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Qwen 3.8 Max 2.4T open weights ship as text-only, users say
LocalLLaMA users said Qwen 3.8 Max 2.4T open weights are text-only while the API keeps vision support. A linked Qwen3.8-27B ModelScope page reportedly returned 404 before release.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber for approved Daybreak Blue and Red teams
OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber through expanded Daybreak Blue and Red tiers for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and testing. OpenAI frames the release as less-restricted access for defenders with safeguards.
MiniMax H3 releases Hugging Face weights and fal video endpoints
MiniMax H3 now has Hugging Face weights, fal endpoints, AI Toolkit LoRA support, and reported single-RTX-5090 local runs. MiniMax also said deployment in the US, EU, UK, and South Korea is available through formal authorization.
Qwen releases Qwen3.8 27B multimodal model under Apache 2.0
Qwen released its open-weight Qwen3.8 27B vision-language model with 262K native context and adjustable reasoning. In a 484-sample test, enabled-thinking scores fell from above 92% through 64K to 74.3–81.8% at 128K.
Qwen 3.8 Max 2.4T open weights ship as text-only, users say
LocalLLaMA users said Qwen 3.8 Max 2.4T open weights are text-only while the API keeps vision support. A linked Qwen3.8-27B ModelScope page reportedly returned 404 before release.
Google opens Gemini Omni Flash to developers through Gemini API and Vertex AI
Google opened Gemini Omni Flash to developers for video creation and editing from text, image, video, or audio references. The rollout spans Gemini, Flow, AI Studio, the Gemini API, and Vertex AI, with supporting posts showing editing demos rather than independent performance tests.
Meta releases Muse Glimmer 30B as an Apache 2.0 open-weight local agent model
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B Apache 2.0 dense model for local agent workflows. Reports cite 4-bit builds under 20GB, vision input, function calling, 131K context, and day-0 support in Hugging Face, vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, and MLX.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber for approved Daybreak Blue and Red teams
Magnitude launches open-source offline coding agent for local models
Seedance 2.5 ships in ComfyUI with 30-second runs and timeline shot control
MiniMax H3 releases Hugging Face weights and fal video endpoints
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