"It will be available in private preview via API to select partners, and we hope to open-source future versions of the model."

from Facebook Newsroom: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/04/introducing-muse-spark-met...

I can't think of any "select partners" that would want to use this non-SOTA model. Just put it on OpenRouter.

If Microsoft is a select partner, maybe they could shove it into Copilot for VS or something, but yeah, I'm wondering the same, maybe Apple could be one of their partners too?

here: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-flash-...

also deepmind page: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-audio/

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image is based on Gemini 3 Flash.

source: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-flash-...

Model Card: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-flash-...

Blog Post: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-ban...

Developer Blog: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-...

Same here, but they’re gradually rolling it out since many users are slowly getting it under Tools.

AWS and Google

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-partners-with-googl...

They're probably saving 5 for a bigger leap.

Can confirm.

DownDetector showing widespread reports: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

There’s also https://v1.run/ (packrun.dev) experimenting with an npm registry for agents that adds package scoring and MCP integration for AI coding assistants.

The official blog post was submitted earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990637), but somehow this story ranked up quickly on the homepage.

@dang will often replace the post url & merge comments

HN guidelines prefer the original source over social posts linking to it.