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[Voice AI + Open Source] Meet VoXtream: An Open-Sourced Full-Stream Zero-Shot TTS Model for Real-Time Use that Begins Speaking from the First Word. VoXtream is an open-source, fully-autoregressive, zero-shot full-stream TTS that starts speaking on the first word, generating 80 ms frames with the Mimi codec (12.5 Hz) through a 3-stage stack—incremental Phoneme Transformer with dynamic ≤10-phoneme look-ahead, Temporal Transformer that predicts Mimi semantic + duration tokens for monotonic alignment, and Depth Transformer for acoustic codebooks—achieving first-packet latency 102 ms and RTF ≈ 0.17 (>5× real-time) on A100 with torch.compile; in reported FP16 A100 baselines it posts 171 ms/1.00 RTF uncompiled and 102 ms/0.17 compiled vs XTTS-v2 295 ms/0.37 (or 196 ms/0.26 with DeepSpeed) and CosyVoice2 1643 ms/0.85, while in full-stream LibriSpeech-long it records WER 3.24% with a listener naturalness preference over CosyVoice2 (p ≤ 5e-10)…
[Machine Learning] Google AI Research Introduce a Novel Machine Learning Approach that Transforms TimesFM into a Few-Shot Learner. Google Research extends TimesFM with in-context fine-tuning (ICF)—a continued-pretraining recipe that trains the decoder-only forecaster to exploit multiple related “support” series provided in the prompt at inference. Using a learnable separator token and standard causal self-attention, TimesFM-ICF learns cross-series structure and, on a 23-dataset out-of-domain benchmark, matches supervised per-dataset fine-tuning (TimesFM-FT) while delivering +6.8% accuracy over TimesFM-Base (geometric-mean MASE).
[LLMs] Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max: Production-Ready Thinking Mode, 1T+ Parameters, and Day-One Coding/Agentic Bench Signals. Qwen3-Max is a >1T-parameter sparse MoE model pretrained on ~36T tokens, delivered in Instruct and Thinking tracks for coding/reasoning and tool-augmented agent workflows, respectively. Public access is live via Qwen Chat and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio; importantly, Thinking mode requires setting enable_thinking=true and incremental_output=true in API calls. Early, vendor/press-reported results show strong scores on SWE-Bench Verified (~69.6) and Tau2-Bench (~74.8).
[Open Source + Vibe Coding] CloudFlare AI Team Just Open-Sourced ‘VibeSDK’ that Lets Anyone Build and Deploy a Full AI Vibe Coding Platform with a Single Click. The SDK bundles a React front end, Workers back end, Durable Objects, D1, R2, KV, and isolated sandboxes to safely execute AI-generated code with live previews and tenant-level deployments on Workers for Platforms. It routes model calls through Cloudflare’s AI Gateway—supporting Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others—while giving full observability, caching, and cost controls. Licensed under MIT, VibeSDK enables developers and enterprises to self-host AI coding platforms without piecing together complex infrastructure….
Editor’s Pick
[Coding Model + Meta] Meta FAIR Released Code World Model (CWM): A 32-Billion-Parameter Open-Weights LLM, to Advance Research on Code Generation with World Models.
1️⃣ Model + licensing — CWM is a 32B dense, decoder-only LLM; weights are released in three variants (pretrain, SFT, post-trained) under Meta’s FAIR non-commercial research license.
2️⃣ World-modeled training signal — Beyond code, CWM mid-trains on large observation–action trajectories from Python execution traces and agentic interactions in containerized environments, then post-trains with multi-task RL over verifiable coding, math, and multi-turn SWE environments.
3️⃣ Architecture + context — 64-block transformer with GQA and alternating local/global sliding windows of 8,192 / 131,072 tokens (3:1 ratio); 128k-token vocab. This enables long-horizon repository reasoning.
4️⃣ Benchmarks — Reported results: LiveCodeBench-v5 68.6, v6 63.5, Math-500 96.6, AIME-24 76.0, AIME-25 68.2, and SWE-bench Verified 53.9 / 65.8 with test-time scaling (CWM vs. CWM+tts).....
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