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AIA developer's Augury plant identification model, built on an OpenBMB model, raised photo top-1 accuracy from 71.8% to 80.2% by merging duplicate species keys and adding PCA whitening. The next steps are reaching 90%+ accuracy and building a phone GUI so farmers can use it on-device.

AIGranola announces that its connector is now live in the Muse app, which the post presents as a new integration. Alexandr Wang separately says Notion and Granola connectors are now available and easy to use from the Mac app.

AIThe Splash engine, posted by LM Studio, is now available as open source on GitHub. The post provides only a link to the incoai/splash repository and includes no further technical details.

AILM Studio announced that Qwen3.8-27B runs at up to 144 tokens per second on an M5 Max MacBook Pro through its partnership with Inco Splash. The post claims up to 3× the decode speed of Ollama, 2× oMLX, and almost 4× when an agent fans out into sub-agents. Inco Splash is described as an open-source inference engine built for the model and Apple silicon, available through the linked LM Studio blog.

Why it matters: The post reports a concrete decode speed on Apple silicon and compares it against named local inference tools, which helps readers judge local deployment performance.

AIInferact, with Red Hat AI, NVIDIA, and Huawei, co-led an optimization effort that makes Kimi K3 on vLLM 2.2–2.8× faster. The work spans scheduling, KDA state handling, and custom MoE kernels. The vLLM project's background post cites those throughput gains on a B300 benchmark against v0.27.1 and links a technical deep dive.

AIOpenBMB's MiniCPM5-2B is a 2.5B-parameter model with native 128K context, offering hybrid Think and No-Think modes in one checkpoint. Users can download it from Hugging Face and run it fully offline on-device, as RunAnywhere demonstrated. In a demo, the model first called a puzzle impossible, then corrected itself and wrote a working verifier.

AIQianjue Technology founder Gao Haichuan argues that robotics will not see one breakthrough that suddenly lifts the whole industry, and he judges the company by deployment results rather than research papers. Qianjue, founded in 2023, has completed a Series A+ round worth a nine-figure RMB sum, with first orders coming from restaurant, cleaning, and hotel service robots. Gao says customers care about task completion, failure rates, and price rather than whether a predictive world model is used.

AILM Studio has published a blog post introducing Introspection and session references in Bionic. The post itself provides no further details in the text supplied, so specific features and capabilities cannot be confirmed here.

AISkillsync, a Y Combinator W26 company, launched a tool that converts AI chat sessions between coding agents, including messages, reasoning and tool calls. The conversion engine txcript is open source, and the local-first app runs on Mac with a CLI and MCP support. Only sessions shared into team workspaces leave the user's machine.

AIUnsloth Desktop now supports multi-user accounts, alongside a revamped Docker image and custom Jupyter Notebook with custom themes, titles, and expandable cells. The update adds RDNA1+2 support, ARM64 Windows CUDA support, faster GRPO, and FP8/INT8 image diffusion support for 2x faster inference.

AIYi Tay congratulated Vinh Q. Tran (@vqctran) on his move from Google DeepMind and recalled years of co-inventing work together. The post praised Tran's pursuit of his biology passion, which the quoted post describes as building Polyphron to grow human tissue with frontier models and reinforcement learning.

AIReplicate invites users to try Pruna AI's p-video-2-pro model at the linked Replicate page. The post offers no further details on capabilities, pricing, or performance.

AIOpenBMB says Dubedo is the kind of product it hoped VoxCPM2 would enable, citing speaker-aware cloning, multilingual generation, and an editing studio. The post praises @dubedostudio's work, while the background post describes Dubedo as dubbing into 30 languages with per-speaker voice cloning and a beta open for trial.

AISundial fine-tuned Thinking Machines' Inkling-Small with RLVR on 3,978 verified TeX.StackExchange fixes, using rewards for compilation and PDF match and penalties for removed content. The trained model fixes 83.7% of LaTeX errors in under one second at $0.0013 per fix, according to the post. Sundial says it is rolling out the model in its editor, applying fixes as suggestions and rebuilding the PDF.

AIKilo (@kilocode) shares a link to its Product Hunt listing. The post includes no details about the product's features, pricing, or release.

AIZed has launched the public beta of Delta, a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing their work, which replaces pull requests with shared threads. Delta is built on DeltaDB, which records edits and messages between Git commits, and it is free during the beta, with paid plans for individuals and teams to follow.

Why it matters: The post explains how Delta replaces pull requests with shared agent threads and DeltaDB, showing a concrete alternative to the GitHub review workflow.

AIDelphi, which turns experts' knowledge into digital minds, runs its Python backend on Vercel with a 10-person team and no dedicated infrastructure role. The stack uses Vercel Workflows for long-running agents and Vercel Queues for background jobs. The team reports more than 100 production deploys a day.

AILM Studio's Bionic 1.1.3 release adds voice transcription on Apple Silicon Macs and PCs with NVIDIA GPUs. AMD support is in development, according to the post.

AIAir Street Capital has led a $40 million Series A round in Jack & Jill, with Madrona joining and existing investors Creandum and Entrepreneurs First investing again. The company runs Jack, an AI agent that talks with job seekers about career moves and searches millions of job postings, and Jill, a recruiting agent that introduces candidates to hiring managers. Jack & Jill has arranged 25,000 interviews and plans 5,000 more each month, according to the article.

AIShanghai-based Twoo is building an AI that participates in conversations between two users, sharing context, remembering experiences, and helping them plan activities together rather than serving one person. Founder Cobe Chen says the product's monetization includes in-app "shells" that unlock outfits for its octopus AI character, plus premium memberships for professional uses such as collaborative writing and teaching. The company is preparing overseas expansion into North America, Japan, and South Korea.

AINovita AI has open-sourced Chord, a W4A16 MoE CUDA operator with BF16 activations, INT4 weights and group-32 scales, built for Kimi K2.x serving shapes. Measured per layer against public Humming, it reports 1.11–1.20x on H200 EP8 prefill, 1.17–1.33x on H200 TP8 serving, and 1.81–2.15x on B300 EP8 decode against an untuned Humming default. Integration of the grouped operators with vLLM's Humming backend is still a work in progress.

AIIntern-S2-397B, a model built for long-horizon scientific research, now has Day-0 support in vLLM. The model brings multimodal, reasoning, coding, and scientific agent capabilities, and vLLM has published a run recipe for it.

AIInferact says vLLM now supports DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on day zero across H100, H200, B200, B300, GB200, and GB300 GPUs. SemiAnalysis independently verified the NVIDIA support, while the post notes AMD vLLM still does not work with the model. Serving recipes are available at recipes.vllm.ai.

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