Stepfun has released the Step 5 Preview 600B-A27B model, which is currently available through its products and API. The open-weight version of this model will be released on October 15.
Stepfun releases Step 5 Preview 600B-A27B, weights on October 15
Naive AI valued at $1.4B, plans open-weight LLM release
Naive AI, a stealth startup founded by Tsinghua University professor Dai Jifeng, has completed three funding rounds totaling $400 million, reaching a valuation of over $1.4 billion. The company is preparing to launch its first large language model, also named Naive, as an open-weight release as early as this month.
Cohere releases North Small Translate, a 218B MoE model scoring 83.6 on WMT26
Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) machine translation model developed with Cohere Labs and RWS. The model supports 50 languages and scores 83.6 on the WMT26 benchmark across all languages.
DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash, a 552B MoE model with lower cost and higher speed
DeepSeek has officially released the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash model, the smallest entry in its new architecture series featuring native multimodal visual understanding. Built on a Causal-Encoder-Decoder design, it is a 552B-parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model that activates only 8B parameters on the input side and 16B on the output side.
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas with AVI scores for 9 billion human DNA variants
Google DeepMind has released the AlphaGenome Atlas, a precomputed catalogue of molecular effect predictions for all 9 billion single-nucleotide variants in the human genome. The release introduces the AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score, which ranks variants by predicted impact across both coding and non-coding regions.
Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas for every human DNA variant
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a platform containing predictions for the effects of 9 billion single-nucleotide variants across the entire human genome. This resource aims to accelerate biological understanding by providing a comprehensive map of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology.