Introducing π»π΅πΌπΉ: our new generation of Liquid Foundation Models. With a new tri-hybrid architecture and new multimodal encoders, the LFM3 family is the ideal model suite for specialized intelligence.
> 6 model instances, across text, audio, vision, and omni modalities, generative and decision models.
> π»π΅πΌπΉ-π·.π½π±: text, 256k context window.
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π»-πΈπ±: vision-language model with video-input support for spatial understanding
> π»π΅πΌπΉ-π°ππππ-πΈπ±: tool calls, voice chat, reasoning in 18 languages.
> π»π΅πΌπΉ-πΎπππ-πΈπ±: an omni model combines vision, audio, and language.
> ππ·-πΈπ± and ππ·-πΎπππ-πΈπ±: decision models with typed outputs and calibrated probabilities in a single pass. Omni adds audio input.
> fine-tune on 1 GPU.
> a new tri-hybrid architecture
> architecture optimized for 14 processor classes across GPUs, CPUs, and NPUs.
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π»-πΈπ± is a beast. It performs competitively with Gemma 4 12B (6x larger), and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, and GPT-5.6 Luna, with 1.9B parameters.
> π»π΅πΌπΉ-π·.π½π± is #1 on the Pareto frontier of device intelligence πππππππ.ππππππ.ππ
Every modality for specialized intelligence. Pick the one that fits your use case, customize it, and run it on-device.
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IzwiAI retweeted
Introducing Fish Audio Realtime STT (preview): speech-to-text that understands the conversation, not just the words.
It knows when to answer, when to keep talking, and when to stop.
Ranked #1 of 20 on Cekuraβs STT benchmark (2.21% overall word error rate).
Built for voice agents. Try it now π
IzwiAI retweeted
Kimi K3.1 Pro launches at 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scoring 55, making large gains in agentic performance; it will be the leading open-weights model once its weights are published
@Kimi_Moonshot's new reasoning model gains 11 points over Kimi K3 (max, 44). It trails only Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback, 58), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback, 56), and Muse Wonder Full (max, 56) on the Intelligence Index.
Once the weights for K3.1 Pro are released it will be the highest-scoring open weights model and the gap between the leading open weights and proprietary models on the Intelligence Index will narrow from 12 points to 3.
Key results:
β€ Large gains in agentic performance: Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 3rd on GDPval-AA with 1,846 Elo, up 312 Elo from Kimi K3, behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (1,866 Elo) and Muse Wonder Full (1,857 Elo). Kimi K3.1 Pro also achieves the highest score of any model on Terminal-Bench 4.0. K3.1 Pro scores 67%, up from 13% for Kimi K3 and ahead of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (64%). AutomationBench-AA, which tests agentic SaaS workflows, rises from 58% to 73%.
β€ Gains in other evals are more moderate: Humanity's Last Exam rises from 47% to 52%, CritPt from 23% to 25%, and SciCode from 59% to 61%. AA-Omniscience Index rises from 20 to 30, as the hallucination rate falls from 53% to 44% and accuracy rises from 48% to 51%.
β€ Cost per Task roughly equal to Kimi K3 at $1.98 per Task: K3.1 Pro uses 55K output tokens per Intelligence Index task, 14% more than Kimi K3 at 48K, while its first-party token prices are 33% lower.
Additional model details:
β€ Context window: 1M tokens.
β€ Size: 2.8T total, 104B active parameters
β€ Input modalities: Text and image
β€ Weights and license: Weights currently not published, Moonshot is expected to release the weights soon after launch
β€ Pricing: $2/$10/$0.20 per 1M input/output/cache hit tokens, 33% lower than Kimi K3 on all three rates.
Congratulations to the team at @Kimi_Moonshot on the release!
IzwiAI retweeted
Izwi 0.1.0 is stable.
Open-source voice AI that runs entirely on your computer. Talk to it in real time, clone and design voices, narrate audiobooks, and transcribe meetings speaker by speaker.
Give it a βοΈ github.com/izwi-ai/izwi
Download: izwiai.com
IzwiAI retweeted
Introducing Muse Wonder, our new family of frontier models with state of the art performance for personal and professional agentic work.
When several people talk at once, a transcript can get messy fast.
Our new Nemotron 3 Diarization model tracks who spoke when, even when voices overlap. It handles up to eight speakers, has 100M parameters, and is now available on @huggingface π€
IzwiAI retweeted
2026 feels very different from previous years.
Single-GPU optimization is becoming increasingly commoditized: profile the timeline, optimize hotspots, adopt TRT-LLM/FlashInfer kernels, have agents write kernels, or borrow ideas across engines. Spec(EAGLE-3/DSpark/DFlash2) and quant(NVFP4 with ModelOpt) are all becoming increasingly standardized.
The real differentiation is moving to system-level optimization: PD disaggregation and KV stores β maximizing TPM/GPU under TPS SLAs while pushing cache hit rates higher.
Engine optimization is becoming increasingly deterministic and programmatic.
But there are still a few months left in 2026. Weβll still see plenty of interesting work ahead β new models, new hardware, and new ideas on existing ones. Looking forward to it!
IzwiAI retweeted
Thatβs what we are doing @IzwiAI, building voice models that understand African languages.
Local first voice AI for speech, chat, and audio workflows.
github.com/izwi-ai/izwi
IzwiAI retweeted
We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! π
β‘ Qwen3.8-27B:
- A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows.
- 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M tokens via YaRN.
- Built for builders. Highly efficient, high-quality, and licensed under Apache 2.0.
π The open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Max-level) have also been released recently.
Whether you're shipping lightweight applications with Qwen3.8-27B locally or building agents with Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, they're yours now!
Download, deploy, and build something we haven't imagined yet. ππ
- Hugging FaceοΌ
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- ModelScopeοΌ
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IzwiAI retweeted
GPT 5.6 Sol is truly amazing. While working on @IzwiAI, a voice AI runtime, Sol completely understands the task and just does it right the first time. The code has gotten a lot more stable in the last week π
IzwiAI retweeted
IBMβs Granite Speech 4.1 2B Plus is built for rich transcription: speaker labels, word timestamps, keyword biasing.
Best way to test it locally: @IzwiAI.
`izwi pull Granite-Speech-4.1-2B-Plus`
Local-first voice AI stack. OpenAI-style APIs.
github.com/izwi-ai/izwi
IzwiAI retweeted
NVIDIA just dropped Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, small, fast, multilingual ASR for real-time voice agents.
Best way to kick the tires locally: @IzwiAI.
Run it local-first, test APIs, swap models, ship faster.
github.com/izwi-ai/izwi
IzwiAI retweeted
Izwi is the voice of AI
I've been heads down working on @IzwiAI, making it more stable and faster, and adding more models.
v0.1.0-beta-17 is out!!!
github.com/izwi-ai/izwi/releβ¦
#LocalAI #ASR #OpenSource
IzwiAI retweeted
Voice AI runtime. Local first transcription, speaker diarization, TTS, and voice cloning with an OpenAI compatible API.
@IzwiAI is bringing Voice AI to your computers.
Local-first engine for TTS, transcription, and voice AI
github.com/izwi-ai/izwi
Voice AI runtime. Local first transcription, speaker diarization, TTS, and voice cloning with an OpenAI compatible API.
Bringing Voice AI to your computers.
Local-first engine for TTS, transcription, and voice AI
github.com/izwi-ai/izwi
IzwiAI retweeted
Local-first engine for TTS, transcription, and voice AI
github.com/izwi-ai/izwi
IzwiAI retweeted
Building infrastructure without VC means consulting to survive. Every hour consulting is an hour not building.
Funded competitors sprint ahead while you're stuck in the consult-build loop.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Heads down, back to building @IzwiAI.
IzwiAI retweeted
Every time I pitch @IzwiAI, people think I've lost my mind. "How do you compete with billion dollar labs as a solo founder?"
Simple: They are building for their cloud. I'm building for your local device.
As @jaltma says, there is massive alpha in being willing to look crazy.
IzwiAI retweeted
300+ GitHub stars for @IzwiAI
1200+ Downloads π
I strongly believe voice AI will be huge in the next few years.
Izwi's goal is to be the default voice AI runtime for private deployments.
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