MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash Preview inside MiniMax Code, emphasizing fast, sustained software-development workflows rather than a broad public API launch.
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SafetyOpenAI said it fixed a bug that degraded image understanding in GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna across its API and Codex.X / OpenAI Developers ↗
IndustryAnthropic’s CEO received a humorous Saturday Night Live treatment as the company’s public profile expanded beyond technology circles.TechCrunch ↗
ModelsCohere promoted Parse 5 as an enterprise document parser that extracts tables, images, bounding boxes, and flowcharts.X / Cohere ↗
AgentsResearchers reported that AI agents now perform more model-development work, while humans still make the major research decisions.The Decoder ↗
FundingA Tsinghua-linked quantum-AI startup reportedly reached a valuation of about 1 billion yuan while targeting large-model infrastructure.量子位 ↗
ResearchA report described a compact quantum-computing box completing an end-to-end workflow while keeping all data on-device.量子位 ↗
ResearchAn anonymous Yutu model reportedly ranked first on two benchmarks after testing showed strong coding performance.量子位 ↗
AIGCRecraft demonstrated its V4.1 Flash model generating a detailed neo-retro Japanese poster series from a single prompt.X / Recraft ↗
Open SourceNVIDIA released an open 100-million-parameter model that identifies up to eight simultaneous speakers in real time.The Decoder ↗