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xAI Ships Grok Build Plugin Marketplace With MongoDB, Vercel, Sentry, Chrome DevTools, Cloudflare, and Superpowers Plugins at Launch

Today, xAI shipped the Grok Build Plugin Marketplace. It is a built-in catalog of plugins for Grok Build, the company’s terminal coding agent. A plugin bundles skills, slash commands, agents, hooks, MCP servers, and LSPs into one package. You browse, install, and update these packages without leaving the terminal. Plugin Marketplace Grok Build is xAI’s […]

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Nous Research Ships Hermes Agent Profile Builder: Identity, Model, Skills, and MCP Servers in One Dashboard Flow

Nous Research has shipped a Profile Builder for Hermes Agent. It lives inside the project’s local web dashboard. Standing up a distinct agent used to mean several CLI steps. The builder now walks you through one guided flow. In that flow you define an agent’s identity. You pick a model and provider. You choose built-in

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Meet ‘North Mini Code’: Cohere’s 30B Open-Weight Mixture-of-Experts Model With 3B Active Parameters for Agentic Coding

This week, Cohere AI team shipped its first developer-facing coding model named ‘North Mini Code‘. ‘North Mini Code’ is open-weight and focused at software engineers. It is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 30B total parameters. Only 3B of those parameters activate per token. The release is positioned around “sovereign” AI. The idea is simple: run

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A Coding Implementation on Microsoft SkillOpt for Instrumented Prompt Optimization, Skill Evolution Analysis, and Baseline Comparison

In this tutorial, we implement an instrumented workflow for Microsoft SkillOpt. We set up the SkillOpt repository, connect it to OpenAI-compatible model access, configure the optimizer and target models, and run the SearchQA optimization pipeline with a controlled sample limit to keep costs manageable. We first evaluate the original seed skill as a baseline, then

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Google AI Releases DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE Open Model Using Text Diffusion for Up to 4x Faster Generation

Google AI team including the Google DeepMind researchers have just released DiffusionGemma, an experimental open model for text generation. It uses text diffusion instead of standard autoregressive decoding. The model ships under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. Google positions it for devs and researchers exploring speed-critical, interactive local workflows. Examples include in-line editing, rapid iteration,

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Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5: Same Underlying Model, Different Safeguards, New Mythos-Class Tier

Anthropic released two models on June 9, 2026: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Both belong to a tier called “Mythos-class.” This tier sits above the Opus class in capability. Fable 5 is the version claimed to be made safe for general use. Mythos 5 is the same model with some safeguards lifted, kept

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Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a Streaming Speech-to-Speech Audio Model Covering 70+ Languages Across Meet, Translate, and the Live API

Google just announced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate. It is their latest audio model for live speech-to-speech translation. Speech-to-speech means spoken audio goes in, and translated spoken audio comes out. The model detects over 70 languages automatically and generates translated speech. It preserves the speaker’s intonation, pacing, and pitch in the output. Turn-by-turn systems wait for

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A New Study from Harvard and Perplexity Finds AI Agents Perform 26 Minutes of Autonomous Work per Session vs 33 Seconds for Search

A new working research from Perplexity and Harvard offers field evidence on what AI agents do to knowledge work. It draws on production data from two Perplexity products: Search and Computer. The setup is a natural comparison. Search is a conversational answer engine. Computer is an agent that plans and executes tasks end to end.

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Xiaomi MiMo and TileRT Push a 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Past 1000 Tokens Per Second on Commodity GPUs

Inference speed is becoming a competitive metric for large language models. Xiaomi’s MiMo team just released MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed, built in collaboration with the TileRT systems group. It decodes faster than 1000 tokens per second on a 1-trillion-parameter model. Xiaomi team describes this as a first at trillion-parameter scale. Demos show generation peaks near 1200 tokens per

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Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription

Last week Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5. It is the second iteration of the company’s in-house speech-to-text family. The model targets accuracy across 43 languages, accents, and noisy environments. The Microsoft team positions it for production transcription workloads. What is MAI-Transcribe-1.5 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. It takes audio as input and

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