2026-10-17
Global AI agents from OpenAI, Meta, Google, xAI, and other companies face growing restrictions that prevent them from carrying out tasks such as shopping, booking, and accessing accounts. This reveals that agents’ ability to perform tasks online depends on website approval and compatibility with anti-bot systems, not solely on their software capabilities.
Meta has launched the open-weight Muse Spark Open artificial intelligence model, designed for coding and long-running agentic tasks, which can run locally on two Mac Studio devices equipped with M5 Ultra processors and a combined 1 terabyte of unified memory. Although its weights are available for download, the model is subject to Meta’s license, which imposes commercial restrictions on certain uses.
The startup Elorian has launched the Glimpse model as a research release with a chat interface and API. During inference, it returns to images and video clips to crop regions, analyze frames, and run code. The company says the model outperforms GPT-6 Astra in its evaluations on scientific diagram reasoning and short-video description, despite being smaller and less expensive than leading models.