ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 2 Perceptron AI releases since Sep 2025, most recently Perceptron Mk1 on May 14, 2026. Highlights include Isaac 0.1, Perceptron Mk1. 1 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has primary-source links and the episode segment where we covered it live.
Perceptron Mk1: frontier video + embodied reasoning at 1/10th the price
Perceptron released Mk1, a frontier video and embodied reasoning model priced at roughly a tenth of comparable models. It scores 88.5 on VSI-Bench and 72.4 on RefSpatialBench (versus 9.0 for GPT-5m on the latter) and is live on OpenRouter.
Perceptron AI introduces Isaac 0.1, a 2B perceptive-language model
Perceptron AI released Isaac 0.1, a 2B parameter perceptive-language model with open weights on Hugging Face. Despite its small size, the show notes highlight that it 'points better than GPT', excelling at visual grounding and pointing tasks relative to much larger models.
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