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MiniMax Open-Sources MCode Stack: 15 Agent Skills Its Coding Team Uses Daily

MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, the workflows and agent skills its team uses to build MiniMax Code. The MiniMax MCode Stack agent skills went public on October 28, 2026 under the MIT license. It is not a prompt collection. Each piece is a SKILL.md skill or checklist that installs directly into MiniMax Code. For developers,

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Polymathic AI and Princeton Researchers Release FlashMap, a Flow Map Drafter for 6.14x Faster LLM Decoding

Researchers from Polymathic AI, Princeton University, USC ISI, NYU and the Flatiron Institute have released FlashMap. FlashMap speculative decoding replaces the discrete diffusion drafter with a continuous flow map. It drafts a full 16-token block in 1 forward pass. Tokens in that block stay consistent with each other. On Qwen3-8B, the research team reports up

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Meet Google DeepMind’s Genie 4: Real-Time World Model With Native Audio

Google DeepMind has released Genie 4 as a research preview for trusted testers. The Genie 4 world model generates explorable worlds from text and image prompts in real time. It also generates the soundscape: ambient noise, music and character dialogue. Users move with keyboard controls and steer events with plain-language prompts. The bigger change is

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Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB

UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab built LEANN, an open-source vector index that stores almost no embeddings. The LEANN vector index recomputes embeddings at query time instead of saving them to disk. The repo benchmark shows a 60 million chunk Wikipedia index dropping from 201 GB to 6 GB. The research paper won the Best Research

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Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models

Liquid AI has released LFM3, its new generation of Liquid Foundation Models. Liquid AI LFM3 is a family of 6 open-weight, 2B-class models built on one shared backbone. The family covers text, vision, audio, omni and decision tasks. Every model can be fine-tuned on a single GPU. Developers can then deploy on phones, laptops, private

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Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context

Mirendil has released Fern, its first AI model. Mirendil Fern is a from-scratch coding model with a context window of up to 10M tokens. Mirendil explains how that equals about 23 MB of code, or roughly half a million lines. That is a codebase on the scale of Megatron-LM, held in context at once. Fern

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vLLM Semantic Router Releases d3-ultra: A 27B Open Multimodal Decision Model

The vLLM Semantic Router team has released d3-ultra, a 27B multimodal decision model under Apache-2.0. The d3-ultra decision model does not generate text. It reads an input once and returns a probability for every answer to every question. For developers, that means routing, classification, visual grounding and video checks from 1 open-weight call. TL;DR Size:

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Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited OCR 2 for Hundred-Page Document Parsing

Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, an open-source OCR model built for very long documents. The 3B model parses books, filings and reports of hundreds of pages in one request. Its core change is SR-SWA, a sparse attention scheme that keeps per-step decoding cost nearly flat. Weights ship under the MIT license, with code on

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OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Halving GPT-6.1 Sol’s API Price for Agent Work

OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast model for visual reasoning, computer use and writing. It replaces GPT-5.6 Terra and is live in the API as gpt-6.1-terra. Standard pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. For teams automating screens, forms and documents at volume, GPT-6.1 Terra changes the cost

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Nace AI Releases Drex for Search for AI Agents: 92.05% on BrowseComp-Plus With 12.6 Search Calls

Nace AI has released Drex for Search, which brings its Drex decision models to document search. Drex for Search is a retrieval layer that helps people and agents find evidence. Coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode call it through CLI, SDKs, MCP or REST. In Nace’s evaluation, it scores 92.05% on

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