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TLDR YaFF is Yandex’s open-source zero-copy wire format for Protobuf — Apache 2.0, currently C++, v0.1.0. The .proto file stays the source of truth; only the physical memory layout changes. On Yandex’s benchmarks, the Flat Layout reads hot data ~3.8× faster than FlatBuffers, within 1.2× of a raw C++ struct. Four layouts — Fixed, Flat, […]
NVIDIA Research has released SpatialClaw, a training-free framework for spatial reasoning. It targets a persistent weakness in vision-language models (VLMs). These models still struggle to judge where objects are, how they relate, and how they move in 3D. SpatialClaw does not retrain the model. Instead, it changes the action interface the agent uses to call
This week, Liquid AI released two new retrieval models. They are LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M and LFM2.5-Embedding-350M. Both hold 350M parameters. Both are the first bidirectional members of the LFM family. They build on LFM2.5-350M-Base, released in March. The pair targets fast multilingual and cross-lingual search across 11 languages. Their footprint is small enough to run almost anywhere.
Long-context large language models (LLMs) face a memory bottleneck that has nothing to do with model weights. During decoding, transformers cache the key and value (KV) vectors for every token at every layer so they don’t have to recompute attention. This cache grows linearly with sequence length and batch size, and at long context with
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Vercel has released eve, an open-source framework for building, running, and scaling agents. The project is published as the npm package eve, licensed under Apache-2.0. Building an agent should mean defining what it does. It should not mean assembling all the plumbing that an agent needs to run in production. eve is the framework Vercel
MiniMax released MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention), a sparse attention method built directly on Grouped Query Attention (GQA). It targets one bottleneck: the quadratic cost of softmax attention at long context. The MiniMax research team tested it inside a 109B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained with native multimodal data. They also open-sourced an inference kernel and shipped a
OpenAI published a new pre-deployment safety method called Deployment Simulation. The idea is direct. Before a model ships, simulate its deployment first. Replay past conversations through the new candidate model. Then study how it behaves in realistic contexts. OpenAI already uses insights from the method during model development. It has informed mitigations and deployment decisions,
Nous Research has shipped a change to Hermes Agent. Its delegate tool can now run subagents asynchronously. Per the announcement, delegated work no longer blocks the parent chat. Hermes Agent is an open-source personal agent from Nous Research. A parent agent can spawn child agents, called subagents, to fan out work. Until now, that delegation
Foundation models keep getting stronger, yet they still stall on the same thing: context. A model can write code or analyze a dataset, but only with the right internal knowledge. That knowledge includes table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks, join paths and it lives scattered across catalogs, wikis, and a few senior engineers’ heads. Google Cloud
GLM-5.2 is the latest large language model from Z.ai, becoming the third major release in the GLM-5 line. It follows GLM-5 (February 11), GLM-5-Turbo (March 15), and GLM-5.1 (April 7). That makes four flagship-tier coding releases in roughly four months. Usable 1M-Token Context Window GLM-5.2’s standout spec is a 1,000,000-token context window. Z.ai labels the
