DAILY AI BRIEF  — Oct 16

META :
- Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight 816B-total, 42B-active MoE model with a 1M-token context window, on Hugging Face and optimized to run locally on Mac Studio.

NVIDIA :
- NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B-total, 12B-active multimodal model for long-running AI agents.
- NVIDIA also introduced Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 24GB, a model that fits into 24GB of memory.

OPENAI :
- OpenAI is rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 to Voice in ChatGPT, Codex and dots for all users, with new voices in six languages and API support coming soon.
- OpenAI launched the Rosalind Academic Plan, giving eligible US university labs sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind.
- Sites is now generally available for ChatGPT Enterprise with US and EU data residency.
- ChatGPT can now view your open Chrome tabs.
- Codex landed changes and more compute to sharply reduce "Selected model is at capacity" errors.

GOOGLE :
- Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out in Antigravity to paid Google AI Pro subscribers with a separate weekly Argon quota.
- Google launched Universal Cart, a cross-retailer shopping cart, in the US.
- Circle to Search can now check whether a text message is a scam.

MICROSOFT :
- Microsoft finished pre-training MAI-Base-2 and is already preparing the MAI-Base-3 training cycle.
- GitHub made agentic autofix for code scanning alerts generally available.

ANTHROPIC :
- Anthropic gave a team from METR employee-like access to assess its safety practices.

PERPLEXITY :
- Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the Firecracker-based sandbox that runs every Perplexity Computer task, under Apache 2.0.
- Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers and in the Agent API.

CURSOR :
- Cursor added Muse Wonder at $4/$20 per million input/output tokens, scoring 46.1% on CursorBench.

BLACK FOREST LABS :
- Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B open-weight image model with native 4K that runs on a single consumer GPU.

KREA :
- Krea launched Krea 3, an image-editing model for prompt-based 2K edits in under 8 seconds.

AMAZON :
- Amazon's Bee launched two new personal AI devices starting at $75.