5 stories that day · 1 model · 2 open source · 2 research
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Built on GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter model, Atria Dawn targets research and engineering jobs that take many steps and tools, and aims for results others can check. It uses the MIT licence.
Model
Block unveils Dessa, a voice model trained only on recordings of people talking (opens the original source in a new tab)Block says it trained Dessa from scratch on human conversation alone, with no text and no pretrained models, so it can hold a live spoken chat full of pauses and emotion. Block has opened a waitlist.
Research
Google says the chest X-ray screening tool that grew from its research is used in about 40 health facilities in six countries, and that miners are checked on site four kilometres underground.
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Open source
Tencent releases WeVisOne-VL, open models that find, count and cut out things in images (opens the original source in a new tab)Built on Qwen3-VL, the 2B and 4B models answer requests about a picture by drawing boxes, pointing, counting, reading text or tracing an object's exact outline. They use the Apache 2.0 licence.
Tencent · Original source (opens in a new tab)
Research
Microsoft Research says the language lets people and agents describe what a click or drag should do, such as highlighting linked points, while its compiler takes care of the low-level chart code.
Microsoft Research · Original source (opens in a new tab)
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