News and updates about LLM APIs
Midjourney set V8.2 as the default version on July 24, 2026. The official description was only a few short lines: images would be more creative, bolder, more refined, sharper, and fresher, while “the chance of randomly getting low-quality images will be greatly reduced.” For people who actually rely on it to deliver images, this kind…
2026 年 7 月 1 日，Anthropic officially announced that Claude Fable 5 was back and globally available again. This Mythos-class flagship model was released on June 9, pulled just three days later, and then disappeared for nearly three weeks before returning with a brand-new set of safety classifiers on Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and other…
On June 9, 2026, Anthropic quietly pushed claude-fable-5 to the official api.anthropic.com/v1/messages endpoint. This means the first publicly available model in the Claude 5 series is no longer just a rumor on prediction markets—it's a real product you can get an API key for and start using right now. This article skips the marketing fluff…
On June 1, 2026, MiniMax officially launched its new open-weight flagship, MiniMax-M3. This is the industry's first open-weight model to achieve three things simultaneously in a single architecture: frontier-level programming capabilities, a 1 million token context window, and native multimodal input. It scored 59.0 on SWE-Bench Pro, directly surpassing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro, and…
Author's Note: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and Gemini 3 Pro Image reached General Availability (GA) on May 28. This article breaks down the timeline for removing the -preview suffix, the five major changes between Nano Banana Pro and 2, and the key integration points for APIYI users. On May 28, Google DeepMind officially promoted both…
Author's Note: Claude Opus 4.8 was released on May 28, achieving a record-breaking 69.2% on SWE-Bench Pro and introducing Dynamic Workflows for parallel sub-agent capabilities. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the 5 major improvements in programming and Agent capabilities. Anthropic officially released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, with simultaneous availability on AWS…
The release date of the Claude 4.8 series is one of the hottest mysteries in the developer community as of May 2026. Based on firsthand intelligence from English-speaking communities, this article will help you understand the origins of the leaked Claude 4.8 strings, the reality behind the official silence, and the potential implications of the…
APIYI (apiyi.com) has just launched the claude-jupiter-v1-p channel, providing a direct gateway to the official Claude Opus 4.8 preview. This channel forwards requests in strict accordance with the Anthropic protocol and shares the same billing structure as the production-ready claude-opus-4-7 model ($5 per million tokens for input, $25 for output). Developers can test the new…
On May 19, 2026, Google officially launched Gemini 3.5 Flash at the I/O 2026 conference. As the first public model in the Gemini 3.5 series, it uses the API ID gemini-3.5-flash directly without a "preview" suffix, signaling that it is already in GA (General Availability) status. On the same day, the APIYI (apiyi.com) platform completed…
In May, ByteDance teased the release of Seedance 2.1 through international media outlets like Pandaily. It’s expected to deliver a 20% overall quality improvement over version 2.0, marking the most significant update to this product line since the official launch of Seedance 2.0 in February 2026. Meanwhile, the 2.0 series has already branched into "Standard"…
