opensource

October 10, 2026

• Anthropic launches free OSS security scans and a critical-infrastructure program

  Anthropic's Oct 8 Cyber Mission pairs free scans for enrolled open-source projects with on-site support for critical infrastructure, giving security builders a concrete defensive pilot to watch.

  2 starting program areas90%+ expected true-positive rate

  securityopensourceanthropic

  

• Perplexity releases multimodal late-interaction embeddings in 0.6B and 9B sizes

  Perplexity's PPLX-Embed V2 Late emits 128 dimensions per token for text, images, and visual documents; the 0.6B encoder can query a 9B index, so retrieval can trade speed for quality.

  0.6B small model9B large model128 dimensions per token

  embeddingsretrievalopensource

  

• Liquid AI ships open d1 decision models for edge text, vision, and audio

  Liquid AI's open d1-3B answers a decision in 8ms on an RTX 4090 and under 50ms on measured Jetson devices; d1-omni-600M adds text, image, and audio inputs.

  3B d1-3B parameters8ms RTX 4090 decision time600M d1-omni parameters

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