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3 November 2026

Fifteen AI model releases in October, with new open-weight leaders

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  • October saw 15 new AI model releases, according to a tally by the benchmarking group Vals.
  • Kimi K3.1 Pro topped the list of open-weight models, meaning ones whose trained weights are publicly downloadable.
  • Several new open models came from Meta, Reflection and Mistral, all of them companies building AI systems.

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Release counts, open-weight rankings, Meta Muse Spark Open, Reflection Beam 1.0, Mistral Le Chonk