Cisco Foundation AI has open-sourced FAPO (Fully Automated Prompt Optimization), a Claude Code-driven system that autonomously optimizes multi-step LLM pipelines from baseline prompts to target accuracy. FAPO evaluates a chain, attributes failures at the step level, proposes variants across prompt,...
In this article we look at YaFF, Yandex's open-source zero-copy wire format for the Protobuf ecosystem. We keep the .proto file as the single source of truth, changing only how data sits in memory. We walk through its four layouts — Fixed, Flat, Sparse, and Dynamic — and the benchmark where Flat...
We build an end-to-end forecasting workflow with TimeCopilot on a panel of real airline passenger data and a synthetic seasonal series with injected anomalies. We evaluate statistical, foundation, and optional GPU-based models using rolling cross-validation and multiple error metrics. We generate...
Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It starts an agent with everything off except provider, model, File Operations, and Terminal. You opt in to the rest. The post Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via...
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount...
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