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Meta’s Muse agent hitting five million US downloads proves that consumer adoption is outpacing the technical debates happening in labs. This velocity stands in stark contrast to the slow, deliberate steps taken by Anthropic and OpenAI, who finally granted auditors direct access to their training processes. Meanwhile, OpenAI doubled GPT-6.1 Sol’s context window to 500K tokens while removing long-context surcharges, a move designed to retain enterprise users even as Meta pushes Muse Wonder to rival ChatGPT. The infrastructure supporting this frenzy is visible in rural Louisiana, where Meta’s Hyperion data center is sparking an unexpected local economic boom. On the open-source front, Xiaomi released its reinforcement learning stack for MiMo-V2.6 models, offering a counterweight to proprietary dominance.