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AI Models

Google Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Cyber Model

Google has released three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. The 3.6 Flash model offers improved coding and knowledge work with 17% fewer output tokens and lower costs. The 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest in the series at 350 tokens per second, designed for high-throughput agentic tasks. The 3.5 Flash Cyber model, available only to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender, focuses on finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Google also noted that Gemini 3.5 Pro is being tested with partners and that pre-training for Gemini 4 has begun.

Jul 215 minNeura News

AI Models

Alibaba Qwen-Image-3.0 renders infographics and tiny text in one pass

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-3.0, an image generator designed for practical applications like newspaper layouts and complex infographics. The model processes prompts of up to 4,500 tokens and can render legible text as small as ten pixels, mathematical formulas, and twelve languages in a single pass. It is currently available through invite-only API access, with plans to integrate it into first-party apps like Qwen Chat soon.

Jul 214 minNeura News

AI Models

Google Unveils Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Cyber Model

Google DeepMind has introduced three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. The 3.6 Flash model offers improved coding and multimodal performance with 17% fewer output tokens and lower cost. The 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest in its series at 350 output tokens per second, designed for high-throughput agentic tasks. The 3.5 Flash Cyber, fine-tuned for cybersecurity, will be available exclusively to governments and trusted partners via the CodeMender agent.

Jul 216 minNeura News

AI Models

NVIDIA Vera Rubin Boosts Performance Per Watt, Cuts Token Costs

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform is ramping up with 300 global partners, delivering 10x more tokens per megawatt than Grace Blackwell NVL72 in benchmarks. CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Mistral are among early adopters. The platform's extreme co-design across seven chips and five rack trays achieves the highest performance per watt and lowest token cost for AI factories.

Jul 219 minNeura News

Developer

OpenAI Reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

OpenAI has merged a pull request on GitHub that reduces the Codex model context size from 372,000 tokens to 272,000 tokens. The change, part of a hotfix for version 0.144, was merged on July 18, 2026, and affects bundled model metadata.

Jul 192 minNeura News

Industry

Mozilla Report Maps Open Source AI's Rise and Risks

Mozilla's first State of Open Source AI report finds open-weight models now handle a majority of production tokens on OpenRouter, with 79% of developers using them. The report highlights a 3.3% capability gap with closed models, operational challenges in production, and the rise of the agentic harness as the new competitive frontier. It warns that the window for an open, owned AI future is closing.

Jul 176 minNeura News

Developer

Firefox Compiled to WebAssembly Runs Inside Another Browser

Developer Puter has compiled the Firefox browser to WebAssembly, allowing the entire Gecko-based browser to run inside another browser. The project cost an estimated $25,000 in AI tokens and uses a WebSocket proxy for network traffic. The demo supports end-to-end encryption for HTTPS sites.

Jul 172 minNeura News

AI Models

Kimi K3 Open Model Nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 Performance

Kimi has released K3, a multimodal open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a one million token context window. In benchmarks, it approaches Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol but trails them slightly. Priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, K3 signals an end to ultra-cheap Chinese AI models, though it remains cheaper than top Western competitors.

Jul 165 minNeura News

AI Models

Thinking Machines Lab Releases Open-Weight Inkling AI Model

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first open-weights AI model. The 975B parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer is Apache-2.0 licensed and trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video. While not a frontier model, it aims to serve as a strong base for fine-tuning via the Tinker platform.

Jul 163 minNeura News

AI Models

Anthropic Launches First Mythos-Class AI Model Claude Fable 5

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, its most powerful widely available AI model and the first from the previously withheld Mythos class. The company claims new safeguards make the release safe by blocking responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology, falling back to the Claude Opus 4.8 model. Pricing is double that of Opus 4.8, at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.

Jun 93 minNeura News

AI Models

Agentic AI makes tokens a key business metric

Generative AI is moving from flat-rate subscriptions to usage-based billing as agentic workflows consume far more tokens. The token price itself is splitting into segments by speed, specialization, and value. However, measuring costs precisely while benefits remain vague risks turning token usage into a misleading proxy for productivity.

Jun 810 minNeura News

Developer

MCP faces criticism over context bloat and reliability issues

Developers at Quandri ran experiments on MCP (Model Context Protocol) and found it consumes up to 10.5% of the context window with tool definitions alone. The CLI approach uses 65x fewer tokens for the same task. The article explores alternatives like Skills that wrap existing CLI commands.

May 305 minNeura News