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Moonshot teases Kimi K3.1 in a video; the model is not announced
Moonshot's Kimi account posted a 24-second video without a caption. Accounts that quoted it describe the Kimi Code terminal showing "Model: Kimi K3.1" as it writes a procedural 3D scene in Three.js. Moonshot has not announced the model, a release date, pricing or weights.
MiniMax publishes the MiniMax M3.1 Flash weights
MiniMax says the weights of MiniMax M3.1 Flash are now public on Hugging Face and ModelScope. When it launched the model on October 19, MiniMax said the weights would follow later.Artificial Analysis releases Coding Agent Index v2.0; Claude Code with Opus 5.5 leads at 61.7
Artificial Analysis launched v2.0 of its Coding Agent Index, which scores models together with their agent harnesses on 290 tasks across software engineering, terminal use and repository Q&A, weighted equally. The scores are Artificial Analysis's own, not independently verified.
Perplexity releases Decider for Mac, which runs its 4B decision model locally
Perplexity says you can now run pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 on your Mac without an API key. Decider for Mac is an app that runs the 4B decision model on the device: you ask a question about text or an image and get a probability back, all on your machine.
OpenAI's Decisions API is now generally available
OpenAI says its Decisions API, which entered public beta on October 6, is now generally available. According to OpenAI, apps and agents can use it to classify text and images, evaluate inputs and decide what happens next without generating a full model response. In the beta announcement, OpenAI said it makes decisions up to 10x faster than GPT-6 Luna through the Responses API.Anthropic says Claude wrote formal proofs that 123 open-source libraries cannot crash
In a collaboration with Theorem, Anthropic says it used Claude to prove security properties at the assembly level (RISC-V) in over 100 real-world open-source libraries, which it calls the first large-scale use of AI to formally verify production software at that level.OpenRouter's catalog gives Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking an expiration date of October 26
OpenRouter's model catalog now shows an expiration date of October 26, 2026 for "Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking" (arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking), a model listed since April 1 with a 262,144-token context. The entry had no expiration date before. This is a catalog field; neither OpenRouter nor Arcee has given a reason in what we have seen, and the entry does not say what happens to the model after that date.Ideogram introduces its first vector model
Ideogram announced its first vector model on X. According to Ideogram, it generates clean, editable SVGs with smooth gradients and sharp typography from a text prompt, or turns any image into a detailed, scalable vector.
Ling announces Ling-3.1-flash-1019, with API access and open weights to follow
The Ling team announced Ling-3.1-flash-1019 on X, an update to its Ling-3.1-flash model. The figures below are the team's own claims, based on Artificial Analysis benchmarks.Mistral releases Voxtral 3, speech models and a voice agent SDK
Mistral announced Voxtral 3 on October 20, 2026 (shared on Hacker News, where it had 735 points and 182 comments by October 20). Details and benchmarks below are Mistral's own claims from its announcement page.