AI Daily: Gemini free tier cut to Flash-Lite, Aleph Alpha open-sources 78B MoE Kolibri-1
testingcatalog · x · 2026-10-05
- Google: Gemini app reshuffles access — free users drop to Flash-Lite only from Oct 9, AI Plus loses Pro, and AI Pro gains Deep Think.
- Aleph Alpha: Released Kolibri-1 as open weights under Apache 2.0, a 78B MoE with 3.46B active params built for German/English sovereign deployments.
- Anthropic: Claude voice users now get a separate opt-in toggle (off by default) for sharing voice data for training.
- OpenAI: Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux says GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is coming; safety lead David Robinson resigned, writing in The Atlantic that OpenAI's "culture is broken."
- Mistral: Building its own Voice Mode, apparently TTS-based for now.
- Meta: Building an "Agent Engine" for its Meta API Platform, internally codenamed Forge.
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