News
Updates, product notes and practical coverage for AI platforms and operators.
Baseten has added Inkling Small to its hosted Model APIs and dedicated-deployment service. The open-weight mixture-of-experts model has 276 billion total parameters, 12 billion active parameters, a one-million-token context window and native text, image and audio inputs.
Featherless has added hosted access to Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model through its OpenAI-compatible API. The initial configuration offers vision input, FP8 quantisation and a 32K context window, while the provider works towards larger context options.
Liquid AI has released two open-weight LFM2.5 encoder models for classification, retrieval and token-level language tasks. The compact 230-million and 350-million parameter models target local, on-premises and high-volume deployments, with an 8,192-token context window and public evaluation code.
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5 across Claude and its API, positioning the model for demanding coding, research and agent workflows. The launch keeps Opus 4.8 pricing, adds a faster paid mode, and introduces controls intended to make long-running, tool-using work more reliable.
xAI has released Grok 4.5 for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, with immediate access through its API, Grok Build and Cursor. The company is positioning the model around engineering performance, faster generation and lower token use, while its benchmark and efficiency claims still require independent testing.