Short, same-day coverage of notable AI model releases and announcements. These briefs give you the core facts — what was released, how it compares, and where to find more — without the padding.
The Institute of Foundation Models and MBZUAI have released K2 Horizon, an open fleet of six AI models ranging from 0.9B to 375B parameters published with full weights and training data under Apache 2.0.
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B, an open-weights 3.1-billion-parameter vision-language model designed for edge devices, achieving an 80.7 average on ScreenSpot-v2 and 228 tok/s inference on laptops.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Spark 1.3, an agentic foundation model featuring a 1M-token context window, 75.4% on DeepSWE 1.1, and an aggressive $0.10 contributor pricing tier.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its next-generation multimodal flagship model featuring a 72.6% score on OSWorld, Critical-tier cybersecurity safeguards, and $10/$50 API pricing.
Z.AI has officially launched GLM-5.3-Flash under the MIT license with 320B total parameters and 18B active parameters, confirming it was the mystery model previously tested as Ox Alpha.
Google has launched Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash into General Availability, introducing 40-second video chain extensions, first-and-last frame controls, and a $0.03/s draft pricing tier.