Step 3.7 Flash is StepFun’s latest high-efficiency multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model. It pairs a 196B-parameter language backbone with a vision encoder for native image and video understanding, activating roughly 11B parameters per token. The model supports a 256K context window and … Read more
Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen 2026-08-17 | 15 min TL;DR: DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new … Read more
Posted by naruse on 17 Nov 2025 We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0-preview2. Ruby 4.0 updates its Unicode version to 17,0.0, and so on. Language changes *nil no longer calls nil.to_a, similar to how **nil does … Read more
A newly arrived sixth preview of Microsoft’s planned .NET 10 application development platform touts improved JIT code generation for struct arguments, one-shot tool execution, and other enhancements in the .NET libraries, runtime, and SDK, as well as the ASP.NET Core, Blazor, … Read more
Sam Ansmink, Tom Ebergen, Gabor Szarnyas Published on 2025-03-14 TL;DR: We are happy to announce a new preview feature that adds support for Apache Iceberg REST Catalogs, enabling DuckDB users to connect to Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse … Read more
Keywords: Benchmarks, Large Language Models, Mathematical Reasoning, Mathematics, Reasoning, Machine Learning TL;DR: Putnam-AXIOM is a challenging mathematical reasoning benchmark for LLMs, revealing significant reasoning performance gaps and the impact of data contamination. Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to … Read more
A version of OS/2 2.0 from Microsoft, not IBM, just surfaced on eBay. This pre-release version came out after Windows 3.0. How much might you be willing to pay to own a piece of operating system history? Would you pay … Read more
April 18th, 2022 Features for C# 11 are coming along nicely! You can check these features out by downloading Visual Studio 17.2 Preview 3 or .NET 7 Preview 3 for other editors. You can find more about C# 11 features … Read more
Preview is that stand-alone program that comes with all Macs and one you probably don’t pay too much attention to. That’s understandable, it often feels just part of the operating system and not an application in its own right, but … Read more
Posted by naruse on 3 Apr 2022 We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.2.0-preview1. Ruby 3.2 adds many features and performance improvements. WASI based WebAssembly support This is an initial port of WASI based WebAssembly support. This … Read more