Xiaomi has added three new entries to its MiMo model family on OpenRouter: MiMo-V2.6-Pro, MiMo-V2.6-Flash, and MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed. Full specifications, pricing, and benchmark results have not yet been disclosed.
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed is a fast-inference edition of the company's 1T-parameter flagship MiMo-V2.6-Pro, delivering roughly 10x the output speed at matching quality. It retains the 1M-token context window and native multimodal capabilities, priced at $4.35/$8.70 per 1M input/output tokens.
Xiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6-Flash, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 309B total parameters and 15B activated per token, featuring a 1M-token context window and native multimodal capabilities. Priced at $0.14 per 1M input tokens and $0.28 per 1M output tokens, it targets agentic coding and long-horizon task workflows.
Xiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a flagship foundation model exceeding 1 trillion parameters with a 1M-token context window and native multimodal support. The model is priced at $0.435 per 1M input tokens and $0.87 per 1M output tokens, targeting agentic and long-horizon tasks.
Yandex has released AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base, an 80-billion-parameter hybrid MoE base model with 3 billion active parameters per token and a 262,144-token context window. The model was trained fully from scratch and, according to Yandex, outperforms larger open-source models on Russian-language factual and educational benchmarks.
Vercel released version 3.0.134 of its @ai-sdk/xai provider package, adding support for a Grok 4.7 model ID. The patch also bumps two internal dependencies, provider-utils and openai-compatible.
Vercel released version 2.0.95 of its @ai-sdk/xai provider package, a patch update that adds a model identifier for Grok 4.7. The change lets developers targeting xAI models through the Vercel AI SDK reference the new model string in their code.
Vercel released @ai-sdk/xai version 5.0.5, a patch update that adds a model ID for 'grok 4.7' to its xAI provider package. The change lets developers targeting xAI models through the Vercel AI SDK reference the new identifier in their code.
Meta's Muse AI agent app overtook ChatGPT as the top free iOS app in the U.S., racking up 730,000 downloads in its first five days, according to Sensor Tower. The app, powered by Meta's Muse Spark model family, marks Zuckerberg's biggest push yet into AI agents.
xAI's Grok 4.6 is now available on Amazon Bedrock via both bedrock-mantle and bedrock-runtime endpoints, adding Converse API support, cross-Region inference profiles, and Bedrock Guardrails. The model offers a 500K token context window and four reasoning effort levels, with input pricing starting at $2.00 per million tokens on the global inference profile.
xAI has launched Grok 4.7 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, undercutting Western rivals on price. But independent benchmarks show it trailing Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 by a wide margin, especially in agentic coding.
Cactus Compute has released Needle 3, a foundation model compressed to 8-29 MB that runs entirely on-device for tool calling, structured data extraction, and text embedding. The company claims it beats models 10x its size on mobile tool calls while running on hardware as small as microcontrollers.
xAI has released Grok 4.7, the successor to Grok 4.6, listed on OpenRouter with a 500K token context window and pricing of $1.60 per 1M input tokens and $4.80 per 1M output tokens. The company claims improvements in long-running software engineering tasks, self-verification, and professional document drafting.
AI researcher Nathan Lambert's prepared testimony to Congress details how Chinese open-weight models have overtaken American ones on both downloads and capability benchmarks since mid-2025. The gap has widened to roughly 1.6 billion additional Hugging Face downloads and a near-double-digit lead on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
A briefing prepared for Congress by AI researcher Nathan Lambert details how Chinese open-weight models have overtaken American counterparts since mid-2025, with a nearly 2x lead in Hugging Face downloads and a 19-22 point gap on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
Siri AI, Apple's overhauled assistant rolling out in iOS 27, is generating user complaints over network errors, broken device search, unlock requirements, slow Apple Watch responses, and missing features from classic Siri. The assistant remains labeled beta with no disclosed fix roadmap beyond new language support in October.
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight image generation and editing model with just 7 billion parameters in its visual component. The model runs on consumer GPUs like an RTX 3090 and natively supports transparent image generation and multi-reference editing.
Tencent's Hunyuan Speech team, working with university researchers, has released a technical report on Gander, a voice AI model that separates real-time conversation handling from complex background reasoning. The model interrupts users less often than GPT-Realtime, Gemini Live, and Grok in tests, but lags on task accuracy and video/audio understanding.
Alibaba's Qwen team has open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B parameter unified model for text-to-image generation and image editing. The release adds native transparent (RGBA) image support and editing with up to 10 reference images.
Runway has shared research into generating video frame by frame in real time, letting users steer output as it streams rather than waiting for a finished clip. The approach builds on GWM-1, Runway's General World Model introduced in December 2025, and no availability timeline has been announced.