Meta has released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a multimodal open-weight model designed for coding, complex reasoning, and agent-based workflows. Meta announces in an official post on Meta AI Research that the model has 816 billion total parameters, with 42 billion active for each response, and supports a context window of up to one …
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight reasoning model designed to run AI agents locally on consumer and enterprise hardware. Liquid AI announces in an official blog post that the model contains 24 billion parameters but activates only 2 billion for each token it processes. That mixture-of-experts design aims to reduce the computing work required …
Reflection AI is introducing Beam, its first open-weight AI model, and says it is designed for coding and agent-based workflows. J.D. Capelouto and Ashley Gold report for Semafor that the New York startup positions the model as an alternative for organizations that want more control over their AI systems. The company says Beam performs better …
Google has introduced Google AI Edge Foresight, a local-first meeting note-taking app for macOS that can operate without an internet connection. Ivan Mehta reports for TechCrunch that the app comes from the Google team behind an earlier experimental dictation tool that used local AI models. The app records and transcribes meetings across applications, including in-person …
Microsoft and startup Ghost are introducing expensive new computers built to run AI models locally, reflecting a growing push to make AI work less dependent on cloud services. Microsoft has opened preorders for its Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact developer system priced at $5,999 and scheduled to ship in November. The device uses …
AWS has released Strands Decider 2B, a free open-source model designed to help AI agents make quick, limited decisions before they use tools or take actions. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model is part of Strands Labs, AWS’s experimental project for agent development. Unlike a general chatbot, Strands Decider 2B does not write …
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, an open-weight language model designed for German and English work in regulated organizations. The company positions the model for public administration, industry, aerospace, banks, and other users that want to operate AI systems on their own infrastructure. Kolibri uses a mixture-of-experts architecture. It contains 78.1 billion parameters in total, but …
Fireworks AI has introduced Ember-1, a specialized reasoning model designed to deliver results comparable to Kimi K3 while using substantially fewer tokens. Fireworks AI announces in an official blog post that Ember-1 cuts token use by about 40 percent overall, a reduction aimed at lowering the cost of coding and agent-based AI workflows. Reasoning models …
Cloudflare has introduced Clef and Clef-flash, two open-weight AI models designed to make fast, structured decisions inside automated workflows. The company positions them as alternatives to Typesafe AI’s Jev, a decision model built to answer bounded questions such as yes or no, multiple choice, and ranked options. The models are available through Cloudflare Workers AI …
Xiaomi has released two open-weight, multimodal AI models that it says bring advanced agent capabilities to developers at far lower prices than many proprietary alternatives. The new MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash models can process text, images, audio, and video, support a context window of up to one million tokens, and are designed for work that requires …