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Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed [Xtra!]Moonshot keeps pushing open-weight frontier models with a speed-optimized tier.
Block's Dessa speech model claims full-duplex crown [Xtra!]Full-duplex (simultaneous listen/speak) voice AI is the next frontier for real-time agents.
Gemma-4-26B-A4B cuts 'thinking' tokens 39-69% at same accuracy [Xtra!]Cheaper reasoning without accuracy loss directly cuts inference cost.
Microsoft's 'Decision-1' model reportedly just rebadged Qwen3.5-9B [Xtra!]Raises questions about transparency in how big-name labs source and brand models.
METR red-teams OpenAI's internal agent monitoring [Xtra!]Independent testing of how labs watch their own agents is rare and valuable.
NVIDIA pairs video generation with matching 3D motion [Xtra!]Tighter coupling of generated video to real 3D motion improves consistency for sim/robotics use.