Yandex has open-sourced YaFF, a new technology designed to reduce the CPU overhead associated with Protobuf data processing. The company claims the format can lower server CPU usage by up to 20 percent in high-load environments.
Google is pitching Gemma 4 12B as a multimodal AI model powerful enough for agentic workflows while still being lightweight enough to run locally on consumer laptops with 16GB of memory. The company’s encoder-free design could make this one of its more interesting AI releases yet.
OpenAI just released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two powerful open-weight AI models optimized for reasoning, tool use, and on-device deployment.