The Bot Shelf

Natural Language Processing

3 articles

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Developer Tools

Top 10 Natural Language Processing Tools for 2026

By 2026, specialized natural language processing (NLP) models, costing under $500/month, will power a significant portion of enterprise deployments.

Armen Bedrosian·June 21, 2026
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Creative AI

How Do Masked Diffusion Models Work in Generative AI?

Masked diffusion models (MDLM) now approach the perplexity of established autoregressive language models within 15-25%.

Isabella Rossi·May 29, 2026
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Research & Breakthroughs

Researchers benchmark instruction-tuned LLMs using FP8, GPTQ, and SmoothQuant

FP8 quantization slashes the memory footprint of 70B-class open-weight models, maintaining accuracy within 0.

David Katzman·May 18, 2026