AI at Meta: the open Llama models, its superintelligence lab and its big bets on AI beyond the metaverse.
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI unveiled the always-on agent Dots, which can independently take on tasks such as fixing bugs reported in Slack or sending forgotten invoices. It also launched the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol, while the flagship GPT-6.1 Astra was held back over safety issues.
Latent Space's AINews rounds up developments from 9/24–9/25, noting positive community feedback since Opus 5.5 launched this week, particularly on generating explainer videos with code.
Meta positioned Muse as a personal agent at Connect 2026 and announced hardware and feature updates around it. Muse supports voice and live video, runs tasks in the background and will come to all Meta glasses. Each Muse has its own email address, the Mac version supports computer use, and its connector platform has more than 1,500 apps.
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a multimodal model distilled from Muse to 30B parameters under Apache 2.0, targeting local agent use cases such as coding, document analysis and personal assistants.
Google announced the expansion of content transparency and verification tools to Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel and Cloud. SynthID has watermarked over 100 billion images and videos and 60,000 years of audio. SynthID verification in the Gemini app has been used 50 million times and will reach Search and Chrome in the coming weeks.