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NVIDIA Makes Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe Available as an Open-Weight Model for 40 Languages Under OpenMDW-1.1, With Granary v2 Training Data
NVIDIA says its open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe handles transcription, speaker labels, translation and audio Q&A in one checkpoint, with benchmark results that are NVIDIA's own and a model built for recorded audio.
IBM Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B Under Apache 2.0 and Updates Two Existing Granite Speech Models
IBM published granite-speech-5.0-2b and revised versions of granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus, all Apache 2.0, with IBM-reported leaderboard and error-rate figures.
How Decision Models Are Being Evaluated: Rival Indexes, a Pac-Man Benchmark and a Prompt-Injection Test
Reporting from TechCrunch, The Register and Artificial Analysis shows decision models judged by competing indexes, a game benchmark, vendor-run tests and a security study, with no single shared comparison.
Diffusers 0.42.0 Adds FLUX.3 Image Klein, Kandinsky 6 and SANA-WM Pipelines and Drops Python 3.10
Hugging Face's Diffusers 0.42.0 adds FLUX.3 Image Klein, Bria Fibo 2.0, Kandinsky 6, SANA-WM and RFD4-Proteína, and now requires Python 3.11 or newer.
Mistral Launches Voxtral 3 With Four Speech Models and a LiveKit-Based Voice Agent SDK, Pricing Voice Agents From $0.04 per Minute
Mistral AI's Voxtral 3 post lists three transcription models, a text-to-speech model at $13 per 1M characters and a voice agent SDK built on LiveKit; benchmark claims are Mistral's own.
Cheaper Flagships, Premium Speed Tiers and Spend Caps: What Three Pricing Moves Mean for Developers' AI Budgets
OpenAI and Anthropic list one model at several per-token rates by speed, OpenAI prices GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of Astra, and Red Hat reportedly caps developer token spend.
OpenAI Adds Prompt-to-Voice Custom Voices and Native Decisions Integration to GPT-Live in the API
OpenAI's changelog lists prompt-to-voice for all API customers on October 16 and native Decisions integration in GPT-Live on October 15, plus nine new voices.
Anthropic Takes Claude Opus 5.5 Fast Mode Out of Research Preview, Dropping the Beta Header and Access Request, at $8 and $40 per Million Tokens
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 fast mode no longer needs an access request or beta header, adds a default rate limit in three usage tiers, and extends it to Microsoft Foundry on Azure.
Apertus 1.5 Adds Image and Audio Input, a 262,144-Token Context and a Thinking Mode to Its Fully Open 8B and 70B Models
The Apertus project's 1.5 release adds image and audio understanding, an optional thinking mode and a 262,144-token window to its 8B and 70B open models, under Apache 2.0.
dmis-lab Releases UltraBERT, 150M and 380M Encoders With 32K Context, Plus an Embedding Model It Says Tops MTEB Under 200M Parameters
dmis-lab's Oct 14 UltraBERT post lists Apache 2.0 encoders at 150M and 380M with 32K context; benchmark claims, including MTEB, are the authors' own.
Meta Releases Muse Wonder on Its Model API at $4 Input and $20 Output per Million Tokens, While Muse Wonder Full Is Limited to Muse Code Subscribers
Meta says Muse Wonder is in preview on its Model API at $4 per million input and $20 per million output tokens; Muse Wonder Full is limited to Muse Code subscription plans.
LightOnOCR-3 Arrives in 0.8B, 1B and 4B Sizes Under Apache 2.0, Adding Bounding Boxes, Image Descriptions and Chart Tables to OCR Output
A Hugging Face blog post dated October 8, 2026 describes open-weight OCR models that add labeled bounding boxes; the authors report 86.3 on olmOCR-Bench for the 4B model.