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ModelsNews2026-09-30
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, skipping the promised 3.5 Pro — and you still cannot use it
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30: 77.9% on DeepSWE above GPT-6 Astra, a 1M-token output limit, phased release, no API pricing yet.
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ComputeNews2026-09-30
DeepSeek open-sources its Ascend stack: every V4-series operator now has a Huawei-chip port
DeepSeek published six Ascend component repos on September 30; it says every V4-series NVIDIA operator now has an Ascend counterpart.
#AI chips#Model inference
ComputeNews2026-09-30
OpenAI expands its AWS partnership: managed agents, ChatGPT in Slack and Teams
OpenAI will run managed agents on AWS and bring ChatGPT to Slack and Teams without individual licenses, with a private-inference preview coming this fall.
#Cloud#Model inference
ComputeNews2026-09-27
vLLM team’s startup Inferact runs Kimi K3 on 16 TPU v7 chips 57% faster than GB200
Inferact, founded by the original vLLM team, wrote a megakernel inference kernel for Google TPUs. Paired with DeepSeek’s DSpark speculative decoding, 16 TPU v7 chips served Kimi K3 at 709 tokens per second versus 452 on GB200 under the same setup, QbitAI reports. The code is open source.
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AssistantsProducts2026-09-25
DeepSeek R1 Online
Free online chat access and WebGPU-accelerated in-browser local inference for the open-weights DeepSeek R1 reasoning model.
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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, skipping the promised 3.5 Pro — and you still cannot use it