Microsoft announced a bunch of interesting new AI models and tools this week. Model launches alway get lots of attention. But don't sleep on the new ASSERT evals framework that launched today.
I'm on record as arguing that 2026 is the year of evals.
Evals are the glue for all
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- Daily repostedI did it. I beat gradient-bang. First person to discover the full map. The only record that can’t be broken. Thanks for all the fun @pipecat_ai @kwindla @chadbailey59 etc. I wasn’t sold on voice agents until I found this game and the experience is actually really great.
- Daily repostedBig day today. Pipecat version 1.0. Two years in the making. The most widely used framework for voice agents, but not just voice agents. Pipecat is a framework for realtime, multi-modal, multi-model AI applications. Contributions from NVIDIA, all the foundation labs, AWS, GCP,
01:03 - Daily repostedSub-agents in (latent) space! We’ve been working on a side project. As far as I know, this is the first massively multiplayer, completely LLM-driven game. Come play Gradient Bang with us. See if you can catch me on the leaderboard. This whole thing started because I wanted to
00:00 - Daily repostedGemini 3.1 Flash Live, a new version of Google's speech-to-speech LLM, just launched. As you can see in the video, the vibes are really good, and our friends who worked on the model are very excited. There is, of course, day 0 support in @pipecat_ai so you can try the model
00:00 - Join us on Thursday in SF for conversations about voice agents, speech models, and realtime AI infrastructure. I'm on a panel with: - @natrugrats from @DeepgramAI - @farazmsiddiqi from @getbluejay_ai - Aaron Lee from Parakeet Health There will be food and lots of
- GTC! Head on over to AWS Booth 921, Kiosk 3. Check out building realtime AI with @NVIDIAAI Nemotron, @awscloud and @pipecat_aiCome by and see @EvanGrenda at the AWS booth at GTC. @tavus video avatars, voice agents built with NVIDIA Nemotron models, and new realtime AI architecture patterns in @pipecat_ai!
- Today's @nvidia Nemotron 3 Super launch is an exciting development for voice AI developers. We’re proud to be a launch partner, with day-0 @pipecat_ai support. Developers now have a meaningful open stack for realtime voice, with @NVIDIAAI — Nemotron 3 Nano, Nemotron Speech ASR,
- Daily repostedNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super launches today! We've been building voice agents with Super's pre-release checkpoints and running all our various tests and benchmarks. Nemotron 3 Super matches both GPT-5.4 and GPT-4.1 in tool calling and instruction following performance on our realtime

















