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Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale

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IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models. The post IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method

Perplexity and NVIDIA introduced JOLT, a post-training method that trains one model as both teacher and student. On MATH it matched GRPO’s accuracy with 6.5x fewer processed training tokens. The post Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method appeared first on MarkTechPost .

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NewsOct 22, 2026

Leading European Financial Services Organizations Embrace Open Models to Build Proprietary Intelligence

At GTC Berlin, banks, payment companies and financial data providers are showing what production-scale intelligence looks like — built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, powered by open weight models and running on their own infrastructure. Revolut is rebuilding its technology stack on a single foundation model PRAGMA, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing. Using the NVIDIA cuDF […]

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