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Tool tag: Multimodal

Nano Banana

Google's Gemini image family — Pro, 2, 2 Lite and the legacy original. Prices run $0.0336 to $0.24 per image, and the cheapest one outranks the flagship.

Dola (formerly Cici)

ByteDance's overseas AI assistant, renamed from Cici in November 2025. Free chat, translation and image generation, region-locked out of the US and China.

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, GA September 2, 2026. 1M-token context, $0.75/$3.75 per 1M introductory, plus a gated Flash Cyber variant.

Muse Spark 1.3

Meta's frontier reasoning model, shipped September 2, 2026: a 1M-token multimodal agent model at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens.

Muse Glimmer

Meta's Apache 2.0 open-weight 30B multimodal agent model, distilled from Muse Spark and built to run offline on a single 24 GB consumer GPU.

Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba's flagship Qwen model, released August 3, 2026. A 2.4T-parameter MoE with 95B active, 1M token context, text/image/video input — and open weights.

MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3.0)

MiniMax's omni-modal video model, announced July 31, 2026: 33B open weights, 2K video up to 15 seconds, with stereo audio generated jointly.

Seedance 2.5

ByteDance Seed video model, launched July 31, 2026: 30-second audio-video in one pass and 50 reference inputs. No technical report or rate card yet.

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI's flagship: a 2.8T-parameter MoE with 104B active, 1M context and native vision. Open weights shipped July 27, 2026.

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab's first open-weights model: a 975B-parameter multimodal MoE with 41B active, 1M-token context and controllable thinking effort.