New Alibaba AI framework skips loading every tool, cutting agent token use 99%

A new framework called SkillWeaver tackles AI agent tool routing by skipping full-library loading, cutting token use 99% on ...
GitHub

VLAC: A Vision-Language-Action-Critic Model for Robotic Real-World Reinforcement Learning

VLAC is a general-purpose pair-wise critic and manipulation model which designed for real world robot reinforcement learning and data refinement. It provides robust evaluation capabilities for task ...
GitHub

NativeLink Agent Flight Recorder

A local-first proof recorder for AI-agent validation loops with NativeLink and Bazel. When AI writes the code, NativeLink makes validating it fast — NLFR makes validating it trustworthy. NLFR captures ...
Forbes

New Memo: Microsoft’s Nadella Argues Learning Loops Beat Models

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just articulated something most enterprises miss about their own ...
VentureBeat

Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500

Training a foundation LLM from scratch costs millions and requires internet-scale data — which is why most enterprises don't bother. Sapient thinks it has a cheaper path. To overcome this brute-force ...