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DevDeepSeek swapped deepseek-flash today, and there’s no id to pin backOn 17 October DeepSeek put V4.1-Flash-1017 behind deepseek-flash, same price, bigger agent scores. The API offers no dated id for the old…17 October 2026
DevGranite Switch 4.1 won’t install next to this month’s vLLMIBM released Granite Switch 4.1 on 15 October. The model cards pin vLLM below 0.28, the plugin allows up to 0.30, and…17 October 2026
DevBeam’s weights are out, and vLLM support is still an open pull requestReflection published Beam 1.0 weights on 16 October: 1,002.68 GB in BF16, 293.65 GB in NVFP4, plain Apache 2.0. Transformers 5.20.1 loads…16 October 2026
DevIs 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 the $8/$40…16 October 2026
DevFine-tune on Muse Spark Open outputs and you owe Meta a credit lineMuse Spark Open went up on Hugging Face on 15 October under an MIT-style licence with three strings: a Built with credit…16 October 2026
DevNemotron 3.5 Bolt says 24GB on the label and 28GB in the recipeNVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B on 15 October. The files the recipe loads total 24.75 GB, there is no 24 GB…15 October 2026
SysadminClaude API traces won’t reach a collector on 4318 or a private IPAnthropic shipped OpenTelemetry trace export for the Claude API on 14 October. We read the delivery rules: port 443 only, public hostnames…15 October 2026
DevMeta’s API sells Muse Wonder, not the Wonder Full that tops its chartMeta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 October. We read the model card and the price page: the API…15 October 2026Free tools that keep your input on your machine
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