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Asserting Implications
A short one today!
🐯 Liger GRPO meets TRL
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Addendum to OpenAI o3 and o4-mini system card: OpenAI o3 Operator
We are replacing the existing GPT-4o-based model for Operator with a version based on OpenAI o3. The API version will remain based on 4o.
Dell Enterprise Hub is all you need to build AI on premises
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Tiny Agents in Python: a MCP-powered agent in ~70 lines of code
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OpenAI Deutschland
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Shipping code faster with o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1
CodeRabbit uses OpenAI models to revolutionize code reviews—boosting accuracy, accelerating PR merges, and helping developers ship faster with fewer bugs and higher ROI.
Introducing Stargate UAE
We’re launching Stargate UAE – the first international deployment of Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform.
3 Years of Extremely Remote Work
In the last 3 years I've attended 77 meetings that began between 1am and 6am, roughly once every two weeks, followed by my usual 7am start, Monday to Saturday. I'm working remotely from Australia for a US firm (Intel) who does not have a local office here. I'm not complaining. I work weird hours, bu...
New tools and features in the Responses API
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Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance
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Falcon-Arabic: A Breakthrough in Arabic Language Models
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Go Beyond, Plus Ultra! with the My Hero Academia Collection
Become the hero you want to be with the My Hero Academia Collection, featuring nine Avatar Decorations and three Profile Effects based upon fan-favorite heroes and villains.
What are Apache Iceberg tables? Benefits and challenges | Redpanda
Apache Iceberg tables introduce a reliable framework for querying large datasets in data lakes. Explore their use cases, benefits, and more.
Exploring Quantization Backends in Diffusers
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nanoVLM: The simplest repository to train your VLM in pure PyTorch
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Litestream: Revamped
Litestream is an open-source tool that makes it possible to run many kinds of full-stack applications on top of SQLite by making them reliably recoverable from object storage. This is a post about the biggest change we’ve made to it since I launched it. Nearly a decade ago, I got a bug up my ass. I ...
Implementing FIPS compliance in Redpanda
Redpanda now supports FIPS, so you can run our clusters in secure environments with strict federal security standards for crypto modules.
Launching MCP Servers on Fly.io
This is a blog post. Part showing off. Part opinion. Plan accordingly. The Model Context Protocol is days away from turning six months old. You read that right, six months old. MCP Servers have both taken the world by storm, and still trying to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Ther...
Microsoft and Hugging Face expand collaboration
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Addendum to o3 and o4-mini system card: Codex
Codex is a cloud-based coding agent. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of OpenAI o3 optimized for software engineering. codex-1 was trained using reinforcement learning on real-world coding tasks in a variety of environments to generate code that closely mirrors human style and PR preferences, ...
Introducing Codex
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Falcon-Edge: A series of powerful, universal, fine-tunable 1.58bit language models.
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The Transformers Library: standardizing model definitions
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AI powers Expedia’s marketing evolution
A conversation with Jochen Koedijk, Chief Marketing Officer of Expedia Group.