗 https://bit.ly/3QMzVYP”

Established AI research Resource 16d ago
ELLIS Unit Graz ML research page

ELLIS Unit Graz: Foundational Machine Learning, from Brain-Inspired to Trustworthy AI | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

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“🗺️🔍 Discover the ELLIS Sites: Spotlighting ELLIS Unit Graz 🇦🇹 at @tugraz.bsky.social, where research spans Brain-inspired ML, Resource-efficient Deep Learning, Human-centred Computing, Trustworthy AI, Visual Computing, and Probabilistic ML. Learn more: http…”

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