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Netflix VOID: we tested their physics-aware video eraser with our own clips
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Netflix VOID: we tested their physics-aware video eraser with our own clips

Netflix's first open-source model isn't a chatbot — it's a production VFX tool that understands physics. We ran it on an H100 to see if the claims hold up.

April 6, 202615 min
Gemma 4 E4B benchmark: 53 tests on a MacBook Pro M4 (24GB)
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Gemma 4 E4B benchmark: 53 tests on a MacBook Pro M4 (24GB)

53 practical tests — vision benchmarks, 14 UI recreations, and 30 text challenges covering math, logic, essays, creative writing, and translation. All local, all free.

April 3, 202615 min
Veo 3.1 Lite vs Fast: what you actually lose at a third of the price
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Veo 3.1 Lite vs Fast: what you actually lose at a third of the price

Google launched Veo 3.1 Lite today at $0.05 per second. I ran 7 text-to-video prompts and one image-to-video test on both models to find out where Lite holds up and where it falls apart.

March 31, 20269 min
I cloned my voice with Mistral's Voxtral TTS in under a minute, then tested the quantized local model
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I cloned my voice with Mistral's Voxtral TTS in under a minute, then tested the quantized local model

I recorded 43 seconds of audio on a MacBook, sent it to Mistral's Voxtral API, and got back natural-sounding voice clones in minutes. Then I ran the same tests on the 6-bit quantized local version and Kokoro 82M to see how they compare.

March 27, 202610 min
Cohere Transcribe, the most accurate open-source speech recognition model currently available
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Cohere Transcribe, the most accurate open-source speech recognition model currently available

Cohere's first speech recognition model tops the Open ASR Leaderboard as well as our own independent benchmark of four providers.

March 27, 202610 min
Search is becoming a conversation, and Google just went first at scale
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Search is becoming a conversation, and Google just went first at scale

Google's expansion of Search Live to more than 200 countries this week is easy to frame as a product update. A voice feature got wider availability. But zoom out and the move looks more significant: it is the first time any company has deployed conversational, multimodal search at truly global scale.

March 26, 202611 min
Google's new voice model powers Search Live expansion
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Google's new voice model powers Search Live expansion

Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live on March 26, positioning it as the company's most capable real-time audio model to date.

March 26, 20267 min
Machine learning model predicts liver cancer risk from routine blood tests and health records
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Machine learning model predicts liver cancer risk from routine blood tests and health records

Researchers have developed a machine learning model that predicts an individual's risk of hepatocellular carcinoma using routine clinical information already collected during standard medical visits.

March 26, 20266 min
Karpathy says LLM memory features "trying too hard"
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Karpathy says LLM memory features "trying too hard"

In a pair of posts on X on March 25, Andrej Karpathy noted that the memory feature has an issue: models can treat stale, one-off queries as deep ongoing interests.

March 26, 20269 min

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