RoboChallenge's Top-Ranked Embodied AI Model Goes Open Source, Challenging Clean Data Collection Paradigm

Spirit AI, an embodied AI startup, today announced that its latest VLA model, Spirit v1.5, has ranked first overall on the RoboChallenge benchmark. To drive industry transparency and collaborative ...
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Ai2 releases Tülu 3, a fully open-source model that bests DeepSeek v3, GPT-4o with novel post-training approach

The open-source model race just keeps on getting more interesting. Today, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) debuted its latest entry in the race with the launch of its open-source Tülu 3 405 ...
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Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a ...
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World's largest open-source multimodal dataset delivers 17x training efficiency, unlocking enterprise AI that connects documents, audio and video

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with Gemini 2.5 Flash (nano banana) AI models are only as good as the data they're trained on. That data generally needs to be labeled, curated and organized ...