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Funding

Visko Raises $10M, Debuts Orbis "Live Model" for Real-Time Interactive Video

Visko Platform Inc. announced a $10 million pre-seed funding round led by Llama Ventures and the public debut of Orbis, its first foundation model for generating long-form, real-time interactive videos. Orbis streams 4K video at 24 fps using a 'live model' paradigm based on Neural SDEs, maintaining coherence over time. The company claims superior performance on benchmarks, but experts caution about real-world costs and verification.

Sep 17 minNeura News
AI Models

Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3 With Big Coding and Cyber Gains, Open Weights Coming in Two Weeks

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, with major improvements in coding and cybersecurity, achieved through scaled-up post-training rather than architecture changes. The model shows significant gains on long-horizon benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 3.0 and DeepSWE, and unexpectedly strong cyber exploitation capabilities. Open weights will be released in about two weeks after safety evaluation.

Aug 147 minNeura News
AI Tools

Arcade.dev Acquires Smithery, Merging MCP Registry with Execution Layer

Arcade.dev has acquired Smithery, a public registry for MCP servers, merging discovery with Arcade's execution and authorization layer. The deal, announced August 5, combines Smithery's catalog of tens of thousands of entries with Arcade's secure action layer, which handles delegated authorization and audit logging. Financial terms were undisclosed, and Smithery co-founder Anirudh Kamath joins Arcade. The acquisition raises questions about registry neutrality and grading independence, as Arcade also runs ToolBench, its own benchmark for MCP server quality.

Aug 116 minNeura News
AI Tools

NVIDIA Launches Magpie Multilingual TTS, an Open-Weight Voice Model for 12 Languages

NVIDIA has released Magpie Multilingual TTS, an open-weights text-to-speech model supporting 12 languages, including new additions like Arabic, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The 364M-parameter model is designed for low-latency voice agents, offering developers full control over deployment, from private servers to air-gapped environments. Benchmarks show sub-200ms end-to-end latency on B200 GPUs, with architectural improvements like frame stacking and local transformers enhancing speed. The model is available on Hugging Face under the NVIDIA Open Model License, paired with NIM microservices and NeMo for fine-tuning.

Aug 107 minNeura News
Research

World Rehearsal Lets LLM Agents Learn Without an Environment

A new training method called EnvACE lets large language model agents practice inside their own heads instead of relying on external environments. The approach, described in a paper submitted to arXiv on 6 Aug 2026, replaces real-world interaction during training with what the authors call world rehearsal. The result is a policy that internalizes how actions change the world, and it performs strongly across four benchmarks.

Aug 74 minNeura News
Research

New Benchmark Measures How Multi-Agent Systems Fail and Recover

OrchestraBench, a new benchmark introduced in an arXiv paper, uses controlled failure injection to measure how multi-agent systems fail and recover. It introduces metrics like cascade radius and per-failure-mode recovery, revealing that simple routers fail on adversarial cases while intent-reasoning models succeed. The benchmark also identifies three tiers of failure handling and shows that blind retry amplifies latent faults.

Aug 74 minNeura News