MiniMax releases MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. MiniMax H3 is not a text-to-video model with add-ons. MiniMax describes it as a general-purpose multimodal generation model that reads text, images, video, and audio as one unified context and returns video with native stereo sound. The mains specs include: 2K output, 4–15 seconds, integer durations…
The continued scarcity of RAM chips will not be solely anticipated to persist into the following 12 months, however will probably intensify in 2027, with tight provide situations lasting till not less than 2028, in accordance with Samsung, which manufactures and provides roughly a 3rd of the world’s reminiscence chips. Samsung mentioned in its Q2…
In his final earnings call as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook said that the company’s long-awaited Siri AI upgrade could come with some paywalled limits. While Cook conceded that these plans are not set in stone, he envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via its existing iCloud+ subscriptions, which offer…
A new report from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School has mapped out the ways Silicon Valley’s VC-backed founders commit fraud — and the role investors play. For the report, published online in June, researchers built a database of tech founders and companies who faced civil and criminal securities fraud prosecutions from…
Index Ventures has raised $2 billion in contemporary capital throughout three funds, the agency introduced on Friday. The 30-year-old agency raised $400 million for its new seed-focused fund and $900 million for its enterprise fund. Index additionally added $700 million to a $1.5 billion progress fund raised in 2024, bringing its complete accessible capital to…
For years, India was the world’s largest app download market but one of its toughest places to make money. That is beginning to change as Indian consumers spend more on AI, entertainment, and other premium apps. India’s mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consumer spending during the second quarter of this year,…
For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed every Y Combinator founder he could…
Rivian spinoff Additionally will lastly begin delivering its first e-bikes to prospects subsequent week, after months of delays associated to unspecified provide chain points. The corporate instructed TechCrunch on Friday that the Launch Version of its TM-B e-bike, which retails for $4,500, has began delivery from its producer to its warehouse within the U.S. Additionally…
print(“\n[10] Plots”) k = min(4, S) idxs = np.linspace(0, S – 1, k).astype(int) fig, axes = plt.subplots(3, k, figsize=(3.1 * k, 7.2)) axes = np.atleast_2d(axes) for c, i in enumerate(idxs): axes[0, c].imshow(rgb[i].transpose(1, 2, 0)); axes[0, c].set_title(f”frame {i}”, fontsize=9) d = depth[i].squeeze(-1) axes[1, c].imshow(d, cmap=”turbo”, vmin=np.percentile(d, 2), vmax=np.percentile(d, 98)) axes[2, c].imshow(depth_conf[i] > THR, cmap=”gray”) for r,…
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026. The model card is explicit that this is the official release superseding the preview, and that the architecture and size are unchanged. The gains come from re-post-training, not a new design. The checkpoint ships with the…
