Launches and updates of AI products, features, apps, tools, APIs and platforms.
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers and in Agent API, according to @perplexity_ai. Aravind Srinivas calls Nemotron one of America’s leading open-weight multimodal models and encourages users to try it. https://twitter.com/perplexity_ai/status/2110793639727358422
Bluesky announced expanded Attie capabilities at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, letting users build websites, quizzes, games, polls, and other interactive experiences on AT Protocol. Creators connect through their ATProto identities and can bring their own AI model or use open-weight options. Bluesky says these projects can reach its network of 47 million registered users.
Token Rhythm says more than 300,000 developers have joined its platform and has launched limited-time Double 11 presale offers. A single recharge of at least 50 yuan on TokenRhythm API earns an equal amount in model usage credits, with no cap on cumulative bonus credits; the company says the credits, including previously granted credits, will not expire. The article was provided by Token Rhythm and republished by QbitAI with authorization.
STEPX says its STEPX Neo agent-native phone will enable festivalgoers at The Magic of Tomorrowland 2026 in Shanghai to turn their ideas into personalized electronic music, making them co-creators. The experience uses StepAudio 3 Music and the phone’s built-in personal agent, Step Amoo. The event is scheduled for October 17–18.
JD.com said the number of users placing orders on the first day of its 11.11 event grew by double digits year over year. At a launch event on October 15, the company also announced its “333” service plan and unveiled more than 100 service offerings. JD.com said its AI capabilities are being used across more than 3,000 scenarios, including retail, logistics, health, industry, food delivery and home services.
Day-0 support for Meta’s open-weight Muse Spark Open is live on vLLM, verified on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs as well as TPUs! 816B parameters, 42B active per token, a 1M-token context with image, video and audio inputs, built for long-horizon agentic coding. We’re excited to have worked https://t.co/MleWIPrBMD
Why it matters: Verification across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs and TPUs gives deployment teams concrete hardware compatibility information for running Meta’s open-weight model through vLLM.
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers, and in Agent API. https://t.co/fMVGtyZFFQ
OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1.1 brings new voices, better accents, and less “checking...” to Voice in ChatGPT, Codex, and dots. New voices are available in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean, and Japanese. Rolling out today to all users. Coming soon to the API.
Meta’s coding-optimized open-weight model Muse Spark Open is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart in BF16 and NVFP4 variants, with a 1 million-token context window and 816B total parameters, including 42B active per token. AWS provides deployment instructions using SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK, plus inference and cleanup examples. At launch, availability covers US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio).
Why it matters: The deployment walkthrough connects BF16 and NVFP4 memory requirements to supported instance types, giving teams a concrete basis for planning infrastructure when evaluating the model on their repositories.
Baoyu shares Kling_ai’s announcement that Kling 4.0 is now fully available. The quoted post showcases KING CARD, created with Kling 4.0. https://twitter.com/Kling_ai/status/2110747526840361191
While sandboxes are a commodity, serving millions of them under production-grade traffic requires attention to detail to scale agents for businesses and consumers. Perplexity is open-sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform that powers all of Perplexity Computer, to support the ecosystem. https://github.com/perplexityai/space
Why it matters: The distinction between commodity sandboxes and operating millions under production traffic gives context for the engineering demands of scaling agents for businesses and consumers.
We're open sourcing SPACE, the sandbox platform that runs every task in Perplexity Computer. SPACE gives each agent task its own Firecracker microVM and controls credentials and outbound traffic from outside the VM. Available now under Apache 2.0: https://t.co/DzSmq6o1xA
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NVIDIA launches RTX Spark on Friday, Oct. 16, with events around the world where attendees can try hands-on demos for creating, developing and gaming. Events are planned in San Francisco, Berlin, Taipei, Beijing, Istanbul and Seoul; entry requirements vary by location. NVIDIA also invites people to share what their first Windows PC sparked for a chance to win an ASUS ProArt P14 RTX Spark laptop signed by Jensen Huang.
🎉 Day-0 support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL in vLLM! 120B total parameters, 12B active per token, and a 1M-token context window. Text, images, documents and video in one open multimodal model, with reasoning and tool use for agent workflows. Here is what is supported and how to get started. 🧵 1/4
vLLM highlights @RedHat_AI’s FP8 and DSpark checkpoints for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B multimodal MoE, using LLM Compressor and Speculators. RedHat_AI reports close to 2x performance on Hopper with accuracy intact. Its 4× H100 benchmarks show FP8 improving throughput under load and DSpark boosting per-user streaming speed, with both together outperforming either alone across HumanEval, math reasoning, and RAG workloads. Both checkpoints are open: https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-FP8 https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B.dspark
vLLM-Omni now supports FLUX 3 Image Klein from day 0. The vLLM team worked with Black Forest Labs and NVIDIA to bring the new image model to its serving stack. The integration includes FLUX 3 Image Klein image generation and BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 checkpoints. https://t.co/hsjdzMrbkt
See a fully-explorable 3D world build itself in minutes ⛩️ Watch @GoogleDeepMind's @GeokenAI explain how Gemini 4 Argon acts as a virtual builder in @antigravity to autonomously create a stunning, multi-tiered pagoda sanctuary.
Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.3 Image Klein launches with day-one Diffusers support for text-to-image generation, multi-reference image-to-image generation, and bounding-box layout control. Open checkpoints include a distilled model using 16 steps without CFG and a base model using 50 steps with CFG; the distilled model generated a 1024 × 1024 image in 1.93 s on an H100 in the reported benchmark. Hugging Face provides quantized loading examples, LoRA training scripts, and workflows for customizing its Modular Diffusers pipeline.
Why it matters: The runtime measurements and quantization guidance help developers assess hardware requirements, including how reference images increase generation time and when lower precision reduces memory without improving speed.
Google launched Universal Cart for U.S. users, letting shoppers save and track products from multiple retailers across Search and the Gemini app. The tool offers price-drop and restock notifications and can account for credit card perks and surface promo codes. Checkout uses Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard designed to connect AI agents and retailers.
OpenAI marks Teachers’ Day by making AI for Educators available in Brazilian Portuguese and highlighting how Study Mode can help teachers support active, step-by-step learning.
🎉 Step 5 Preview has Day-0 support in vLLM. Sparse attention, MoE, multi-token prediction and vision, with serving work across Blackwell and Hopper. The work spans the sparse indexer, FP8 MegaMoE and cache transfer, with kernel results and further details at https://t.co/f9apB6vVGG
Google is rolling out Universal Cart in the US across the Gemini app and Google Search, letting users save products from multiple retailers in one shared cart. It provides price drop and restock notifications, displays relevant promotional codes, and supports payment through Google Wallet or checkout with retailers directly. Gmail and YouTube integrations are planned, but Google has not announced a timeline.
NVIDIA has added DLSS 4.5 controls to GeForce NOW, letting members adjust image quality and performance in supported games. The settings are available in the app on Windows, macOS, Chrome OS and Steam OS, with Ultimate members on GeForce RTX 5080-powered cloud rigs gaining options including Dynamic Multi Frame Generation up to 4X. Enshrouded 1.0 and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 are also streaming at launch, alongside 10 games joining the service this week.
Why it matters: The membership and platform details clarify how access to cloud graphics controls varies by tier, with the broadest options available on RTX 5080-powered Ultimate rigs.
Day-one support for Jais 3 is available in vLLM. Congratulations to @IFM_AI and collaborators on the launch. Arabic-native agentic AI, ready to serve with vLLM from day one. https://twitter.com/IFM_AI/status/2110641827778843010
Amazon’s Bee introduced the $74.99 Bee Frontier, worn on the wrist or pinned to clothing, and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse, which attaches magnetically to a smartphone. Both turn conversations into summaries, with free recaps and 14 days of memory; an $11.99 monthly Bee Pro subscription adds integrations and assistant features. Frontier is available now on Amazon, while Eclipse will follow soon.
Amazon announced the $74.99 Bee Frontier wearable, available today, and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse phone accessory, coming soon, alongside a $11.99 monthly Bee Pro subscription. Both devices turn daily conversations into summaries, transcripts, insights, and to-dos; Pro adds app integrations and opt-in Amazon shopping suggestions based on conversations. Amazon says its Private Compute architecture encrypts transcripts, summaries, and to-dos, and the devices do not store audio recordings.
Hikvision showcased more than 100 industrial digitization products and launched over a dozen new products at the 2026 China International Industry Fair, covering quality inspection, equipment monitoring, production operations, and workplace safety. Its production line SOP detection solution reportedly generates a new model from 1–8 images for deployment within minutes. A newly released semiconductor packaging 3D AXI inspection system combines X-ray imaging with an industrial inspection model, offering detail resolution below 1 micrometer and geometric magnification up to 2500 times.
WanNa Robotics unveiled its NOVA21 dexterous hand at the 2026 Hong Kong Electronics Fair on October 15, presenting it as a tool for robotics research and development. The hand has 21 active degrees of freedom, with a maximum fingertip force of at least 20 N per finger and a tactile resolution of 0.1 N. WanNa says it supports research into multi-finger coordination, object pose adjustment, and complex manipulation strategies.
Fish Audio Drama 3 is now supported in vLLM-Omni, offering voice cloning, speaker tags, expressive delivery through /v1/audio/speech, and streaming 44.1 kHz audio. The merged optimization PR reports 128 concurrent streams on one H200, 255 ms median time to first audio, and 222.2 seconds of audio generated per second; both stages share the GPU, averaged over 5 runs of 1,088 Seed-TTS-Eval English requests per run with pre-encoded voice references. Try current upstream: vllm serve fishaudio/drama-3 --omni --port 8091 Recipe: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/blob/main/recipes/fishaudio/Drama-3.md
Ollama shares the command `ollama run lfm2.5:24b`, quoting Liquid AI’s release of LFM2.5-24B-A2B for local agent tasks on laptops and PCs. Liquid AI describes a reasoning model with 24B total parameters, 2B active per token, and a context expanded to 131K tokens, with open base and post-trained weights on Hugging Face. https://ollama.com/library/lfm2.5:24b https://twitter.com/liquidai/status/2110055807194931348
Why it matters: The distinction between 24B total parameters and 2B active per token provides context for Liquid AI’s positioning of the model for local agent tasks on laptops and PCs.
Figma announced Figma Specs, a Markdown-based editor that lets teams define design language and give teams and agents a shared reference for brand rules. At its first Config event in India, Figma also opened code layers to public beta for interactive prototypes and announced support for over 20 new tools through its MCP. It is integrating Payload with Figma Make to generate dynamic websites and manage content directly.
Qianwen Office launched an e-commerce edition with trend and selling-point analysis, bulk promotional content generation, a cross-platform operations dashboard, and ROI optimization. It connects existing business tools through connectors, including MCP connectors, to organize data retrieval and analysis into workflows. Merchant-reported examples include reducing seasonal content preparation from 4 months to about 15 days and opening a 3D-printed shoe store in 7 days instead of 30.
GrokBot now supports plus aliases! https://t.co/xI3a8LdxLc
Block is building AI-powered security with OpenAI technology. Its security team investigates threats faster and proposes patches in minutes.
Up until a month ago, adaptive verification in vLLM needed a drafter that shipped with a trained confidence head. Now it works with the draft models you already serve: MTP, EAGLE, DFlash, and DSpark checkpoints without a head. No retraining. The signal was already in the draft
Epic released a publicly available Preview of its rebuilt Epic Games Launcher, describing it as faster and more responsive than the current version, with a new look. Epic Games Store General Manager and VP Martin Keely said the team used AI to write and review features from scratch in a different tech stack. He said this helped a small team rewrite the code base faster for Windows and Mac, with a Linux version also planned.
YouTube Music announced Wednesday that it is rolling out labels identifying generative AI use in songs, with clickable details about AI’s role in composition and vocals; the labels also extend to the main YouTube app. Partners can declare tracks as Fully Gen AI, Partly Gen AI, or No Gen AI, with pitch correction such as Auto-Tune falling under No Gen AI. YouTube emphasizes disclosure, and AI involvement alone does not make a track ineligible for monetization.
Perplexity says Ultrafast versions of GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 are now available in Perplexity Computer for Max subscribers, generating tokens faster to complete long tasks sooner. Select Astra or SOL 6.1 under Custom, then set speed to Ultrafast. Quoting the announcement, Aravind Srinivas calls it super fast and warns about credit consumption.
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Aravind Srinivas says users can now tag @Polymarket inside Perplexity Computer for market and real-time trends research tasks. https://twitter.com/pplxfinance/status/2110426596796666192 Quoted account @PPLXfinance says Computer pulls data directly from Polymarket’s API, providing market-implied probabilities, trading volume, and liquidity across 250,000+ active prediction markets when users mention or @-tag Polymarket in a query.
Ultrafast versions of GPT-6 Astra and SOL 6.1 are now available in Perplexity Computer for Max subscribers. Both generate tokens faster, completing long Computer tasks sooner. Choose Astra or SOL 6.1 under Custom, then set speed to Ultrafast.
Why it matters: The update connects faster token generation with shorter completion times for long Computer tasks, giving Max subscribers a concrete workflow benefit to consider when choosing a speed setting.
