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Liquid AI released LFM2.5-DSpark, a set of draft models for speculative decoding that reportedly speed up decoding by up to 3.18x while leaving model outputs unchanged.

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in AI data and expert-labor marketplace Mercor as part of a new funding round that would value the company at about $20 billion. The talks were first reported by The Information and picked up widely across business and tech press.

The Information reported that Nvidia is in discussions to fund Mercor, its AI data supplier, at a $20 billion valuation — the originating report behind this week's wave of coverage.

Liquid AI released DSpark draft-model checkpoints for three models in its LFM2.5 family, adding a speculative decoding path that delivers up to 3.18x faster decoding on GPU and up to 2.87x on-device without changing output quality. It is the company's first public release of speculative decoding models for Liquid Foundation Models.

Nvidia is reportedly in discussions to invest in Mercor at a roughly $20 billion valuation, first reported by The Information and picked up by tech trade press.

WHOOP announced that its Advanced Labs blood-testing offering is now available to users without requiring a WHOOP wearable membership, opening the health-testing product to a broader audience beyond existing hardware subscribers.