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Ingenix Claims Top LongevityBench Ranking, Opens Thalamus Model
ModelsNovember 9, 2026, 09:00

Ingenix Claims Top LongevityBench Ranking, Opens Thalamus Model

Polish AI start-up Ingenix says its 9-billion-parameter Thalamus Reasoning model ranks first among 29 systems on LongevityBench, a benchmark for language models in…

Baseten releases mammoth-1 and elephant-1, open-source decision models
ModelsOctober 21, 2026, 18:58

Baseten releases mammoth-1 and elephant-1, open-source decision models

Baseten has released two open-source decision models, mammoth-1 (27B) and elephant-1 (9B), trained by its own research lab. According to the company, mammoth-1 ranks #1…

JetBrains releases Mellum2.1, an open 12B model built for coding agents
ModelsOctober 8, 2026, 14:00

JetBrains releases Mellum2.1, an open 12B model built for coding agents

JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an updated version of its open-source 12B mixture-of-experts model, aimed at coding agents and fast sub-agents that run on users' own…

Microsoft's Agent Lightning v1.0 Trains Agents With Their Real Harnesses
For developersOctober 7, 2026, 18:00

Microsoft's Agent Lightning v1.0 Trains Agents With Their Real Harnesses

Microsoft Research Asia has open-sourced Agent Lightning v1.0, a rebuilt reinforcement learning framework of about 3,500 lines of code that lets the same harness used in…

Harness-Zero study trains an agent harness into a small model
ResearchSeptember 29, 2026, 18:08

Harness-Zero study trains an agent harness into a small model

Researchers at Peking University trained the behavior of a specialized agent harness into a small model, then removed the harness, and the model outperformed the…