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According to Black Forest Labs, FLUX 3 Image Klein is an open-weights model that generates, edits and combines images, and runs on a consumer GPU. Weights are on Hugging Face.
According to Meta, Muse Spark Open is the most capable open-weight model to date. Weights are on Hugging Face under a license with limited commercial terms.
According to NVIDIA, Super VL is a 120-billion-parameter open model for agents, and Bolt 74B runs locally on NVIDIA hardware. Both are available now; Bolt E4B ships October 23.
Anthropic has launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term effort to help defenders secure critical systems. It starts with OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in service that scans open-source projects and sends reports with suggested fixes, and a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Accenture.
Google’s new open embedding model, built on Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0, maps text, code, images, audio and video into one space, with an 8K-token context and a nearly 10-point jump on code benchmarks. It runs locally in under 600 MB of RAM.
