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Microduck at GTC Berlin: Jensen Huang, Hugging Face, and a $399 lesson in Physical AI
At GTC Berlin on 21 October 2026, Jensen Huang walked four palm-sized duck robots onto the keynote stage and talked to them like a lab director, not a comedian. The machines are Microduck, an open-source biped from Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face’s robotics team in Bordeaux). Huang asked them to sit,...
DeepSeek DeepInfer: open-source inference behind V4.1 Flash
On 20 October 2026 DeepSeek put DeepInfer on GitHub under Apache 2.0. The repo is the company's in-house inference framework. It is the stack behind the hosted V4.1 Flash API traffic, not a classroom demo build. The same day they opened deepseek-recipe, a Rust token encoder and decoder whose behavior...
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: agent benchmarks vs GPT-6.1 Sol and Opus 5.5
DeepSeek shipped V4.1 Flash on 10 September 2026. A week later the API track moved again to V4.1-Flash-1017 (17 October 2026). Both are multimodal MoE models built for agents: million-token context, native vision, and a causal encoder-decoder stack that keeps prefill at about 8B active parameters and decode at 16B....
Meta Muse and AI hardware: agents in everyday life
In September 2026, Meta moved its Muse personal agent from phones and desktops onto wearable hardware. At Meta Connect 2026, the company showed Muse on AI glasses, previewed the pocket Muse Charm device, and expanded Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley, and Meta Glasses into a 100-plus style lineup. For hardware teams, the...
GPT-6 Astra: what the charts mean for hardware teams
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra leads on CAD, terminals, and computer use. Looped transformers are the architecture rumor. KiCad and SOLIDWORKS runs are the evidence. A factory still owns DFM.
Physical AI: Why Hardware Companies Will Win the Next AI Wave
Software-only AI companies captured headlines in 2024–2025. The next wave belongs to teams that can ship intelligence on devices — sensors, edge compute, certified hardware, and factory integration. That is Physical AI, and hardware-native manufacturers are built for it. Why pure-software AI hits a ceiling Cloud models excel at language...
