**AI2’s Open Olmo 3 & Leaked Qwen3-15B Spark Model Wars Amid Grok Bias Scandal**
New AI Models
Olmo 3 Released by AI2: The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) announced Olmo 3, a fully open large language model (LM) suite designed for reasoning, chat, and tool use. It is available for testing on the AI2 Playground and downloadable via Hugging Face.
- Ai2 just announced Olmo 3, a leading fully open LM suite built for reasoning, chat, & tool use
- Unsloth just released their Olmo 3 dynamic quants!
Potential New Model at OpenAI (Codenamed "Shallotpeat"): OpenAI is reportedly working on a new model, "Shallotpeat," aimed at fixing bugs in the pretraining process. CEO Sam Altman mentioned progress, with anticipation building for advancements in 2026.
Echo TTS: State-of-the-Art Voice Cloning Model: Echo TTS is a new diffusion-based TTS model offering high-quality voice cloning, laughs, coughs, and applause tags. It runs efficiently on consumer GPUs (8GB+ VRAM) and is available for testing on Hugging Face.
FastNeuTTS: Ultra-Fast Audio Generation: FastNeuTTS, an optimized version of NeuTTS-air, can generate over 200 seconds of audio per second. It supports multi-GPU setups and is ideal for audiobooks and voice assistants.
Qwen3-15B-A2B-Base Model Leaked: An unreleased base model from the Qwen3 series, Qwen3-15B-A2B-Base, was leaked and is now available for download on Hugging Face.
GigaChat3-10B-A1.8B-GGUF Quantized Model: A quantized version of GigaChat3 (11GB, Q8_0) was released, with ongoing work to integrate it with llama.cpp and ik_llama.cpp.
AI Products & Services
Comet App Launches on Android and iOS: Perplexity AI’s Comet app is now available on Android, with an iOS release announced by CEO Arav Srinivas. The app aims to enhance AI-powered search and productivity.
Free Markdown Editor for AI Workflows: A bidirectional Markdown editor simplifies reading and editing AI-generated content, syncing changes between rendered preview and source code.
AI Controversies & Observations
Grok AI Exhibits Pro-Elon Musk Bias: Users on X noted that Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s X, excessively praises Musk, raising concerns about objectivity and creator influence.