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Thursday

  4. Hugging FaceSelected

    Swiss AI releases the Apertus 1.5 multimodal model, expanding context to 262k tokens

    Swiss AI has released Apertus 1.5, which builds on 1.0 by adding native image and audio understanding, a thinking mode, and a 262,144-token context window—4 times larger than 1.0. The model uses early fusion to convert images and audio into discrete tokens and feed them into the same sequence as text; the architecture is unchanged, and it only understands multimodal input while outputting text only. The team says the 8B version outperforms open-source models of the same scale on instruction following and multilingual tasks, its multimodal performance is close to Gemma 4 12B, and it has also released the training data mixture, preference data, and intermediate checkpoints from each stage.

    Swiss AI has released Apertus 1.5, which builds on 1.0 by adding native image and audio understanding, a thinking mode, and a 262,144-token context window—4 times larger than 1.0. The model uses early fusion to convert images and audio into discrete tokens and feed them into the same sequence as text; the architecture is unchanged, and it only understands multimodal input while outputting text only. The team says the 8B version outperforms open-source models of the same scale on instruction foll

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    #lab#Model releases#Multimodal#Open-source ecosystem

Friday

  2. Huxiu

    Smartphone makers' shipments fell 20%, and AI cannot be blamed for this

    In the third quarter of 2026, global smartphone shipments fell by about 20% year-on-year, but this decline mainly came from manufacturers reducing shipments to channels, rather than a simultaneous decline in consumer purchases. Counterpoint data shows that during the 2026 618 promotion period, China's sell-through sales fell 13% year-on-year, and the global average replacement cycle has extended to about 43 months. Memory price increases hit low-end models hardest. In the second quarter of 2026, among smartphone shipments under 100 US dollars in Southeast Asia, Xiaomi fell 69%, vivo fell 88%, and OPPO fell 96%.

    In the third quarter of 2026, global smartphone shipments fell by about 20% year-on-year, but this decline mainly came from manufacturers reducing shipments to channels, rather than a simultaneous decline in consumer purchases. Counterpoint data shows that during the 2026 618 promotion period, China's sell-through sales fell 13% year-on-year, and the global average replacement cycle has extended to about 43 months. Memory price increases hit low-end models hardest. In the second quarter of 2026,

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    #hot-signal#English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.

Wednesday

  9. Huxiu

    Instinct founder on an app-less personal Agent: How a 14-person team supports a $10 billion valuation

    Instinct, an AI personal agent company founded a year ago with 14 employees, has reached a $10 billion valuation. Founder Noah Shinn discussed its product and business model on the podcast "Invest Like The Best." Instinct has no standalone app; users book flights and cancel subscriptions through text messages, phone calls, and emails, and its annualized transaction volume has reached the $1 billion scale, about half of which comes from business travel. It is free for users, and the company charges commissions to merchants that profit from transactions; Noah explicitly rejects the advertising model. About 40% of users link a credit card after roughly three weeks of use, and this group has a retention rate of about 80%.

    Instinct, an AI personal agent company founded a year ago with 14 employees, has reached a $10 billion valuation. Founder Noah Shinn discussed its product and business model on the podcast "Invest Like The Best." Instinct has no standalone app; users book flights and cancel subscriptions through text messages, phone calls, and emails, and its annualized transaction volume has reached the $1 billion scale, about half of which comes from business travel. It is free for users, and the company charg

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    #hot-signal#Industry news#Agents#Speech

Tuesday