Hugging Face Blog
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56 minutes ago
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed, a collection of three embedding models for retrieval in agentic workflows, with the 8B variant ranking first on the RTEB leaderboard at 78.5% accuracy. The 1B variants achieve 72.4% on RTEB while reducing error rates by 27-28% compared to predecessors, with an NVFP4-optimized version delivering up to 2x higher throughput on Blackwell hardware. Better retrieval quality reduces downstream token costs for agent queries, enabling more efficient multi-step agentic reasoning across enterprises already evaluating the models.
Sifted
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57 minutes ago
Swedish investment firm EQT is in talks to lead or co-lead a Series D funding round for French AI company Mistral through its €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund. The round values Mistral between €8 billion and €16 billion according to sources familiar with the deal. EQT's involvement as a lead investor would provide significant capital to support Mistral's continued development and expansion of its AI models and services.
Simon Willison
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1 hour ago
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weights multimodal transformer with 975 billion total parameters and 41 billion active parameters, licensed under Apache 2.0 and trained on 45 trillion tokens. A smaller version with 276 billion parameters is in testing. The model is positioned as a strong base for fine-tuning rather than a frontier model and competes with other open-weights alternatives like NVIDIA Nemotron and Gemma 4.
Sakana AI
Sakana AI released Sakana Marlin, its first commercial product, an autonomous research assistant that conducts business research independently for up to eight hours and generates structured summary slides and detailed reports. The system underwent a closed beta test from April 2026 with approximately 300 professionals from financial institutions, consulting firms, and think tanks who used it for strategy formulation, market research, and competitive analysis. The release enables research teams to shift focus from information gathering to higher-value decision-making by automating comprehensive research and analysis tasks.
Sakana AI
Sakana AI launched Sakana Translate, a free web-based translation service supporting Japanese, English, and Chinese bidirectional translation using their Namazu model adapted for Japanese language and culture. In XCOMET-XL evaluation on WMT 2024 General Translation tasks, Sakana Translate achieved scores competitive with leading translation models. The service offers three modes—translate, proofread, and ask—with plans for industry-specific variants and enterprise features including API access and on-premises deployment.
Ben's Bites
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3 hours ago
Thinking Machines launched Inkling, its first open-weights model with a 1M-token context window supporting text, images and audio, available on the Tinker fine-tuning platform. The model is positioned for custom fine-tuning as startups increasingly shift workloads from frontier models to self-hosted versions, with alternatives like GLM-5.2 gaining adoption despite lacking vision capabilities. The release reflects a growing market trend toward open-source and customized AI models rather than reliance on leading proprietary systems.
