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Open NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for multimodal agents · Ronald

NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for multimodal agents

NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open and customisable multimodal mixture-of-experts model for agents working across text, images, documents and video. The 120-billion-parameter system activates 12 billion parameters per token. NVIDIA claims strong single-GPU throughput and highlights customer post-training gains, which adopters should reproduce on their own workloads.

Open DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash with native vision and lower API pricing · Ronald

DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash with native vision and lower API pricing

DeepSeek has launched V4.1-Flash, a native multimodal model now live on its API. The company says the 552-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model improves speed and cost, adds visual understanding, introduces lower pricing, and will temporarily route V4-Pro requests to the new model. Developers should test the planned routing change before it reaches production workloads.

Open SeedRealtime brings full-duplex audio and vision to live AI · Ronald

SeedRealtime brings full-duplex audio and vision to live AI

ByteDance Seed has released SeedRealtime, a full-duplex model that continuously processes audio, video and text while deciding when to speak or act. The model is designed for fluid, interruption-aware interaction, with demonstrations spanning noisy group conversations, visual guidance and proactive assistance. Access and pricing details remain limited.

Open Baseten Adds Day-One Hosting for Inkling Multimodal Model · Ronald

Baseten Adds Day-One Hosting for Inkling Multimodal Model

Baseten has added day-one access to Thinking Machines Lab’s Inkling model through its managed Model APIs and Dedicated Inference service. The launch gives developers a hosted route to a very large open-weight, multimodal model, while leaving performance, cost and production suitability to be tested in real workloads.