Thinking Machines Lab has introduced Inkling 2 Small, the second generation of its Inkling model family, aimed at long-horizon autonomous work. Announced on November 5, 2026, the model is a sparse mixture-of-experts system with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active per token. It accepts text and image inputs, supports variable reasoning effort, and…
Tencent Launches Hy4, Its First AI Model That Can See and Operate a Computer Tencent released the full version of Hy4 on November 4, 2026, adding two capabilities that are new to its Hunyuan model family: vision and computer use. The model can now interpret images and charts, and it can work through command-line and…
Sarvam AI released Sarvam Prism on November 3, 2026, an open-weight model built to make a fast, structured choice rather than write an answer word by word. Instead of generating text, Prism takes a situation, a question and a set of predefined options, then returns a probability for each option in a single forward pass….
Meituan has made LongCat-2.5 generally available on its developer platform, turning a September preview into a full release aimed at long, multi-step coding and agent work. The model arrives with native multimodality, a focus on whole-project engineering tasks, and pricing that undercuts most frontier models from US labs. It also arrives with important caveats: its…
DeepSeek has open-sourced a prototype coding agent designed to work for a whole development team, not just one programmer in one chat window. The project, called dsh-superagent, appeared on GitHub on October 31, 2026, and it is built around a simple idea: when agents can do more of the work, human attention becomes the scarce…
Apple has confirmed that Apple Intelligence is coming to users in mainland China, with testing starting on November 4 and a public release planned for December as part of iOS 27.3. In China, selected Apple Intelligence experiences will be able to call on Alibaba’s Qwen model, a local partner arrangement that sets this rollout apart…
On October 30, 2026, Google, OpenAI and Microsoft each said they will support one shared robots.txt signal that lets a website state whether its content may be used for generative AI training. Instead of a separate rule for every AI provider, a site owner will be able to express that preference once, in a form…
French AI company Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4, its largest model to date, allowing businesses, governments and researchers to download and run the system on their own infrastructure. TechCrunch reported the release on October 29, 2026, following a public preview of the model earlier in October. The move turns a hosted…
Google Unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, a Cyber Defense Model You Cannot Use Yet Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, 2026, describing it as its strongest model so far, with state of the art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities. The catch is access. At launch, Carbon is going first to a subset of…
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on October 27, 2026, a new world model that generates interactive scenes in real time and, for the first time in the Genie line, generates the sound to go with them. Instead of producing a clip to watch, Genie 4 produces a place to move through: users navigate with standard…