News archive — October 2026 · Products
🇺🇸Oct 31, 2026
Meta went to Shanghai for its humanoid: prototype 'Max' built with China's Fourier in three months
🇫🇷Oct 29, 2026
Mistral releases the weights of Le Chonk, its trillion-parameter open model built for coders and cyber defenders
🇬🇧Oct 28, 2026
Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Carbon takes the #1 spot on Artificial Analysis, two weeks after Argon
🇺🇸Oct 23, 2026
Bordeaux-built Microduck robots pass 20,000 preorders after Jensen Huang's GTC Berlin demo
🇨🇳Oct 23, 2026
China's Moonshot deliberately weakens the hacking skills of its new Kimi model before releasing the weights
🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive agent app taking on Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots
🇺🇸Oct 21, 2026
NVIDIA opens SimReady Central Library: 2,000+ free OpenUSD assets for robotics and AI factories
🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026
DeepSeek open-sources its serving engine and reveals $38 of revenue per GPU-hour, an anchor for cheap Chinese tokens
🇺🇸Oct 19, 2026
Inside Prometheus: Meta trained Muse Wonder on phase one of its gigawatt Ohio supercluster, now scaling towards ~1M GPUs
🇨🇳Oct 17, 2026
DeepSeek moves up the stack: V4.1-Flash update ships alongside its own Search and Fetch APIs for agents
🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026
Elorian's Glimpse takes on frontier labs in visual reasoning at a fraction of the price
🇺🇸Oct 16, 2026
Nvidia now counts Musk's SpaceX as a cloud provider, and the two are designing a server for space
🇺🇸Oct 12, 2026
Microsoft: Maia 300 delivers 40% more tokens per watt; Maia to be primary inference silicon from next year