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JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model from…
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22 May 2026
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22 May 2026
Behind the Blog: The Attention Wars
“`html A British AI publication, 404 Media, discussed notable stories from the week in…
22 May 2026
Text Degeneration: A Production Failure Mode That Most Benchmarks Do Not Track
“`html Text Degeneration: A Structural Failure Mode in Production A self-reinforcing failure mode of…
22 May 2026
Multi-agent AI systems are now automating scientific discovery and nobody seems ready
“`html Two recent papers have highlighted the advancement of AI systems capable of autonomously…
22 May 2026
Glasses will fail
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So, what is Yann LeCun’s “World Models” and JEPA and is it Really a Replacement for LLMs?
“`html The news article discusses Yann LeCun’s “World Models” and JEPA, highlighting that these…
21 May 2026