On this day: Oct 16

4 records from this date, 2025 to 2026, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.

2026

This year · 3 records
Reflection launches Beam, an open-weight modelReflection

It is the first model from a new US lab. Company-reported scores were SWEBench Verified 81.6%, GPQA Diamond 90.6%, AIME 2026 97.7% and Terminal Bench v2.1 80.1% (on BF16), and it ships in three versions, BF16, FP8 and NV

NVIDIA previews a 2.8 trillion token corpus for 22 Indian languagesNVIDIA, AI4Bharat (IIT Madras)

Company-reported, it covers 34 language and script combinations with 2.601 trillion tokens in native scripts plus 224.6 billion in Latin script, and includes 438.4 billion restored tokens kept only where the quality scor

NVIDIA launches RTX Spark laptopsNVIDIA

ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and others are taking part in a staggered rollout. The launch put AI run on the device front and center alongside creative work and gaming, but compute performance (TOPS) was not stated

2025

1 year ago · 1 record
Anthropic launches Agent Skills (SKILL.md, progressive disclosure)Anthropic

Packages procedural knowledge as folders and loads it only when needed, in three stages: metadata, body, bundled files