State-of-the-Art / Neural Networks and Deep Learning

InCoder-32B-Thinking: Open-Source Code Generation Model for Microcontrollers, GPU Kernel Optimization, and RTL Design

7 April 2026

InCoder-32B-Thinking: Open-Source Code Generation Model for Microcontrollers, GPU Kernel Optimization, and RTL Design

A research team from Beihang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the University of Manchester, and IQuest Research has published InCoder-32B-Thinking — a language model with an extended chain-of-thought reasoning for…

Trinity-Large-Thinking 400B: an open model matching Claude Opus-4.6 on agentic benchmarks at 28x lower price

3 April 2026

Trinity-Large-Thinking 400B: an open model matching Claude Opus-4.6 on agentic benchmarks at 28x lower price

Arcee AI has released Trinity-Large-Thinking — an open-weight reasoning model for complex multi-turn agentic tasks. On PinchBench — a comprehensive benchmark for AI agents — it ranks second among all…

PixelSmile: Open Model for Facial Expression Editing with Smooth Intensity Control

31 March 2026

PixelSmile: Open Model for Facial Expression Editing with Smooth Intensity Control

Researchers from Fudan University and StepFun have published PixelSmile — a diffusion model for precise facial expression editing in portraits and anime images. Instead of training on discrete labels like…

RealRestorer: Open-Source Image Enhancement Model Outperforms Nano Banana Pro on Real-World Benchmark

30 March 2026

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RealRestorer: Open-Source Image Enhancement Model Outperforms Nano Banana Pro on Real-World Benchmark

A team of researchers from StepFun, Southern University of Science and Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has published RealRestorer — an open-source image quality enhancement model that removes…

MinerU-Diffusion: A New Approach to OCR via Diffusion Decoding Speeds Up PDF Parsing 3× Without Accuracy Loss

27 March 2026

MinerU-Diffusion: A New Approach to OCR via Diffusion Decoding Speeds Up PDF Parsing 3× Without Accuracy Loss

A team from Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Peking University published MinerU-Diffusion — a document OCR framework that abandons classical autoregressive generation in favor of diffusion-based decoding. The project is…

daVinci-MagiHuman: Open 15B Model Generates a 5-Second Lip Sync Video in 2 Seconds on a Single H100

24 March 2026

daVinci-MagiHuman: Open 15B Model Generates a 5-Second Lip Sync Video in 2 Seconds on a Single H100

SII-GAIR and Sand.ai have published daVinci-MagiHuman — an open-source multimodal 15B model based on a single-stream transformer that simultaneously generates video with precise lip sync and synchronized audio, producing a…

Helios: 14B Model Generates Videos Longer Than 60 Seconds at 19.5 FPS on a Single H100

11 March 2026

Helios: 14B Model Generates Videos Longer Than 60 Seconds at 19.5 FPS on a Single H100

A team of researchers from Peking University and ByteDance published Helios — an autoregressive diffusion transformer with 14 billion parameters that generates video at 19.5 frames per second on a…

Baichuan-M3: An Open Medical Model That Conducts Consultations Like a Real Doctor and Outperforms GPT-5.2 on Benchmarks

10 February 2026

Baichuan-M3: An Open Medical Model That Conducts Consultations Like a Real Doctor and Outperforms GPT-5.2 on Benchmarks

A research team from the Chinese company Baichuan has introduced Baichuan-M3 — an open medical language model that, instead of the traditional question-and-answer mode, conducts a full clinical dialogue, actively…

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Leads on Comprehensive Backend Benchmark, Outperforming in Both Code and Environment Configuration

22 January 2026

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Leads on Comprehensive Backend Benchmark, Outperforming in Both Code and Environment Configuration

A team of researchers from Fudan University and Shanghai Qĳi Zhifeng Co. introduced ABC-Bench — the first benchmark that tests the ability of AI agents to solve full-fledged backend development…

Multiplex Thinking: Sampling 3 Tokens Instead of 1 Increases Olympiad Problem-Solving Accuracy from 40% to 55%

22 January 2026

Multiplex Thinking: Sampling 3 Tokens Instead of 1 Increases Olympiad Problem-Solving Accuracy from 40% to 55%

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Microsoft Research introduced Multiplex Thinking — a new reasoning method for large language models. The idea is to generate not one token at…

Yume1.5: An Open Model for Creating Interactive Virtual Worlds with Keyboard Control

5 January 2026

Yume1.5: An Open Model for Creating Interactive Virtual Worlds with Keyboard Control

Researchers from Shanghai AI Laboratory and Fudan University published Yume1.5 — a model for generating interactive virtual worlds that can be controlled directly from the keyboard. Unlike regular video generation,…

AI Models Are 13% Worse Than Humans at Detecting Generated ASMR Videos

18 December 2025

AI Models Are 13% Worse Than Humans at Detecting Generated ASMR Videos

Researchers from CUHK, NUS, University of Oxford, and Video Rebirth introduced Video Reality Test — the first benchmark that tests whether modern AI models can create videos indistinguishable from real…

Wan-Move: Open-Source Alternative to Kling 1.5 Pro for Motion-Controllable Video Generation

13 December 2025

Wan-Move: Open-Source Alternative to Kling 1.5 Pro for Motion-Controllable Video Generation

A team of researchers from Tongyi Lab (Alibaba Group), Tsinghua University, and the University of Hong Kong presented Wan-Move — a new approach to precise motion control in generative video…

P1: First Open-Source Model to Win Gold at the International Physics Olympiad

30 November 2025

P1: First Open-Source Model to Win Gold at the International Physics Olympiad

P1-235B-A22B from Shanghai AI Laboratory became the first open-source model to win a gold medal at the latest International Physics Olympiad IPhO 2025, scoring 21.2 out of 30 points and…

MiroThinker v1.0: Open-Source AI Research Agent Learns to Make Up to 600 Tool Calls Per Task

20 November 2025

MiroThinker v1.0: Open-Source AI Research Agent Learns to Make Up to 600 Tool Calls Per Task

The MiroMind team introduced MiroThinker v1.0 — an AI research agent capable of performing up to 600 tool calls per task with a 256K token context window. On four key…

DeepEyesV2: Multimodal Model Learns to Use Tools to Solve Complex TasksRetry

12 November 2025

DeepEyesV2: Multimodal Model Learns to Use Tools to Solve Complex TasksRetry

Researchers from Xiaohongshu introduced DeepEyesV2 — an agentic multimodal model based on Qwen2.5-VL-7B that can not only understand text and images but also actively use external tools: execute Python code…

DTM: New Hardware Architecture Reduces Energy Consumption by 10,000x Compared to GPUs

1 November 2025

DTM: New Hardware Architecture Reduces Energy Consumption by 10,000x Compared to GPUs

Researchers from Extropic Corporation presented an efficient hardware architecture for probabilistic computing based on Denoising Thermodynamic Models (DTM). Analysis shows that devices based on this architecture could achieve performance parity…

Ditto: Open Framework for Text-Instruction-Based Video Style and Object Editing with 99% Frame Consistency

24 October 2025

Ditto: Open Framework for Text-Instruction-Based Video Style and Object Editing with 99% Frame Consistency

Researchers from HKUST, Ant Group, Zhejiang University, and Northeastern University introduced Ditto — a comprehensive open framework addressing the training data scarcity problem in text-instruction-based video editing. The developers created…

QeRL: Training 32B Models on Single H100 vs Three GPUs, Beating LoRA in Accuracy

16 October 2025

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QeRL: Training 32B Models on Single H100 vs Three GPUs, Beating LoRA in Accuracy

QeRL is a framework for training language models using reinforcement learning that simultaneously reduces GPU requirements and surpasses traditional LoRA and QLoRA methods in accuracy. On the Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct model, QeRL…

MinerU2.5: Open-Source 1.2B Model for PDF Parsing Outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro on Benchmarks

2 October 2025

MinerU2.5: Open-Source 1.2B Model for PDF Parsing Outperforms Gemini 2.5 Pro on Benchmarks

MinerU2.5 is a compact vision-language model with 1.2 billion parameters for PDF parsing, introduced by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory team. The model achieves state-of-the-art results in PDF parsing with…

LongLive — 1.3B Video Generation Model at 20.7 FPS with Real-Time Narrative Control

30 September 2025

LongLive — 1.3B Video Generation Model at 20.7 FPS with Real-Time Narrative Control

A team of researchers from NVIDIA, MIT, and other institutions introduced LongLive — a framework for real-time long video generation that allows users to control the narrative during video creation.…