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The latest Michal Sutter news, : Soniox STT v6 adds agent text input and echo filtering for voice agents.

20 stories mentioning Michal Sutter since 21 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. Follow to see new ones on your front page.

  1. Agents & Tools new

    Soniox STT v6 adds agent text input and echo filtering for voice agents

    Soniox released Soniox STT v6, an updated speech-to-text API that transcribes both caller and agent speech in real time. The model uses agent text input to recognize short replies and filter out echo from the agent’s…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  2. OpenAI cuts Git push times by 80% with Pando backend

    OpenAI introduced Pando, a custom Git backend that reduces median push latency by nearly 80% in its monorepo. The system, built in Rust and deployed in 10 weeks, handles nearly 1 petabyte of Git data daily—peaking at…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  3. Agents & Tools new

    The Letter Company releases beta of letterpress-1 coding agent

    The Letter Company has launched the beta of Letterpress‑1, a coding agent, harness and IDE designed for growth engineering. The agent reads a website and its market signals, then builds changes in a sandbox and opens a…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  4. qwenGPU compiles a GPU into Qwen3.5-2B weights

    qwenGPU is an experimental model that embeds a 4‑lane SIMT GPU inside the weights of Qwen3.5‑2B. Developed by Vixhal and released on GitHub under MIT, it compiles CUDA to PTX and runs inside the model’s forward passes.…

    2 sources
    Tom's HardwareMarkTechPost
  5. Agents & Tools new

    Vercel Labs open-sources agent-desktop for cross-platform computer use

    Vercel Labs released agent-desktop, an open-source CLI tool for AI agents to interact with desktop apps on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The tool reads apps via OS accessibility APIs—no screenshots or vision models—and…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  6. Block releases Dessa, a full‑duplex speech model trained only on speech

    Block’s AI research lab announced Dessa on October 23, 2026 as a research preview. The model is a full‑duplex speech‑to‑speech system that listens and talks simultaneously, trained solely on human conversation audio…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  7. Research new

    Anthropic launches free OSS Scanner using Claude Mythos for open-source projects

    Anthropic released OSS Scanner on October 8, a free opt-in program that runs its strongest models, including Claude Mythos, against enrolled open-source codebases. The scanner operates on Anthropic's infrastructure in…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  8. Agents & Tools new

    Cognition releases open-source Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin for PHP, Node.js, GitLab

    Cognition has launched the Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, a free, MIT‑licensed set of three agent skills that automatically remediate recent remote code execution advisories. The skills address PHP2Shell…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  9. Research new

    Kyutai releases CADRE open video autoencoders to reduce world model lag

    Kyutai has released CADRE, a family of seven open causal diffusion representation autoencoders designed to reduce action latency in interactive world models. The autoencoders feature approximately 476 million trained…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  10. Cohere releases Rerank 5 with passage-level context focus and calibrated scores

    Cohere AI announced Rerank 5, a retrieval‑reranking model offered in Pro and Fast tiers. Both versions run on a 32K token context window, support over 100 languages and can be accessed via the Cohere API, Model Vault,…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  11. Agents & Tools new

    Vercel open-sources durable-harness to keep coding agent sessions alive after crashes

    Vercel released durable-harness, an open-source npm package (version 0.0.x) under Apache-2.0 that stores each step of a coding‑agent turn in a durable log, allowing sessions to survive crashes and timeouts. The package…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  12. Agents & Tools new

    Exa claims Exa 3.0 search API leads Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on eight benchmarks

    Exa Labs announced Exa 3.0, an upgraded web‑search API for AI agents. The release adds a larger, undisclosed embedding model, a new "Lite" search type priced at $4 per 1,000 requests, and Dynamic Highlights that cut…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  13. Nace AI releases Drex Max multimodal decision model for computer-use agents

    Nace AI has launched Drex Max, a multimodal decision model tailored for agents that navigate computers and browsers. Unlike text-generating models, Drex Max accepts text and up to 8 images per request, returning…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  14. StepFun releases Step 5 Preview open weights with 600B parameters and 1M context

    StepFun has released Step 5 Preview as open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The model is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts with 600B total parameters, 27B active per token, and up to 1M tokens of context. It is…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  15. Z.ai’s GLM-Legal scores 19.2% on Harvey LAB, outpacing Claude Fable 5 and Kimi K3

    Z.ai released GLM-Legal, a legal-focused AI model built on its GLM-5.3-Flash base, achieving a 19.2% all-pass rate on the Harvey Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB)—nearly triple the 6.7% of its base model. The model targets…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  16. Agents & Tools new

    Prime Intellect launches Prime Inference for serving open models

    Prime Intellect has launched Prime Inference, a serving platform for frontier open-source models. It offers serverless endpoints and reserved capacity on the company's own GPUs across multiple datacenters. Before…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  17. Agents & Tools new

    Perplexity trains agent on real mistakes with Hint-Guided Self-Distillation

    Perplexity Research published a study on a new post-training method for its agent inside Perplexity Computer. The approach uses rejection sampling fine-tuning combined with hint-guided self-distillation to improve…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  18. BottleCap AI cuts Qwen3.8-27B’s reasoning tokens by 37.2% with ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B

    BottleCap AI released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, a fine-tuned version of Qwen’s Qwen3.8-27B designed to reduce reasoning tokens by 37.2% across 12 benchmarks. The model maintains near-identical accuracy (a 0.86pp drop to…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost
  19. Contrastive-LM releases CLM-8B, an open model that scores actions up to 9× faster than Jev

    Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, the first open Contrastive Language Model, which scores candidate actions instead of generating text. The model uses a frozen Qwen3-8B backbone with trainable projection heads and is…

    2 sources
    MarkTechPostcontrastive-lm.notion.site
  20. StepFun launches Step 5 Preview with 1M-token context and $1 input pricing

    StepFun announced Step 5 Preview, its flagship mixture‑of‑experts model aimed at agentic software engineering, knowledge work, and finance tasks. The model totals about 600 billion parameters but activates roughly 27…

    1 source
    MarkTechPost

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As of 3 November 2026: Soniox STT v6 adds agent text input and echo filtering for voice agents. Soniox released Soniox STT v6, an updated speech-to-text API that transcribes both caller and agent speech in real time.