DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on July 31st, an MIT-licensed model with API prices of $0.14 per million cache-miss input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, aiming to lower cost barr…
DeepSeek released V4-Flash-0731 on July 31, a retrained version of its budget model that outperforms its own V4-Pro-Preview on all nine agent and coding benchmarks, scoring 82.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 …
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a model that Artificial Analysis ranks ahead of MiniMax M3, a 428B model, and at $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.27 per million output tokens it may be …
Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling Small, an open-weights reasoning model that scores 40 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, one point …
OpenAI has slashed developer pricing for its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%, cutting API costs to US$0.20 per million input tokens and US$1.20 per million output tokens, as announced by CEO Sam Altman on X…
MiniMax launched H3, its newest multimodal video generation model, with open weights and competitive pricing, aiming to challenge closed-source rivals like ByteDance's Seedance 2.5. According to bench…
DeepSeek's V4 Flash 0731 model scored 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a 10-point jump over the original V4 Flash, with the entire gain appearing as a near-vertical spike on the Paret…
DeepSeek's V4-Flash, available since April 24, 2026, is priced at 1 yuan per million uncached input tokens, 2 yuan per million output tokens, and 0.02 yuan for cache-hit input, undercutting OpenAI's G…
MiniMax released MiniMax H3, an open-weights model that ranks #1 for video editing with audio and #2 for text-to-video with audio on Artificial Analysis's video leaderboard, offering commercial-grade …
AGI Ranker, an independent AI leaderboard, released v2.0.0 of its AGI Score, causing every model's score to drop by 6 to 15 points due to a correction in how human-parity ceilings are applied. The rev…
Andrew Ho left OpenAI on July 29th after eight months to start a company producing reinforcement-learning datasets for AI labs, beginning with biology and statistical reasoning. Ho co-authored GeneBen…
XAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0, a speech-to-speech model that scored 82.9% on Artificial Analysis' benchmark, up from 75.7% for version 1.0 and ahead of GPT-Realtime-2.1 at 79.1%. The model co…
OpenAI released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API, with GPT Transcribe achieving a 3.31 percent word error rate on the AA-WER benchmar…
Moonshot AI has released the full weights of Kimi K3, an open-source artificial intelligence model with 2.8 trillion total parameters, claiming it as the world's first open-source model in the 3-trill…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based lab behind the Kimi K3 model, has closed a $3.5 billion funding round that values the company at $35 billion, far exceeding its original target of $1-2 billion, accordin…
Fish Audio, a San Francisco startup founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao, has raised a $52 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, reaching $21 million in annual recu…
OpenAI's analysis of over 800,000 work-related messages from ChatGPT Business users found that 43.5% of occupation-specific tasks are performed outside the user's primary role, indicating roles are ex…
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, cutting paid output pricing from $9.00 to $7.50 per million tokens and increasing speed to 275.5 output tokens per second from 175.7, but the model's Intelligence Ind…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model, under a license that resembles MIT but imposes commercial restrictions once a business exceeds $20 million in revenue. The weights became …
Moonshot AI released the full 1.56 TB weights for its Kimi K3 open-weight model under a custom commercial license, with independent evaluations placing it within several points of leading systems from…