[AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1
We are piloting a new show on Latent Space: High Taste Testers, a variant of our food show where we pull you in to a typical lunch conversation in San Francisco.
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Key points
- All your favorite talking points, starting with Dev Day and going into the latest models and assistants, are here:
- Muse Spark Open (Meta): An 816B-total, 42B-active MoE with open weights.
- Artificial Analysis scores it 39 on its Intelligence Index, the highest for a US open-weights model and 13 points above NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL at 26 (AA).
- Inputs are text, image, video and audio; output is text.
Sources (1)
- [1][AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1Latent Space · Oct 17, 07:47 AM
We are piloting a new show on Latent Space: High Taste Testers, a variant of our food show where we pull you in to a typical lunch conversation in San Francisco.
All your favorite talking points, starting with Dev Day and going into the latest models and assistants, are here:
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
Before this
- Oct 17, 2026deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
- Oct 17, 2026Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, Muse Spark Open, and a Fast LFM2.5 24B
- Oct 16, 2026axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl v0.21.0
- Oct 15, 2026NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Powers Specialized Agents with Multimodal Reasoning
- Oct 15, 2026StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context
- Oct 15, 2026Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
