Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its new frontier model, just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. Google calls it its strongest model yet, with the headline gains in cybersecurity and long-running coding work. It also now sits at #1 […]
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OpenAI is cutting deep, private discounts to pull big customers away from Anthropic, and it is working. According to reporting from The Information, relayed by The Decoder, Rippling, Replit and DataCamp have all moved meaningful AI spend toward OpenAI after
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a post-trained upgrade of Kimi K3 that puts an open-weight-bound model within a point of Claude Opus 5.5 on a hard agentic coding benchmark. It costs a third less than K3 on the
Moonshot Launches Kimi K3.1 Pro: Near-Opus Coding at $2 per Million Tokens Read More »
Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a separate app where Claude works as a proactive agent instead of waiting for you to open a chat. It sends a morning brief on what needs your attention, takes tasks
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MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a cheaper and faster successor to its M3 model, aimed at agents, coding, computer use, and security work. It costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, takes up to 1
MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 73.7% DeepSWE at $0.15 Input, With a Hallucination Catch Read More »
Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3 Image — the image generation and editing tier of its FLUX 3 multimodal family — as a metered API at api.bfl.ai/v1/flux-3-image. The builder pitch is spatial control: compose or edit with bounding boxes on
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Aleph Alpha released Kolibri 1 (Kolibri) — a bilingual English–German mixture-of-experts Transformer with roughly 78.1B total parameters and about 3.46B active per token — under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face as Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1. The company frames it as a sovereign open-weight
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Strata, a free, MIT-licensed inference engine and one-click installer, runs Qwen’s 125B-parameter Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on an ordinary gaming PC: one NVIDIA or AMD card with 12 GB of VRAM, 32–64 GB of system RAM and about 80 GB of SSD space.
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Reflection AI has announced Beam, its first open-weight model. It is a sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 501 billion total parameters and 23 billion active per token, built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Reflection says it will release the
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Earendil shipped Pi 1.0 — a hardened, minimal, extensible coding-agent harness — and, same day, an experimental package called Pi Durable for long-running agents that survive crashes and run across surfaces. Pi is already a daily driver for a large
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