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Google DeepMind

3 articles First covered Apr 19, 2026, latest May 13, 2026

Cactus Compute YouTube thumbnail showing the team behind Needle

Cactus Compute distilled Gemini into a 26M tool-calling model. The trick: no feed-forward layers.

Needle is a 26M-parameter function caller distilled from Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The Simple Attention Network drops MLPs and runs at 6,000 tok/s prefill on edge silicon.

DeepSeek social card from the V4 API documentation release post.

AI·2 months ago

DeepSeek V4 lands: 1.6T-param open MoE, 1M-token context, and SWE-bench within 0.2 of Opus 4.6

DeepSeek shipped V4-Pro and V4-Flash under MIT on April 24. V4-Pro hits 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified. V4-Flash is $0.14 in / $0.28 out.

Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 architecture and demo illustration

AI·2 months ago

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is the brain, not the hands. Here's how the new two-model robotics stack works.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 jumps instrument reading from 23% to 93% and slots in above a separate VLA model. Boston Dynamics' Spot is already running it.