Open Source Model

SenseTime open-sources SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview, running 24 layers twice for 56 passes: SenseTime released SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview as an open-source model that runs a shared 24-layer block twice, yielding 56 layer passes from 32 layers. It adds two-stream mHC, and the weights are under Apache 2.0.

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Xiaomi open-sources 0.8B Xiaomi-OCR-0, scoring 96.83 on OmniDocBench to lead sub-1B models: Xiaomi has open-sourced Xiaomi-OCR-0, a 0.8B model for document parsing, key-field extraction and OCR question answering. It scored 96.83 on OmniDocBench v1.6, ranking first among models under 1B.

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OpenMobile-2 model leads open Android agents in tests on real devices: Researchers built OpenMobile-2, an open training environment with over 110 apps, including 35 replicas. On real Android devices, their model scores highest among open agents, the authors say. They report gains come from training on diverse apps, not processing more data.

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Nvidia's open-source Flora labels robot video for 72 cents an hour, versus $88 on GPT-6 Astra: Nvidia open-sourced Flora, a robot-video labeler built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models. It labels one hour for 72 cents versus $88 with GPT-6 Astra and scores slightly higher, Nvidia says. It catches robot-action errors more reliably but sometimes falls short on descriptive accuracy.

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