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Did Google just dethrone OpenAI and Anthropic?: Fireship compared Google’s new model with GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 after Google claimed it outperforms both. The description does not report the test results.

Google • Fireship

Mistral launches Voxtral 3, a voice-agent stack supporting 50+ languages: Mistral AI launched Voxtral 3, a voice-agent model family combining speech-to-text, text-to-speech and an SDK. It supports over 50 languages and lets agents use external tools during live conversations. It can run on own infrastructure or EU-hosted APIs.

Voice AI • The Decoder

DeepSeek releases DeepInfer inference framework for Nvidia and Huawei chips: DeepSeek released DeepInfer, its large-scale model inference framework, on October 20. It supports Nvidia GPUs and Huawei Ascend chips, offers distributed inference, speculative decoding and structured output, and aims to improve throughput and latency while cutting computing costs and energy use.

AI Infrastructure • TechNode

Xiaomi open-sources Xiaomi-Lens-0, a 4B model that points to pixel-level image regions: Xiaomi's SeerRay-Lab open-sourced Xiaomi-Lens-0, a 4B multimodal model built on Qwen3.5-4B. It emits mask tokens to point to pixel-level image regions mid-answer. The lab also released the LensBench benchmark.

Xiaomi • Pandaily

Do Diffusion LLMs Scale? Testing Mercury 3 + Decide: Sam Witteveen tested Inception’s Mercury 3 diffusion LLM and Mercury Decide, which can now read images. The video compares them, checks independent evaluations, and tests Inception’s claim of over 1,000 tokens/sec.

Inception • Sam Witteveen

Anthropic and Citrini use Claude to design scorpion toxin minibinders, test 211: Anthropic and Citrini Research used an internal Claude model to autonomously generate protein minibinders against five scorpion neurotoxins and tested 211 designs. Anthropic said it had previously shown Claude designing minibinders from a single prompt in August.

AI for Science • Techmeme

Nvidia claims DSX POD cuts AI data center deployment from six months to 14 days: Nvidia unveiled the DSX POD, a modular containerized version of its Vera Rubin reference architecture, at GTC Berlin. The company claims it can cut AI data center deployment from six months to 14 days.

AI Infrastructure • Techmeme

SenseTime open-sources SenseNova-RoboRSI embodied AI harness and 27B robot brain model: SenseTime open-sourced SenseNova-RoboRSI, an embodied AI evaluation harness, and a 27B robot brain model. The release follows a company study of GPT-6-Astra across 12 simulated benchmarks and 8 real robots. Performance figures are SenseTime's own.

SenseTime • Pandaily

Orchestra Bio • OpenAI

OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build drug-development AI agents, terms undisclosed: OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio and merging it with its life sciences AI platform Rosalind to build AI agents for drug development. The agents will help pharma teams coordinate drug development, from tracking trials to spotting problems. Financial terms were not disclosed.

SpaceX • SpaceX

SpaceX Q3 revenue rises 161% to $14.58B while AI revenue jumps 830% to $7.56B: SpaceX reported Q3 revenue of $14.58B, up 161% year over year and above the $12.72B estimate. AI revenue rose 830% to $7.56B, and AI operating income was $431M, up from a $1.7B loss.