Agility Robotics to go public through a SPAC merger
Agility Robotics announced it will go public through a SPAC merger, raising $465 million as it works to commercialize Digit robots and launch the next-generation Digit 5.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Cyber for vulnerability hunting
On 5 November 2026 OpenAI released ChatGPT Cyber, a model for cybersecurity work, limited to the top tier of its Daybreak Red programme. OpenAI says it scanned the Linux kernel and found flaws in Firefox.
Baidu releases the open-weight ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base checkpoint
On 5 November 2026 Baidu introduced ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, an open-weight 280B-parameter mixture-of-experts pre-training checkpoint published on Hugging Face under Baidu's own license.
Six AGIBOT G2 robots run a 24-hour convenience store trial
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift in an operating Shanghai convenience store, completing 1,730 tasks on a livestream, with four of the six passing the final assessment.
AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026
AGIBOT's Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on 29 October 2026 introduced the Worken output metric, the AHA3 humanoid hardware architecture, the G2 Max industrial robot, Link-U OS 1.0, the GO-3 Preview and the WITA-Omni interaction model.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary 2
On 28 October 2026 Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight, free speech recognition model covering up to 40 languages, alongside the second version of its Granary speech dataset.
PFN releases a 53-language translation model built with NICT
On 26 October 2026 PFN released the weights of PLaMo 3 Translate, a 53-language translation model built on a base model from joint research with NICT, in four sizes from 0.8B to 31B and several quantised formats.
The Agentic AI Foundation passes 300 members in under a year
The Agentic AI Foundation reported 305 member organisations in under a year, saying agents are moving from developer experiments to institutional infrastructure.
AAIF adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox
On 22 October 2026 the Agentic AI Foundation added four projects — Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba — bringing it to 10 hosted projects covering different layers of the agentic stack.
Liquid AI adds an omni-modal model to the LFM3 family
On 21 October 2026 Liquid AI released LFM3-Omni-2B, the first omni-modal model in its LFM3 family, taking text, images, video and audio as input and returning text or speech. At 2.17B parameters it targets phones and laptops.
IFM and Inception42 release the six-model Jais 3 family
On 15 October 2026, IFM and Inception42 announced Jais 3, six Arabic-centric language models from 900 million to 375 billion parameters plus a speech recogniser, evaluated on 24 audited Arabic benchmarks.
Meta releases the open-weight Muse Spark Open
On 15 October 2026 Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight, natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters, optimised to run on Apple's Mac Studio. Its weights were published on Hugging Face.
Physical Intelligence opens the Pi API beta
On 13 October 2026, Physical Intelligence opened a beta of the Pi API, a service that lets customers upload their own robot data, fine-tune the company's models and run cloud-hosted inference on their own machines.
Mistral AI unveils Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter open-weight model
On 6 October 2026 Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a model with about 1 trillion total parameters. On 29 October 2026 it released open weights of an improved version.
Aleph Alpha releases the Apache-2.0 model Kolibri
On 3 October 2026 Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an open-weight model pitched at public administration, industry and aerospace, with German-language specialization and a traceable training process presented as its advantage rather than raw scale .
Waymo announces its first Canadian service, in Toronto
Waymo said it will launch its autonomous ride service in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with the first passengers planned for 2028.
MiniMax releases MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
MiniMax posted the weights of M3.1-Flash to Hugging Face on 17 October 2026. The model is a multimodal M3-line release with about 428 billion parameters, MiniMax Sparse Attention throughout, and DSpark speculative decoding.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro
In October 2026 Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an open-weights upgrade for financial research, 3D modeling and coding. It was the first model in the K3.1 series.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5
Released on 28 September 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the second model of the Claude 5.5 family. It kept the price of Sonnet 5 and was the first Sonnet model to ship with cyber safeguards and anti-distillation classifiers.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5
Released on 22 September 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 is the first model of the Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic said it matched Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, at a lower price.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7
On 21 September 2026 xAI released Grok 4.7, with a larger base model and a longer reinforcement-learning run. Its Fast variant was limited to Cursor and Grok Build.