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Meta AI researchers have proposed design principles for a looped mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, reporting that it performs on reasoning tasks on par with models roughly twice its size. The approach reuses expert layers in a loop rather than scaling parameters, offering a path to more efficient large language models. The news, reported by Japanese outlet Zaikei Shimbun, is being shared among AI researchers and enthusiasts tracking efficiency gains in model design.

German AI company Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight mixture-of-experts language model with 78.1 billion total parameters but only 3.46 billion active per token. The model supports both English and German, aiming to deliver strong performance at far lower compute cost.Observers see it as a challenge to larger US and Chinese models and a boost for European AI sovereignty.

VIDRAFT, a South Korean AI startup, has released Darwin-180B-RSI, a 180-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that applies recursive self-improvement (RSI) technology. The company says the model has achieved first place across five math, science and multimodal reasoning benchmarks. The release is drawing attention among AI and open-source communities for its claimed self-improvement capabilities and benchmark performance.

A 1986 recording of the blues standard "Baby What You Want Me to Do" by Maureen "Moe" Tucker, Jad Fair, Kate Messer and Barry Stock, featuring David Fair, is being shared as a cover of the Jimmy Reed original. The pairing of the Velvet Underground drummer with the lo-fi duo Half Japanese's frontman makes the old session a curiosity for music fans.

AI startup IQuest Research has released IQuest-Q1, an open-source mixture-of-experts model with 320 billion total parameters but only 15 billion active per query, aimed at agentic coding tasks. The sparse architecture promises large-model capability with much lower inference costs. It arrives as competition intensifies among open-weight coding models, and developers are weighing its benchmarks and licensing against rivals like DeepSeek and Qwen.

Jam band moe. has announced its No Hibernation Tour, including an eight-show run at the Ardmore Music Hall in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and four performances at the Charleston Pour House in South Carolina. The extended multi-night residencies give fans in the Philadelphia and Charleston areas several chances to catch the group live. No further tour details were provided.