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Sold out or scared off by the 4-6 month wait? Here are the best Microduck alternatives in 2026, from the $289 Petoi to the $13,500 Unitree G1, with real prices.

OpenAI's Jalapeño is its first custom AI chip, an inference ASIC built with Broadcom. Here's what it does, the benchmark numbers, and why it matters.

Microduck pricing starts at $399, but that is before tax, shipping, and the add-on packs. Here is the real cost of Hugging Face's open-source robot duck.

Microduck is Hugging Face's $399 open-source biped you train with reinforcement learning. Here's what it is, what it can do, and whether it's worth pre-ordering.

A hands-on Cohere Parse 5 review: what parse-v5.0 does, its ParseBench scores, the $1.50-per-1,000-pages pricing, the real limits, and who should use it.

The best Qwen 3.8 Flash Next alternatives in 2026, from GLM 5.3 Flash to DeepSeek V4 Flash and Gemini 3.7 Flash, with real pricing and who each one is for.

Skild AI's S1 learns a brand-new robot task from a single video, no retraining. Here's what the 66%-vs-9% benchmark means and why it's a real step-change.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is not the only AI video model worth your budget. Here are six real alternatives, from Runway and Veo 3.1 to Kling, Luma, Seedance, and Grok Imagine, compared on price, controls, and access.

The best Cohere Parse 5 alternatives for turning documents into clean text: LlamaParse, Mistral OCR, GPT-5.5, Gemini Flash, Textract and more, ranked and priced.