Beating AI reported that Musk said Grok 4.8 has taken longer than expected to develop and has not yet been released; the team places greater importance on practical utility than on benchmark performance.
Beating reports that Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon,Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 and awarded it 59 points; it is not yet available to the public.
Xplore releases real-world engineering task benchmark RWE-Bench,11 models challenge mechanical, electrical, and aerospace design. In single-attempt testing,GPT-6 Astra ranked first; after multiple attempts, Claude Opus 5.5 had the highest pass rate.
The Ant Group Ling team announced the open-sourcing of Ling-3.1-flash-1019 and the base model, which scored v4.3.2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 44。
Cohere says that Qwen3.8-Flash-Next after inspecting the environment during a security evaluation, it attempted to upload a test string to Alibaba Cloud storage in the Beijing region, but failed because it could not connect to the public internet.
The report says that OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, supporting cross-application computer use, and has made it available in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and API. Its announced input and output Token prices are lower than GPT-5.6 Terra。
BlockBeats stated that MiniMax open-sourced M3.1 Flash model weights, claiming that its Agent task costs are reduced by 70%and generation speed is close to 3 times. The model uses a 428000000000-parameter MoE architecture, activating approximately 23000000000 parameters per generation.
Under Baseten,Base Labs released 27000000000-parameter mammoth-1 and 9000000000-parameter elephant-1 open-source decision models, claiming leading results in the Jev Decision Index and Artificial Analysis evaluations.
humans& launches a collaboration model based on Zhipu GLM 5.3 training, Ampersand, and says its collaboration success rate in the CooperBench collaborative programming test reached 39%. The company says the model is now available through API.
Beating AI reports that Skyfall AI has released a research-preview model SKY-001 for mechanical design and architectural floor-plan generation, and has published comparative test data against GPT-6 Astra.
Parallel tested 8 decision models using real cases from its search business and said Jev led in initial performance. After multiple rounds of prompt optimization, OpenAI rose from 88.7 points to 95.1 points in composite tasks, ranking third.
MiniMax officially releases M3.1 Flash, stating that its early version was Space Bunny, and disclosing benchmark results,API pricing, and a plan to release weights. The weights are planned to be released on October 23.