Vercel has added Inception's Mercury 3, a diffusion-based language model, to its AI Gateway at half the launch price. The model offers a 1-million-token context window and targets latency-sensitive uses such as browser agents and customer support, and it can be selected in coding agents like Claude Code and Codex.
Vercel has added MiniMax's open-weight multimodal model M3.1 Flash to its AI Gateway, free of charge until October 22 when MiniMax itself serves the request. The model targets coding and agent work, offers a 1M-token context window, and MiniMax says it improves on earlier versions in agentic tasks, coding and cybersecurity.
Mistral has released Timestral, a family of time-series foundation models ranging from 5 million to 209 million parameters. The largest leads the GIFT-Eval, TIME and fev-bench benchmarks among zero-shot models and runs on a CPU.
After months at the top of Arena, the crowd-sourced reference benchmark, Anthropic has been overtaken by Google and Meta. The ranking lists the 20 strongest models of the month.
Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, a compact open-weight multimodal embedding model based on Gemma 4 and licensed under Apache 2.0. It is designed to make semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation more efficient, including on devices.
JDN measured what OpenAI and Anthropic models actually cost on business tasks. The list prices published by the vendors turn out to be a poor guide to the final bill.