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COMPLETE MONTHLY ARCHIVE

May 2026

Control became the creative advantage: better video direction, longer-running agents and open systems for science and robotics.

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The AI Search helps discover the wider field, while every available card opens the original publication. Dates come only from publication metadata or official source APIs—never from a video. A checked date records our review, not the release. Older undated entries show their archive month.

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Publication preview for Minimax M3MINIMAX.IO
MODELSPUBLISHED 31 May

Minimax M3

MiniMax M3: Frontier Coding, 1M Context, Native Multimodality — All in One Model - MiniMax Research

M3 reaches frontier capability on coding and agentic tasks, introduces the brand-new MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention) supporting up to 1M context, and is a natively multimodal model. It is the only domestic model combining all three Frontier essentials and…

Publication preview for AutoScientistsAUTOSCIENTISTS.OPENSCIENTIST.AI
RESEARCHMONTH MAY

AutoScientists

AutoScientists — Self-Organizing Agent Teams for Long-Running Scientific Experimentation

A decentralized team of AI agents that self-organize into research teams, run experiments in parallel, and reorganize when directions stagnate. +8.33% on BioML-Bench, 1.9× faster on GPT optimization, +12.5% Spearman on ACE2–Spike.

Publication preview for GenReconKASOTHAPHIE.GITHUB.IO
MODELSMONTH MAY

GenRecon

GenRecon: Bridging Generative Priors for Multi-View 3D Scene Reconstruction

High-fidelity PBR mesh reconstructions of 3D indoor scenes from sparse images or casual videos leveraging a 3d generative prior.

Publication preview for MiniCPM5 1BHUGGINGFACE.CO
MODELSMONTH MAY

MiniCPM5 1B

openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B · Hugging Face

MiniCPM5 1B is published on Hugging Face. Open the model or project card for the author’s documentation, files, license and usage details.

Publication preview for Opus 4.8ANTHROPIC.COM
MODELSMONTH MAY

Opus 4.8

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, and professional work, and the consistency to handle long-running work.

Publication preview for Pantheon 360KOI953215.GITHUB.IO
MODELSMONTH MAY

Pantheon 360

Pantheon360: Taming Digital Twin Generation via 3D-Aware 360° Video Diffusion

A 3D-aware 360° video diffusion model that generates controllable, geometrically consistent panoramic videos from sparse inputs along user-defined camera trajectories. CVPR 2026.

Publication preview for PhysX OmniPHYSX-OMNI.GITHUB.IO
MODELSMONTH MAY

PhysX Omni

PhysX-Omni: Unified Simulation-Ready Physical 3D Generation for Rigid, Deformable, and Articulated Objects

PhysX-Omni: Unified Simulation-Ready Physical 3D Generation for Rigid, Deformable, and Articulated Objects

Publication preview for Relightable charsVCAI.MPI-INF.MPG.DE
MODELSMONTH MAY

Relightable chars

Relightable Holoported Characters: Capturing and Relighting Dynamic Human Performance from Sparse Views

We present Relightable Holoported Characters (RHC), a novel person-specific method for free-view rendering and relighting of full-body and highly dynamic humans solely observed from sparse-view RGB videos at inference. In contrast to classical…

Publication preview for Self Improving AIGUOWEIXU.COM
MODELSMONTH MAY

Self Improving AI

Self-Improving Language Models with Bidirectional Evolutionary Search

A search framework that couples forward candidate evolution with backward goal decomposition.

Publication preview for Step 3.7 FlashSTATIC.STEPFUN.COM
MODELSMONTH MAY

Step 3.7 Flash

Step 3.7 Flash — A high-efficiency Flash model for Real-World

Multimodal Understanding & Action|Web & Visual Search Enhancement|Reliable Tool Use & Orchestration|Agent Ecosystem Compatibility

Publication preview for TriSplatLHMD.TOP
MODELSMONTH MAY

TriSplat

TriSplat | Simulation-Ready Feed-Forward 3D Scene Reconstruction

TriSplat: Simulation-Ready Feed-Forward 3D Scene Reconstruction project page.

Publication preview for ElevenLabs Dubbing v2ELEVENLABS.IO
MEDIAPUBLISHED 28 May

ElevenLabs Dubbing v2

Introducing Dubbing v2

ElevenLabs’ new dubbing model conditions on the original performance to carry tone, pacing and emotional intent into synchronized speech across more than 90 languages.

Publication preview for RAI AthenaZeroRAI-INST.COM
MODELSPUBLISHED 27 May

RAI AthenaZero

A New Benchmark in Robot Juggling | RAI Institute

AthenaZero can juggle barehanded using onboard vision feedback. By using multi-fingered hands, it can transition seamlessly between a wide range of juggling patterns.

Publication preview for Bonsai ImagePRISMML.COM
MEDIAPUBLISHED 26 May

Bonsai Image

PrismML — Introducing 1-bit and Ternary Bonsai Image 4B: Image Generation for Local Devices

Today we’re releasing Bonsai Image 4B , a family of compact image-generation models designed to run high-quality diffusion inference on local hardware: from laptops to phones.

Publication preview for ElevenLabs Music v2ELEVENLABS.IO
MEDIAPUBLISHED 26 May

ElevenLabs Music v2

Introducing Music v2, our groundbreaking new music model

Music v2 improved vocals, instrumentation, multilingual output and arrangement while adding section-level composition and inpainting for regenerating only part of a track.