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MLCommons has released the latest MLPerf Inference v6.1 results, featuring a record number of submitting organizations, two new tests aligned with recent AI inference deployment trends, and first-time peer-reviewed performance results for several new AI platforms. Top performance improved by up to 5.7x compared with a year ago.
MLPerf Inference v6.1 draws a record 30 submitters and 120 submitted systems, while signaling a clear shift toward agentic and end-to-end benchmarks. The round also features new hardware, major gains for VLM and DeepSeek R1, and record multi-node and large-scale submissions.
MLCommons has become a member of the EU-funded AIRIS project consortium, where it will develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks and benchmark suites to assess multimodal generative AI platforms for biomedical research.
MLPerf Training will add an LLM post-training benchmark starting with its October 2026 v6.1 submission round, supplementing the existing pre-training suite. The workload uses reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on agentic software engineering tasks, built on Qwen 3.5 397B and the R2E-Gym dataset.
Running DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Kimi-K3 on Consumer Hardware with SSD Expert PackWiCi AI Team, SGLang TeamAugust 29, 2026 SGLang brings the core idea of SSD-LLaMA to MoE inference: keep routed experts t
Accelerating Long-Context and Agentic Inference with NVFP4 KV CacheSGLang, Qwen, and NVIDIA teamsSeptember 16, 2026The KV cache is a fundamental building block of the modern LLM inference system. The
Scaling JEV-like Decision Models with SGLangSundara Raman Ramachandran, Chuanrui Zhu, Qing Lan, Shri Rajamanikandan Vasudevan, Jian Sheng, I-Ting Chen, Fedor BorisyukSeptember 25, 2026A customer asks
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to […]
Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today’s announcement, the judging panel is nearly complete. In just a couple of weeks, 200 carefully selected startups will gather at […]
After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones and flag fake voices in real time, and it's now one of the companies competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026. Register to join and get 50% off a second pass.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
The startup uses AI to automate tedious paperwork for insurance agencies and brokers.
