DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 16

META 🔥:
- Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight 816B-total, 42B-active MoE model with a 1M-token context window, on Hugging Face and optimized to run locally on Mac Studio.

NVIDIA 🔥:
- NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B-total, 12B-active multimodal model for long-running AI agents.
- NVIDIA also introduced Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 24GB, a model that fits into 24GB of memory.

OPENAI 🔥:
- OpenAI is rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 to Voice in ChatGPT, Codex and dots for all users, with new voices in six languages and API support coming soon.
- OpenAI launched the Rosalind Academic Plan, giving eligible US university labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind.
- Sites is now generally available for ChatGPT Enterprise with US and EU data residency.
- ChatGPT can now view your open Chrome tabs.
- Codex landed changes and more compute to sharply reduce "Selected model is at capacity" errors.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out in Antigravity to paid Google AI Pro subscribers with a separate weekly Argon quota.
- Google launched Universal Cart, a cross-retailer shopping cart, in the US.
- Circle to Search can now check whether a text message is a scam.

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- Microsoft finished pre-training MAI-Base-2 and is already preparing the MAI-Base-3 training cycle.
- GitHub made agentic autofix for code scanning alerts generally available.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Anthropic gave a team from METR employee-like access to assess its safety practices.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the Firecracker-based sandbox that runs every Perplexity Computer task, under Apache 2.0.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers and in the Agent API.

CURSOR 🔥:
- Cursor added Muse Wonder at $4/$20 per million input/output tokens, scoring 46.1% on CursorBench.

BLACK FOREST LABS 🔥:
- Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B open-weight image model with native 4K that runs on a single consumer GPU.

KREA 🔥:
- Krea launched Krea 3, an image-editing model for prompt-based 2K edits in under 8 seconds.

AMAZON 🔥:
- Amazon's Bee launched two new personal AI devices starting at $75.

Imagine testing this for the 1st time 🥵

ICYMI 👀: Google AI Studio Build now has Pan and Max modes available.

> "Max mode - Work longer for better results"
> "Plan mode - Create a plan before making changes"

Gemini 4 Argon MAX 🔥

Gemini Notebook users will soon be able to generate videos and slides step by step from the chat conversation.

A new hidden notice has been added recently: "You can now create Slides and Videos step-by-step"

Gemini 4 upgrade soon? 👀

I just realized that Grok Bots have been rolled out on Grok web and mobile!

That's quite cool to have everything in one place. Wondering whether SpaceXSI will keep both mobile apps long-term.

Also interesting to see how Grok Bot is slowly capturing the space where OpenAI Dots and Muse are not available.

BREAKING 🔥: DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, a new open-weight model with frontier performance.

It scores 77% on DeepSWE 1.1 benchmark, outperforming GLM-5.3, Kimi K3 and models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 5.

The model is now available on DeepSeek Chat and APIs as well as HuggingFace.

It also extremely cheap! 👀

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 17

OPENAI 🔥:
- OpenAI upgraded GPT-6 Astra Pro in ChatGPT with faster responses, better plugin and tool use, and multiple agents working in parallel, now available to Pro users.
- Codex and Work now give more effective usage by reusing context across subagents, caching it longer and routing requests for more cache hits.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Google AI Pro subscribers can now build with Gemini 4 Argon in AI Studio Build and the playground.
- Google AI Studio Build added Plan and Max modes for planning before changes and working longer for better results.
- Gemini Notebook is preparing step-by-step Slides and Video creation from chat, based on a new hidden notice.

DEEPSEEK 🔥:
- DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an open-weight MIT-licensed update with big gains in reasoning, coding, agentic and visual tasks plus faster, shorter outputs.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Grok Bots are now available on Grok web and mobile.
- Grok Bot got much faster, finishing computer tasks 3x sooner on average and other replies in less than half the time.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Claude Code Review is now generally available for Team and Enterprise plans, with Quick, Standard and Deep review levels per repo.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity open-sourced Decider v1.2 and Decider Flash v1.2, its 27B and 4B multimodal decision models.
- Gemini 4 Argon is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers.

NVIDIA 🔥:
- NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows laptops, pairing a Blackwell GPU with a Grace CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, are now on sale.
- NVIDIA quietly released Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0, a 4B looped open model with a 256K context window, on Hugging Face.

REFLECTION 🔥:
- Reflection released Beam, an open-weight model under Apache 2.0 with 40+ launch partners.

CURSOR 🔥:
- Cursor cloud agents can now build interactive canvases like dashboards and reports that can be shared as a link.

TENCENT 🔥:
- Tencent released Hy Memory 2.0, an open-source memory model, framework and MemHub app that syncs across 10+ AI tools.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.

ICYMI: Meta's Muse Spark Open is optimized for new Mac Studio

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight multimodal model for coding, agentic work, and multi-step reasoning. It has 816B parameters, a 1M-token context window, runs on two Mac Studio M5 Ultras, and is offered via APIs and downloads.

🗞 #meta @testingcatalog

Anthropic prepares to release Claude Fable 5.5 next week

Leaks suggest Anthropic may launch Claude Fable 5.5 soon, with traces found in Azure, third-party tools, and partner testing. Multiple new Claude codenames also point to a broader near-term model rollout, though nothing is official.

🗞 #anthropic @testingcatalog