DeepSeek swapped deepseek-flash today, and there’s no id to pin back
On 17 October DeepSeek put V4.1-Flash-1017 behind deepseek-flash, same price, bigger agent scores. The API offers no dated id for...
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Granite Switch 4.1 won’t install next to this month’s vLLM
IBM released Granite Switch 4.1 on 15 October. The model cards pin vLLM below 0.28, the plugin allows up to...
Read moreDetailsBeam’s weights are out, and vLLM support is still an open pull request
Reflection published Beam 1.0 weights on 16 October: 1,002.68 GB in BF16, 293.65 GB in NVFP4, plain Apache 2.0. Transformers...
Read moreDetailsIs Opus 5.5 fast mode worth $40 per million output tokens?
Since 15 October, fast mode on Claude Opus 5.5 needs no waitlist or beta header. We stacked every multiplier on...
Read moreDetailsFine-tune on Muse Spark Open outputs and you owe Meta a credit line
Muse Spark Open went up on Hugging Face on 15 October under an MIT-style licence with three strings: a Built...
Read moreDetailsNemotron 3.5 Bolt says 24GB on the label and 28GB in the recipe
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B on 15 October. The files the recipe loads total 24.75 GB, there is no...
Read moreDetailsClaude API traces won’t reach a collector on 4318 or a private IP
Anthropic shipped OpenTelemetry trace export for the Claude API on 14 October. We read the delivery rules: port 443 only,...
Read moreDetailsMeta’s API sells Muse Wonder, not the Wonder Full that tops its chart
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 October. We read the model card and the price page:...
Read moreDetailsLFM2.5-24B-A2B beats Qwen3.6 at tools and loses SWE-Bench by 15 points
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B with open weights. We read the full benchmark table and the license: strong at tool calls,...
Read moreDetailsRequests to gemini-3.7-flash now get 3.8 Flash, with no shutdown date
Google deprecated Gemini 3.7 Flash on 8 October and routes its traffic to 3.8 Flash, a month after calling 3.7...
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