The Zookeeper

The claim: The Technology Innovation Institute has released Falcon ASR, an open-source automatic speech recognition model intended to deliver robust transcription capabilities across multiple languages and audio environments. The reality: Developers already have access to robust open weights through OpenAI's Whisper, meaning this new release requires retraining pipelines

Liquid AI has released its open-d1 decision models, bringing multimodal intelligence directly to edge devices and promising local processing without the cloud dependency. It is an interesting technical pivot towards smaller, highly efficient models designed to run where traditional LLMs fear to tread. * Brings multimodal AI capabilities directly to resource-constrained