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6 stories tagged preview on AI Tamer, newest first.
AlloyDB Express gives developers and coding agents a 1 or 2 vCPU Postgres 18 database in seconds, scales compute to zero and has a 12-month free tier.
DigitalOcean previewed agent learning in public and a data catalog in private. Automatic improvement today is model routing; workflow automation is next.
Mistral previewed Large 4 on 6 October (1.05T total, 49B active, 1M context). The weights came out on 29 October under a modified MIT licence.
Google Cloud AlloyDB “PostgreSQL for agents” (docs updated Sep 24, 2026) is Preview only: agents query live transactional data with isolation from core systems and can scale compute to zero when idle.
Same-day Sep 30, 2026: Voyage ships rerank-3 and rerank-3-lite (“available today”, with no GA claim). MongoDB Atlas Native Reranking via $rerank is Preview only (docs). The Voyage and MongoDB lift claims are theirs. Separate from Atlas Agent Engine, and neither is a Vector Search substitute.
Perplexity published open-weight pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview on Hugging Face (MIT): contextual chunk embeddings for RAG. Preview may break; not on Perplexity API yet. Use encode_queries vs encode; int8 + MRL 1024/2048; transformers≥5.4 + trust_remote_code.
