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Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
Google DeepMind launches WeatherNext 3, an AI weather model delivering hourly 5-km forecasts from live satellite data, now integrated across Google products.
WeatherNext 3 ingests live geostationary satellite mosaics and station observations through a Functional Generative Network (FGN) mesh transformer, producing hourly forecasts at 5-km surface resolution versus WeatherNext 2's 25-km, 6-hour grid. Independent live evaluations by Brightband rate it the most accurate global weather model to date. It adds renewable-energy variables such as 100-meter turbine-height wind speeds and solar radiation, and is integrated across Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.
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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking speech models, topping Artificial Analysis' Speech-to-Speech Quality Index at 82.6.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live, built for cost-efficient near-real-time dialogue with visual grounding, and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for high-complexity multi-step reasoning. Extended Thinking ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index (82.6), scores 68.6% on τ-Voice, 35.1% on Sierra's τ-Voice-banking, and 97.7% on Big Bench Audio. The models detect and switch among 97 languages mid-conversation, execute background tool and API calls, and roll out in the Gemini API, AI Studio, Gemini Enterprise private preview, and Search Live. All generated audio is watermarked with SynthID.
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Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help
Suno released its v6 music model family (v6, v6-wild, v6-mini), the first trained with licensed data from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe.
Suno's v6 comes in three variants: v6, the more unpredictable v6-wild, and resource-light v6-mini offered free to all users. The model was trained from the ground up on a new dataset including licensed content from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, plus user data, though it is unclear if all dubiously obtained content was excluded. v6 shows dramatically improved genre fidelity, adds plain-language chat editing of individual song elements, multi-element mashups, and prompts based on images, video, or audio. The Verge notes it still cannot produce intentional imperfections like off-key vocals, and v6 starts rolling out now with older models eventually retired.
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DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NEO-CODER-MAX-MTP-GGUF — new model trending #8 on Hugging Face
A new Qwen3.8-27B GGUF fine-tune claims ARC-C 735 at 8-bit with thinking tokens cut 2x-10x versus the base model.
Independent creator DavidAU released a GGUF fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B built with Unsloth, claiming ARC-C of 735 at 8-bit and 719 at 4-bit, trending #8 on Hugging Face. The 'TURBO' variant cuts thinking tokens by one half to as much as one tenth while retaining output quality and detail. The repo ships both regular and MTP quants and claims gains over the base model across seven benchmarks, using 'Cold Fusion (GAIN + Unsloth)' and 'Fable Fusion 711' training methods.
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp — new model trending #10 on Hugging Face
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, its first experimental multimodal model, with large multimodal agent benchmark gains over V4-Flash-0731.
DeepSeek AI published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model built on the DeepSeek-V4-Flash architecture with added visual modules and continued training. It scores 83.9 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 36.5 on ApexBench Pass@1 versus 26.2 for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, while remaining comparable to Opus-4.8 on several benchmarks. The MIT-licensed repository ships a tokenizer, OpenAI-style and TXT prompt encoding, and a minimal PyTorch inference implementation, with vLLM and SGLang deployment recipes.
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