MiniMax officially launched M3.1 Flash, with an API input price of $0.15 per million words. New AA evaluations show improvements in both capabilities and task costs. OpenAI reportedly accelerated its approximately $30 billion funding round, aiming to

2026-10-20

MiniMax officially launched M3.1 Flash, with an API input price of $0.15 per million words. New AA evaluations show improvements in both capabilities and task costs. OpenAI reportedly accelerated its approximately $30 billion funding round, aiming to secure funds before Anthropic's expected IPO. On the application side, Notion expanded its long-term agents and subscription connections, Google added pre-generation review, Microsoft strengthened agent risk control, and Chery disclosed progress on its internal AI applications.