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AI daily picks · 2026-10-16

2 stories published here on 2026-10-16 (Beijing time), less than 48 hours after the event and above our selection bar, ranked by editorial score.

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    Model releaseEvent time 1 independent source
    Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights

    Meta has released Muse Spark Open weights for a multimodal MoE aimed at coding and agentic work, with 816B total parameters, 42B active parameters, and a 1M-token context window.

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    Product updateEvent time 1 independent source
    GitHub schedules Copilot model retirements for November

    GitHub will retire Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5, and GPT-5.6 Terra across GitHub Copilot experiences on November 16, 2026, and names supported replacement models.