Releases
Tektronix releases its new high-performance 7 Series oscilloscope
Today, Tektronix, i.e., Tek, releases its high-performance oscilloscope: The 7 Series digital phosphor oscilloscope (DPO) (Figure 1). Figure 1 The 7 Series DPO is engineered for a low SNR, ENOB, throughput, and user-friendly touchscreen interface. Source: Tektronix In a conversation with Tektronix’s Tim Bieber, Principal Product Planner, described the motivation for the new series, “Every…
UT Austin and ServiceNow Research Team Releases AU-Harness: An Open-Source Toolkit for Holistic Evaluation of Audio LLMs
Voice AI is becoming one of the most important frontiers in multimodal AI. From intelligent assistants to interactive agents, the ability to understand and reason over audio is reshaping how machines engage with humans. Yet while models have grown rapidly in capability, the tools for evaluating them have not kept pace. Existing benchmarks remain fragmented,…
Baidu Releases ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking: A Compact MoE Model for Deep Reasoning
Baidu AI Research team has just released ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking, a new reasoning-focused large language model designed around efficiency, long-context reasoning, and tool integration. Being part of the ERNIE-4.5 family, this model is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 21B total parameters but only 3B active parameters per token, making it computationally efficient while maintaining competitive reasoning capability….
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Mobile-Agent-v3 and GUI-Owl: Next-Generation Multi-Agent Framework for GUI Automation
Image source: Marktechpost.com Introduction: The Rise of GUI Agents Modern computing is dominated by graphical user interfaces across devices—mobile, desktop, and web. Automating tasks in these environments has traditionally been limited to scripted macros or brittle, hand-engineered rules. Recent advances in vision-language models offer the tantalizing possibility of agents that can understand screens, reason about…
Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4.5V: Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning
Zhipu AI has officially released and open-sourced GLM-4.5V, a next-generation vision-language model (VLM) that significantly advances the state of open multimodal AI. Based on Zhipu’s 106-billion parameter GLM-4.5-Air architecture—with 12 billion active parameters via a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) design—GLM-4.5V delivers strong real-world performance and unmatched versatility across visual and textual content. Key Features…
The U.S. White House Releases AI Playbook: A Bold Strategy to Lead the Global AI Race
The White House just released the U.S. AI Playbook—formally titled “America’s AI Action Plan”—a sweeping, high-impact federal strategy that clarifies one thing: the United States is going all in on artificial intelligence. Whether you’re in Silicon Valley, leading a Fortune 500, or managing a critical government agency, the message is unambiguous: scale AI fast, dismantle…
Amazon Releases Kiro: An AI IDE That Empowers Developers with Agentic Automation
Amazon has unveiled Kiro, a groundbreaking agentic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to change the way developers build, ship, and maintain software. Positioned well beyond the capabilities of today’s AI coding assistants, Kiro brings a mature, structured approach to software delivery—offering innovations in specification-driven development, intelligent automation, and adaptive user interfaces. Here’s an in-depth look…
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2: A Trillion-Parameter MoE Model Focused on Long Context, Code, Reasoning, and Agentic Behavior
Kimi K2, launched by Moonshot AI in July 2025, is a purpose-built, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model—1 trillion total parameters, with 32 billion active parameters per token. It’s trained using the custom MuonClip optimizer on 15.5 trillion tokens, achieving stable training at this unprecedented scale without the typical instabilities seen in ultra-large models. Unlike traditional chatbots, K2 is architected…
Mistral AI Releases Devstral 2507 for Code-Centric Language Modeling
Mistral AI, in collaboration with All Hands AI, has released updated versions of its developer-focused large language models under the Devstral 2507 label. The release includes two models—Devstral Small 1.1 and Devstral Medium 2507—designed to support agent-based code reasoning, program synthesis, and structured task execution across large software repositories. These models are optimized for performance…
The Smiling Man’, ‘Gundam Breaker 4’, Plus Today’s Other Releases and Sales – TouchArcade
Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 29th, 2024. We’ve got another big plate of new releases to check out today, and that’s going to be the bulk of the column as it usually is on Thursdays. We also have a relatively hefty list of new sales to delve into, and…
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