Tag: open weights
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MiniMax Ships M3.1 Flash: API Now, Weights Due October 23
On October 19, 2026, MiniMax released M3.1 Flash, a faster and cheaper successor to June’s M3, and put it on its API the same day — but the weights are not out yet. MiniMax’s launch post says only that the weights “will be released later”. The Decoder and SiliconANGLE both report October 23. Until a […]
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Meta Opens Muse Spark Weights: 816B MoE, 1M Context
On October 15, 2026, Meta Superintelligence Labs released the weights for Muse Spark Open — an 816-billion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model that activates 42 billion parameters per token, with a 1,048,576-token context window. Meta calls it “the most capable US open-weight model to date,” and the release is as much a hardware story as a benchmark […]
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Thesys Releases OUI-1, a Diffusion Model That Writes UI Screens
Lead — On September 8, 2026, Thesys released OUI-1, a fine-tune of Google’s DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B that does one narrow thing: it writes user-interface screens in openui-lang, the declarative language behind the MIT-licensed OpenUI project. The model scores 71.7% on the Generative UI Benchmark against 13.0% for its base checkpoint — a 5.5x improvement — while […]
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YuE2 Matches Suno v5 on Open Weights — With a Score You Can Edit
Multimodal Art Projection (M·A·P) published the weights for YuE2 on September 10, 2026 — a roughly 3.6-billion-parameter music generation model that turns a style prompt and lyrics into a complete 48 kHz stereo song, and, unusually, exposes the melody and chords it wrote as an editable score before rendering any audio. On WildSongBench, a 192-prompt […]
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MiniMax Opens Music 3.0 Weights — No Territorial Carve-Out This Time
MiniMax published the weights for Music 3.0 on August 13, 2026, releasing an ~11.1B-parameter text-to-music model that generates complete five-minute songs — vocals, arrangement, and production — in a single pass. The weights are on Hugging Face, GitHub, and ModelScope, and ComfyUI shipped support the same day. Notably, the accompanying MiniMax-Music3 Community License contains no […]
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Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B Agent Model for a Single GPU
On August 10, 2026, Meta released Muse Glimmer — a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model, licensed Apache 2.0, built specifically to run agent workflows locally on a single consumer GPU. It is distilled from Muse Spark, the closed frontier model Meta Superintelligence Labs launched in April, and it is the clearest statement yet of where Meta draws […]
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MiniMax Ships H3 Weights — With the US and EU Excluded
MiniMax published the MiniMax-H3 weights to Hugging Face on August 3, 2026 — three days after announcing the omni-modal video model and promising an open release “in the coming days.” The checkpoints are real, the quantized build is small enough to matter, and ComfyUI shipped day-0 support. But the accompanying MiniMax H3 Community License carves […]
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Jensen Huang’s First X Post: 150+ Companies Sign Open-Weights Letter, Anthropic Doesn’t
On July 24, 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made his first-ever post on X — and used it to publish an industry coalition letter titled “Open Weights and American AI Leadership.” The three-page statement, hosted on NVIDIA’s own servers and mirrored on Microsoft’s corporate site, asks Washington not to restrict downloadable model weights. It launched […]