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- Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%
Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench, with no change to the agent. The post Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9% appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google each released an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. All 4 use the same find, disprove, then patch loop. Here is how they differ, plus 12 more tools. The post AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost
Samaya AI’s Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per question, beating Claude Fable 5.1’s 55.9% at $6.89. The post Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model
Edge0 released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B open-weight zero-shot voice cloning TTS model under Apache 2.0. It supports 23 languages and adds a final GRPO stage driven by a learned realism critic. The post Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens
Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B open-weight decision model that returns calibrated probabilities instead of text. It runs at 20 ms P50 latency and costs $0.01 per million input tokens. The post Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE: Trainable Fused MoE Kernel, 3.11x Faster Forward Pass
Prime Intellect released Prime Mega MoE, a backward pass for DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. It makes the kernel trainable and speeds Qwen3 MoE training steps by up to 34% in prime-rl. The post Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE: Trainable Fused MoE Kernel, 3.11x Faster Forward Pass appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- Infini-AI-Lab Releases Hermit, an Open-Source Harness Adapter Framework for AI Agents
Infini-AI-Lab released Hermit, an Apache-2.0 harness adapter framework that trains an external layer of instructions, skills, memory and tools from task feedback, leaving the agent’s model and harness unchanged. The post Infini-AI-Lab Releases Hermit, an Open-Source Harness Adapter Framework for AI Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech
Block’s AI lab released Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation audio. It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max, but Block has published no size, benchmarks or weights. The post Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents
AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model for voice agents. It costs $15 per 1M characters, offers unlimited concurrency without a contract, and supports 6 languages at launch. The post AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents appeared first on MarkTechPost.
- NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM with 4.3B active parameters. It transcribes 40 languages, adds speaker labels and word timestamps, and posts a 4.71% mean WER on the English Open ASR Leaderboard. The post NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters appeared first on MarkTechPost.