Ox Alpha mystery model offers free million-token context on OpenRouter

An anonymous AI model called Ox Alpha has appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode with unusually high free usage limits, including a one-million-token multimodal context window. Rohail Saleem reports for Wccftech that the service claims it can process up to 100 trillion tokens per day for one week without charge. Ox Alpha is presented as a …

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Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B brings advanced AI tasks to local hardware

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight AI model designed to handle coding, reasoning, images and video on local machines. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the 27-billion-parameter model is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing companies and developers to download, adapt and host it themselves. The release has attracted attention because of its balance …

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Meta releases Muse Glimmer and renews its push for open AI models

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter AI model that developers can download, modify and run on powerful personal computers. The move marks a renewed commitment to openly available model weights after Meta shifted its newer Muse family toward proprietary releases earlier this year. Glimmer is available under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial …

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Now available: Qwen3.8-Max promises days of autonomous work

Qwen has made its Qwen3.8-Max model generally available through QwenCloud, positioning it as its most capable model so far. Qwen announces in its official blog that the model has 2.4 trillion total parameters, with 95 billion active parameters, and that open weights will follow next week. The company says Qwen3.8-Max is built on the Qwen …

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Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small with near-flagship performance

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling-Small, an open-weights AI model designed to deliver much of the performance of its larger Inkling model with substantially lower computing demands. The company says the model performs similarly to Inkling across reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks while using fewer active parameters for each generated token. Inkling-Small has 276 billion …

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Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 is a multimodal video and image model

Black Forest Labs has introduced FLUX 3, a new foundation model designed to generate images and video with synchronized audio, while also serving as a base for robotics systems. The company is initially limiting access to selected users and partners through an Early Access programme. FLUX 3 Video can create clips up to 20 seconds …

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Thinking Machines shows Inkling, an open source multimodal AI model

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has released its first major language model under an open source license. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model, called Inkling, targets enterprises that want to run AI on their own servers while keeping costs low and avoiding ideological filtering. …

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One model to rule them all: Google bets on Gemini Omni to reinvent content creation

Google has launched Gemini Omni, a new artificial intelligence model that accepts text, images, audio, and video as input and produces video output. The company describes it as natively multimodal, meaning a single model handles all content types rather than passing tasks between separate systems. The first release in the family, Gemini Omni Flash, is …

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Thinking Machines launches research preview of real-time interaction AI model

Thinking Machines, the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has announced a research preview of what it calls “interaction models” — AI systems designed to perceive and respond in real time rather than waiting for a user to finish speaking or typing. Current AI models work in turns: the user sends an …

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