THE SIGNAL / RESEARCH IN THE OPEN
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Beyond the announcements. Into the models, machines and ideas changing what we can build.
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Ai2 tests AI research judges—and finds their novelty verdicts can swing
Liquid AI introduces LFM3: small models for text, vision and speech
Kimi K3.1 Pro targets coding and 3D work; downloadable weights are still ahead
Mistral’s Voxtral 3 brings streaming speech and interruption to voice agents
Anthropic files for a proposed IPO as the AI race grows more expensive
NVIDIA’s Nemotron Bolt E4B targets local agents on smaller hardware
Cohere reports a blocked network request in a Qwen agent test
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra for computer use and coding
NEW / CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
The open-source desk.
The instruments he couldn’t afford became the company he built
Uli Behringer’s music-shop story, the long road to affordable gear, and why KICK’s source release is worth watching.
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Behringer KICK opens its software. The hardware is still one to watch.
An official source repository makes this MPC-style prototype interesting to musicians and developers alike.
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Erica Synths opens LXR-02 firmware to the community
The October 23 announcement invites experimentation, while the hardware and official support remain separate.
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Methodology & results ↗Big models.
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What happens when a large MoE coder meets a 12 GB GPU, 32 GB of RAM and a real developer workload?
See the test conditions →Evidence before enthusiasm.
We separate our tests, publisher claims and things we have yet to verify.
Hardware is part of the story.
Context, quantization, caching and competing workloads all matter.
Build it. Break it. Document it.
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