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Google has released the Gemma 4 family of models – from compact versions for mobile devices to powerful systems capable of competing with solutions twice their size.
Google has released Gemma 4 – a family of four open models that run directly on-device, from smartphones to laptops, without relying on the cloud.
LG Research has introduced EXAONE 4.5, an open multimodal language model capable of simultaneously analyzing text and images.
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Gemma 4: Google DeepMind's Multimodal AI That Runs Directly On-Device
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Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4 – an open family of multimodal models that process text, images, video, and audio directly on-device.
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Qwen3.6-Plus: Alibaba's New Model on the Path to True AI Agents
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Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-Plus, an updated multimodal model with enhanced agent capabilities, a one-million-token context, and improved code support.
Alibaba introduces Qwen3.6-Plus, an enterprise AI model capable of independently developing code and analyzing visual content in real-world scenarios.
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Falcon Perception: A Single Transformer for Vision, Text, and Document Understanding
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The Falcon Vision team from the Technology Innovation Institute has introduced Falcon Perception, a compact model that can identify and highlight objects in images based on text descriptions.
Meta has introduced the TRIBE v2 neural network, capable of predicting brain activity in response to complex stimuli – without prior fine-tuning for a specific individual.