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Xiaomi's SeerRay-Lab has open-sourced Xiaomi-Lens-0, a 4B multimodal model built on Qwen3.5-4B. The model emits mask tokens for pixel-level image regions in the middle of an answer. The lab also released a benchmark called LensBench.

Amazon has launched Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a built-in server-side tool that grounds foundation model responses in current web knowledge with zero data egress by default. The feature is enabled via a single parameter in the OpenAI Responses API and launches with OpenAI models on Bedrock's next-generation inference engine.