Daily AI News | Aleph Alpha releases open-weight Kolibri
# Daily AI News | Aleph Alpha releases open-weight Kolibri
## Lead Story
### Aleph Alpha releases open-weight Kolibri
Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a 78.1-billion-parameter open-weight model with a context window of up to about 1.05 million tokens and weights offered under Apache 2.0. The company positions it for public administration and regulated industries; reported benchmark results are vendor-run.
**AI take:** Open weights make deployment control a central part of the release.
## More News
### Meta open-sources its Muse Gadgets hardware platform
AI Times reported that Meta unveiled Muse Gadgets and Muse Home Link on October 2. Gadgets provides ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK for connecting Muse to displays, buttons, sensors, speakers and other devices, while Home Link targets compatible smart-home equipment.
**AI take:** The release gives developers a path to connect Muse with physical devices.
### IBM expands AI research work with IIT Bombay and IISc
IBM announced an expansion of its existing research collaborations with IIT Bombay and the Indian Institute of Science on October 3. The work covers agentic AI, sovereign AI, multimodal systems, AI infrastructure and quantum computing; the two collaborations began in 2018 and 2021.
**AI take:** The announcement outlines research priorities, not a deployed product.
### US senators introduce an AI risk and security bill
WHSV reported that Senator Mark Warner and two other Democrats introduced the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026. The bill would create a federal AI safety board and a database to log AI security flaws and incidents.
**AI take:** The next signal is whether the proposal advances and how its board is defined.
### BubbleShare launches an AI search visibility service
AI Times reported that BubbleShare launched VIVI to track brand mentions and citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI search products and Naver AI Briefing. The report describes a staged way to measure visibility, from brand appearance to citations of a company’s own pages.
**AI take:** The service tracks citations inside generated answers, beyond ordinary search ranking.
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