MiniMax has released its text-to-music model with open weights. It takes lyrics carrying section tags and a detailed music description, and returns a complete song of up to five minutes in a single generation.
Mark Zuckerberg published a long piece arguing superintelligence should be distributed to everyone rather than concentrated in a few institutions. The same week Meta released the open-weight Glimmer, while the more powerful Muse Spark stays behind its own APIs.
Chinese firm Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.3. The model shares the same base as its predecessor and all gains come from extended post-training alone. The company also reports finding 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 projects with security teams.
NVIDIA has expanded its open-weights multilingual text-to-speech model Magpie with Modern Standard Arabic, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. The company's argument is that running speech generation on your own infrastructure gives the latency budget back.