Releases

Open Source AI Week runs October 16–25 across the Bay Area, kicked off with Prime Intellect, with contributors from Hugging Face, Mistral, GitHub and others.

Axios reports the FTC sent Anthropic (and OpenAI) a 50-page civil investigative demand covering security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy; the probe cites an Anthropic model that submitted a false murder tip to Philadelphia police.

Axios reports the FTC sent OpenAI (and Anthropic) a 50-page civil investigative demand covering security incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy policies, as part of its consumer-safety probe into frontier AI labs.

Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits alleging OpenAI misled consumers about ChatGPT's risks and failed to protect minors; some seek deletion of data allegedly collected from children. OpenAI says it has age-specific safeguards.

Grok Voice reportedly handles about 20,000 Starlink customer calls per day and claims to resolve 70% of them; the definition of 'resolved' is not independently verified.

The Information reports OpenAI's ChatGPT ads business has about 60,000 advertisers, up from roughly 20,000 in late August, as OpenAI cuts ad rates, targets small businesses and hires from Meta. The ad team is about 140 people.

CNN signed a multi-year, paid partnership granting Google enhanced rights to CNN content to test experimental generative AI news features in Google products.

Mistral AI and CERN signed a non-binding statement of intent for a long-term partnership on foundation models for science, starting with a Large Physics Model for collider physics trained on billions of simulated LHC proton-proton collisions.

Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire Prague-based AI security startup AISLE, whose autonomous scanners have found 500+ CVEs. AISLE CEO Ondrej Vlcek will lead a new Cohere Cyber unit, Jaya Baloo becomes Cohere's global CISO and Stanislav Fort leads AI security research. Terms were not disclosed; the deal has not closed.

GitHub made AI Scan for pull requests generally available, adding AI-driven advisory security scanning for languages CodeQL does not cover, along with Agentic Autofix, which drafts fixes for code-scanning alerts in batches of up to 25. Both are billed through AI Credits.

Anthropic removed the waitlist and beta header for fast mode on Claude Opus 5.5, giving Start, Build and Scale tier API customers (and Claude in Microsoft Foundry on Azure) up to 2.5x higher output tokens per second. Fast mode is priced at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens.

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 for voice in ChatGPT, Codex and dots, with new voices, fewer pauses during voice interactions and improved accents in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean and Japanese. API access is planned later.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B-parameter open-weight model for text-to-image, editing and multi-reference generation with native 4K output. The distilled INT8 build makes a 1MP image in about 4 seconds on an RTX 5090; free commercial use for companies under $5M revenue (FLUX Kommunity License), API from $0.009 per image.

Microsoft AI finished pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8T-parameter mixture-of-experts foundation model (80B active) trained on 50T tokens across 16k GB200 GPUs over 38 days. It is now in post-training; Microsoft plans to license the weights to trusted partners via Foundry rather than release them openly, and claims better pre-training efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base.

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B-parameter (about 12B active) multimodal agent model trained on ~26T tokens, plus Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (native 2-bit, fits in 24GB). NVIDIA claims Super VL is 5x faster than the next-best open model in its class; Bolt E4B is due Oct 23. Available on Hugging Face, OpenRouter, ModelScope and as NIM.

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (42B active) with a 1M-token context, handling text, image, video and audio and built for coding and agents. Weights are on Hugging Face, SageMaker, Vertex Model Garden and Microsoft Foundry under the Muse Model License (limited commercial terms); it runs locally on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios via MLX.

Caijing, as reported by Seoul Economic Daily, says DeepSeek is close to completing a second round of about 100B yuan (~$14B), double the original 50B-yuan target, at roughly 500B yuan valuation. New investors reportedly include GigaDevice, SMIC and Geely; proceeds fund an Inner Mongolia data center with 160,000+ Huawei Ascend chips. Unconfirmed by the company.

OpenAI named Uday Ruddarraju, formerly of xAI and most recently its CTO of Compute, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses, including Stargate. He replaces Sachin Katti, who will stay on as an adviser. OpenAI now projects about $750B of compute spending through 2030, up from roughly $600B.

Reuters, citing two people at Anthropic's pre-IPO investor day, reported Q3 2026 revenue of $16.8B, up 45% from $11.6B in Q2. The company told investors it was profitable on an adjusted basis. Anthropic has not publicly confirmed the figures; its IPO is reportedly targeting a valuation above $2T.

Anthropic opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office, in Singapore, and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The MOU covers AI safety, security and evaluation, adoption research, and responsible public- and private-sector adoption. Anthropic says more than 1,500 GovTech Singapore staff use Claude Code.

Anthropic plans to share third-quarter financial updates with prospective institutional investors at an investor day in San Francisco on Oct 14, per CNBC and Bloomberg reports. Reports cite a potential IPO valuation of about $1.8–2 trillion; no IPO date or public S-1 yet.

At Workday Rising 2026, Workday said Jev, a model from TypeSafe AI, lets its new Sana home experience generate forms, calendars and approval cards on demand.

NVIDIA announced a five-year compute donation worth $250M (about $50M a year) for UK research on agentic AI safety and security. Recipients include the wider UK research community, Oxford's BOLD lab, UCL's SOFAIR and Imperial College London, with compute delivered through UK-based NVIDIA Cloud Partners.

Google made Gemini 4 Argon available globally through the Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini platform, as well as the Gemini app and AI Mode for AI Pro/Ultra subscribers. It has a 1M-token context and introductory pricing of $2/$10 per 1M input/output tokens through Nov 30, 2026, rising to $4/$20 afterwards. Google reports a #1 ranking on the Vals Index and 87% on ERQA.

OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to buy security research firm Trail of Bits, per The Information. Deal size is undisclosed and neither company has confirmed.