Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
Source: MarkTechPost Tokenization is the one part of the language modeling stack that almost nobody profiles. Gigatoken, released...
Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal
Source: MarkTechPost Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a...
Research-Grade EdgeBench Analysis: AI Agent Benchmarking, Leaderboard Analytics, Scaling Laws, and Evaluation Metrics
Source: MarkTechPost In this tutorial, we explore EdgeBench as a practical benchmark for evaluating advanced AI agents across...
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
Source: MIT News – Artificial intelligence Dimitri Bertsekas PhD ’71, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Emeritus Professor in Engineering...
Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU
Source: MarkTechPost Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the...
Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases
Source: MarkTechPost Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of security small language models (SLMs) built for...
Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual
Source: MarkTechPost Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding. It is...
Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: A Cheaper, More Token-Efficient Flash Tier Built for Agentic Workloads
Source: MarkTechPost Developers building production agents need higher token efficiency, lower latency, and more reliable performance. Today, Google...
Validating Distributed LLM Serving Benchmarks with NVIDIA srt-slurm, SLURM Recipes, Parameter Sweeps, and Pareto Analysis
Source: MarkTechPost In this tutorial, we explore NVIDIA’s srt-slurm framework and learn how we use srtctl to convert...
Meta Open-Sources Astryx: An Agent-Ready React Design System With 150+ Accessible Components, Seven Themes, and a CLI
Source: MarkTechPost Meta has released Astryx, an open source design system that is fully customizable and built to...