From the wires
- Ollama makes MLX the default on Apple Silicon — ollama/ollama releases
- Ollama will now upgrade your old models behind your back, politely — ollama/ollama releases
- llama.cpp spreads mixture-of-experts caches across GPUs — llama.cpp releases
- vLLM v0.31.0 ships a weight-cache daemon so restarts stop costing minutes — vllm-project/vllm releases
- Mistral Large 4, Le Chonk: a trillion parameters, open weights promised this month — Mistral AI
- Simon Willison on Mistral Large 4: back to six months behind the frontier — Simon Willison's Weblog
- Liquid AI opens the d1 decision models for the edge — Hugging Face Blog (Liquid AI)
- Reflection emerges from stealth with Beam, a 501B MoE promising Apache 2.0 weights — Latent Space (AINews)
- LiteLLM backports the decision-model endpoints into the proxy — BerriAI/litellm releases
- The decision-model wave gets its centipede benchmark — r/LocalLLaMA
- EmbeddingGemma 2's Apache 2.0 license, and the argument for open embeddings — Simon Willison's Weblog
From the wires
- Bitwig heads to the Brooklyn Synth & Pedal Expo, October 17-18 — Bitwig
- UVR 6 is coming: the maintainer posts a development update — UVR (GitHub)
- Baud Girl FM-1+VA firmware v97 adds Bluetooth MIDI clock sync — Baud Girl
- Hermetic Modular Capicola: an open-source time-stretch module — Synthtopia
- Kuusoutoshi Audio DrumUnveil splits a drum loop into six lanes of audio and MIDI — KVR Audio
- Resilio Versio: third-party dub firmware for the Noise Engineering Versio — Resilio Versio (project page)
- zc devices thicket opens a free public beta — r/modular
- UVI Falcon 2027 flies the nest with new oscillators and effects — gearnews
- Teenage Engineering says it wants to stop making synths — MusicTech