Multimodal AI
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Large Language Models
Meta’s Muse Spark Open Pushes Open-Weight AI Into Extreme Scale
Meta has released a giant open-weight model. On October 15, 2026, Meta announced Muse Spark Open, an AI system with…
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Artificial Intelligence
Meta’s 816B Model Turns Two Macs Into AI Hardware
Meta has put an 816-billion-parameter model on the desktop. On October 15, 2026, the company released Muse Spark Open, an…
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Large Language Models
Gemini 4 Argon Goes Public With Big Claims and Mixed Benchmarks
Google has released Gemini 4 Argon for broad use, opening access to a model built for coding, knowledge work, enterprise…
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Large Language Models
Gemini 4 Argon Brings Million-Token Responses to Google AI
Google DeepMind has released Gemini 4 Argon to the public, opening access to a model built for long, multi-step work.…
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Machine Learning & Research
How Vision-Language Models Turn Images Into Useful Words
Images and words usually belong to different parts of an AI system. Vision-language models bring them together, allowing a system…
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Artificial Intelligence
Perplexity’s New Embedding Models Target Faster Multimodal Search
Perplexity AI is putting multimodal retrieval on a smaller hardware budget. On October 7, 2026, it released pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair…
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Artificial Intelligence
Liquid AI’s New Models Make Multimodal Decisions Without Generating Text
Liquid AI has released two open-weight multimodal decision models that answer questions without writing a single token. The new Open…
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Artificial Intelligence
Google’s New AI Push Runs From Tiny Devices to Frontier Systems
Google is pushing its AI ambitions in two directions at once: toward powerful frontier systems and smaller models that can…
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Machine Learning & Research
DeepMind’s New Embedding Model Unifies Five Data Types
DeepMind has widened the embedding map. On October 6, 2026, the company launched EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model that maps…
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Artificial Intelligence
Voice AI Has a Conversation Problem: Speed Versus Substance
Voice AI is getting more natural—and more complicated. ChatGPT Voice and Gemini Live now compete on the same basic promise:…
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