OpenAI Says Its Newest Models Got Far Better at COBOL
OpenAI reports big gains on its own tests for building and migrating code in COBOL, Fortran, OCaml and Visual Basic, with GPT-6.1 Sol hitting 86.6% on a COBOL migration eval.
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Reflection Releases Beam, a 501B-Parameter Open-Weight Model, Under Apache 2.0
Reflection put the weights for Beam, a 501-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model built for coding and agents, on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.
Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B Open-Weight Model That Runs on Two Mac Studios
Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a multimodal coding and agent model it calls the most capable US open-weight model to date, built with Apple to run on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios.