Release16d ago
MiniMax M3.1 Flash weights now open on Hugging Face: 428B-total / 23B-active MoE, $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens, 73.7% on DeepSWE
MiniMax confirmed that Space Bunny, the anonymous model that led usage rankings on OpenRouter and elsewhere, was an early version of M3.1 Flash, and launched it on its API on October 19. Pay-as-you-go pricing is $0.15 input, $0.60 output and $0.015 cache read per million tokens, with a 1M context, text, image and video input, and an effort setting for thinking depth. Per MiniMax, it costs one third of M3 and runs 3x faster, scoring 73.7% on DeepSWE and 62.2% on Automation-Bench; the weights went live on Hugging Face on schedule on October 23 (MiniMax Community license, MXFP8), with day-0 support from Together, Inferact (vLLM) and LightSeek TokenSpeed.
Release47d ago
Dev distills DeepSeek V4 Flash decisions into a 4B local model: 26h on DGX Spark, ~22ms per call
Developer Taro L. Saito (@taroleo) followed a TypeSafe Jev-style approach—dropping full text/JSON generation and specializing on decisions—to distill DeepSeek V4 Flash judgments (~157GB weights) into a 4B model with about 26 hours of training on a DGX Spark. The student is roughly 1/20 the size, beats the teacher’s instant-answer mode, and runs about 22ms per decision, showing a fast local-LLM decision engine is practical.
Release20d ago
Meta open-sources Muse Spark Open: 816B/42B natively multimodal US open-weight flagship, runs on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios
On 2026-10-15 Meta released Muse Spark Open open weights: an 816B-total / 42B-active MoE with a Perception Encoder, natively multimodal (text/image/video/audio in → text out), 1M context, aimed at coding and long-horizon agents. Weights are on Hugging Face (BF16/NVFP4), SageMaker, Model Garden and Foundry; APIs include OpenRouter, Together, Fireworks and Groq. Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model to date and, with Apple, optimized it to run locally across two M5 Ultra Mac Studios via MLX.
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