In the escalating ‘race of “smaller, faster, cheaper’ AI, Google just dropped a heavy-hitting payload. The tech giant officially unveiled Nano-Banana 2 (technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). Google is making a definitive pivot toward the edge: high-fidelity, sub-second image synthesis that stays entirely on your device. The Technical Leap: Efficiency over Scale…

Reasoning large language models (LLMs) are designed to solve complex problems by breaking them down into a series of smaller steps. These powerful models are particularly good at challenging tasks like advanced programming and multistep planning.But developing reasoning models demands an enormous amount of computation and energy due to inefficiencies in the training process.…

In the current AI landscape, we’ve become accustomed to the ‘ephemeral agent’—a brilliant but forgetful assistant that restarts its cognitive clock with every new chat session. While LLMs have become master coders, they lack the persistent state required to function as true teammates. Nous Research team released Hermes Agent, an open-source autonomous system designed…

def draw_ring(ring: ConsistentHashRing, dist: Dict[str, int], title: str): node_ids = sorted(ring.nodes.keys()) plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8)) ax = plt.gca() ax.set_title(title) if not node_ids: plt.text(0.5, 0.5, “Ring is empty”, ha=”center”, va=”center”) plt.axis(“off”) plt.show() return G = nx.Graph() for nid in node_ids: G.add_node(nid) for i in range(len(node_ids)): G.add_edge(node_ids[i], node_ids[(i + 1) % len(node_ids)]) pos = nx.circular_layout(G) vnode_counts = ring.snapshot()…

For the modern AI developer productivity is often tied to a physical location. You likely have a ‘Big Rig’ at home or the office—a workstation humming with NVIDIA RTX cards—and a ‘Travel Rig,’ a sleek laptop that’s perfect for coffee shops but struggles to run even a quantized Llama-3 variant. Until now, bridging that…

The 7 Biggest Misconceptions About AI Agents (and Why They Matter) (click to enlarge)Image by Author   AI agents are everywhere. From customer support chatbots to code assistants, the promise is simple: systems that can act on your behalf, making decisions and taking actions without constant supervision. But most of what people believe about…