[AINews] not much happened today

Congrats to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and Mercury 3 (details below) but they're not going to be in super wide use just yet.

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2026-10-20 05:21 · Latent Space
[AINews] not much happened today

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