Updates on Multimodal AI

Every AI story we track on Multimodal AI: 37 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

[AINews] Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3× speed

Latent.Space
Machine Learning5 min read

Meet Drex Max: Nace AI’s Multimodal Decision Model for Computer-Use Agents with a Score 67.59

MarkTechPost
Agents5 min read

MiniMax Just Launched M3.1 Flash: 428B MoE Agentic Model at $0.15/M Input

MarkTechPost

This month

Machine Learning3 min read

Clef is available on Ollama's cloud

Ollama Blog
Dev2 min read

MiniMax M3.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway for free

Vercel
Robotics5 min read

NEURA Robotics Unveils Neuron AI Foundation Model for Physical AI

Unite.AI
Machine Learning5 min read

Meet Cloudflare Clef-omni: A 30B-A3B Multimodal Decision Model for Audio, Video, Image and Text

MarkTechPost
Agents3 min read

Grok Bot Is Now a Model Router as SpaceX Continues to Pivot Further Toward AI Infrastructure

Covered by 2 sources
Machine Learning6 min read

Liquid AI Releases Open-Weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M: Multimodal Decision Models With Zero Output Tokens

MarkTechPost
AI Research9 min read

NVIDIA Research Finds AI Agents Become Less Safe When Using Tools

Unite.AI
Machine Learning4 min read

Reka Releases Rho-1: A 19B Omni-Reasoning Model That Understands, Generates Video and Outputs Robot Actions in One

MarkTechPost
Video Generation5 min read

Google Research Introduces an AI Video Co-Director: 4 Agentic Frameworks for Coherent, Minutes-Long Video Generation

MarkTechPost

“Impressive level of openness”: Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight playbook with MiMo-V2.6

The New Stack (AI)
Dev4 min read

Xiaomi introduces Mimo-V2.6 series open-source AI model family

Covered by 4 sources

Multimodal Agents by Sierra

Product Hunt
Machine Learning10 min read

Why DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Is Such an Exciting Open Model Release

KDnuggets
Computer Vision2 min read

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash now available on AI Gateway

Covered by 2 sources
Dev1 min read

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Product Hunt
Video Generation4 min read

Mango AI: image/video generation with Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2, Seedance 2

Hacker News

Single-provider vs. multi-provider architectures for multimodal AI apps

Hacker News
Computer Vision5 min read

LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge

Covered by 2 sources
Dev1 min read

NagaAI – Cheaper AI Aggregator (Like Poe, OpenRouter, etc.)

Hacker News
AI Research10 min read

Top 10 AI Influencers of 2026

KDnuggets

ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model

MarkTechPost
Video Generation2 min read

Seedance 2.5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel

China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy

Covered by 5 sources
Machine Learning6 min read

Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

Covered by 4 sources
Dev10 min read

Scaling UX testing with Amazon Nova Act: A new approach to user flow analysis

AWS Blog

Embed the world: Multimodal AI for searchable aerial imagery at scale

AWS Blog

Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI

Hugging Face

Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

Covered by 2 sources

Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device

Hugging Face

Granite 4.0 3B Vision: Compact Multimodal Intelligence for Enterprise Documents

Hugging Face
That's everything we have on Multimodal AI right now