The Week Open Weights Went Frontier
From Ship or Hype · 00:08:40
Show by Bill Sonnie
Three frontier-class open models landed on Hugging Face this week. Meta's Muse Spark Open (816B parameters, 42B active) is pitched as the most capable US open-weight model yet — and Meta worked with Apple to make it run on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios. Reflection's Beam weights are out under Apache 2.0, the cleanest license of the bunch. And NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt squeezes a 74B agent model into 24GB so it runs on a gaming PC. We rate what's actually shipping and what's still vendor hype. Plus: Meta's Muse Wonder frontier agent model goes subscription-only, Google's Gemini 4 Argon hits general availability with a price that doubles after November 30, and OpenCode 2.0 turns the open-source coding agent into a background service.This show is produced with AI assistance; both hosts are voiced by synthetic voices.
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