there were 15 new model releases in October! we spent 500B+ tokens running evals on these models; here is an overview to help you make sense of it. - it is now clear that @GoogleDeepMind has started releasing ~SOTA models, with Argon and (the not-yet-GAed) Carbon. - three Chinese model releases- @deepseek_ai's v4.1 Flash 1017, @MiniMax_AI's M3.1 Flash, and @Kimi_Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro. K3.1 Pro is now the #1# open weight model on the Vals Index, followed closely by Deepseek v4.1 Flash 1017. Deepseek v4.1 Flash 1017 is markedly better in terms of cybersecurity capabilities, though. - @Meta shipped Wonder and Wonder Full, plus Muse Spark Open (816B, 42B active), which is notably the most capable open-weight model from a US company. - @reflection_ai's Beam 1.0 marked a great new addition to the US open-weight ecosystem with 500B total params (23B active), and a 1M context window. - We saw model releases from oAI (GPT 6.1 Terra) and Ant (Claude Haiku 5.5). - @Zai_org released GLM Legal, built for legal work. - @MistralAI’s Le Chonk (Mistral Large 4 OSS), 1T params (52B active), is now #5# among open-weight models on the Vals Index.