This October 15 AI briefing rounds up six developments from the past 24 hours: two Chinese models went open source on the same day, Figma built a database and admin panel into its site builder, and companion products received two data-safety warnings in a single day.
Ant Ling's Ling-3.1-flash goes open source
On October 15, Ant Ling formally open-sourced Ling-3.1-flash, with weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The model has about 560B total parameters, activates only about 25B per token, supports up to 1M context, and can reportedly be deployed on four GPUs. Artificial Analysis scores it 41 on its Intelligence Index, at roughly 210 tokens per second and a blended price near $0.19 per million tokens. It targets office work, long-horizon software development and complex agent tasks.
Kunlun open-sources Matrix-Game 4.0, a real-time game world on one card
On October 15, Kunlun Tech released and open-sourced Matrix-Game 4.0. A game engine maintains world state and interaction rules while the video model renders in real time, delivering 480p at 60 frames per second on a single RTX 5090 with input latency under 150 milliseconds. Code and weights are on GitHub under SkyworkAI/Matrix-Game and on Hugging Face, putting a world model within reach of individual developers for the first time at consumer-GPU scale.
Figma integrates Payload: prompted sites now ship with a database and admin
Figma announced on its official blog on October 15 that Payload is integrated into Figma Make. Prompting a site now also sets up a database, file storage, user login and an admin panel, so marketers can edit copy and publish without bolting on a separate CMS. Payload is available on all plans, rolling out to all accounts over the coming weeks, and its hosting is currently in free beta ahead of announced pricing.
ModelBest and partners open-source PilotDeck 2.0
On October 15, ModelBest and partner teams open-sourced PilotDeck 2.0, an office agent workspace built around end-to-end office delivery and stable long-task execution. Products in this class now compete less on single-turn answers and more on whether a task still remembers its goal and delivers hours later.
Character.AI bankruptcy: 40 attorneys general demand chat-data safeguards
Reuters reported on October 14 that 40 state attorneys general asked the Delaware bankruptcy court at Character.AI's first hearing to ensure any buyer protects user chat data and strengthens safety, especially minors' private conversations. New York's attorney general said the company collected deeply private thoughts from children that must not simply change hands in a sale. Character.AI's lawyer told the court no buyer has yet bid for its user data or operating business; Disney's $20 million technology licence still needs court approval. The company filed for Chapter 11 on October 12, losing about $8 million to $9 million a month before filing.
Eiliko robot toy exposed: data from 68,000 devices openly accessible
The Verge published an investigation on October 15 showing that Energize Lab's Eiliko robot toy left its servers largely unprotected: data from about 68,000 active devices was accessible, including 13 million conversation snippets, with more than 31,000 profiles belonging to children, and an intruder could even alter the toy's personality. The maker had not responded at publication time. Owners of such connected companion toys should pause network use and check whether chat history can be deleted.
The open-source thread today is lower barriers: a large model down to four GPUs and a world model down to one consumer card. The product thread is delivery: sites that ship with a backend and office agents judged on long tasks. The two companion-product stories show how children's chat data is moving from a product issue to a courtroom and regulatory one.
