ThursdAI Recap: DeepSeek v4 Flash Price Drop, MiniMax Releases Open-Source Video Model H3
altryne · x · 2026-08-07
This week's ThursdAI covers major AI industry updates:
- Open Source: DeepSeek updated its v4 flash model with significantly better benchmarks and disruptive pricing. Meta and Prime Intellect released new agent harnesses.
- Video Generation: Bytedance's Seedance 2.5 hit the US market, alongside WAN from Alibaba and BFL Flux 3. MiniMax released H3, the best open-weights video model to date.
- Industry Shakeup: Google saw major restructuring with executive departures, and OpenAI shared details of the HF hack at Black Hat.
Related event: This Week in AI: Video Models Boom, DeepSeek Updates(3 posts)→
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