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GPT-4.1

IBM's ALTK-Evolve lifts GPT-4.1 to the top of τ²-bench retail
ResearchOctober 20, 2026, 17:19

IBM's ALTK-Evolve lifts GPT-4.1 to the top of τ²-bench retail

IBM Research says its ALTK-Evolve method took a basic customer-service agent built on GPT-4.1, an older non-reasoning model, to 67.5% Pass^4 on τ²-bench retail.…

Daily Releases PhoneLLM Alpha 2 With Two Open-Weights Voice Agent Models
ModelsOctober 15, 2026, 23:46

Daily Releases PhoneLLM Alpha 2 With Two Open-Weights Voice Agent Models

Daily has released Alpha 2 of Pipecat PhoneLLM, an open-weights text model built for voice agent pipelines, now in two variants: PhoneLLM Mini and the larger PhoneLLM…