Models
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with 75 percent cost reduction
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, positioning it as its fastest, cheapest, and most capable small model to date. The update cuts pricing by around 75 percent compared to earlier benchmarks for its lightweight tier. It aims to deliver rapid inference for high-volume tasks without sacrificing overall model performance.
Models
Mistral releases public preview of 1-trillion-parameter ML4 model
French artificial intelligence firm Mistral has launched a public preview of its Mistral Large 4 model. The new release features a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal architecture designed to tackle complex technical workloads. Early disclosures highlight strong performance across software engineering, coding, and cybersecurity domains.
Tooling
Google open-sources EmbeddingGemma 2 for multimodal search on edge devices
Google has open-sourced EmbeddingGemma 2, a compact multimodal embedding model that operates within less than 600MB of memory. The lightweight model enables unified search across text, code, images, video, and audio using a single query. It is built to run locally on mobile hardware, allowing complete offline search functionality.
