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Microsoft's 130B Windows model, Together Link - AI News Oct 8

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Episode Microsoft's 130B Windows model, Together Link - AI News Oct 8

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- Microsoft ships MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, a 130-billion-parameter model that runs locally inside Windows 11 and the GitHub Copilot CLI, with a sandboxed environment for third-party AI tools

- Claude moves into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides: a sidebar that reads your open file and edits in place, with every edit approved one by one

- OpenAI's Decisions API hits public beta, up to ten times faster than GPT-6 Luna for routing decisions, plus Anthropic's Haiku 5.5, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2, Meta's Muse Spark 1.3, and DeepSeek's open vision model

- Dev tooling: Together Link runs open models like Kimi K3 inside Claude Code and Codex to cut API spend, Google open-sources the RRSI self-improving agent harness, and OpenAI drops 722 AI-generated math manuscripts on GitHub

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