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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron Nano 2 AI Models: A Production-Ready Enterprise AI Model Family and 6x Faster than Similar Sized Model. NVIDIA’s Nemotron Nano 2 models set a new benchmark for open-source AI, offering up to 6× faster inference throughput than similarly sized models like Qwen3-8B, while achieving equal or better accuracy in domains such as math, coding, reasoning, and multilingual tasks. Their hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture enables inference with up to 128,000 tokens on a single A10G GPU (22GiB), with benchmark scores including 91.4% on GSM8K (math), 58.5% on HumanEval+ (coding), and 82.2% on RULER-128K long-context tests—consistently outperforming prior models in both speed and practical usability.
Microsoft Released VibeVoice-1.5B: An Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model that can Synthesize up to 90 Minutes of Speech with Four Distinct Speakers. MIT licensed, scalable, and highly flexible for research use. This model isn’t just another TTS engine; it’s a framework designed to generate up to 90 minutes of uninterrupted, natural-sounding audio, support simultaneous generation of up to four distinct speakers, and even handle cross-lingual and singing synthesis scenarios. With a streaming architecture and a larger 7B model announced for the near future, VibeVoice-1.5B positions itself as a major advance for AI-powered conversational audio, podcasting, and synthetic voice research.
NVIDIA AI Just Released Streaming Sortformer: A Real-Time Speaker Diarization that Figures Out Who’s Talking in Meetings and Calls Instantly. NVIDIA’s Streaming Sortformer is a real-time, GPU-accelerated speaker diarization model that identifies “who’s speaking when” during live meetings, calls, and voice apps with low latency. It labels 2–4 speakers on the fly, maintains consistent speaker IDs throughout a conversation, and is validated for English with demonstrated performance on Mandarin. Built for production, it integrates with NVIDIA’s speech AI stacks and is available as pretrained models, making it straightforward to add live, speaker-aware transcription and analytics to existing pipelines.
Alibaba AI Team Released Ovis 2.5 Multimodal LLMs: A Major Leap in Open-Source AI with Enhanced Visual Perception and Reasoning Capabilities. Alibaba’s Ovis2.5, released in 9B and 2B parameter versions, sets a new bar for open-source multimodal language models by integrating a native-resolution vision transformer and deep reasoning capabilities. This architecture enables Ovis2.5 to process visual inputs at their original resolutions, preserving critical details for tasks like chart analysis, OCR, document understanding, and STEM reasoning. The model’s “thinking mode” allows users to trigger enhanced step-by-step reflection and self-correction, boosting accuracy on complex queries and technical challenges.
SEA-LION v4: Multimodal Language Modeling for Southeast Asia. SEA-LION v4 is an open-source, multimodal language model optimized for Southeast Asian languages, providing competitive instruction-following and image-processing capabilities. Developed collaboratively by AI Singapore and Google using Gemma 3 architecture, it is released under a permissive license and designed for efficient deployment on standard hardware. Benchmark results show SEA-LION v4 performs comparably to larger models in regional tasks, emphasizing accessibility and versatility for both research and practical applications
Editor’s Pick #1
Your LLM is 5x Slower Than It Should Be. The Reason? Pessimism—and Stanford Researchers Just Showed How to Fix It. Conservative schedulers assume every request is the longest possible, causing wasteful memory use and small batches. Their new Amin algorithm schedules requests based on predicted minimum lengths, quickly adapts as tokens are generated, and smartly evicts jobs if memory feeds tight. The result? Near-optimal latency and throughput, matching hindsight-perfect scheduling and robust efficiency with only quick lower-bound predictions
Editor’s Pick #2
Google AI Research has introduced new scalable algorithms—MaxAdaptiveDegree (MAD) and MAD2R—for differentially private partition selection, greatly improving the utility-privacy trade-off in data analytics. These algorithms enable the extraction of the maximum number of unique items from massive datasets (up to 800 billion entries), such as tokens in documents, all while strictly preserving user-level differential privacy.
