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Notes on new AI models and developer tools, and buying guides for tools in the directory. Sources are linked at the end of every post. RSS
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash: From Oct 19 API Launch to Oct 23 Open Weights (428B / 23B Active)
Four days after MiniMax put M3.1 Flash on the API and said weights would come later, the same account posted that the weights were public: about 428B total parameters, 23B active per token.
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Blender’s GPL: What You Can Do With the Software and With Your Files
The license page draws a line between Blender itself and the files you make in it. This page only repeats that line.
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Blender vs Cinema 4D: License, Platforms, and the Public Price Page
One tool is free software whose output you own. The other is a subscription whose public price page did not show a number.
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AnyPS5 Timeline: From First Commit to v0.1.3, and What the Progress Numbers Mean
AnyPS5 went from an empty GitHub repository to about 45,900 stars in under three months. This timeline uses only the repository, its releases and its own progress data, and explains why the headline percentage is not a share of the PS5.
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Claude Model Release Timeline: Every Claude Version and Its Release Date (2023–2026)
A single dated list of Claude releases, built only from Anthropic’s news pages and the Claude Platform release notes. It covers the Opus, Sonnet and Haiku lines and the newer Mythos and Fable models, including the June 2026 suspension.
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DeepSeek model timeline: V2 to V4.1, licenses and API names (2024–2026)
DeepSeek’s public record is an API changelog plus a set of model READMEs, and the two do not always use the same license words. This page follows the generation changes from V2 to V4.1, quotes the January 2025 sentence that names both R1 and V3, and points at the model card when a number lives there instead of here.
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Gemini Model Release Timeline: Every Gemini Version from 1.0 to Gemini 4 Argon (2023–2026)
One dated list of Google’s Gemini language models, from the 1.0 launch to Gemini 4 Argon. Launch announcements come from Google’s blog; API preview, GA and deprecation dates come from the Gemini API changelog.
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Grok Model Release Timeline: Every Grok Version, with Elon Musk’s Own Words (2023–2026)
A dated list of Grok releases built from xAI’s news pages and developer release notes, with Elon Musk’s posts about upcoming versions quoted word for word and linked to the original post on X, so you can compare what was said with what shipped.
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Kimi model timeline: K1.5 to K3.1 Pro, licenses and context (2025–2026)
Moonshot’s Kimi line runs from a January 2025 research model through Kimi K3 in July 2026 to Kimi K3.1 Pro in October 2026. This page lists each dated release we could tie to a Moonshot page, a GitHub README, a Hugging Face card or an official X post, and it separates a promise to release weights from a date we can actually point at.
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Meta Muse Model Timeline: Muse Spark to Muse Wonder and Wonder Full, with Prices (2026)
Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped seven Muse releases in about six months. Here is each one with its date and Meta’s own source, plus what Muse Wonder costs, how Muse Wonder Full differs, and what Meta has not shown.
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Mistral model timeline: 7B to Large 4, licenses and sizes (2023–2026)
Mistral’s model line is a license story as much as a size story. Apache 2.0, a non-production license and a research license all show up, sometimes on the same day. This page keeps the date, the grant and the parameter split that Mistral printed, and it leaves a conflict in place when two Mistral pages disagree.
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OpenAI GPT Model Release Timeline: ChatGPT to GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol (2022–2026)
One dated list of OpenAI’s GPT and o-series models, from the ChatGPT research preview to the GPT-6 family. API dates come from OpenAI’s own changelog; the GPT-6 entries come from openai.com and the Help Center release notes.
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Qwen model timeline: Qwen-7B to Qwen3-Coder, licenses (2023–2025)
Qwen’s language-model line is long, and the license is not one grant. A 72B model can sit under a different text from the 7B model released beside it. This page uses the Qwen Team blog for dates and says when a table date and a “we now release” sentence are not the same day.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: Release Timeline, Parameters, Prices and What Changed Since September
Developers calling deepseek-flash kept the same model name and the same price. What answered them changed on October 17, five weeks after V4.1 Flash first shipped.
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AI Mathematicians Timeline: OpenAI’s 722 Papers, DeepMind’s Erdős Proofs and What Is Verified
AI and mathematicians are in the news because of two releases in one week: Google DeepMind’s Erdős-problem proofs in Science and OpenAI’s mass release of research manuscripts. This timeline keeps to what the labs, the journal and the foundation have published.
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Google Argon Timeline: What Is Verified About Gemini 4 Argon
If you have seen “Google Argon” in headlines, the product is Gemini 4 Argon (API id gemini-4-argon). This post separates what Google has written on its own pages and official X accounts from what has only been said by others.
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0xraco 开源: What the GPTibo MIT Repo Includes
If you searched gptibo or “0xraco 开源”, start here. GPTibo is a self-hosted digital-goods shop. On Oct 13, 2026 the X account @0xraco posted “GPTibo 停运及开源公告” and linked the code; that link redirects to the MIT repository CoolkHz/gptibo. Neither page says the GitHub account and the X account are the same person. This post separates what those sources say from the rumours: what the code includes, what was left out, what changed on Oct 14, and what you would still build yourself.
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Grok 4.8: What xAI Has Actually Said, and the Grok 4.5 to 4.7 Release Timeline
As of today Grok 4.8 is something Elon Musk has talked about on X, once in September and again on Oct 7, and xAI’s own docs list no such model. The sequence below runs from Grok 4.5 in July to Grok 4.7 in September, and every entry points to a primary page or post.
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Puter and The Everything Project: What Is Verified, With a Timeline
If you searched “puter everything”, two things share the name: the Everything repository that Puter published on Oct 13, 2026, and the “everything you need” line on puter.com. This post sticks to the repositories, the website and the official X posts, and says clearly what is and is not Puter’s own.
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What You Can Do With Google Argon Today: A Practical Guide to Gemini 4 Argon
A hands-on companion to our Argon timeline. Every capability below is tied to a Google docs page, blog post or official X post, and each section ends with a concrete first step.
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Blender vs SolidCraft: Mesh Modeling or Parametric CAD
If the part needs exact dimensions and editable features, a mesh tool is the wrong shape of tool. If it needs to look good, CAD is.
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Blender vs Spline: A Desktop 3D Suite or a Browser Tool for Web Scenes
They overlap on “3D”, and not much else. One produces renders and models; the other produces something a visitor can click.
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How to Choose a Blender Alternative: Start With the Job, Not the Logo
Blender is one program doing many jobs. Almost nothing replaces all of them, so the useful question is which job you want to move.
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Humanizer 12B: A Local AI-Text Rewriter, and What Its Own Numbers Actually Say
The model card is unusually candid about its misses. Read those first; the headline number is the least useful one.
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Humanizer 12B on 8, 16 or 32 GB: Which GGUF File to Download
The card lists six files. Your memory narrows it to one or two, and the table shows what each step down costs.
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Is Blender Worth It? It Isn’t for Sale, So Here’s What It Actually Costs
You cannot buy Blender. The question people mean is whether it is worth the time, and whether a paid tool saves enough of it.
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Ling-3.1-flash: 560B Parameters, 25B Active, and What That Means for Your Hardware
Only 25B parameters work on each token, which sounds small. The weights still all have to live somewhere, and the recommended setup is a rack, not a desktop.
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Meta Muse Spark Open: 816B Weights on Hugging Face, and the Two-Mac-Studio Claim
Meta says this is the most capable US open-weight model to date and that two Mac Studios can run it. The pages let us check the second claim in part, and the first not at all.
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Qwen-Image-2.1 Makes Transparent Images and Edits With Up to 10 References
The headline feature is not image quality. It is that transparent output and editing live in one model, which is what an asset pipeline actually needs.
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Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: Eight Denoising Steps on the Same 7B Generator
Turbo is not a new model. It is the same 7B image generator with a baked-in 8-step schedule, released about four weeks after the base. The catch is in the setup and the license.
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Reflection Beam: From Oct 5 Preview to Apache 2.0 Weights, and the Hardware It Needs
Reflection said the weights would come “later this month” and they did, eleven days later. The release is real. What it takes to run is the part most posts skip.
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Terence Tao vs OpenAI: From Workshop Co-Organizer to “I Don’t See a Way to Constructively Engage”
Tao did not turn against AI proofs. He turned against how this batch arrived: no one attached to the results, and years of junior research disrupted in a day.
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Top-Rated Blender Alternatives: Why We Don’t Publish Star Ratings
Most “top rated” lists rank by whatever the author felt like. Ours says what it sorts by, and what it cannot tell you.