Practical lessons on video, distribution, and measurement. Start with the question you need to answer, then go deeper when it helps.
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See our hands-on tests of new AI tools, including the hardware used and the limits we found.
Enter the research roomsEleven dated frontier-model routes tackle visual communication, revision, decision work, code repair, and conflicting evidence. Compare Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, GLM, Qwen, and DeepSeek.
Controlled Codex tests and real user reports point to the same practical answer: choose by task, verification, and failure cost, not by a universal winner claim.
How Liquid AI trained LFM2.5-2.6B for local agents using two-stage SFT, domain-specialist teachers, multi-domain on-policy distillation and reinforcement learning inside real agent harnesses.
We compared GPT-5.6 Luna, Terra, and Sol across Codex reasoning levels using 294 ChatGPT-subscription runs. See why medium is the practical starting point, why no model won, and when higher reasoning may be worth the cost.
We tested whether Codex could answer focused questions from long PDFs without receiving every page. See what worked, what did not, and where the approach fits in an AI video workflow.
We tested Audio8 TTS Preview 0.6B on a 16 GB M2 MacBook Pro and an RTX 3090 Ti, then fine-tuned it on 128 NSC-derived voice clips. See inference, memory, LoRA, ASR, speaker similarity, and checkpoint failure results.
We compared LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and 350M with ModernBERT-base and large on CPU speed, RTX 3090 Ti latency, memory release, sentiment classification and long legal-document classification. Here are the results and their limits.
We ran 25 fixed arithmetic, planning, tool-call, and transformation tasks on Nanbeige4.2-3B and Qwen3-VL-4B. Here are the scores, latency, VRAM use, compatibility failure, and limits of this local agent benchmark.
We tested SIE with embedding and reranking models on an RTX 3090 Ti. Here is what model switching, cold loading, idle eviction, VRAM release, and the untested pressure-driven LRU path mean for an on-demand embedding service.
We tested MicroZoom inference and LoRA training on a 24 GB RTX 3090 Ti using INT4 weights. See how its images compared with Bicubic and Lanczos enlargement.
A public-safe FireRed and NuExtract3 comparison showing why table OCR needs numeric-token, row, column, and cell-position checks instead of visual review alone.
Surya OCR 2 beat Paddle on layout F1 in two public-safe tests, but weaker label coverage, fragmented boxes, and fallback behavior kept it out of our default OCR pipeline.