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Two-bit models now run on every major llama.cpp backend News
The official 2-bit weight format merged into llama.cpp now works on mainline CPU, Metal, Vulkan, and CUDA after the CUDA path landed upstream, completing a backend sweep that started as an ARM-only contribution.
AskChem indexes 2.4 million individual chemistry claims instead of 147,000 papers News
A team at NYU built a live chemistry search system that breaks each paper into atomic claims, each carrying its own source identifier and verbatim quote, so a researcher or an AI agent retrieves the individual assertion rather than a ranked list of documents.
A 26-billion-parameter model runs in 2GB of RAM by streaming experts off the SSD News
TurboFieldfare, an open-source Swift and Metal runtime, runs Gemma 4's 26-billion-parameter model on an 8GB MacBook Air by keeping only a 1.35GB core in memory and pulling each token's experts from disk as it needs them.
A Show HN Promised Frontier Quality for Half the Cost. Its Repo Describes a Router. News
World Model Optimizer turns agent traces into a policy that sends easy requests to cheap models and hard ones to a frontier endpoint, but its headline savings claim shifted between the repository and the post, and no distilled model has been released.
Capital One Open-Sources VulnHunter, an AI Agent That Hunts Security Bugs News
Capital One released VulnHunter, an open-source agentic AI security tool that reasons like an attacker, tries to disprove its own findings before reporting them, and has been run across thousands of the bank's own repositories.
Biology becomes AI's next benchmark battleground -- and today's agents are failing News
New benchmarks show frontier AI agents scoring as low as 17% at basic biology data retrieval and returning wildly different answers to the same query, but a single deterministic lookup tool pushes accuracy above 90% -- as OpenAI launches GeneBench-Pro to measure judgment-heavy biology.
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench built for biologists News
Anthropic released Claude Science, a customizable research workbench that wires Claude into more than 60 scientific databases and tools like PubMed, Jupyter, and R, and is giving qualifying researchers up to $2,000 in compute.
Anthropic's Claude Science puts a whole lab bench inside the AI News
A new workbench pulls a scientist's scattered tools - literature, notebooks, cluster jobs - into one place and keeps a full, checkable record of how every result was made.
A model that rivals the frontier now squeezes onto a single high-end desktop News
Aggressive compression shrinks GLM 5.2 by more than 80 percent while keeping most of its accuracy, putting a near-frontier model within reach of local hardware.
An open-source 'AI crew' that turns a coding assistant into a video studio News
A project called OpenMontage shot to the top of GitHub in a day, claiming to be the first open-source system that lets AI agents handle a whole video production from script to final cut.