Open Source

Tsinghua researchers release SRHarness for formula discovery, MechBench for mechanism recovery: Tsinghua researchers released SRHarness, an open-source runtime for agentic symbolic regression, and MechBench, a benchmark that tests whether AI can recover the mechanisms behind formulas. SRHarness targets formula discovery, while MechBench evaluates mechanism recovery.

AI Research • Pandaily

ModelBest open-sources MiniCPM-V 4.7, saying its MoE model runs in about 3GB on an iPhone 17 Pro Max: ModelBest open-sourced MiniCPM-V 4.7, its first MoE multimodal model, in 35B-A3B and 1B sizes. The company says the MoE version runs in about 3GB of memory on an iPhone 17 Pro Max and decodes at over 13 tokens per second.

open source • Pandaily

Meta releases Muse Gadgets open-source firmware and Linux SDK: Meta has announced Muse Gadgets, offering open-source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to help users integrate its Muse AI system into hardware like the Raspberry Pi 5. The company also developed its own smart home device called the Muse Home Link.

Hardware • Techmeme

OpenAI • SoftBank

SoftBank and Nvidia complete final $10 billion investments in OpenAI: SoftBank has made the final $10 billion investment of its $30 billion pledge to OpenAI's latest funding round. A source reports that Nvidia has also completed its final $10 billion investment of its own $30 billion commitment to the round.