Perceptron Mk1.5 explained: an embodied reasoning model for image, video and audio. Confirmed capabilities, pricing, open questions and how to evaluate it.
LTX from Lightricks explained: diffusion transformer video architecture, open weights license, resolution and length limits, and the GPU needed to run it locally.
Microsoft AI released MAI-Voice-2.1, a Flash variant and MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming. What is confirmed on languages, pricing and latency, and where speech.
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol launched with a new pricing tier. What is confirmed on capabilities, pricing and benchmarks, how it differs from GPT-6 Sol, and when to.
Bilibili Index-Translate-35B-A3B preview is a 35B MoE with 3B active parameters, Apache 2.0, 262K context. Architecture, translation quality caveats and.
Cloudflare Clef (27B, 9B Flash) and Amazon Strands Decider 2B are small Apache 2.0 decision models. How they work, where they fit in agent loops, and cost.
Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 Pro open weights explained: what is disclosed on architecture and training, Artificial Analysis index score, license, and local deployment.
Cognition SWE-2 reportedly scores 50 percent on Frontier Code at 70 percent lower cost. What is verified, how coding benchmarks mislead, and how to evaluate it.