2026-10-28

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Open-weight multimodal model releases28 Oct 2026

Liquid AI releases LFM3: six compact models share one backbone

Liquid AI opens a six-model LFM3 family built around a shared 1.7B backbone, with specialized vision, audio, omni and decision variants.

Primary sourceLiquid AI official LFM3 family announcement on Hugging FaceSource published 2026-10-27

Open-weight document understanding28 Oct 2026

Unlimited OCR 2 publishes MIT-listed vision-language weights and a sparse-reference approach intended to keep long-document parsing manageable.

Primary sourceBaidu official Unlimited-OCR-2 Hugging Face model cardSource published 2026-10-27

Open-weight agent training infrastructure28 Oct 2026

FrontiersMind publishes Apache-2.0 tools to turn supported model backbones into constrained decision engines with measurable output probabilities.

Primary sourceFrontiersMind official DecisionFormer technical announcementSource published 2026-10-26