- Nvidia expands Nemotron with 3.5 Super VL and Bolt, open models for agents Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B multimodal model with 12B active parameters and a 1M context, plus Bolt models for local use.
- Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model that runs on Mac Studios Meta's Muse Spark Open is an 816B open-weight multimodal model with 42B active parameters, built with Apple to run locally on two Mac Studios.
- Kling 4.0 is fully available with 30-second clips, keyframes and built-in audio Kling 4.0 generates native 30-second video clips with up to 10 keyframes, multi-reference control and audio, now open to everyone.
- Microsoft finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter model Microsoft AI completed pre-training on MAI-Base-2, a 2.8T parameter mixture-of-experts model with 80B active, claiming big compute efficiency gains.
- Grok Voice 3.0 tops the speech-to-speech leaderboard at $0.08 a minute Grok Voice 3.0 ranks first on the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech index with 86.9, at an unchanged $0.08 per minute.
- Fish Audio's Drama 3 is an open text-to-speech model you can direct like an actor Fish Audio released Drama 3, a 35B open-weight text-to-speech model that takes plain-language acting direction and runs on one 48GB GPU.
- StepFun open-sources Step 5 Preview, a 600B model built for agent work StepFun released open weights for Step 5 Preview, a 600B mixture-of-experts model with 27B active parameters and a 1M-token context.
- Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra, and its real edge is admitting what it does not know Google's Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra on the Intelligence Index, hallucinates far less, and costs $2/$10 per million tokens until Nov 30.