OpenRouter Adds MAI-Image-2.6-Flash: Fast, Low-Cost Image Generation
OpenRouter introduces MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, a faster production image model delivering comparable quality to the flagship at under half the price, with Microsoft…
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 Now on OpenRouter, Tops AI Image Editing Benchmarks
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 is now available on OpenRouter, offering high-quality generation and precise, controllable editing, with reported #2 Arena rankings an…
Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.6 Now on OpenRouter, with Faster Flash Variant
Microsoft’s newest image model, MAI-Image-2.6, and its faster production variant 2.6-Flash, are now available on OpenRouter, supporting multi-image editing, web…
GPT-6 Astra Tops Terminal Bench 4.0 at Half the Cost
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra has reached #1 on Terminal Bench 4.0 using the Codex harness, reportedly at 50% of the cost of the runner-up.
Resemble AI Joins Summer Signal '26 as Multimodal Detection Partner
Resemble AI is joining Summer Signal '26 as GMI Cloud's multimodal detection partner, covering synthetic speech, voice cloning, TTS, watermarking, and detection…
Perplexity Unveils Custom Serving Infrastructure to Cut Embedding Search Costs
Perplexity details new serving infrastructure (Ivy, Tulip, ROSE) that improves throughput and lowers latency and cost for online and batch embedding workloads.
Perplexity's Ivy: The HTTP Gateway Behind Its AI Serving Stack
Perplexity explains how Ivy, its HTTP gateway, handles request parsing, tokenization, templating, and batch splitting before sending workloads to Tulip inferenc…
Perplexity Publishes Research on SoTA Serving Infrastructure for Embedding and Ranking Models
Perplexity announced the publication of research on how it built state-of-the-art serving infrastructure for the embedding and ranking models behind every answe…
OpenAI's GPT-6-Astra Now Available on Requesty
OpenAI's GPT-6-Astra is now available on Requesty, with input at $10/M, cached input at $1/M, and output at $50/M.
GPT-6 Astra Goes Live in Command Code
Command Code announced that GPT-6 Astra is now live on its platform.