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Microsoft MAI-Image-2 Hits #3 on Arena.ai

Microsoft MAI-Image-2 Hits #3 on Arena.ai

Microsoft's second-gen image model jumps from top-10 to #3 on the Arena.ai leaderboard. Photorealism, in-image text, and rich scene generation — rolling out to Copilot and Bing now.

MiniMax M2.7 Helped Build Itself

MiniMax M2.7 Helped Build Itself

MiniMax's M2.7 participated in its own training loop — running 100+ autonomous iteration rounds on its own scaffold, achieving a 30% performance boost. SWE-Pro hits 56.22%.

Helios: 14B Video Model That Runs in Real Time

Helios: 14B Video Model That Runs in Real Time

Helios is a 14B-parameter open-weight video generation model that hits 19.5 FPS on a single H100 GPU, generates minute-long videos, and supports text, image, and video inputs — all under Apache 2.0.

OpenAI GPT-5.4: Computer Use and 1M Tokens

OpenAI GPT-5.4: Computer Use and 1M Tokens

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 in standard, Thinking, and Pro variants — its most capable model yet, with native computer-use mode, 1 million token context, 33% fewer errors, and direct Excel and Google Sheets integration.

Nano Banana 2: 4K AI Images Go Mainstream

Nano Banana 2: 4K AI Images Go Mainstream

Google releases Nano Banana 2 — technically Gemini 3.1 Flash Image — bringing 4K resolution, character consistency, and real-time web grounding to AI image generation across the Gemini app, Google Search, and the developer API.

Qwen 3.5: Open-Source 397B That Overdelivers

Qwen 3.5: Open-Source 397B That Overdelivers

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.5 — a 397-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model under Apache 2.0 that activates only 17B parameters per token, supports 201 languages, and claims competitive performance against GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5.