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iFlytek Says Its 293B Spark X2.6 Was Trained Only on Chinese Chips
iFlytek says its 293bn-parameter Spark X2.6 model was trained entirely on Chinese chips. It gave no benchmark scores. Only a 4B version has open weights.
Anthropic’s New Claude API Version Rejects Temperature Settings
Anthropic's Claude API version 2026-10-21 returns 400 errors for temperature, top_p and top_k. New SDKs send it by default and move to Apache 2.0.
Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, a 14.8B Open Model That Reads DNA
Hugging Face's open 14.8B Carbon-X model answers questions about raw DNA in English. It says it nears GPT-6.1 Sol but is not clinically validated.
NVIDIA Releases Five Open Nemotron 3.5 Retrieval Models for AI Agents
NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3.5 Embed, Rerank and Parse models find, rank and extract evidence for AI agents. The benchmarks are NVIDIA's own.
NVIDIA’s Open Kumo Relational Model Makes Predictions Straight From Databases
NVIDIA's open Kumo Relational model predicts churn, demand or fraud from databases with no training, and beats supervised ML on 41 tasks, NVIDIA says.
HeyGen’s Video Model, Built on MiniMax H3, Now Makes 30-Second Clips
HeyGen Video 1, built on MiniMax H3, now makes 30-second clips with sound. HeyGen says it ranks first; Artificial Analysis's leaderboard has it fourth.
IBM Says Granite Speech 5.0 2B Is Second-Best Open Model for English ASR
IBM has released Granite Speech 5.0 2B under Apache 2.0 for six-language transcription and translation, and refreshed two other speech models.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Models Arrive on Google Cloud in Private Preview
Google Cloud is offering OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to select enterprise customers in private preview, with wider access in weeks.
Krafton Releases Raon-1 Mini Preview, a 30B Open-Weight Model Built From Scratch
Krafton released a preview of Raon-1 mini, a 30B mixture-of-experts model under Apache 2.0, aimed at Korean. Benchmarks are its own; specs may change.
FastH3-Omni Cuts MiniMax H3 Video Generation Time Up to 11.9x, Its Makers Say
Nuva Lab and UC San Diego's FastVideo released FastH3-Omni, a distilled MiniMax H3 for reference-guided video with audio. Speed figures are the team's own.
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