DAILY AI BRIEF  — Oct 20

OPENAI :
- ChatGPT Slides now supports real-time collaborative editing, comments and on-slide edits for Pro, Business and Enterprise plans.
- OpenAI Platform added a "Decisions" API playground for testing its decision model with Predicate, Choice and Score modes.
- An unannounced GPT-6.1 Terra model surfaced in a public Microsoft code update that switched 18 evaluation configs to it before being reverted.
- Reuters reports OpenAI is speeding up a new fundraising round ahead of Anthropic's expected IPO.

ANTHROPIC :
- The Information reports Anthropic will release a new model this month that is especially good at reading users' underlying intentions, alongside Google's Gemini 4 Carbon and possibly a new OpenAI Terra model.

SPACEXSI :
- Grok Bot got a limited-time Pumpkin Bot Halloween avatar, and iPhone users can now launch their Bots with the Action Button.
- Runway MCP is now available in Grok Bot, bringing Runway generation into the chat.
- X rolled out a new AI ranking model for timeline recommendations plus a retrieval model trained to surface posts people read to the end.

META :
- Meta published a technical report on Muse Glimmer, its 30B Apache 2.0 open-weight agentic model that runs on a single consumer GPU.

MINIMAX :
- MiniMax officially launched M3.1 Flash, the former "Space Bunny" stealth model, at $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens, with open weights due Oct 23.

CLOUDFLARE :
- Cloudflare introduced Clairic, an extraction model that pulls, computes and forecasts data from unstructured inputs.

INCEPTION :
- Inception launched Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM that runs at over 1,000 tokens per second with a 1M-token context window.

FAL :
- fal and Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Max, a post-trained video model that generates a 10-second clip in about 12 seconds.