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- Ollama adds DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 to Ollama Cloud with US-based hosting and zero data retentionOfficialX @ollamaOct 19Models
- VAST open-sources EdenLive, a real-time generative renderer for interactive worlds that VAST says runs at over 24 FPS at 720p on one RTX 5090 in its own tests
- AuroraAI Research releases AuroraASR-1M, a 949K-parameter English speech recognizer that is 1.06 MB in INT8OfficialAuroraAI Research (Hugging Face)Oct 18Models
- Blockway releases Agens Volundr 32B v1, an Apache-2.0 open-weights agent model with a 262K context and a 16 GB GPU buildOfficialBlockway (Hugging Face)Oct 18Models
- Taste-Bench: the best AI agent picks the better path at long-horizon decision forks only 59.7% of the time in the authors' tests
- Infron adds Meta's open-weight Muse Spark Open model to its platform
- Google AI Pro subscribers can now build with Gemini 4 Argon in Google AI Studio
- Infron adds Pareto 26.9, Pareto 26.10 Preview and Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B to its serverless model marketplaceOfficialX @InfronAIOct 18Models
- Perplexity Agent API adds GPT-6 Astra and DeepSeek V4 Pro, and older Claude, Gemini and Grok models are no longer listed
- DeepSeek upgrades V4.1 Flash to the 1017 snapshot and open-sources its weights
- NVIDIA releases Nemotron Labs Dory1.0-4B, an open looped model that trades extra passes for accuracyOfficialNVIDIAOct 17Models
- Microsoft says Foundry Interactive Training lifted gpt-oss-20b's document extraction F1 by 85%OfficialMicrosoftOct 17Models
- StepFun's Step 5 Preview goes live on DeepInfra at $1 input and $2.70 output per million tokens
- OpenAI upgrades GPT-6 Astra Pro in ChatGPT with faster responses and parallel agentsOfficialOpenAIOct 17Models
- Perplexity API changelog: pplx-decider-v1.2 and a new 4B pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 come to the Decisions API
- StarSkirmish Bench v0.2 ranks GPT-6 Astra first at writing StarCraft bots in a one-hour coding harness
- Tencent open-weights DSpine, a parallel speculative-decoding drafter for Qwen3-8B
- AlexWortega open-weights Qwen3.8-27B-antislop, RL'd against slop, ranking #4 on EQ-Bench 4OfficialAlexWortega on Hugging FaceOct 17Models
- OpenMOSS open-weights MOSS-Image, a 5B text-to-image family with native JSON layout controlOfficialOpenMOSSOct 16Models
- Hugging Face Transformers 5.20.1 adds Reflection AI Beam support and fixes older-torch loading