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So you want to use OpenRouter?
So you want to use OpenRouter? One of OpenRouter's selling points is that it "handles fallbacks automatically and picks the most cost-effective option for each request", so you can call a single API endpoint for a model and get routed to the best available backend provider. Mohamed Moustafa points out a whole set of ways that this can cause you problems. Different providers run different serving software with different optimizations and settings, which means that the same OpenRouter endpoint can serve model requests that behave in different ways. Some providers even lack vision capability for vision models, and the way the reasoning effort option is processed can differ as well. Thankfully you can control which provider is routed to using the provider.only option . The /endpoints method returns the list of available providers for a specific model ID. Via Hacker News Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , openrouter
The Decoder / 2:06 PM
Suno launches v6 music models built with Warner, BMG, and Believe
Suno has unveiled a new AI music model generation, v6, in three versions, built together with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. All older models are being shut down. Songs can now be partially changed through text commands or generated multimodally from text, audio, and images. The company won't say which catalogs went into training, while Universal and Sony keep suing. The article Suno launches v6 music models built with Warner, BMG, and Believe appeared first on The Decoder .
arXiv AI/ML / 5:57 PM
arXiv paper: Studying Image Tokenizers as Visual Languages in Unified Multimodal Models
A new arXiv AI paper by Siting Li, Zhengyang Wang, and Simon Shaolei Du, and 2 more studies Studying Image Tokenizers as Visual Languages in Unified Multimodal Models.
Hacker News AI / 10:30 AM
GraphMemix: Query-Aware Evidence Forests for Long-Term Multimodal Agent Memory
HN 2 pts · 0 comments
AWS Machine Learning Blog / 9:45 PM
Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Learn how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant that takes customer orders through text, voice notes, and real-time voice calls on a single business number, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Amazon Nova 2. The channel and ordering layers stay separate, and one shared memory recognizes each customer across all three channels.
Hacker News AI / 6:31 PM
Show HN: Run open-weight OCR, VLM and vision models behind one API
HN 5 pts · 0 comments
Product Hunt AI / 8:52 PM
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Our newest multimodal model for video generation and editing Discussion | Link
Simon Willison LLMs / 11:52 PM
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B parameters but only 6B active which means it gets a significant performance boost. I've been trying it out on a DGX Spark using these Unsloth quantized models . I'm still exploring the model - so far I've tried the 72.5GB UD-IQ1_S one (producing these pelicans ) and the 78.9GB UD-Q2_K_XL (producing these ). My favorite so far was this xhigh reasoning effort one from UD-Q2_K_XL: Via Hacker News Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , qwen , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , llm-release , ai-in-china , nvidia-spark
Product Hunt AI / 3:01 PM
GLM-5.3-Flash
The first natively multimodal model in GLM-5 series Discussion | Link
AWS Machine Learning Blog / 5:10 PM
Implement vector-prompt document classification using Amazon Bedrock
Learn how to build a multi-agent document classification solution on Amazon Bedrock using the Strands Agents SDK. Three specialized agents combine textual analysis with Claude Haiku 4.5 and visual similarity search with Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings to accurately classify insurance documents such as policies and affidavits.
Hugging Face Blog / 12:00 AM
Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
Latent Space / 4:30 AM
[AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model
A HUGE win for BFL!
Latent Space / 6:18 AM
[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!
arXiv AI/ML / 5:56 PM
arXiv paper: NOAH: Learning the Full Patient Journey. A Longitudinal Multimodal Time-Aware Model for Representation and Forecasting
A new arXiv AI paper by Tobias Susetzky, Raphael Rehms, and Dmitrii Seletkov, and 5 more studies NOAH: Learning the Full Patient Journey. A Longitudinal Multimodal Time-Aware Model for Representation and Forecasting.
Product Hunt AI / 8:01 AM
HFlow
Scalable multimodal data pipelines for robotics Discussion | Link
Hacker News AI / 3:10 PM
Hacker News discussion: Show HN: Minnarone – Multimodal agents that watch, listen, and react live
Hacker News readers are discussing "Show HN: Minnarone – Multimodal agents that watch, listen, and react live" with 1 points and 0 comments.
The Verge AI / 5:00 PM
Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’
Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a new addition to the Gemini family that follows the launch of 3.5 Live Translate, and comes as we're still waiting for Google to release the Gemini 3.5 Pro model that it […]
The Verge AI / 9:00 AM
Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video
We may have our first glimpse of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate. The short video clip features a man - who is wearing the new AirPods - holding up a book with the cover displayed, so that Visual Intelligence can see the […]
Bloomberg AI / 4:38 PM
Sonos Plans ‘Ace Ultra’ Headphones and Broad Push Into AI
Sonos Inc. is readying a new pair of wireless headphones, the first product in an upcoming hardware wave that will see the audio company push deeper into artificial intelligence and frame its signature whole-home system as an ideal match for cutting-edge AI models and voice interactions.
TechCrunch AI / 4:20 PM
Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
Mistral AI Blog / 12:00 PM
Introducing Shieldstral.
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
TechCrunch AI / 5:07 PM
Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.
Ars Technica AI / 1:35 PM
Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.
arXiv AI/ML / 5:59 PM
arXiv paper: SAFIRE: Safety-Critical Benchmark for Fine-grained Fire and Smoke Understanding in Multimodal LLMs
A new arXiv AI paper by Pengfei Li, Naufal Suryanto, and Sicheng Zhang, and 2 more studies SAFIRE: Safety-Critical Benchmark for Fine-grained Fire and Smoke Understanding in Multimodal LLMs.
arXiv AI/ML / 5:53 PM
arXiv paper: VoT: Vision-of-Thought for Unified Multimodal Representation Alignment
A new arXiv AI paper by Jingxiang Sun, Chao Liao, and Zhengxiong Luo, and 6 more studies VoT: Vision-of-Thought for Unified Multimodal Representation Alignment.
arXiv AI/ML / 4:59 PM
arXiv paper: MEOX: Compact Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts for Earth Observation
A new arXiv AI paper by Mohanad Albughdadi studies MEOX: Compact Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts for Earth Observation.
arXiv AI/ML / 5:59 PM
arXiv paper: Puffin-World: Scaling a Unified Multimodal Model with Native 3D World States
A new arXiv AI paper by Kang Liao, Yihang Luo, and Xiao-Ming Wu, and 7 more studies Puffin-World: Scaling a Unified Multimodal Model with Native 3D World States.
arXiv AI/ML / 5:59 PM
arXiv paper: Uncovering Understanding-Generation Synergy in Native Unified Multimodal Models: From Representation, Task to System
A new arXiv AI paper by Penghao Wu, Haiwen Diao, and Weichen Fan, and 3 more studies Uncovering Understanding-Generation Synergy in Native Unified Multimodal Models: From Representation, Task to System.
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