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  number: 122
  headline: "The Open-Weight Arms Race: Meta's 816B Shot, NVIDIA's 120B Answer"
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #122 — October 16, 2026"
  date: 2026-10-16
  runtime: 12:41
  audio: /media/audio/2026/10/evy-show-122.mp3?v=20261016111941
  summary: Meta open-sources an 816B model that runs on two Mac Studios; NVIDIA answers with a 120B open agent model; and the decision-model crown changes hands in 24 hours.
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
  source_count: 20
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    Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/15/meta-muse-spark-open-816b-open-weight-model/
    Muse Spark Open (official release),research.meta.ai,https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open
    Hacker News discussion: Muse Spark Open (828 pts),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107379
    Meta's new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: legal experts,Nieman Lab,https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/
    "NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/15/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-release/
    Liquid AI Releases d1-ultra: A Multimodal Decision Model That Scores 65 on the AA Decision Index,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/15/liquid-ai-d1-ultra-decision-model/
    Krea 3 — An image model built for editing at scale,krea.ai,https://www.krea.ai/krea-3
    Hacker News discussion: Krea 3 (314 pts),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105648
    "CopilotKit Releases CLiF: A Continual Learning Platform That Turns Agent Traces and User Actions into Skills, Evals, and Fine-Tuning Data",MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/15/copilotkit-releases-clif-a-continual-learning-platform-that-turns-agent-traces-and-user-actions-into-skills-evals-and-fine-tuning-data/
    feder-cr/open_scion,GitHub,https://github.com/feder-cr/open_scion
    Leonxlnx/earshot,GitHub,https://github.com/Leonxlnx/earshot
    LSPosed/dexsql-release,GitHub,https://github.com/LSPosed/dexsql-release
    Using AI to reverse engineer hardware,blogs.gnome.org,https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/
    Neural Networks Are Already Clean,Goodfire,https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
    Hacker News discussion: Neural networks are clean (705 pts),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105647
    LEASH: Uncertainty-Aware Weak-to-Strong Escalation and Oversight for Computer-Use Agents,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22280
    Librarian Agents: Training LLMs to Curate Long-Context Workspaces that Anticipate Future Queries,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22273
    A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft,arXiv,https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22319
    moondream/moondream3.1-9b-a2b on OpenRouter,OpenRouter,https://openrouter.ai/moondream/moondream3.1-9b-a2b
    MarkTechPost Open Source technology category,MarkTechPost,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > Meta open-sources an 816B model that runs on two Mac Studios; NVIDIA answers with a 120B open agent model; and the decision-model crown changes hands in 24 hours.

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