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Kimchi Coding becomes first agent to offer MiniMax M3 open-weight model
Cast AI said its autonomous Kimchi Coding agent is the first to offer MiniMax M3, making it the default builder model in Kimchi's orchestration layer. Cast AI cited M3's 59% score on SWE-bench Pro and its MiniMax Sparse Attention architecture, which it says cuts per-token compute at one-million-token context to 1/20th of prior levels with 15x faster decoding. Access is rolling out via an Early Access program.
ACE Robotics' open Kairos world model tops embodied-AI benchmarks
ACE Robotics said its open-source Kairos world model ranked first among evaluated world models and vision-language-action systems across four global embodied-intelligence benchmarks — RoboTwin 2.0, LIBERO-Plus, WorldModelBench Robot and DreamGen — as of June 12. The company says Kairos leads on complex robotic manipulation, scene-level generalization, physical-world modeling and zero-shot transfer, and is openly available on GitHub, Hugging Face and ModelScope.
US government directive forces Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 (a generally available, safety-tuned model) and the restricted Claude Mythos 5 on June 9, but said on June 12 it was suspending access to both after the US government issued an export control directive. Anthropic apologized for the disruption and said it was working to restore access; other Claude models such as Opus 4.8 remain available.
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