◈ AI Tools
General-purpose AI models and tooling.
OpenAI
The lab behind GPT and ChatGPT
Google DeepMind
Google's unified frontier AI lab
Gemini
Google's multimodal AI assistant
Midjourney
State-of-the-art AI image generation
Google Veo
Google DeepMind's video generation model
AERIOX Studio
Full-stack AI creative OS — image, video, voice, characters.
Higgsfield
Cinematic AI image + video with real camera control.
Kling AI
Kuaishou's cinematic video generator
Fal
Generative media inference platform
Luma AI
Dream Machine — text & image to high-fidelity video.
MiniMax
Chinese AI lab — LLMs, Hailuo video, and lifelike speech.
Reka AI
Multimodal frontier models from an independent lab.
Adobe Firefly
Commercially-safe generative imagery inside Adobe's suite
Baidu ERNIE
Baidu's ERNIE foundation-model family
Black Forest Labs
Frontier visual-intelligence lab behind FLUX
ByteDance Seed
ByteDance's AI research lab behind Doubao and Seedance
Chai Discovery
Frontier biomolecular structure-prediction models
Chemix
Generative AI battery design and chemistry optimization
Claid.ai
Enterprise AI product imaging at catalog scale
Decart
Real-time generative world and video lab
EvolutionaryScale
ESM3 frontier protein language model
Generate Biomedicines
Generative biology platform designing novel protein therapeutics
Hailuo
Fast, expressive text and image-to-video from MiniMax
Hailuo AI
MiniMax's expressive text/image-to-video model
Hedra
Expressive talking and singing character video
Hunyuan
Tencent's open-weight image and video models
HunyuanVideo
Tencent's open-source high-quality video model
InternLM
Open foundation models from Shanghai AI Laboratory
LTX Studio
AI filmmaking studio with open video models
Magnific AI
Extreme AI upscaler and image enhancer
Nightjar
Reusable AI photography styles for catalog consistency
Pebblely
AI lifestyle backgrounds for product photos
Pencil
AI-generated ad creative with performance prediction
Photoroom
AI product photography and background editing for sellers
Pika
Playful idea-to-video generation for creators
Profluent
AI protein and gene-editor design with atomistic control
Recraft
AI image and vector generation for designers and brands
Replicate
Run thousands of open image and video models via one API
Seedance
Narrative-leading video model with multi-shot native audio
Stable Diffusion
The open-source foundation of modern image generation
StepFun
Multimodal-first Chinese frontier lab
Tavus
Real-time conversational AI video humans
Tencent Hunyuan
Tencent's flagship multimodal foundation-model family
Wan
Alibaba's open-source video generation models
World Labs
Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence world-model lab
Xaira Therapeutics
AI-first drug discovery built on generative biology
FLUX
Open-weight image models from Black Forest Labs.
Krea
Real-time AI image and video generation interface.
Llama
Meta's open-weight LLM family, the Western ecosystem anchor.
OpenVLA
Open-source vision-language-action model for robot control.
📰 From the Desk
Google's Cheap Model Just Beat Its Expensive One
Gemini 3.5 Flash outscores Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks at a fraction of the cost — the clearest sign yet that the agent era runs on the fast, cheap tier, not the flagship.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-14 · 5 min readChina's Best Open Coding Model Won't Show Its Work
Moonshot's Kimi K2.7-Code is a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight model that's cheaper and faster than the last one — but every benchmark it cites is Moonshot's own. That's the new pattern worth watching.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-14 · 5 min read
How AI Agents Are Actually Benchmarked in 2026
Every headline score is a lie of omission. Here's how the sausage gets graded — and the low numbers you should actually trust.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-08 · 9 min read
IBM Just Put $10 Billion Behind a 2026 Deadline
IBM committed more than $10B to quantum and declared the era already started — betting that 'quantum advantage' stops being a someday-claim and becomes a this-year fact.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-08 · 5 min read
The Open-Weight Surge Is No Longer a Catch-Up Story
DeepSeek, Qwen, and the Llama lineage closed the gap on frontier closed models faster than the labs admitted was possible. For builders, the math on cost and control just inverted.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-05 · 7 min read
The Benchmark Wars Are Over. Now Comes the Hard Part.
AI coding agents have crossed the 90% SWE-bench threshold — but the real bottleneck is now the human engineer, not the model.
Flux Desk · 2026-06-03 · 6 min read
After the Draft Button: How Agentic AI Rewired the Writing Stack
The cursor blinking on an empty page is the last honest moment left — everything after it is now negotiable.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-30 · 7 min read
The Benchmark Is Broken — and AI Keeps Passing It Anyway
Frontier models are saturating every test researchers can throw at them, forcing a reckoning over what 'intelligence' actually means to measure.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-28 · 5 min read
The Inference Layer Is Now a Battlefield: Who Controls the API Stack Wins
As AI agents flood production systems, the war for the inference layer has moved from model quality to routing intelligence, security hardening, and cost-per-token arbitrage — and the stakes are existential.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-21 · 6 min read
The 6.4-Hour Gap: What Happens When AI Actually Does the Work
Agentic AI has stopped being a chatbot upgrade — it's eating the workday whole, and the companies that haven't redesigned their workflows are already falling behind.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-14 · 5 min read
The Analyst Is Now an Agent: How Agentic AI Is Swallowing the Data Stack
Snowflake, Databricks, and a wave of upstarts are turning business intelligence into autonomous action — and the old BI dashboard may never recover.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-12 · 5 min read
The Throne Is Wobbling: How Claude and Gemini Are Dismantling ChatGPT's Monopoly
ChatGPT still commands the room, but Gemini's scale and Claude's enterprise grip are rewriting who actually controls the AI assistant market.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-07 · 5 min read
The AI Video Model War Enters Its Brutal Second Act
Veo, Sora, Kling, Runway, and Higgsfield are no longer racing for novelty. They're fighting over the one thing that matters now: whether you'll pay them to replace a film crew.
Flux Desk · 2026-05-01 · 7 min readNo discussions yet — start the first one.