Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Microsoft MAI-Base-2 - AI News Oct 16

<p>- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL: open 120B multimodal agent model under OpenMDW-1.1, ships open datasets, training recipes and RL environments; Bolt 74B fits in 24GB for local agents</p><p>- Microsoft MAI-Base-2: 2.8T-parameter MoE base model finishes pre-training, 4-12x efficiency claims, weights to be licensed via Foundry</p><p>- Anthropic Fast mode graduates for Claude Opus 5.5, plus a new enterprise Compliance API for auditing saved model instructions</p><p>- Google open-sources agent developer toolchains and runtime benchmarks; Vercel's free Cat Jam reasoning model on AI Gateway</p><p>Follow AI Engineering Briefing and leave a rating - it's how new listeners find the show.</p>