Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter model designed to help enterprise AI agents work with documents, charts, tables, images and webpages. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model is aimed at tasks where an agent must combine visual information, written instructions, company policies and external tools. The launch adds visual …
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight reasoning model designed to run AI agents locally on consumer and enterprise hardware. Liquid AI announces in an official blog post that the model contains 24 billion parameters but activates only 2 billion for each token it processes. That mixture-of-experts design aims to reduce the computing work required …
Reflection AI is introducing Beam, its first open-weight AI model, and says it is designed for coding and agent-based workflows. J.D. Capelouto and Ashley Gold report for Semafor that the New York startup positions the model as an alternative for organizations that want more control over their AI systems. The company says Beam performs better …
Google Cloud has introduced a universal Gemini agent designed to handle enterprise tasks that can span several applications and continue for hours or days. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the system will work across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and other business tools. Google positions the agent as a single interface for larger assignments. …
Mistral has opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, its largest model so far and a major addition to the market for open-weight AI systems. The company says it will release the model weights later this month, allowing organizations to run and adapt the system on their own infrastructure. The French AI company describes …
AWS has released Strands Decider 2B, a free open-source model designed to help AI agents make quick, limited decisions before they use tools or take actions. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model is part of Strands Labs, AWS’s experimental project for agent development. Unlike a general chatbot, Strands Decider 2B does not write …
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight language model designed for German and English work in regulated organizations. The company positions the model for public administration, industry, aerospace, banks, and other users that want to operate AI systems on their own infrastructure. Kolibri uses a mixture-of-experts architecture. It contains 78.1 billion parameters in total, but …
Fireworks AI has introduced Ember-1, a specialized reasoning model designed to deliver results comparable to Kimi K3 while using substantially fewer tokens. Fireworks AI announces in an official blog post that Ember-1 cuts token use by about 40 percent overall, a reduction aimed at lowering the cost of coding and agent-based AI workflows. Reasoning models …
Cloudflare has introduced Clef and Clef-flash, two open-weight AI models designed to make fast, structured decisions inside automated workflows. The company positions them as alternatives to Typesafe AI’s Jev, a decision model built to answer bounded questions such as yes or no, multiple choice, and ranked options. The models are available through Cloudflare Workers AI …
Xiaomi has released two open-weight, multimodal AI models that it says bring advanced agent capabilities to developers at far lower prices than many proprietary alternatives. The new MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash models can process text, images, audio, and video, support a context window of up to one million tokens, and are designed for work that requires …