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releaseSECONDARY2026-10-01
Kev releases 1.0 open-weight decision models with a 64k document window

Kev 1.0 introduces Kev-27B and updates Kev-9B with a 64k document window and TypeSafe SDK compatibility. The release includes weights, source code, and fine-tuning and deployment skills.

releaseSECONDARY2026-09-23
CUA releases Cua-S1-4B-0.2 for computer use

CUA released Cua-S1-4B-0.2, a multimodal decision model trained with supervised learning and task-completion RL in live environments. CUA reports 92.9% on a frozen GUI-360 split and released adapters and training code.

releaseSECONDARY2026-09-20
Kev releases open decision models built on Qwen3

Kev is an Apache-2.0 family of 0.6B, 4B, and 8B decision models compatible with TypeSafe System One APIs. Its author reports that the 8B model reached 79.6% out-of-domain accuracy versus Jev’s 85.7%, while the 4B model runs on a 32 GB Mac.

workflowPRIMARY2026-08-28
Developer reports Qwen3.8-Flash-Next runs in 37GB on M4 Max

A developer reports streaming 60% of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's experts from disk, running the full Q4 model in 37GB of RAM at 40 tokens per second. A separate H100 deployment reports 160 tokens per second with EAGLE-3.

newsSECONDARY2026-08-20
Transluce trains 8B–1.1T activation-reading oversight models

Transluce trained 8B to 1.1T parameter oversight models to inspect other models’ activations. It reports results improve with additional training, though its oracle still has room to improve on a reward-hacking evaluation.

workflowPRIMARY2026-08-12
Qwen 122B runs on older laptop with llama.cpp in user test

A LocalLLaMA post ran a 122B Qwen model on an older laptop with llama.cpp. The run had very long load and generation times, while another report put Qwen 3.6 35B at 21 tok/s on a Radeon 7600 after ROCm tuning.

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