MiniMax-M3 debuts, eclipsing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmark performance for just 5-10% of the cost

MiniMax-M3 debuts, eclipsing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmark performance for just 5-10% of the cost

Big news in enterprise AI broke over the weekend as Chinese AI startup MiniMax released its highly anticipated M3 large language model on Sunday evening Eastern time, pairing frontier-tier coding and agentic performance with a 1-million-token context window and native multimodality for a fraction of the cost of leading proprietary models, with pricing starting at … Read more

The design bottleneck for solo founders? AI has solved it.

The design bottleneck for solo founders? AI has solved it.

Presented by Design.comSomething significant is happening in how people build businesses. There are currently 29.8 million solopreneurs contributing $1.7 trillion to the U.S. economy, and over 80% of all U.S. small businesses now operate with no employees. In 2024 alone, entrepreneurs filed 5.2 million new business applications — and LinkedIn reported a 69% jump in … Read more

Zip’s new AI agents want to stop your finance team from uploading contracts into personal ChatGPT accounts

Zip’s new AI agents want to stop your finance team from uploading contracts into personal ChatGPT accounts

Zip, the AI procurement platform valued at $2.2 billion, announced two products on Monday that mark a turning point in its evolution from procurement software to autonomous AI platform: a suite of five AI “Superagents” that can review contracts, code invoices, and negotiate with vendors inside Zip’s governance framework, and a procurement-native implementation of the … Read more