Latest LLM releases

LLM Releases
  1. OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra
    released - OpenAI source

    GPT-6.1 Terra launches in ChatGPT (Work), Codex and the API at $1/$5 per 1M tokens - half of GPT-5.6 Terra - for fast, cheap computer use; OpenAI says it matches GPT-6 Astra at ~1/10 the token price.

  2. MiniMax publishes M3.1 Flash open weights
    license_change - MiniMax source

    428B-total / 23B-active weights published on Hugging Face (MXFP8) under the MiniMax community license.

  3. Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro
    released - Moonshot AI source

    Kimi K3.1 Pro (2.8T total / 104B active MoE, 1M context, image input) launches in the Kimi apps and API at $2/$10 per 1M tokens, plus a 2-3x faster Highspeed tier; weights promised by Nov 4. AA Intelligence Index 55.

  4. MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash
    released - MiniMax source

    M3.1 Flash moves from Token-Plan preview to public launch at $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens.

  5. Inception releases Mercury 3 diffusion LLM
    released - Inception source

    Mercury 3, Inception's flagship diffusion LLM (1M context, ~1,000 tok/s claimed), launches at $0.20/$0.70 per 1M tokens and replaces Mercury 2/2.5.

  6. Mercury 2.5 deprecated in favor of Mercury 3
    deprecated - Inception source

    Mercury 2 and 2.5 closed to new users at the Mercury 3 launch; existing customers keep access until 2026-11-15.

  7. DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017
    released - DeepSeek source

    Updated V4.1-Flash checkpoint with stronger reasoning, coding, agent and visual understanding and shorter outputs; MIT weights on Hugging Face.

  8. Reflection releases Beam open weights
    license_change - Reflection AI source

    Beam-1.0-501B-A23B weights (BF16 / FP8 / NVFP4) published on Hugging Face under Apache-2.0.