We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
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Pair the R1 with your 3D printer and you can make transparent acrylic art at home.
Thundercloud Lamp by Daniel4d
Layered Clock by Bambu Lab
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Meet EmbeddingGemma 2, our first natively multimodal open model for on-device embeddings.
It expands beyond text to unify code, images, audio, and video in a shared space. 🧵
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Today we’re announcing Personal Agent Protocol — an open standard @Meta and @SierraPlatform are developing along with industry partners at @Genesys, @instinct, @RocketOTD, @Shopify, @stripe, and @Walmart. It will help define how personal agents interact with businesses and is open for anyone to implement.
Read more: sierra.ai/blog/introducing-p…
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We've been busy.
→ Deribit, the world's largest crypto options exchange, is now part of Coinbase
→ Soon, a first: US + global derivatives in one regulated liquidity pool
→ Next: options, spot margin + unified portfolios
And Coinbase Pro returns later this year.
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Meet Bambu Lab R1. Big job. Light work.
Starting at $2,499
Pre-orders now open share.bambulab.com/4dSBo83
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What I like about Jev: for years, large generalist models sucked almost all the oxygen out of AI.
But there are huge opportunities in much more specialized and customized models, built for specific tasks and languages and as a result, orders of magnitude cheaper, faster and more optimized. There are 3 million of them publicly available on @huggingface.
Let's build a much more diverse AI ecosystem!
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Steam Frame is here! Our wireless VR headset + controllers, available now in the following models:
Steam Frame 256GB
Steam Frame 1TB
Sign up now and learn more on @Steam store.steampowered.com/hardw…
Sharing confidential information with AIs is a norm these days! We can do better. Our latest encoder models find and strip 40 types of PII across 16 languages, all in one simultaneous pass for a secure information sharing with AIs.
LFM2.5-Encoders identify all entities in the text at once. You can choose the entities yourself. They run inside your pipeline, so your private data never leaves your environment. No generation, nothing to parse.
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Today, we’re excited to open-source TwiL-LM3, the first formal reasoning model from the webAI Intelligence Lab.
At just 3 billion parameters, TwiL-LM3 outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-OSS-120B on 4 of 5 formal reasoning benchmarks while running efficiently on consumer hardware. That’s 40× fewer parameters, 2.6× faster inference, and state-of-the-art performance in the reasoning tasks that power reliable tool calling, code generation, structured outputs, and AI agents.
TwiL-LM3 was trained using webAI’s proprietary reasoning pipeline on webAI-owned, verified datasets—not scraped internet data. We believe better reasoning comes from better training pipelines and higher-quality data, not simply larger models. Our approach demonstrates that efficient models can rival—and in many cases surpass—models dozens of times their size.
Designed for the edge, TwiL-LM3 runs on hardware people already own—from a Raspberry Pi to an iPhone—bringing advanced reasoning to millions of devices without relying on the cloud.
This is our first open-source release from the webAI Intelligence Lab, and it’s only the beginning.
Proudly built in Austin, Texas.
Article: webai.com/blog/webai-release…
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Today we are introducing Dyna-2, a world-action model pre-trained on one million hours of human video. At this scale, for the first time, we discovered several new scaling laws:
• world-action models exhibit scaling law on human data across four orders of magnitude, from 1000 to 1,000,000 hours,
• this human data scaling law implied a scaling law on never seen robot data,
• both data and objective matter; world modeling and scaling on video data are essential for cross-embodiment scaling transfer to emerge
🧵
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🚨 GAME CHANGER
In April, we launched a NEW CAMPAIGN to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers — and supercharged the entire hiring process to get the BEST & BRIGHTEST in faster. The results are HISTORIC ✈️
✅ 94% of hiring goal met — fastest time ever to reach target
✅ 2,000+ hired — the most in a single year
✅ 2,000+ “best & brightest” candidates in the pipeline — reaching the Academy quicker than any class before them, thanks to the most streamlined hiring process
We’re building the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history ✈️
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DEFCON: New Red Team Tactic doctoreww.github.io/EvilFont…
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Minimax H3 is the first *open* video model I've seen that outperforms HunyuanVideo 1.5 - which is actually an impressive accomplishment for @TencentHunyuan to have held that throne for so long.
For a while now I've been sad that the image/video frontier seemed to be getting much more closed than the text LLM frontier. H3 is a very strong step back in the open direction.
This was generated in ~30 min on my AMD laptop:
firefly.social/post/x/208410…
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Our 95-minute AI feature film, Hell Grind, is now fully open-sourced for the Higgsfield Global Film Festival.
All the prompts and assets are public.
It was made for $500,000, screened in Cannes Market, and drew coverage from The Wall Street Journal, Variety, and BBC News.
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Today, we’re launching Alpamayo 2 Super, our frontier open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles.
Beyond seeing, Alpamayo understands and reasons through the complex world - thinks before it acts.
It’s a powerful backbone for robotaxis, trucks, shuttles, delivery vans, tractors and the long tail of mobile robots—billions of autonomous machines someday.
We’re releasing it for commercial use under OpenMDW-1.1 so teams can inspect it, fine-tune it and deploy it—open models advance safety and security.
The next wave of AI is robotics—and it starts with autonomous vehicles.
Great work, Alpamayo team!
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