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30 Mar 202611 Shawwal 1447 AH

Latest open artifacts (#20): New orgs! New types of models! With Nemotron Super, Sarvam, Cohere Transcribe, & others

This post highlights the diversity of open models recently released, including NVIDIA-Nemotron-3 and cohere-transcribe-03-2026. These models cover a wide range of applications, from optical character recognition to RAG-based search, showcasing innovation in the field. The emergence of domain-specific, affordable models is increasingly vital, particularly against the backdrop of dominant large models. New releases come from a broader array of open model developers, indicating a promising future for open models.

Agents

26 Mar 20267 Shawwal 1447 AH

AsgardBench: A benchmark for visually grounded interactive planning

AsgardBench has been introduced as a new benchmark for assessing the ability of artificial agents to adjust their plans based on visual feedback. This benchmark includes 108 tasks across 12 categories, requiring agents to adapt to their observations in the environment. For instance, when tasked with cleaning a kitchen, a robot must determine whether items are clean or dirty and modify its plan accordingly. This process necessitates that agents utilize visual feedback to refine their decisions, presenting a significant challenge.

Agents

26 Mar 20267 Shawwal 1447 AH

GroundedPlanBench: Spatially grounded long-horizon task planning for robot manipulation

VLM-based robot planners face challenges with long, complex tasks due to ambiguities in natural-language plans. GroundedPlanBench has been developed to evaluate whether these models can effectively plan actions and determine their locations in diverse real-world scenarios. The Video-to-Spatially Grounded Planning (V2GP) framework converts robot demonstration videos into spatially grounded training data, enhancing both planning and grounding capabilities.

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Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

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Agents

Firecrawl + n8n: real-time web data for your AI workflows

26 Mar 20267 Shawwal 1447 AH

Agents

26 Mar 20267 Shawwal 1447 AH

Firecrawl + n8n: real-time web data for your AI workflows

Firecrawl is offering 100,000 credits for users connecting through n8n Cloud, simplifying web data integration into workflows. This partnership allows users to create accounts directly within the platform, enhancing user experience with recent improvements in credential management. Firecrawl addresses traditional data extraction issues by converting web pages into structured, LLM-ready outputs. Reports indicate this technology reduces token waste by 60-90% compared to conventional scraping methods.

Governance

Protecting people from harmful manipulation

25 Mar 20266 Shawwal 1447 AH

Governance

25 Mar 20266 Shawwal 1447 AH

Protecting people from harmful manipulation

Google DeepMind has announced new research focused on the risks of harmful manipulation of AI, particularly in finance and health sectors. This research includes the development of new safety measures aimed at mitigating risks associated with AI usage in these sensitive areas. The announcement comes amid growing concerns about AI's impact on financial and medical decision-making.

Models

Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more

25 Mar 20266 Shawwal 1447 AH

Models

25 Mar 20266 Shawwal 1447 AH

Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more

Lyria has announced the release of Lyria 3 Pro, which allows for longer track management due to its structural awareness. This update enhances system performance and enables users to create more complex content. Lyria aims to expand its integration with more Google products, reflecting its commitment to providing advanced tools for users. This expansion includes the integration of Lyria into new platforms, making it more accessible.

Models

Will machines ever be intelligent?

23 Mar 20264 Shawwal 1447 AH

Models

23 Mar 20264 Shawwal 1447 AH

Will machines ever be intelligent?

In the first episode of the series "The Shape of Things to Come," Doug Berger from Microsoft engaged with experts like Nicolo Fusi and Subutai Ahmad to examine whether current artificial intelligence systems are truly intelligent. The discussion focused on comparing transformer-based large language models with human brain architecture, exploring differences in efficiency and representation. The conversations also addressed how current systems learn, contrasting this with the continuous learning characteristic of the human brain.

Models

Composer 2

19 Mar 202630 Ramadan 1447 AH

Models

19 Mar 202630 Ramadan 1447 AH

Composer 2

Cursor has launched Composer 2, showcasing exceptional performance in complex coding tasks. The pricing structure is competitive, with input costs at $0.50 per million tokens and output costs at $2.50 per million tokens. Results from CursorBench indicate that Composer 2 excels in efficiency and quality, making it an ideal choice for developers seeking powerful programming tools. This new version represents a significant step toward enhancing the programming experience and providing effective solutions for users.

Models

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

17 Mar 202628 Ramadan 1447 AH

Models

17 Mar 202628 Ramadan 1447 AH

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework

A new company has announced the launch of a framework to measure progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), aimed at enhancing performance evaluations. This framework includes a set of criteria to assist researchers and developers in gauging their proximity to achieving AGI. Additionally, a hackathon will be organized on Kaggle to encourage participants to develop new evaluation tools aligned with this framework. This event aims to attract innovators worldwide to contribute to this advanced field.