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Meta Superintelligence Labs has published Muse Spark 1.3, an open-weights frontier agent model with 1,048,576 context tokens and comprehensive multimodal comprehension.
OpenRouter added a paid route for IBM Granite 4.2 8B on 31 August. The hosted endpoint exposes a 131,072-token context window, reasoning and tool calling, six days after IBM released the open model family.
Tencent has released and open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 49 billion active parameters and a context window above one million tokens. AIMI saw it reach OpenRouter and OpenCode Go later the same day.
Qwen has released Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. The dense vision-language model has a native 262,144-token context, adjustable reasoning, image and video input, and a live OpenRouter route while Qwen Cloud hosting remains pending.
Dots Studio has released dots3-note preview, its first open-weight dots3 model. The multimodal MoE has 280 billion total parameters, 16 billion active parameters, a 512K context window, and an Apache 2.0 release.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer 30B, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model distilled from Muse Spark and tuned for local agent workflows on consumer GPUs. It covers tool use, long-context reasoning and multimodal input in a package that fits under 20 GB with 4-bit quantisation.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion parameter MoE powerhouse featuring 1M context, native video understanding, and leading mathematical reasoning.
