Inception has released Mercury 3, a diffusion-based language model it says generates 1,068 tokens per second with a 1-million-token context window. In Inception's own comparison, it beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on 8 of 12 benchmarks.
Nace AI has released Drex Max, a decision model that reads text and screenshots and returns calibrated probabilities for computer-use agents. The company reports a score of 67.59 on Decision Index 0.3.2, at $0.06 per million input tokens.
Tel Aviv-based doubleAI has raised $200 million in a Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Bessemer, with Nvidia and Dell among the other investors. According to CTech, the round values the AI model developer at more than $1 billion.
On Artificial Analysis's index, Meta's Muse Spark Open scores 39 against 38 for the Mistral Large 4 preview, which still wins five of ten tests, including Terminal-Bench and AutomationBench. Large 4 generates far more tokens to run the index and costs more at launch pricing; Muse's licence restricts large-scale resale, while Large 4's licence is unpublished and its weights are promised by October 31.
Cloudflare has unveiled Clairic, a model designed to pull structured data out of unstructured inputs. Beyond extraction, Cloudflare says it can compute, estimate and forecast values from that data.
Kling AI's 4.0 video generator handles clips up to 30 seconds, accepts up to ten keyframe images and understands prompts of up to 8,000 tokens. In comparisons with Wan 3.0 and Seedance 2.5 it keeps pace without clearly winning, which may suggest progress in AI video is slowing.