AI in week 42.
40 new tools and models from 6 analysed videos; 13 confirmed available in the EU.
Videos analysed
Quantum breakthrough, Gemini 4 Argon, MOSS Image, KLING 4, OpenAI spy, Muse Wonder: AI NEWSAIAI Search· 18 Oct 2026 · 25 tools
AI News: 6 New Models & A Nano Banana KillerMAMatt Wolfe· 16 Oct 2026 · 21 tools
I got to interview Sam Altman! (Coming Soon)MAMatthew Berman· 15 Oct 2026 · 0 tools
Google just went FRONTIER (Gemini 4 Argon)MAMatthew Berman· 14 Oct 2026 · 4 tools
Google Just Caught Up (Gemini-4 Argon)MAMatt Wolfe· 13 Oct 2026 · 4 tools
Meta just dropped something insane... (Muse Wonder)MAMatthew Berman· 13 Oct 2026 · 5 tools
Language Models
All Language Models →Muse Wonder
Model · Meta
Meta's frontier model for personal and professional AI agents, with Active Memory and Active Focus; successor to Muse Spark.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Model · NVIDIA
NVIDIA's open multimodal model (120B total, 12B active parameters) for image, video and document understanding.
Muse Spark Open
Model · Meta
Meta's open-weight 816B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (42B active, 1M context) in the Muse model family.
LFM2.5-24B-A2B
Model · Liquid AI
Liquid AI's 24B-parameter mixture-of-experts LFM with 2B active parameters, built for fast on-device agents.
Ling-3.1-flash
Model · inclusionAI
Open-weights 560B hybrid-linear MoE reasoning model (25B active, 1M context) from inclusionAI, MIT licensed.
Nimble-v4
Model · Bespoke Labs
Decision models from Bespoke Labs that output multiple-choice, yes/no and rubric-score judgments.
MAI Base 2
Model · Microsoft
Microsoft AI's pre-trained foundation model with about 80B active parameters; post-training unfinished and not yet available.
Ultramarine 1 Flash
Model · Paper Instruments
Open model from Paper Instruments, fine-tuned from GLM-5.3 Flash for finance, law, consulting and operations work.
Microsoft Decision 1
Model · Microsoft
Microsoft's small decision-scoring model returning calibrated probabilities for routing, classification and rubric grading.
Xiaomi MiMo
Model · Xiaomi
Xiaomi's MiMo family of open-weight language, multimodal, audio and speech models, with a hosted API and web demo.
Image Generation
All Image Generation →MOSS-Image
Model · OpenMOSS
Open-weights 5B text-to-image model family from OpenMOSS with native JSON bounding-box layout control and text rendering.
Krea 3
Model · Krea
Krea's in-house image generation and editing model, available inside the Krea creative suite on a credit-based plan.
FLUX 3 Image Klein
Model · Black Forest Labs
5.6B-parameter open-weights model from Black Forest Labs for image editing, text-to-image and multi-reference composition.
Qwen Image 2.1 Turbo
Model · Alibaba
Open-weight accelerated variant of Alibaba's Qwen Image 2.1 for faster text-to-image generation and image editing.
Video Generation
All Video Generation →Kling 4
Model · Kuaishou
Kuaishou's Kling 4 video generation model with multi-reference input, keyframe control, native stereo audio and HDR output.
MosaiChunk
Research
Research memory router that lets a frozen autoregressive video generator reuse selected past KV entries for consistency.
Any Time, Any Space (ATAS)
Research
Research framework for long, consistent video generation using a persistent 3D world state as memory.
Voice & Audio
All Voice & Audio →Drama 3
Model · Fish Audio
Fish Audio's directable text-to-speech model controlled by plain-language bracketed directions, sound tags and multi-speaker scripts.
Grok Voice 3.0
Model · xAI
xAI's voice model for real-time spoken conversations and voice agents, available through Grok apps and the xAI API.
ElevenLabs Instant Soundtracks
App · ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs feature that analyzes an uploaded video and generates a matching soundtrack with synchronized sound effects.
3D & Worlds
All 3D & Worlds →StreamRender-H3
Model · NVIDIA
NVIDIA research system where a code game engine drives a two-step streaming MiniMax-H3 video model for real-time rendering.
GaussiAnimate
Research
Research method that rigs animatable Gaussian characters with an inner kinematic skeleton and outer free-form bones.
Matrix-Game 4.0
Model · Skywork
Real-time playable world model from Skywork pairing a game engine and coding agent with a few-step causal video model.
InfiniSplat v2
Model
Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting model that reconstructs scenes from arbitrary input views, with or without camera poses.
Multics
Model
Research multi-player video world model with hierarchical communication, trained on 4 players and run with up to 10.
UniForge 3D
Model
Research model that builds complete 3D assets from sparse, unposed images by jointly doing reconstruction and generation.
Streaming Code World Model
Model
Research code that streams video generation chunk by chunk from a rough 3D proxy, built on Code World Model.
Agents & Automation
All Agents & Automation →Coding
All Coding →Productivity
All Productivity →Robotics
All Robotics →PingpongDuo
Research · Archon
Research system for two humanoid robots playing table tennis doubles with safe team coordination.
RP1
Hardware · Roboparty
Open-source full-stack humanoid robot platform from Roboparty: hardware designs, firmware, control and learning code.
Gemini robotics cornhole demo
Research · Google
Google DeepMind research demo in which a Gemini-based robot learned to play cornhole from first-person videos and practice.
Hardware & Devices
All Hardware & Devices →Apple TV 4K
Hardware · Apple
Apple's 4th-generation Apple TV 4K streaming box and home hub with the beta Siri AI assistant and far-field microphones.
Apple HomeView
Hardware · Apple
Apple's 7-inch smart display with built-in Siri AI, Matter controller and Thread Border Router for the home.
Research
All Research →Next Concept Modeling
Research · Stanford Hazy Research
Research language-modeling approach that generates text coarse-to-fine, producing tokens in parallel within each stage.
Magic State Cultivation
Research · Google
Google Quantum AI research demonstrating magic state cultivation for error-corrected computing on its Willow chip.
Xbox Labs
Research · Microsoft
Experimental Microsoft Xbox research effort exploring AI for game preservation, reverse-engineering and AI-generated games.
Other
All Other →Facebook AI feed controls
App · Meta
Facebook feature that lets users describe their interests in text to tune AI-based feed ranking.
Circle to Search Scam Detection
App · Google
Android feature that uses Circle to Search and AI to flag scam warning signs in text messages.