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  1. Hacker News · AI88

    Edge0 open-sources Edge0-145B and Edge0-120B on-device models with inference framework

    Edge0 open-sourced Edge0-145B and Edge0-120B along with its unified inference framework and deployment tools, claiming Edge0-145B is the first open-source 145B-parameter on-device model. The company reports 29GB peak memory, 1,100+ tokens/s prefill, 80+ tokens/s decode and roughly 120W typical power on a compatible laptop, with 128K–256K context. It cites internal scores of 64.6 on DeepSWE 1.1, 86.52 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 90.4 on GPQA-Diamond and 80.6 on IFBench, and says weights are on Hugging Face with day-one support for macOS, Windows and Linux.

    Why it matters: Edge0 open-sources a 145B on-device model that reports 29GB peak memory and 80+ tokens/s decode, offering a concrete data point on how far local inference can scale.

  2. Hugging Face Blog69

    IBM releases LLMON preview models built on Granite 4.1 3B and 8B

    IBM released two experimental preview models, granite-4.1-3b-LLMON-preview and granite-4.1-8b-LLMON-preview, derived from Granite 4.1 base checkpoints and trained to consume and generate LLMON, an LLM-native markup language that marks instructions, data and requirements with reserved special-token delimiters. On the OPI benchmark the models avoid 47% more indirect prompt injection attacks than the best frontier model tested and 95% more than the best open-source model, while performing on par with Granite 4.1 Instruct on standard benchmarks. The release includes a GitHub toolkit with lossless JSON-to-LLMON converters, and the authors note the preview is for exploration, not production.

    Why it matters: IBM trained a preview model on Granite 4.1 that can read and write LLMON tags, using explicit instruction-data separation to reduce the indirect prompt injection success rate on the OPI benchmark to near zero while maintaining general capabilities.

  1. MiniMax Blog75

    MiniMax releases H3-Image, an open-weight model generating 4K images in under 10 seconds

    MiniMax released H3-Image, an open-weight image generation model built on H3 that supports text-to-image, reference-based generation and image editing, and can produce a 4096 × 4096 image in under 10 seconds. The company says it handles up to 16 reference images, claims state-of-the-art prompt adherence among open-weight models, and reports speeds up to 5× mainstream alternatives. H3-Image is available via the MiniMax API Platform, MiniMax Code and Hailuo AI, priced at 50–70% of comparable offerings, with 50% off 4K-and-above requests during launch week.

    Why it matters: MiniMax releases open-weight H3-Image, claiming sub-10-second 4K generation and pricing at 50–70% of comparable mainstream offerings, giving developers a new open option for high-resolution image work.

  1. Amazon Science62

    Amazon releases Mitra-v2 tabular foundation model with scaled synthetic pretraining

    Amazon introduced Mitra-v2, a second-generation tabular foundation model for classification and regression, released with fine-tuned models and inference and fine-tuning code under the Apache-2.0 license on Hugging Face. It is pretrained on synthetic tables with 10 times as many rows and roughly three times as many columns as Mitra-v1, using a new hybrid SCM prior and hybrid optimizer while keeping the Transformer architecture unchanged. On TabArena, a public benchmark of 51 real-world datasets, Mitra-v2 leads the single-model field, beats Mitra-v1 on 32 of the 33 datasets both run natively, and finishes all 51 within the one-hour budget; fine-tuned Mitra-v2 also ranks first on ScoringBench.

    Why it matters: Mitra-v2 shows that widening synthetic pretraining data, rather than deepening the network, lifts a tabular foundation model to the top of TabArena's single-model field.

  1. Zyphra Research78

    Zyphra releases ZONOS3-Mini, an Apache 2.0 zero-shot voice-cloning TTS model that runs on-device

    Zyphra released ZONOS3-Mini, a sparse MoE text-to-speech model with 100M active and 800M total parameters under Apache 2.0, trained on 112 NVIDIA H100s in 2.5 days. It reaches under 570 ms time-to-first-audio in the browser on a Pixel 9 and under 150 ms on an M3 MacBook Air, with runtimes for WebGPU, SGLang, vLLM and GGML. The model adds control over identity, accent, quality, mood and delivery, including word-level steering, and Zyphra reports it ranks first among open models on its new ZTTS2-Eval benchmark.

    Why it matters: Zyphra's compact MoE TTS model pairs zero-shot voice cloning with word-level delivery control while running in real time on phones and laptops.

  1. Preferred Networks News71

    PFN releases PLaMo 3 Translate open-weight translation LLM for edge devices

    Preferred Networks released PLaMo 3 Translate, a translation-specialized LLM used in its PLaMo Translation service, as an open-weight model on Hugging Face on November 5. 8B, 2B, 8B and 31B) and supports 53 languages including Japanese and English, running on smartphones, laptops and internal servers without a cloud connection.

    Why it matters: PFN releases a translation-specialized LLM in four sizes from 0.8B to 31B, letting companies and individuals run 53-language translation on-device without cloud access.

  1. Mistral AI86

    Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model

    Mistral AI released the open weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal model that entered public preview earlier this month and was trained from scratch in Europe. The company says three additional weeks of reinforcement learning lifted it to the top of open-weight coding, with 41% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and 48% on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index while using 47% fewer tokens per task than GLM-5.3. It adds Low, Medium and High reasoning modes, scores 51% on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index, and is priced at $0.70 input, $0.07 cached input and $2.10 output per million tokens under a modified MIT license.

    Why it matters: Mistral opens the weights of its 1-trillion-parameter flagship, pairing coding and defensive-security benchmark gains with three reasoning modes and per-token pricing.

  1. Mistral AI71

    Mistral releases Timestral time-series foundation models, topping GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench

    Mistral released Timestral, its first family of time-series foundation models, in four sizes from 5M to 209M parameters. The largest model ranks first on all three main public benchmarks, GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench, among pre-trained zero-shot models from a single checkpoint without ensembling, using two-thirds of the parameters of the previous state of the art. Timestral produces probabilistic multivariate forecasts with 21 quantiles, supports past-only and known-future covariates, runs on CPU without a GPU, and is available through Mistral Forge for fine-tuning, with a GitHub repository and technical report published under a modified MIT licence.

    Why it matters: Mistral's first time-series foundation model family claims top zero-shot rankings on GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench with a 209M-parameter checkpoint, offering a size-accuracy tradeoff reference for forecasting work.

  2. inclusionAI Repositories67

    inclusionAI releases Ming-3.0-audio-flash and Ming-3.0-audio-tiny audio models

    inclusionAI released Ming-3.0-audio-flash, a 126B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts audio model with 6.5B activated parameters, alongside the compact Ming-3.0-audio-tiny at 9.3B parameters with 2.7B activated. The flash model covers Chinese and English speech recognition across dialects and noisy multi-speaker settings, long-audio understanding, non-speech sound and music perception, audio reasoning, and end-to-end spoken dialogue with optional synthesized speech output. It ships with vLLM-Omni, SGLang, and Transformers inference paths under the MIT License, with default Flash profiles using tensor parallelism across four 80 GB H800 GPUs at 128K context.

    Why it matters: The release details a 126B-parameter MoE audio model with 6.5B activated parameters, plus a 9.3B tiny variant, giving a concrete reference for open audio-language model sizing and deployment.

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