Ling-3.0-flash-VL
Ling-3.0-flash-VL is out as open source. The mixture-of-experts architecture holds 124 billion parameters but activates only 5.5 billion per token, with a context window up to 1 million tokens. It also claims to act on what it sees on screen.
Meta
Meta has released Muse, a personal agent running on Muse Spark 1.3. It has its own file system and terminal, writes its own code, fills forms and completes transactions, and works in the background while the app is closed, notifying you when something matters.
OpenAI
ChatGPT Images 2.5 went out to every tier today. The API now has two models: Flare delivers better images than GPT-Image-2 at 50% lower latency, while Sunburst takes longer but holds tighter control over edits. The announcement carries no pricing figures.
OmniVoice
The Next-gen Kaldi team has released OmniVoice under Apache-2.0: zero-shot speech in more than 600 languages, cloning from a sample, and a real-time factor of 0.025. The repository has passed 10,700 stars.
Nex-N2.5
Shanghai-based Nex AGI released three Apache-2.0 agent models. The announcement leads with a 0.1-point gap on a single benchmark; the model card's own table shows 30.5 against 68.3 on OSWorld-2.
XPeng
XPeng has commissioned automated production lines for humanoid robots. The first next-generation IRON finished assembly and walked off the line unaided. More than 80% of core processes are automated; mass production is set for late 2026 and sales for 2027.
AlphaGenome
Google DeepMind has published precomputed predictions for every possible single-letter DNA change in the human genome, free for academic research.
Reducto
Reducto has opened r-1 in preview, replacing its multi stage agentic OCR with one full page pass priced at 1 cent per page.
Researchers at the security firm Calif assembled a hacking tool in a little more than a week that could spread across the WeChat messaging platform.
NextEra Energy secured a $1.9 billion DOE loan to restart the 615-megawatt Duane Arnold plant in Iowa, with Google buying the power for its AI data centres.
Axis Robotics
Axis Robotics and academic partners released AXIS, a browser-based teleoperation and data engine holding 207 manipulation tasks and 50,129 episodes.
Mistral
Samsung Electronics led Mistral's Series D round of €3 billion, which the company calls the largest equity raise ever by a European technology firm.