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Jev benchmarks faster than LLM labeling

It reports Jev matching Claude Sonnet 5 accuracy on 500 SST-2 examples while cutting median latency from 2,076 ms to 376 ms and boosting throughput.

@thegreatest_sv

Blogs

Hacker News

Research

Virtual Head Attention

VHA uses Q Premix and Linear Postmix to improve KV cache size, training and prefill FLOPs, and model quality together.

BAIDU · arXiv · code

YouTube

AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club

The episode features Stanford professors Clark Barrett and Mykel Kochenderfer discussing automated reasoning and aircraft collision avoidance as a safety benchmark.

Y Combinator

Hugging Face

google/embeddinggemma-2

EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, images, video, and audio into one 768-dimensional vector space with 740M total parameters.

model

openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B

MiniCPM-V 4.7 is a 35B-A3B multimodal MoE model with lossless on-device inference using Lookahead Expert Scheduling.

model

fishaudio/drama-3

Drama 3 is a 35B-parameter text-to-speech model with 3B active per token, built for multi-character scenes and long-form audio.

model

LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B

LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a 24B-parameter reasoning model with 2B active parameters that runs on-device and targets agentic tool use.

model

baidu/Unlimited-OCR

Unlimited OCR is positioned for one-shot long-horizon parsing and now supports vLLM inference.

model

facebook/sam3

The model card tags SAM3 for video feature extraction and mask generation.

model

DeepLethe/FDE-Gym

The dataset is tagged for forward-deployed engineering benchmarks and agents.

dataset

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

The model weights are packaged for Hugging Face Transformers and compatible with vLLM, SGLang, and TokenSpeed, with a hosted Qwen Cloud version listed as coming soon.

model

GitHub

anthropics/claude-plugins-official

Anthropic's directory includes internal and third-party Claude Code plugins and warns users to trust plugins before installing them.

Python · ★ 41,658

HKUDS/CLI-Anything

CLI-Anything ships a CLI hub that installs community-built CLIs and shows agent demos for CAD, 3D scenes, diagrams, gameplay, and subtitles.

Python · ★ 54,018

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills

The repo now supports any agent using the open Agent Skills standard and adds K-Dense BYOK with 40+ models and 177 skills.

Python · ★ 52,202

akitaonrails/ai-memory

ai-memory lets coding agents carry long-term notes across more than twenty harnesses, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode.

Rust · ★ 9,880

android/skills

Google's Android skills repo provides modular SKILL.md instructions for workflows where evaluations show LLMs underperform.

Kotlin · ★ 8,396

stablyai/orca

Orca runs Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or Pi in separate worktrees and includes a mobile companion for steering agents from a phone.

TypeScript · ★ 95,328

anthropics/claude-code

Claude Code is a terminal coding agent that can explain code, execute routine tasks, and handle git workflows through natural language commands.

TypeScript · ★ 151,672

debpalash/VoiceStudio

VoiceStudio supports voice cloning, dubbing, dictation, transcription, and audiobook creation in 646 languages.

Python · ★ 73,186

anomalyco/opencode

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that also ships a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

TypeScript · ★ 215,197

xerj-org/xerj

XERJ automatically indexes folders for local code search and says a controlled study cut output tokens 2.7x at the same 16/16 solve rate.

Rust · ★ 7,747

MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search

The repository is an AI-powered job application framework that runs locally, uses Claude Code to evaluate postings, tailor CVs, write cover letters, and prepare interviews.

Python · ★ 50,322

affaan-m/ECC

The project warns to install ECC only from verified channels, including the GitHub repo, npm packages, GitHub App, plugin slug ecc@ecc, and project website ecc.tools.

JavaScript · ★ 282,465

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