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1. Mistral Debuts “Le Chonk”: Open-Weight Large 4 in Public Preview, Weights Drop Oct 27

   

   …'s own European data centers; weights land October 27, and until then no third party can independently verify …

   Stories·Oct 6

2. Nvidia-Backed Reflection Debuts Beam, Its First Open-Weight Frontier Model: 501B Params, 23B Active

   

   … scores are self-reported and weights open later in October.

   Stories·Oct 6

3. Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3 Image: Bounding-Box Edits Leave Pixels Outside the Box Unchanged

   

   …s first product release, with open weights expected in the coming weeks.

   Stories·Oct 4

4. Google Launches EmbeddingGemma 2: 740M-Param Multimodal Embedding Model Goes Apache 2.0, Runs On-Device

   

   …dingGemma 2: a 740M-parameter open multimodal embedding model under Apache 2.0, with weights on Hugging Face a…

   Stories·Oct 7

5. Reka Launches Rho-1, a 19B Omni-Model Handling Text, Images, Video and Robot Actions in One Network

   

   …y a research preview, with no weights, API or third-party evaluation.

   Stories·Oct 6

6. U.S. GSA Issues AI Procurement Rules: Contractors Barred From Training Models on Government Data

   

   … move Rep. Ro Khanna wrote to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others demanding disclosure of every known attempt…

   Stories·Oct 4