Thinking Machines' new model takes the lead in western open-weight AI
ZDNET — Another competitive model developed outside of China could change the open-weight landscape.
Model Releases
Model releases involve the public availability of new or materially updated artificial intelligence systems from research laboratories and technology companies. Truncated covers these deployments, detailing changes in capabilities, accessibility, architecture and developer documentation.
This Week in AI: The Cost of Progress
O’Reilly Media — Frontier models, investor caution, new approaches to learning, and the challenges of responsible AI
Salesforce Introduces Koa Decisions with Image and Audio Support
Unite.AI — Salesforce introduced Koa Decisions on November 6, 2026, a decision model built from Google’s open-weight Gemma that accepts text, images, and audio. The company plans to expand the technology beyond Agentforce request r...
Wizstar Launches Wizshot 1.0, Its First In-House Video Generation Model, Making High-Quality AI Video Creation More Cost-Efficient
MarTech Series — Wizstar, an AI-powered content creation platform, announced the launch of Wizstar Wizshot 1.0, its first in-house reference-to-video model, developed and trained from the ground up.
Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models
The Decoder — Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it's the strongest western open-weight model. Better agentic performance comes at a price, though, with token usage rising sharply.
ALIBABA 🔥: "The becoming begins" teaser has been posted on the Qwen X account.
Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark
Latent Space — November 5, 2026 — Inside Inkling 2 Small’s training run and METR’s study of AI research at Anthropic.
DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Nov 6 MODEL FORECAST 👀: - GPT-6.2 Sol, today?
Open Models Crowd the Top as Kimi and Mistral Match the Frontier
PYMNTS.com — The gap between open and closed artificial intelligence models narrowed again this week. Moonshot released the weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro, and Mistral did
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Dharma Field Extractor: Any Document In, Structured Fields in JSON Out
huggingface.co — A Blog post by Dharma-AI on Hugging Face
🚨 Crouton Alpha (the free stealth model on OpenRouter + OpenCode) is Meta — crouton-alpha →Facebook Inc — meta/muse-sp…
OpenAI's image strategy hinges on virality
The Deep View — For everyone who has ever spent 10 minutes searching for the perfect eye-roll GIF, OpenAI has a solution for you. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched its next-genera...
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is rolling out starting today to all Google AI subscribers.
Nvidia Open Models Help Developers Accelerate Science And Engineering
🚨 Sonnet 5.5 Extra looks like routing to next claude model asked "do you where karpathy went in 2026 do not use web" —…
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model
The Decoder — Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want.
OpenAI debuts new cybersecurity-focused AI model amid growing alarm about AI-driven cyber attacks
Fortune — OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber will initially be available to a small number of approved customers due to concerns that, in the wrong hands, it could supercharge cyberattacks.
GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
It's Swapping Season
Latent Space — November 4, 2026 — OpenAI’s Linux kernel security work, Kimi K3.1 Pro’s open weights, and Ricursive’s Ripple-65B.
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