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MiniMax says the model is nearly three times faster and 70% cheaper for agentic tasks than its predecessor.
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MiniMax teased the model’s arrival; OpenRouter lists it as multimodal with a 1-million-token context window.
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A post says MiniMax-M3.1 Flash is incoming and argues the US remains clearly ahead of China in AI.
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OpenRouter says Krea 3 takes 1–4 reference images and a prompt, returning an edited image at native 2K.
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A user says Moondream 3 is finally available there and links to a video.
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OpenRouter says Armor works with any model or harness.
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One post lists a box API and says quality is better; another describes an opt-in gate for tinkerers.
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OpenRouter says Rasp researches every inbound lead and that many receive a reply in under 60 seconds.
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OpenRouter reported 180ms on global requests and said Jev and Perplexity Decider followed in speed.
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The New Stack reports that Perplexity, Cloudflare and Amazon are pushing open-weight alternatives.
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A post announcing the addition links to a quick guide on which models to use.
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OpenRouter says the rankings show spend and token share by decision model and task type.
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Perplexity says its new pplx-decider-v1.1-27b model costs $0.02 per million input tokens, half the price of v1. OpenRouter later said the model was also available there with text, JSON, or image inputs and free output.
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OpenRouter says the decision model takes an app's state and typed questions, then returns typed answers with probabilities attached.
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OpenRouter calls keeping up with new model launches a “full time job.”
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Perceptron says the model can fly drones, control four-legged robots and power smart glasses, with no platform-specific retraining.
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OpenRouter says its alerts also cover workspace budgets and API key limits, with controls for which events trigger notifications and how they're delivered.
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OpenRouter says Prime Intellect’s Vincent Weisser joined New Defaults to discuss open models, routing and the economics of model choice.
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OpenRouter says Typesafe's Jev returns structured decisions with probabilities rather than generated text. A browser-agent creator reports using it with Browser Use to find flights in 7 seconds for $0.0039.