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Amazon has announced four new Echo devices with Alexa+ built in, bringing faster performance, smarter AI, and upgraded audio and display features. Amazon has today announced four new Echo devices, the ...

Large language models, or LLMs, are the AI engines behind Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and the rest. But they have a sibling: VLMs, or vision language models. At the most basic level, ...

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...