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Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class
23+ hour, 34+ min ago (475+ words) The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents along with a full training recipe. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool…...
Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service
1+ week, 1+ day ago (647+ words) Abliteration.ai removes trained refusal mechanisms from powerful open-weight models and sells access to the modified versions as a service. There's a legitimate market for that, but the same setup creates a difficult security trade-off. Anyone with access to an…...
OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words
1+ week, 1+ day ago (506+ words) OpenAI's model documentation spells out where GPT-6 Astra tends toward unwanted behavior and how developers can work around it. GPT-6 Astra asks clarifying questions more often than GPT-5.6 Sol instead of making assumptions on its own, according to OpenAI, making…...
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
1+ week, 4+ day ago (289+ words) Three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, Google is back with Gemini 3.8 Flash. The budget model is supposed to beat its predecessor by a wide margin in coding. According to Google's own numbers, Gemini 3.8 Flash hits 73.7 percent on the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark for…...
Google Deepmind's new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters
1+ week, 5+ day ago (221+ words) the-decoder.com Google Deepmind's new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters Some people have speculated that Google doesn't care about leading the AI model race, since reach is more about price-to-performance. Google Deepmind chief Koray…...
Anthropic's most capable model, codenamed "Model 2," is for internal use only
3+ week, 4+ day ago (298+ words) Maximilian Schreiner is Managing Editor at THE DECODER and has covered artificial intelligence for close to a decade, from new models and tools to their impact on businesses, media, and society. He brings that expertise to heise KI PRO, where…...