Following the launch of Gemini 3.5 Flash on May 19, 2026, the developer community isn't asking "does it work?" but rather "can it directly replace the Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview models we've been running since late last year?" Google has repeatedly emphasized that 3.5 Flash "outperforms 3.1 Pro" in coding, tool calling, and Agent tasks….
Many teams automatically migrated all their Gemini traffic to Gemini 3.5 Flash after its GA release on May 19, 2026, including high-frequency, lightweight tasks like translation, subtitle generation, and content moderation. This is a clear misjudgment. For scenarios where inputs and outputs are short, price-sensitive, latency-sensitive, and don't require agentic tool orchestration, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite…
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…
Here's an update that developers should definitely keep an eye on. On April 28, 2026, the ByteDance Dola foundation model family launched its first omnimodal understanding model, Seed-2.0-lite-260428. It natively supports four input modalities: video, image, audio, and text. This is the first model in the Dola Seed family that can "both see and hear,"…
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"…
An interesting discovery! Recently, many developers trying out the M2.7 model released by MiniMax in March 2026 have run into a counterintuitive issue: this flagship model, touted as the "king of code and Agent workflows," doesn't actually support image input. Considering that multimodal capabilities are now standard in Claude 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 3, it's…
When using the Nano Banana Pro API for architectural rendering, product image base-layering, or e-commerce scene generation, you might encounter a head-scratcher: you upload two reference images and write a clear prompt, but the result looks like a "carbon copy" of one of the originals, completely ignoring your editing instructions. This phenomenon has become significantly…
Great news! Previously, many users reported that the recharge process via USDT or manual wire transfers was cumbersome, involved long wait times, and lacked the seamless international experience provided by major vendors like OpenAI and Anthropic. To ensure our global users can pay as easily as they would for a local SaaS service, APIYI (apiyi.com)…
The biggest cost sink in running LLM applications isn't output tokens—it's the redundant retransmission of system prompts and long documents. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have provided a solution: prompt caching. However, their billing philosophies are completely different: OpenAI follows a "zero-configuration, moderate discount" path, while Claude follows an "explicit declaration, deep discount" path. This article…
With the Google I/O 2026 keynote just a day away, Google can no longer keep its secrets under wraps. On May 5, developers managed to extract Gemini 3.2 Flash from the iOS Gemini app and Google AI Studio, while the "Liquid Glass" interface for the web version was also leaked ahead of schedule. The most…
