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Last updated 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC
Samaya AI’s Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per question, beating Claude Fable 5.1’s 55.9% at $6.89. The post Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research…
Edge0 released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B open-weight zero-shot voice cloning TTS model under Apache 2.0. It supports 23 languages and adds a final GRPO stage driven by a learned realism critic. The post Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice…
arXiv:2610.37720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models offer scalable capacity for Web applications, but uneven routing creates computation and communication bottlenecks. Existing placement and replication methods redistribute…
arXiv:2610.37731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model discrepancy may prevent a single calibration parameter from reproducing a physical response across the context domain. In addition, uncertainties in observations and contexts affect calibration and must be…
arXiv:2610.37732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many uses of language models end in a typed decision: a choice among a closed set of options, whose probabilities code can act on. Reading those probabilities from one forward pass is fast but often wrong on…
arXiv:2610.37739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown increasing promise in research-level problem solving, yet a comprehensive collection of such problems is still missing, and evaluating them on research-level problems…
arXiv:2610.37786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web agents require diverse, executable, and resettable website environments for reproducible training and evaluation. Human-assisted mirrors demand per-site engineering, while generative construction can diverge…
arXiv:2610.37809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents that answer questions over Web knowledge graphs are increasingly wrapped in checks derived from the graph's ontology, on the assumption that a formal schema makes a reliable judge. Yet a checker can…
arXiv:2610.37830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can now write software from a plain-English description, but code that runs is not the same as code that does what was asked. This gap matters most for smart contracts, the programs behind Web3…
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