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Friday, October 30, 2026

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EventBusiness15 sources

Anthropic files S-1 with SEC for IPO on Nasdaq as ANT

Anthropic filed a Form S-1 for a proposed IPO of Class A common stock, planning to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker "ANT"; share count and price range are not yet set. Latent Space reports a 1400% growth rate, 48% of revenue through cloud partners, 85% margin, $1B operating profit in Q2 and $134B cash.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

Mistral releases open weights for 1T-parameter Large 4 (Le Chonk)

Mistral Large 4 is a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal MoE with 52B active parameters, trained in Europe and now downloadable on Hugging Face. Mistral claims it is the best open-weight model for coding and defensive cybersecurity, edging GLM-5.3 by 1 point on coding.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 open-weight model

DeepSeek's update scores 45 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up 6 points and tied for #2 among open-weights models. It jumps Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 31.2 to 42.3 and hits 77.0 on DeepSWE, above Opus 5 (74.0) and GPT-5.6 Sol.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T open-weight model

Kimi K3.1 Pro is a 2.8T-total/104B-active MoE with a 1M-token context, scoring 55 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (58). Weights aren't out yet; Moonshot promises full release by Nov 4, 2026. API pricing is $2/M input and $10/M output.

LaunchAI Models11 sources

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, open 30B speech model

The open-weight 30B MoE (~4B active) transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 to and from English, and separates up to eight speakers. It ranks first on Hugging Face's Open ASR leaderboard for English at 5.33% average word error rate, but handles only recorded audio, not live streams.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash: 428B MoE agentic model at $0.15/M input

The open-weight multimodal MoE has ~23B active parameters and a 1M-token context, with reasoning always on across five effort levels. MiniMax claims 70% lower agent costs and leads Automation-Bench v1.0.6 at 62.2, but scores 38.1 on Terminal Bench 4.0 versus 51.8 for Opus 5.

Also that day

  1. AnalysisOpenAI publishes 722 math manuscripts from internal frontier model
  2. AnalysisOpenAI says its models solved three major open problems
  3. EventCohere opens Series E targeting up to CAD $7B at $35.7B valuation
  4. EventMeta boosts equity offering to $98B to fund AI buildout
  5. AnalysisCohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to send a file to Beijing
  6. LaunchMistral releases Voxtral 3 speech models and voice agent SDK
  7. LaunchOpenAI gives ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers up to $500/mo in API credits
  8. LaunchAnthropic launches Claude Duet, a proactive agent app
  9. LaunchOpenAI's Decisions API exits beta, taking on TypeSafe's Jev
  10. EventAnthropic files for IPO at reported $2T+ valuation
  11. LaunchGitHub Copilot Fusion orchestrates Anthropic and OpenAI models
  12. LaunchGoogle unveils Gemini 4 Argon, led by cyber defense

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