Models
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Reflection AI releases open-weight Beam coding model, AWS adds hosting
A 501-billion-parameter MoE lands on SageMaker, Apache 2.0 licence attached
Transformers v5.20.1 adds Reflection AI's Beam model
A coding-focused model from Reflection AI lands amid a run of patch fixes
IBM packs chat, decisions and speech into one Granite endpoint
Granite Switch 4.1 adds adapters, not GPUs, to cover three task types
Swiss AI releases Apertus 1.5 with vision, audio and longer context
The open-weight 8B and 70B models add multimodality, but still trail frontier rivals
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter MoE model
Open weights, four modalities, a million-token window — but 1.5TB to serve
Transformers v5.20.0 adds Meta's 816B-parameter Muse Spark Open
Seven new model families land alongside breaking changes to cache and config APIs
Nvidia expands Nemotron family with Super VL and two Bolt models
Open weights now cover servers down to 4GB edge devices
Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-24B-A2B, its biggest on-device agent model
A 24B mixture-of-experts model that uses just 2B active parameters per token
Google DeepMind launches Gemini 4 Argon for robotics
A physical-reasoning model that writes its own simulations before touching hardware
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model
Top spot on the Vals Index comes with a per-token price tag to match
OpenBMB ships quantized MiniCPM-V 4.7, its first MoE vision model
A 35-billion-parameter model that runs at 13+ tokens a second on an iPhone
Quantized GLM-5.3-Flash lands on Hugging Face for DGX Spark
A community NVFP4 quantization of Zai's GLM-5.3-Flash is tuned to run on Nvidia's GB10-based DGX Spark desktop box.
Transformers v5.19.0 adds EmbeddingGemma 2, ships breaking MoE changes
Hugging Face's release adds Google's multimodal embedding model and changes how MoE routers and continuous batching behave.
Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M multimodal embedding model
Apache 2.0 model unifies text, image, audio and video for on-device search and RAG
Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri-1, a German-English MoE reasoning model
78B parameters, 3.46B active. Apache 2.0. A sovereignty bet dressed as efficiency.
Ai2 open-sources AstaBrief, an 8B model for scientific report writing
It writes cited reports 3.5x faster than Ai2's Claude pipeline. Anyone can run it locally.
Transformers 5.18.0 adds four model families, breaks six APIs
Hugging Face's release adds Nemotron 3 diarization and NemotronH Omni alongside six backwards-incompatible fixes.
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol nears flagship Astra at a fifth of the cost
The mid-tier model closes much of the gap to Astra on coding and computer use. It costs a fraction as much.
Kimi K3 lands on Bedrock with prompt caching that skips rate limits
The quota exemption matters more than the parameter count.