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Edition 046 — A diffusion model breaks the token ceiling and Cloudflare stops generating tokens
MiniMax M3.1 Flash scores 42 on the Artificial Analysis index for about $0.22 a task, Inception Labs ships Mercury 3 at 1,068 tokens per second, and Cloudflare's Clairic answers in typed values instead of tokens. Plus Kling 4.0, a 5 MB planar world memory, Fish Audio's 35B multi-speaker TTS, a 950K-parameter speech recognizer, three robotics stories and what Stripe's agent payments now look like.