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.
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.
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run the index and costs more at launch pricing; Muse's licence restricts large-scale resale, while Large 4's licence is unpublished and its weights are promised by October 31.
Nvidia has released new open models aimed at companies that want to run their own models in their own data centers. The launch also pushes private AI agents that run on the device.
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a mixture-of-experts model with 428 billion parameters, about 23 billion of them active, and a 1M-token context window. API pricing is $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, and the weights are due on October 23.
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.