Xiaomi unveils MiMo-V2.6, an omni-modal AI model family it says significantly improves coding, design and cybersecurity through groupwise reinforcement learning, with its Pro version reaching 72.6 average@3 on DeepSWE v1.1 after the team freezes an unstable Mixture-of-Experts router.
Bespoke Labs launches Nimble, an open 9B-parameter local model that makes typed boolean or enum text decisions with answer probabilities, matching 292 of 324 held-out labels while limiting inputs to 2,048 tokens and schemas to 26 choices.
Jared Palmer releases Kev, an open Qwen3.5-based family of 0.8B, 4B and 9B decision models for local deployment and fine-tuning, with calibrated Kev-9B cutting confident errors on new sources from 8.7% to 4.0% while retaining accuracy.
OpenAI claims an internal model beginning training August 28 solves the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem and more than 100 open math questions, while an unpaid Institute for Advanced Study-hosted advisory group is set up to independently scrutinize and publicly challenge its results.
AMD launches the $3,999 Ryzen AI Halo local AI platform, pairing a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip with 128GB unified memory to run models up to 200 billion parameters and claiming 4% to 14% faster LLM token generation than Nvidia’s DGX Spark.
Salesforce is pursuing a headless AI strategy that lets customers connect any model to CRM data securely, while introducing Koa, a CRM reasoning model built on NVIDIA Nemotron, and a deployment harness for enterprise use.
Typesafe AI emerges from stealth with Jev, a software-to-software model it says delivers frontier-level intelligence for just over 4 cents per million input tokens, backed by $40 million and developed by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida.
Four consumers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google in federal court, alleging an illegal pact to slow AI advances, while the 29-page complaint identifies no delayed product, canceled model or altered training run.
StepFun launches its Step 5 Preview API and Studio for a 600B-parameter sparse MoE model claiming a 1M-token context window, though public BF16 weights are not scheduled until October 15, 2026.
TypeSafe AI’s new Jev System One tops GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Terra and Claude Sonnet 4.6 in LangChain’s narrow weather-agent evaluation, matching human pass/fail labels on all 500 repeated decisions.