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Itaú Unibanco agreed to pay R$2.925 billion (about $589 million) for NeoSpace, the tabular foundation-model startup behind its credit, CRM and fraud models. Other NeoSpace customers now buy from a vendor a rival bank owns.
October 26, 2026 · 9 min read
Mitra-v2 is Apache 2.0 and beats tuned XGBoost on TabArena, but caps context at 32,768 rows. TabPFN-3.5 scales to a million rows behind an unpublished commercial licence, and trees still win on large, temporal and CPU-bound work.
October 6, 2026 · 11 min read
NVIDIA's Kumo Tabular ships under OpenMDW-1.1 for commercial use, while TabPFN-3.5's open weights stay non-commercial. Its #1 TabArena Elo is NVIDIA's own run, and it was pretrained only to 60,000 rows and 100 columns.
September 29, 2026 · 8 min read