Meta introduced Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion-parameter, natively multimodal open-weight model with a 1 million token context window. Meta says evaluations show superior performance and notes the model can run locally on Macs, though heavy RAM is required.
Granite Switch 4.1 combines Decision and speech adapters into single hosted models, the authors report. Granite-Switch-4.1-8B and -30B include Decision aLoRA, Guardian aLoRA and Granite-Speech-5.0-Turbo-CTC for transcription and decision tasks.
NVIDIA, IIT Madras and AI4Bharat release Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, a corpus of about 2.8 trillion tokens across 22 Indian languages, plus an open GPU-accelerated data-generation pipeline. The pipeline uses NeMo Data Designer, Gemma-4-31B-it and document-level quality checks.
Ricursive Intelligence founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini say their AI can iterate chip layouts to improve efficiency, aiming to reduce the need to scale data centers amid a projected 10,000x increase in compute demand over five years. They point to AlphaChip as an early example.
Third Moment Research says it runs 10,000 agents concurrently in 36–48 hour research sessions using Codex, GPT‑6 Astra, GPT‑6 Sol and GPT‑6.1 Sol. Codex identified a backtest fix that cut runtime from ~3 hours to 3–5 minutes; Daybreak is used for automated security testing.
LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a 24B-parameter reasoning model that activates 2B parameters per token to run agents on-device. The authors report competitive results vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on LiveClaw (48.09 vs 38.19), long-context support to 131K tokens, and fast inference.
PixLate, created by Krishna Thapa, launched in 2026 to translate PDFs, scans and illustrated pages while keeping artwork and layout intact. The app pairs Gemini-powered translation with a review workspace, dual engines and pay-as-you-go credits.
Amp, a startup led by CEO Quinn Slack, builds AI agents that use OpenAI models to help developers plan, code and design. The company integrates Sign in with ChatGPT to ease token limits and has launched Puck, a conversational assistant powered by GPT‑Live‑1.
Project Apertus released Apertus 1.5, extending the 8B and 70B models with image and audio understanding, an optional thinking mode, and a 262,144-token context window. Updated weights were published to Hugging Face on July 24, 2026 under an Apache 2.0 license.
Rivian plans to let its vehicles run AI agents from companies such as Anthropic, CEO RJ Scaringe said at TechCrunch Disrupt. The company gave no timetable and will discuss details at its AI & Autonomy Day in December.