New models and versions, open weights, and changes in capability and pricing, with their evaluations.
Liquid AI released two open-weight models in its d1 decision-model family: d1-3B and the experimental d1-omni-600M.
Why it matters: Liquid AI open-sourced two decision models and reported on-device latency and results across seven benchmarks, providing evidence on the use of small models for structured decisions.
Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M-parameter open model based on the Gemma 4 architecture and licensed under Apache 2.0. It maps text, images, audio, and video into a shared embedding space.
Why it matters: EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, images, audio, and video into one embedding space and reports concrete on-device memory and vector truncation figures, helping assess local multimodal retrieval.
Google DeepMind has released SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model, bringing sign-language AI to consumer products for the first time. On Pixel 11, Gboard and Live Transcribe support dictation from American Sign Language (ASL) to English; more devices and languages are planned.
Why it matters: The source describes the capabilities and limits of a multilingual sign-to-text model and where it is available, helping readers assess sign-language translation in real products.
Mistral AI has released Robostral Navigate, its first embodied-navigation model. The 8B model uses a single standard RGB camera, with no LiDAR or depth sensor, and achieves a 76.6% success rate on R2R-CE validation unseen—9.7 percentage points above the best single-camera approach and 4.5 points above the best systems using depth or multiple cameras.
Why it matters: The source reports navigation success using a monocular RGB camera and describes the training approach, giving a view of how sensor requirements for embodied navigation are changing.
Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4 12B, an agentic multimodal model aimed at laptops, positioned between the edge-focused E4B and the 26B MoE. It is the company's first medium-sized model with native audio input.
Why it matters: Gemma 4 12B removes multimodal encoders and feeds visual and audio input directly into the LLM, giving readers a view of hardware requirements for local multimodal agents.
Google DeepMind has released the open Gemma 4 family in four sizes: E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, and 31B Dense, under the Apache 2.0 license.
Why it matters: Gemma 4 spans edge devices to workstations in four sizes and reports Arena rankings under Apache 2.0, helping readers assess the practical range of open models.
Mistral has released the Mistral 3 family: dense small models at 3B, 8B, and 14B, plus Mistral Large 3, a sparse MoE model with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All are open-source under Apache 2.0.
Why it matters: Mistral has released Apache-2.0 weights ranging from 3B to 675B, giving readers a view of open-model options from edge devices to frontier scale.
Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3.1, improving text performance and multimodal understanding over Mistral Small 3. It extends the context window to 128K tokens, runs at 150 tokens per second, and is open-source under Apache 2.0.
Why it matters: Mistral reports comparisons for a small model across text, multimodal, and long-context tasks, helping readers assess on-device deployment options.
Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3, a 24B-parameter model optimized for low latency and open-sourced under Apache 2.0. It provides both pretrained and instruction-tuned checkpoints.
Why it matters: A 24B model under Apache 2.0 is positioned against models three times its size, with quantization details for single-GPU local deployment to help readers assess its fit.
