Models
Ant Group inclusionAI open-sources Ling-3.1-flash 560B MoE under MIT
25B active parameters and a 1M-token context after the API trial. Day-0 SGLang support makes a large long-context agent model runnable for builders who want open weights.
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Friday, 16 October 2026
Agents
Google Research opens Deep Review for public document verification
Agentic review that checked more than 16,000 conference papers now covers legal, finance and technical PDFs. Two free reviews a week, with Gemini API access for higher volume.
Language
MBZUAI and Inception42 release Jais 3 open Arabic models and Jais Speech
6 open models from 900M to 375B parameters plus speech recognition for dialects across 19 Arab countries, keeping English or French words when speakers switch. Follows the Falcon-Emirati and Falcon-ASR releases earlier in October.
Models
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B multimodal model for agents
Reads text, images, documents and video with tool use, and is built to be post-trained on company data. Ships with open datasets, including a 2.8T-token corpus in 22 Indian languages.
Models
StepFun opens weights for Step 5 Preview, a 600B agentic model with 1M context
27B active parameters, served through vLLM or SGLang, under a licence with commercial conditions. Follows the September API launch, so firms can now run it on their own hardware.
Language
xAI launches Grok Voice 3.0 speech-to-speech at $0.08 a minute
Tops Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Index at 86.9 and already runs Tesla and Starlink voice traffic. Same price as Voice 2.0, with grok-voice-latest users upgraded automatically.