AI — Page 5
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Exclusive: Vibe coding is coming to the enterprise. UST rewrites or rejects 40% of the output
UST Chief Solutions Officer Kailash Attal tells RuntimeWire how Codon brings plain-English building to five major enterprise platforms while keeping every deployment behind approval gates, audit trails and mandatory human review.
- Linear reworks CI as coding agents make validation the expensive part
Tuomas Artman's team cut runner time per test roughly in half while Linear's test suite nearly quadrupled in 2026, according to Linear.
- Kyutai releases speech-native math models that skip the text LLM
The released GLM-4-Voice derivatives score up to 77.1% on GSM8K, though larger cascaded systems still lead the benchmark.
- M87 Labs compresses Nvidia's Parakeet speech model to 178MB
Parakeet Redux runs at a claimed 113x realtime on eight CPU cores, with sharper multilingual scores and a measurable penalty in noisy audio.
- Grep launches AgentRun, says code-first harness cuts agent costs 91%
AJ Asver's internal test reduced compliance model costs from $2.89 to $0.25 per alert, with uncertain cases routed to a frontier agent.
- White Circle releases Halo to speed up Hugging Face post-training
The AI safety startup claims up to 2.8x TRL throughput, while its modified Apache license adds conditions for larger commercial users.
- Paradigma releases Limite, a 1B model for high-throughput math reasoning
The Rome AI lab trained its first model in six weeks and released the weights, base model and vLLM serving code under Apache 2.0.
- HeyGen launches a benchmark for AI video that can grade bad taste
Code2Video tests agents on 168 motion-design briefs, then uses HeyGen's own judge model to score timing, composition and craft.
- Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 gets faster when pushed harder, still passes just 14 of 23 tasks
Morgan Linton's 92-run sweep found lower effort made Meta's model slower and less accurate, while Astra and Fable 5.1 fully passed all 23 tasks.
- Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its store
The dispute puts platform permission, customer credentials and Amazon's $68.6B advertising business at the center of agentic commerce.
- SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.7 at Grok 4.6 prices for longer agent work
The larger model targets longer coding and knowledge-work agents, with API rates of $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
- Ahad Ali's Tabby seeks $1M as incumbents automate bookkeeping too
Ahad Ali built Tabby from his own CPA firm's workload; the startup reports 5,500 users and roughly $100,000 in ARR 14 months in.
- Meshy plugs its 3D generator into ChatGPT and lets Astra run the workflow
The plugin generates, segments and displays 3D assets in chat, making OpenAI's generalist model the orchestrator for Meshy's specialist APIs.
- Multiverse Computing's pruning method beats a baseline by nearly 23 MMLU points
The method searches interacting block-removal choices instead of ranking layers one at a time, with its biggest gains appearing under severe compression.
- Aru open-sourced lossless-memory, an AI memory that refuses to summarize
The local Python project stores every conversation line with a timestamp, turning one creator's years of assistant frustration into code.
- Light Origins launches Light-O1 to turn internet video into robot actions
Roger Jiang's model transfers human-action pretraining across LightBot and Unitree G1, while the open checkpoint is a 6B text-to-motion preview.
- Robocurve finds robot-control models rarely refuse dangerous instructions
Jay Chooi's Robocurve tested three AI systems across 300 robot-arm trials involving five dangerous instructions.
- Axel joins ScaleUp House with a $199 pitch: let AI haggle with dealers
Roy Horowitz's five-person startup joins a 23-company cohort while testing whether buyer-side car negotiation can work at one-fifth of human concierge fees.
- Jared Palmer ports Kev to Qwen3.5 for roughly $95 in H100 time
The Cognition VP of Engineering released 0.8B, 4B and 9B models that return typed probabilities through an open, Jev-compatible local API.
- OpenAI will shut Sora's API as Kling turns AI video into real revenue
Kling raised $2.8B after topping RMB850M in quarterly revenue; Sora's closure also erased Disney's planned $1B investment.
- Supermemory reverse-engineers Instinct's memory down to git, Markdown and grep
Dhravya Shah's black-box teardown says the personal agent relies on daily files and keyword search, then rebuilds the pattern in 60 lines.
- Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1 with transparent editing and research-only weights
The unified 2K generator accepts 10 reference images, while its license requires a separate agreement for any commercial use.
- Pirate Face adds a BitTorrent tracker to keep open AI models online
The service pairs Hugging Face web-seeds with peer discovery, but its 669,000-model catalog is far larger than its set of witnessed copies.
- Scaleout's edge AI picked and struck a target without a radio link
The January ALMA demo turned Andreas Hellander and Salman Toor's federated-learning research into onboard targeting, with a pilot held in reserve.