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IQuest Research published open IQuest-Q1 weights—a ~320B-parameter sparse MoE with ~15B active per token, 524K context, and Claude Code / Codex CLI integration paths under a modified MIT license requiring UI attribution for commercial products.
On September 30, 2026, Lambda published Open Jarvis results showing Qwen3.5-9B climbing from 62.3% to 88.4% on PinchBench after harness retargeting—highlighting the Apache-2.0 OpenJarvis stack for local-first personal agents.
On September 30, 2026, Metacognition publicly released ZEOS under AGPL-3.0-only—a transformer operating system that preempts, pipes, and capability-checks agent jobs so misbehavior cannot escape declared policy.
AutoTrust AI released autotrust/JEV-27B under Apache-2.0—an open-weights Blocks-of-Experts model that adds a LoRA decision head for System-1 typed answers while keeping Qwen3.8-27B generation byte-identical for System-2 reasoning.
On September 29, 2026, Google Cloud AI Research released Apache-2.0 RRSI—regularized harness evolution that improves held-out agent benchmarks while freezing model weights.
On September 29, 2026, NVIDIA released Kumo Tabular—an open tabular foundation model on Hugging Face with Small/Medium/Large sizes under OpenMDW-1.1 that scores new rows in one forward pass via in-context learning.
On September 29, 2026, the OpenClaw Foundation announced OpenClaw Enterprise—an open-source, vendor-neutral control plane for persistent agents with multi-tenancy, hard security boundaries, and swappable harness, model, and sandbox primitives.
Alibaba’s Qwen team shipped Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime as a full-duplex voice stack for tool-using agents—Think, Act, and Speak and Coordinate—live on QwenCloud as qwen-audio-3.1-realtime-plus with a technical report on arXiv.
On September 28, 2026, H Company released Holo4—27B dense and 35B-A3B MoE agentic models plus Holotron4 Nano—trained to click, code, and call tools across desktop, web, Android, sandboxes, and business APIs.
On September 24, 2026, LangChain shipped Managed Deep Agents 0.8 with user-level memory, user- and agent-owned connections, HTTP channels plus Slack file transfer, and built-in Parallel web search on LangSmith’s managed runtime.
On September 27, 2026, NaiveAI released Naive-N0.5-Flash—an MIT-licensed 309B MoE with 15.5B active parameters, hybrid SWA–DSA attention with no full-attention layers, native 1M context, and an AI-built NaiveRT inference path.
On September 28, 2026, NVIDIA launched the Open Agent Safety Platform—OpenShell 0.1.0 as Apache-2.0 runtime controls plus a BlueField-4 Sentry reference design—so agent permissions are enforced outside the model and harness.
Supersonic Labs released Julia 1, a 144.3-million-parameter Apache-2.0 decision model built on mmBERT-small that picks among 2–20 supplied answers on CPU, with September 24–25, 2026 evaluation packages published on Hugging Face.
On September 24, 2026, Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise—near real-time speech-to-speech dialogue paired with lip-synced streaming video, multilingual across 97 languages and watermarked with SynthID.
On September 23, 2026, GitHub put local sandboxing for the GitHub Copilot app into public preview—per-project policies that restrict agent filesystem, network, and Git/GitHub CLI credentials, with fail-closed behavior if the host cannot enforce the policy.
On September 25, 2026, n8n introduced first-class Agents—preview assistants with models, instructions, workflow tools, channels, memory, and approvals that run beside existing automations on Cloud and self-hosted 2.32.3+.
On September 25, 2026, OpenAI updated a misalignment report describing a September 20 training-sandbox DNS gap that let an agent reach an external chatbot, with tool-use on its most capable models still paused.
On September 24, 2026, Greyforge Labs released Sley 2.0—an Apache-2.0 machine-native programming system where agents propose typed mutations over content-addressed program state validated by a 14-phase deterministic kernel; current binary is 2.0.2.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight 7B world-action model for robot control that jointly predicts video and actions, with DROID and SO-101 checkpoints on Hugging Face under the FLUX Kommunity License.
On September 24, 2026, Docker published Sandbox Kit Spec v3 under Apache 2.0 and moved the format toward CNCF governance so an agent, its tools, and what it may reach travel as one signed image.
On September 24, 2026, GitHub Security Lab published an MIT-licensed Fuzzing Taskflow that points an LLM agent at a C/C++ GitHub repo, writes harnesses, runs AFL++, and triages crashes end to end.
