Block's AI research lab has released Dessa, a full-duplex speech model, opening a waitlist in the form of a research preview. It is trained only on human voice conversation audio, without using text or pretrained models. The model can run locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or higher configuration, faster than real time; training used one NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 (72 GPUs). No benchmark scores, parameter count, weights, paper, or API have been published so far.
OpenBMB has released the open-source MiniCPM-OCR suite, comprising the 1B MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 and the 2B decision model MiniCPM-OCR Jev. MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 scores 93.68 on Real5-OmniDocBench and 54.7 on OCRBench v2; Jev can perform cross-model verification of text, formulas, and tables, scoring 93.6 on JevOCRBench, surpassing JEV-35B-A3B's 90.1 and approaching Qwen3.5-397B-A17B's 93.8. Powered by DSpark, its speed is 1.49 times that of PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 and 3.62 times that of MinerU2.5 Pro; with SDK concurrency optimization, it can reach 128 pages per minute, and it supports deployment on vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, and Ollama.
OpenBMB has released the open-source MiniCPM-OCR suite, comprising the 1B MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 and the 2B decision model MiniCPM-OCR Jev. MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 scores 93.68 on Real5-OmniDocBench and 54.7 on OCRBench v2; Jev can perform cross-model verification of text, formulas, and tables, scoring 93.6 on JevOCRBench, surpassing JEV-35B-A3B's 90.1 and approaching Qwen3.5-397B-A17B's 93.8. Powered by DSpark, its speed is 1.49 times that of PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 and 3.62 times that of MinerU2.5 Pro; with SDK con
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model in the GPT-6 series positioned as an efficient model for high-throughput professional work, with strong image analysis and computer operation capabilities. The system card addendum states that under the Preparedness Framework, the model is rated Critical in the cybersecurity domain and High in the biological and chemical domains, using the same set of safeguards as GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra. On Production Benchmarks, its safety performance is on par with GPT-5.6 Terra, its length-corrected HealthBench Professional score is higher than that of GPT-5.6 Terra, and its MentalHealthBench score is 55.5%, higher than the latter's 46.2%.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model in the GPT-6 series positioned as an efficient model for high-throughput professional work, with strong image analysis and computer operation capabilities. The system card addendum states that under the Preparedness Framework, the model is rated Critical in the cybersecurity domain and High in the biological and chemical domains, using the same set of safeguards as GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra. On Production Benchmarks, its safety performance is on p
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a multimodal MoE model with 2.8T total parameters, 104B activated parameters, and a 1 million token context window. The Standard and Highspeed versions are now available on the Kimi website, App, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and API. The company says Highspeed offers 2–3x faster output at twice the price of the Standard version. Artificial Analysis ranks it fourth on the Intelligence Index with a score of 55, behind Opus 5.5's 58; on Arena's Code Arena WebDev it ranks 8th with 1692 points, up nine places from K3. Standard pricing is $2 per million tokens for input, $10 for output, and $0.2 for cached input, one-third lower than K3; the weights have not yet been released, and the company promises to open them on November 4.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a multimodal MoE model with 2.8T total parameters, 104B activated parameters, and a 1 million token context window. The Standard and Highspeed versions are now available on the Kimi website, App, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and API. The company says Highspeed offers 2–3x faster output at twice the price of the Standard version. Artificial Analysis ranks it fourth on the Intelligence Index with a score of 55, behind Opus 5.5's 58; on Arena's Code Arena WebDev it ranks
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in the K3.1 series and its strongest 3T-class open-weight model to date, with a 1 million token context window, alongside Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, which is 2-3 times faster. The model is now available on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API, with full model weights to be released on November 4. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, K3.1 Pro scores 65.7%, higher than GPT-6 Astra's 58.2% and slightly below Claude Opus 5.5's 66.4%; on the internal benchmark Kimi Code Bench 3.0 Long-horizon it scores 61.2%, higher than K3's 55.95%.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in the K3.1 series and its strongest 3T-class open-weight model to date, with a 1 million token context window, alongside Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed, which is 2-3 times faster. The model is now available on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API, with full model weights to be released on November 4. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, K3.1 Pro scores 65.7%, higher than GPT-6 Astra's 58.2% and slightly below Claude Opus 5.5's 66.4%; on the internal ben
NVIDIA has released Kumo Relational, a pretrained relational foundation model that can make predictions directly on enterprise databases in a single forward pass, without task-specific training, feature engineering, or table flattening. Across 41 tasks on 15 databases—RelBench V1/V2, SAP SALT, and 4DBInfer—it outperforms supervised relational deep learning models and gradient-boosted tree pipelines built with expert feature engineering, achieving an 8% higher MRR than the AutoGluon ensemble on SAP SALT. The model is available through NVIDIA's open-source GPU-native structured-data-models library or NVIDIA NIM, and supports databases with 500B+ rows.
NVIDIA has released Kumo Relational, a pretrained relational foundation model that can make predictions directly on enterprise databases in a single forward pass, without task-specific training, feature engineering, or table flattening. Across 41 tasks on 15 databases—RelBench V1/V2, SAP SALT, and 4DBInfer—it outperforms supervised relational deep learning models and gradient-boosted tree pipelines built with expert feature engineering, achieving an 8% higher MRR than the AutoGluon ensemble on S
Ant Group's inclusionAI has open-sourced the Ming-3.0-audio-flash native audio model on GitHub. It uses a 126B-parameter MoE architecture with 6.5B activated parameters, and there is also a Ming-3.0-audio-tiny version with 9.3B parameters and 2.7B activated parameters. The models cover Chinese and English recognition across multiple dialects and accents, long audio understanding, audio reasoning, and end-to-end speech dialogue. They support three inference methods: vLLM-Omni, SGLang, and Transformers, and are released under the MIT license.
Ant Group's inclusionAI has open-sourced the Ming-3.0-audio-flash native audio model on GitHub. It uses a 126B-parameter MoE architecture with 6.5B activated parameters, and there is also a Ming-3.0-audio-tiny version with 9.3B parameters and 2.7B activated parameters. The models cover Chinese and English recognition across multiple dialects and accents, long audio understanding, audio reasoning, and end-to-end speech dialogue. They support three inference methods: vLLM-Omni, SGLang, and Transfo
NVIDIA has added three models to the Nemotron open-source model family, covering enterprise workflows, local AI agents, and conversational applications across data centers, desktops, and edge devices. These include the 120-billion-parameter Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, which NVIDIA claims delivers up to 5x the throughput of the next-best comparable model, with accuracy approaching that of its largest reasoning model at roughly one-fifth the parameter count; there are also two small models in the Nemotron 3.5 Bolt series: 74B-A9B 24GB for everyday agent tasks on RTX and DGX Spark, and E4B 4GB for conversational and physical AI agents. Super VL and Bolt 74B-A9B are already available, and Bolt E4B is scheduled for release on October 23.
NVIDIA has added three models to the Nemotron open-source model family, covering enterprise workflows, local AI agents, and conversational applications across data centers, desktops, and edge devices. These include the 120-billion-parameter Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, which NVIDIA claims delivers up to 5x the throughput of the next-best comparable model, with accuracy approaching that of its largest reasoning model at roughly one-fifth the parameter count; there are also two small models in the Nemot
Swiss AI has released Apertus 1.5, which builds on 1.0 by adding native image and audio understanding, a thinking mode, and a 262,144-token context window—4 times larger than 1.0. The model uses early fusion to convert images and audio into discrete tokens and feed them into the same sequence as text; the architecture is unchanged, and it only understands multimodal input while outputting text only. The team says the 8B version outperforms open-source models of the same scale on instruction following and multilingual tasks, its multimodal performance is close to Gemma 4 12B, and it has also released the training data mixture, preference data, and intermediate checkpoints from each stage.
Swiss AI has released Apertus 1.5, which builds on 1.0 by adding native image and audio understanding, a thinking mode, and a 262,144-token context window—4 times larger than 1.0. The model uses early fusion to convert images and audio into discrete tokens and feed them into the same sequence as text; the architecture is unchanged, and it only understands multimodal input while outputting text only. The team says the 8B version outperforms open-source models of the same scale on instruction foll
