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Rise Reforming converts stranded biogas from wastewater plants, farms, and landfills into valuable chemicals like dimethyl ether, methanol, and dimethyl carbonate using modular, containerized technology. The startup recently joined Y Combinator's S26 batch.
A review of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro highlights its excellent build, performance, and repairability, but notes that RAM price spikes have increased the cost by $800 to $3,099.
The Go analysis framework provides a modular interface for static analysis of Go code, enabling reusable checkers across various tools like vet, IDEs, and build systems.
The paper proposes Sophia, a recursive cognitive refinement architecture for modular artificial consciousness that introduces a metacognitive sublayer to recursively refine intermediate semantic states through coherence checking, contextual synthesis, and memory-aware reinterpretation.
Modular announces Week 2 of Mojo 101, a free four-week live course teaching Mojo programming from the engineers who built it, covering value ownership and metaprogramming in the upcoming session.
Hugging Face has open-sourced a modular speech-to-speech tool, which separates the four layers (VAD, speech recognition, LLM, and speech synthesis) and supports replacement, allowing users to flexibly swap components or run locally without rewriting the entire pipeline.
Fay is a fully open-source, commercially free digital human framework that supports offline operation, modular design, MCP tool invocation, and bionic memory. It features a built-in web management interface, enabling quick setup for virtual streamers, intelligent customer service, personal AI assistants, and more.
Mojo 101 Session 1 recording is now available on YouTube, covering language fundamentals including project setup, hello world, and Mojo's compilation, static typing, and ownership model.
Modular is hosting a session called Mojo 101 covering syntax to GPU programming, aimed at teaching the Mojo language.
MILES is a framework that improves LLM reasoning by dynamically expanding step-wise memory with learnable selection heads, achieving better accuracy-efficiency tradeoffs.
The article argues that the future of energy generation, particularly for off-grid use, lies in small modular gas turbines around 40-50MW, drawing an analogy to the computing industry's shift from mainframes to blade servers, and mentions Superpower's 42MW turbine as an example.
Modular's MAX inference serving achieves 3x faster image generation for FLUX.2-dev than competitors, as per Artificial Analysis benchmarks.
Modular is at the AI Engineer World's Fair demonstrating Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud with fast image generation using FLUX.2 on DGX Spark, and real-time video generation.
The article analyzes Qualcomm's $3.9B acquisition of Modular to break CUDA lock-in and Google capping Meta's Gemini compute as two manifestations of the same infrastructure bottleneck, arguing that software and capacity constraints are limiting AI scaling.
Mojo Quest is a browser-based game launched by Modular to help users learn Mojo syntax by completing engineering tickets for a fictional robotics company.
Qualcomm is aggressively expanding in AI through multiple acquisitions, including Modular (creator of Mojo and MAX inference framework) and potentially Tenstorrent, signaling a significant push against Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem.
Modular announces ModCon 2026 conference in San Francisco on August 18, focusing on AI infrastructure and the open-sourcing of Mojo. The event will feature demos, talks, and networking for developers.
Qualcomm announces the acquisition of Modular, the startup behind the Mojo programming language and AI infrastructure tools, marking a significant move in AI hardware-software integration.
Qualcomm acquires chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion to strengthen its AI software platform and expand beyond mobile chips into data centers and AI gadgets.
Nimble's SharePower is a modular 10,000mAh power bank that splits into two 5,000mAh halves for sharing with a friend, featuring magnetic connection, load balancing, and sustainable materials.