TechniqueRLHF / Alignment8 recent entries11 May 2026GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Adversaries Leverage AI for Vulnerability Exploitation, Augmented Operations, and Initial AccessExecutive Summary Since our February 2026 report on AI-related threat activity, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track a maturing transition from nascent AI-enabled operations →2 Jun 2026Cross-Generational Transfer of Adversarial Attacks Reveals Non-Monotonic Safety Alignment in LLMsarXiv:2606.00813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety alignment in LLMs does not improve monotonically across model generations. Studying four generations of Google's Gemma family (7B-31B) with qua
TechniqueRAG8 recent entries18 Aug 2026OGX: An Open-Source, Vendor-Neutral Generative AI Application ServerarXiv:2608.14580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: OGX (Open GenAI Stack) is an open-source AI application server and Python library that implements the APIs of major frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Go→27 Aug 2026Retrieve, Match, Escalate: Accurate and Scalable Product Linking with VLM-Distilled Cross-Encoders and Agentic VLMsarXiv:2608.25037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Product linking, the entity-resolution task of mapping merchant product records to canonical catalog products, consolidates fragmented listings so dow→28 Aug 2026Self-hosted agent + BI platform that runs fully local, Ollama or vLLM for both chat and embeddingsBeen building AgentSwarms for a while. Agent platform with RAG, multi-agent workflows and a BI layer over your own data. Posting here because the whole thing runs without a single hosted API if you wa→29 Aug 2026TestFlight Testers Needed! PowerChat – an AI chat client with RAG, MCPHi r/ollama! I am the solo dev of PowerChat, an AI chat client that provides a mobile chat interface for iOS (iPhones for now, iPad and Mac planned) to connect to self-hosted models using Ollama, or O→8 Sept 2026An open-source context layer for building AI on top of company dataWe’ve been building PipesHub for a while now, and I’d love to get more teams to try it and tell us where it breaks. The problem we kept running into was pretty simple: Building an AI app over company →21 Sept 2026I reached 1,000+ telemetry events across 38 deployments — what should I be thinking about now?I've been building an open-source AI workflow automation platform for a while now, mostly as a solo project. I recently checked the telemetry dashboard and was honestly surprised to see 1,062 telemetr→23 Sept 2026Which small model works best with Ollama on a Raspberry Pi 5?I've been comparing and working on Gemma 4, Phi-4-Mini, and Qwen3-4B for local LLM use on an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 5. The results were indeed close, but each model has a different strength: Gemma 4 E2B: a→12 Oct 2026Locate, Judge, Read: Role-Specialized Tool Agents over a Knowledge-Point Index for Open-Domain Multimodal Document QAarXiv:2610.13128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Question answering over large heterogeneous document collections requires first finding the right passages and then reading them, yet current retrieval-
TechniqueAgents8 recent entries6 Oct 2026Tencent releases Octop, a self-hosted AI assistantOctop is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant. Through its multi-agent architecture, it builds an intelligent environment that is both independent and collaborative for teams, families, and indivi→6 Oct 2026Same Pieces, Different Servers: A Tetris Benchmark for AI Agents as ServedarXiv:2603.02348v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An agent meets a model as served: through an endpoint with a price card, a shared cache and other tenants, or on whatever hardware a self-hosted mod→6 Oct 2026CoreWeave targets GPU utilization in continuous AI post-trainingGPU utilization during post-training depends partly on how efficiently infrastructure moves data and loads updated models. As enterprises continually refine AI agents, reducing delays between training→7 Oct 2026Running an open-source agent platform with no third party in the chain: what each piece needs (Ollama/vLLM, local embeddings, local OCR)Disclosure first: I work at Vstorm and I build AgenticOS, an open-source (Apache-2.0), self-hosted platform for building AI agents in a browser. This post was drafted with an LLM's help and edited by →8 Oct 2026Today we are launching an agent arena for RL environments: The Open Env Arena. Your agents can work to define the best RL environments; the …Today we are launching an agent arena for RL environments: The Open Env Arena. Your agents can work to define the best RL environments; the platform trains Qwen-3.8-27B on them, we evaluate the models→9 Oct 2026Qwen3.8 27b with 200K ctx + MTP on 12GB Ampere CardsHello all! Thank you to everyone that contributed their feedback and notes for LlamAmpere the last time I posted. I've continued to chip away at improvements for the 3090 crowd -- this release is mode→10 Oct 2026We built Many Agents give AI agents their own cloud computers and let them work for you 🚀Hey everyone! 👋 After months of building, we’re finally opening the first spots for **Many Agents**, a new product from Dome. The idea is simple: **What if you could create your own team of AI agents →12 Oct 2026Locate, Judge, Read: Role-Specialized Tool Agents over a Knowledge-Point Index for Open-Domain Multimodal Document QAarXiv:2610.13128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Question answering over large heterogeneous document collections requires first finding the right passages and then reading them, yet current retrieval-
TechniqueFine-tuning8 recent entries27 Aug 2026Retrieve, Match, Escalate: Accurate and Scalable Product Linking with VLM-Distilled Cross-Encoders and Agentic VLMsarXiv:2608.25037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Product linking, the entity-resolution task of mapping merchant product records to canonical catalog products, consolidates fragmented listings so dow→2 Sept 2026Closing Cost-Quality Gap in Document VLMs: Difficulty-Aware Data Curation and Quality-Adjusted Deployment EconomicsarXiv:2609.01575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extracting structured fields from hundreds of millions of documents annually remains costly in regulated industries: bespoke OCR cascades cover only a f→21 Sept 2026Got jev-like api running natively on ninfer / qwen3.8 27b and results are quite decentHi all! After all the jev hype I wanted to try by myself and got qwen3.8 27b to mix-and-match open implementations on top of ninfer, and to be honest I'm quite impressed with the results, latency is n→23 Sept 2026v0.5.0Overview This release focuses on backend performance and correctness, broader model coverage, and more robust server/router operation. It adds HRM-Text (DFM Mimir 1B) support, MiMo-V2.6 and HunyuanOCR→28 Sept 2026Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIsEvery week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core p→28 Sept 2026Muslim: A Deployed Arabic Voice AI Platform for Grounded Islamic KnowledgearXiv:2609.31511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Muslim, a production Arabic voice AI platform serving grounded, sourced Islamic knowledge to real users. Beyond a real-time voice pipeline (N→28 Sept 2026DeepEdu-v1: Efficient and Scalable Agentic LLMs for Vietnamese EducationarXiv:2609.31568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tutoring could markedly improve learning outcomes for students in developing regions such as Vietnam, yet the two obvious paths both fall short. Clou→7 Oct 2026Looking for the best affordable AI video-generation models with fewer restrictions.Hi everyone, I’m exploring AI filmmaking and looking for good AI video-generation models that are either free, open-source/open-weight, or affordable. I’m particularly interested in models who allow u
TechniqueMultimodal8 recent entries10 Aug 2026Meta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, its first open-weights release since Llama 4, scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence …Meta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, its first open-weights release since Llama 4, scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It is a 30B-parameter model, and the first from Meta →21 Aug 2026FireRedAudio & FireRedTTS3 by FireRedTeam - HuggingfaceFireRedAudio: A General-Purpose Audio Language Model with Decoupled Continuous Representations for Understanding and Generation HuggingFace : https://huggingface.co/FireRedTeam/FireRedAudio GitHub : h→27 Aug 2026Retrieve, Match, Escalate: Accurate and Scalable Product Linking with VLM-Distilled Cross-Encoders and Agentic VLMsarXiv:2608.25037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Product linking, the entity-resolution task of mapping merchant product records to canonical catalog products, consolidates fragmented listings so dow→30 Aug 2026We used HFlow to evaluate the latest open weights VLMs for processing egocentric dataWe used HFlow to evaluate the latest open weights VLMs for processing egocentric data. This was based on Build AI's Egocentric-10k evaluation, which used Gemini 2.5 Flash to measure hand visibility an→14 Sept 2026v0.4.1Overview llama.cpp 0.4.1 adds Maple 20B-A1B, Tencent Hy 4, and Spark2.5 support, improves JSON schema handling, chat parsing, logging, and server child-process management, and updates ggml to v0.24.0.→23 Sept 2026Which small model works best with Ollama on a Raspberry Pi 5?I've been comparing and working on Gemma 4, Phi-4-Mini, and Qwen3-4B for local LLM use on an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 5. The results were indeed close, but each model has a different strength: Gemma 4 E2B: a→28 Sept 2026Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIsEvery week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core p→12 Oct 2026Locate, Judge, Read: Role-Specialized Tool Agents over a Knowledge-Point Index for Open-Domain Multimodal Document QAarXiv:2610.13128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Question answering over large heterogeneous document collections requires first finding the right passages and then reading them, yet current retrieval-
TechniqueSafety8 recent entries18 Aug 2026OGX: An Open-Source, Vendor-Neutral Generative AI Application ServerarXiv:2608.14580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: OGX (Open GenAI Stack) is an open-source AI application server and Python library that implements the APIs of major frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Go→10 Sept 2026From Monolithic Blending to Agentic Orchestration: Dynamic Response for Conversational Assistants at ScalearXiv:2609.05758v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational assistants can blend retrieval, action selection, escalation, and wording in a single model path, or separate those roles. We report a pr→15 Sept 2026Introducing Filestore agent volumes: fully managed storage for agent workspacesFrom running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterprise agent. Today, platform teams often stitch together custom w→16 Sept 2026Write up on building and improving reliability of agentic harnesses + a big dataset from my work.I've been working on something for this community (and other self-hosted communities) for almost 5 months now. Personally, I would grade it as probably the closest open source equivalent of Manus and →17 Sept 2026How a solo founder runs a five-continent tender platform on AlloyDB and MCPEditor's note: Lucius AI, a tender-intelligence startup covering markets across five continents, runs its entire data platform on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with a single operator. By migrating semantic s→24 Sept 2026Proactive Defense: Hardening Code Pipelines and CI/CD InfrastructureIntroduction The landscape of software supply chain security has undergone a significant shift. Recent campaigns demonstrate that sophisticated threat actors are systematically targeting the engineeri→28 Sept 2026Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIsEvery week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core p→29 Sept 2026Gentle reminder that Hugging Face was declined help from Anthropic & OpenAI models when they were being hacked by OpenAI models Self-hosted …Gentle reminder that Hugging Face was declined help from Anthropic & OpenAI models when they were being hacked by OpenAI models Self-hosted GLM 5.2 helped them protect themselves when the closed labs