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NVIDIA AI have released Audio Flamingo Next (AF-Next), a fully open Large Audio-Language Model
Audio Flamingo Next (AF-Next) is at fully open Large Audio-Language Model trained on internet-scale data — approximately 108 million samples and 1 million hours of audio spanning speech, environmental sounds, and music — that supports audio inputs up to 30 minutes long. The model introduces Temporal Audio Chain-of-Thought, a reasoning paradigm that anchors each intermediate reasoning step to a timestamp in the audio before producing an answer, addressing a core weakness of prior audio CoT approaches that were limited to short clips. Trained across four curriculum stages using a Qwen-2.5-7B backbone with Rotary Time Embeddings (RoTE) for temporal grounding, AF-Next is released in three variants — AF-Next-Instruct, AF-Next-Think, and AF-Next-Captioner — and outperforms the closed-source Gemini 2.5 Pro on LongAudioBench (73.9 vs. 60.4) while setting the lowest Word Error Rate among LALMs on LibriSpeech test-clean at 1.54...… Read the full analysis/article here.
TinyFish just shipped four products under one API key: Web Search, Web Fetch, Web Browser, and Web Agent
TinyFish launched a four-product web infrastructure platform for AI agents — Web Search, Web Fetch, Web Browser, and Web Agent — all under one API key and credit system. Web Search returns structured JSON at ~488ms P50 (competitors average 2,800ms+), Web Fetch renders full pages in a real browser and strips irrelevant markup before returning clean Markdown or JSON, Web Browser provides managed stealth Chrome sessions via CDP with sub-250ms cold start and 28 C++-level anti-bot mechanisms, and Web Agent sits at #1 on Mind2Web with 89.9% accuracy across 300 tasks. All four endpoints are accessible via CLI (npm install -g @tiny-fish/cli) with an Agent Skill that teaches coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to use every endpoint automatically — no manual integration. CLI operations consume ~100 tokens per task versus ~1,500 over MCP, write output to the filesystem instead of the context window, and deliver 2× higher task completion on complex multi-step workflows. 500 free steps at tinyfish.ai, no credit card required...… Read the full analysis/article here.
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▶ Google ADK Multi-Agent Pipeline Tutorial: Data Loading, Statistical Testing, Visualization, and Report Generation in Python Codes Tutorial
▶ A Hands-On Coding Tutorial for Microsoft VibeVoice Covering Speaker-Aware ASR, Real-Time TTS, and Speech-to-Speech Pipelines Codes Tutorial
▶ An Implementation Guide to Building a DuckDB-Python Analytics Pipeline with SQL, DataFrames, Parquet, UDFs, and Performance Profiling Codes Tutorial
▶ How to Build a Secure Local-First Agent Runtime with OpenClaw Gateway, Skills, and Controlled Tool Execution Codes Tutorial
▶ How to Deploy Open WebUI with Secure OpenAI API Integration, Public Tunneling, and Browser-Based Chat Access Codes Tutorial
▶ An Implementation Guide to Running NVIDIA Transformer Engine with Mixed Precision, FP8 Checks, Benchmarking, and Fallback Execution Codes Tutorial
▶ How to Combine Google Search, Google Maps, and Custom Functions in a Single Gemini API Call With Context Circulation, Parallel Tool IDs, and Multi-Step Agentic Chains Codes Tutorial
▶ A Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial on NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo: Darcy Flow, FNOs, PINNs, Surrogate Models, and Inference Benchmarking Codes Tutorial
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