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Alibaba’s Amap Releases λ0 Humanoid Model Trained on Human Video
Alibaba's Amap has released λ0, a humanoid robot model trained on 500 hours of human video. It claims 62.5% real-world success; tests are its own
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Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Hy-Nomas, an Interactive World Model
Tencent Hunyuan has released Hy-Nomas under Apache 2.0, a world model that builds video segment by segment from text and camera input. No scores yet.
Ai2 Releases Open Satellite Embeddings for Every 10m Pixel on Earth
Ai2's OlmoEarth v1.3 gives every 10-metre pixel on Earth a 128-number summary, with a free no-sign-in explorer. Its benchmark lead is self-reported.
NVIDIA’s Open Kumo Relational Model Makes Predictions Straight From Databases
NVIDIA's open Kumo Relational model predicts churn, demand or fraud from databases with no training, and beats supervised ML on 41 tasks, NVIDIA says.
TorchNeuron Brings a Native PyTorch Backend to AWS Trainium
The PyTorch blog announces TorchNeuron, an open-source native backend for AWS Trainium. Code goes public on 20 Oct at PyTorch Conference; .to('neuron').
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron Labs Dory1.0-4B Looped Open-Weight Model
NVIDIA’s Nemotron Labs Dory1.0-4B is a 4B open-weight looped model: one checkpoint, 1–4 loops per token. OpenMDW-1.1; SWE-bench figures are NVIDIA’s.
DeepSeek Releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Open-Weight Update
DeepSeek’s V4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor open-weight update. Its own table lifts many agent scores vs prior Flash; Opus 5 still leads HLE and Terminal-Bench.
Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Hy-Memory 2.0 Memory SDK and Writer Model
Tencent Hunyuan open-sources Hy-Memory 2.0: SDK, MemHub app and Hy-Memory-30B-A3B writer. Authors claim 55.49% macro average on 20% benchmark subsamples.
Alibaba’s MAI-UI Team Open-Sources OpenGCUA for Generalist Computer-Use Agents
The MAI-UI team at Alibaba Token Hub open-sources OpenGCUA. Authors claim +19.6 mean partial score on OSWorld-v2 offline; harness and SDK are preliminary.
StepFun Publishes Open Weights for Step 5 Preview Under Its Own Licence, Not Apache 2.0
StepFun published Step 5 Preview open weights on Hugging Face. The licence is StepFun Model License 1.0, not Apache 2.0.
NVIDIA Readies Its RTX Spark Laptops for Local AI Agents With a New Open Model, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt
NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3.5 Bolt model for local AI agents on RTX Spark PCs arrives 15 October, and its PAIR router leaves beta today.
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