Perceptron Mk1.5 Explained: Vision-Language Model Capabilities and Pricing
Perceptron Mk1.5 explained: an embodied reasoning model for image, video and audio. Confirmed capabilities, pricing, open questions and how to evaluate it.
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Explained: Native Omnimodal, 1M Context, Pricing
Alibaba Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash (Sept 18, 2026) takes text, image, audio and video natively with 1M context at $0.15/$0.47 per M tokens. Architecture and cost analysis.
ColPali and Visual Document Retrieval: Late-Interaction RAG (2026)
ColPali explained: how late-interaction vision-language retrieval indexes document page images directly - MaxSim scoring, storage trade-offs, and a production multimodal RAG architecture.
Google Gemini 3.5 Pro Explained: Architecture, Benchmarks, and 2M Context (2026)
Google Gemini 3.5 Pro explained: the 2M-token context flagship, architecture, training, benchmark scores, pricing, and how it compares to GPT-5.6 and Claude.