Editor’s note: Some of the most interesting questions in AI are being asked by information theoreticians, around how to provide context to an emerging class of AI agents. A few weeks ago, we waded into those waters with a blog about the Open Knowledge Format, a specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, …
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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning depends on the correct ordering and evolution of events. This deficiency stems in part from training objectives that fail to explicitly reward temporal reasoning and instead rely on frame-level spatial …
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When Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools underperform, the cause is rarely the protocol itself but the tool design. Many teams start by exposing an existing API as-is and trusting the agent to figure out the rest. It is a natural way to extend APIs to agentic systems and generative AI coding tools. For straightforward use …
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Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you’ve ever tried to design a microchip, plan a delivery network, or optimize a training architecture for a large AI model, you know how hard it is to find the most …
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Enterprises deploying Claude Code and Claude Desktop across development teams need centralized control over access, cost, and policy. At scale, this is hard to manage: each developer needs an individual credential, settings must be distributed manually, and spend is difficult to track or cap. Without a centralized control point, governance is left to whatever tooling …
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration platform. LangChain tuned its Deep Agents harness for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, achieving the highest accuracy among open models, while completing more tasks at higher throughput and running at 10x …
This study focuses on Text-to-Sounding-Video (T2SV) generation, which aims to generate a video with synchronized audio from text, with both modalities aligned to the text conditions. Despite progress in joint audio-video training, two critical challenges remain: (1) text conditioning is a bottleneck—shared captions (TV=TA) trigger modal interference, while a gap persists between dense training captions …
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If you’ve been managing Amazon Quick legacy Topics alongside your datasets, you know the challenge: two assets that must stay perfectly synchronized, each with its own permissions, lineage, and versioning. Column synonyms drift. Calculated fields diverge. A rename in the dataset breaks the Legacy Topic silently. You can now use Amazon Quick to embed that …
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate using standardized open protocols such as the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol and can be orchestrated through centralized agent platforms like Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. When building for your specific use case, we believe the goal should always be …
Language models play a central role in automatic speech recognition (ASR), yet most methods rely on text-only models unaware of ASR error patterns. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been applied to ASR correction, but introduce latency and hallucination concerns. We revisit ASR error correction with compact seq2seq models, trained on ASR errors from real …
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