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Reka AI ships Edge, a 7B multimodal VLM for sub-second on-device inference
Reka AI launched Reka Edge, a 7B-parameter multimodal vision-language model built for sub-second latency on edge devices. Weights are on Hugging Face and the model is available through OpenRouter, with the panel highlighting it as a notable efficient multimodal release for real-world deployment.
Reka Speech: high-throughput multilingual ASR and speech translation
Reka AI announced Reka Speech, a high-throughput multilingual speech recognition and speech translation model with timestamps, aimed at batch-scale transcription pipelines. It positions Reka in the production ASR market against incumbent transcription APIs.
Reka Flash 3: 21B open-source reasoning model under Apache 2.0
Reka AI open sourced Reka Flash 3, a 21B parameter reasoning model released under an Apache 2.0 license and trained with the REINFORCE Leave One-Out (RLOO) reinforcement learning technique. It excels at chat, coding, instruction following, and function calling, with Nisten calling it possibly one of the best ~20B models available.
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