ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI:
Meta and Apple teamed up to run Meta's biggest open-weight model locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, a partnership brokered by Scale AI's Alexandr Wang.
https://ai.meta.com/blog/muse-spark-open/
Anthropic's IPO valuation talk is dropping from around 2 trillion to closer to 1.5 trillion after Q3 growth slowed.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/anthropic-investors-ipo-valuation-1-5-trillion-2026/
Anthropic is giving six METR researchers employee-level access, including the right to publish findings without company approval.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/anthropic-metr-employee-access/
Accenture is capping Claude spending at $29 a month per employee, down from as much as $1,000 for some staff. Non-engineers converting PDFs to slide decks drove the spend.
Microsoft released MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model it says beats DeepSeek's V4-Pro-Base on pretraining efficiency.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mai-base-2/
Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the agent sandbox behind Perplexity Computer, with CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe offering it to customers.
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/15/2026/perplexity-open-sources-space
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