> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.apiyi.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Live Updates

> Real-time model status, industry news, and service updates from APIYI

<Update label="2026/7/22 23:59" description="Service Notice" tags={["Service Notice"]}>
  ✅ **Website 502 from 23:07–23:20 (UTC+8) tonight is resolved — please retry tasks that failed during the window** —— An upstream backend server vendor started its maintenance (originally scheduled for 7/23 01:00–05:00 UTC+8) roughly 2 hours early, causing a sudden interruption; our backend failover was ready to switch at any time, but cache and DNS resolution caching still caused about 15 minutes of disruption. Force-refresh if the site feels sluggish — API endpoints are no longer affected.

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/website-502-recovered)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/22 09:45" description="New Model" tags={["Google", "New Model"]}>
  🚀 **Gemini 3.6 Flash & 3.5 Flash-Lite dual launch, 30+ test cases verified per model on both endpoints** —— Google's two July stable text models are live in the `default` / `svip` groups: `gemini-3.6-flash` at \$1.50/\$7.50 and `gemini-3.5-flash-lite` at \$0.30/\$2.50 per 1M tokens, identical to official pricing; Search grounding, code execution and other native tools all verified working — 3.6 thinks by default (four controllable tiers), Lite ships zero-thinking with \~2s responses. Onboarding: [3.6 Flash Overview](/en/api-capabilities/gemini-3-6-flash/overview).

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/gemini-3-6-flash-lite-launch)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/21 16:00" description="New Model" tags={["Alibaba", "New Model"]}>
  🚀 **HappyHorse video series now on sale: flagship upgraded to 1.1, default 98% of official price** —— Four Alibaba video models in one release: `happyhorse-1.1-t2v` / `happyhorse-1.1-i2v` / `happyhorse-1.1-r2v` (up to 9 reference images) / `happyhorse-1.0-video-edit`; shares the `Wan&HappyHorse` group and endpoint with Wan — just switch the `model` name. Pricing is built into the system: 0.14x rate × fixed 1:7 exchange rate = 98% of official, down to \~81% with recharge bonuses. Onboarding: [HappyHorse Overview](/en/api-capabilities/happyhorse/overview).

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/happyhorse-launch)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/21 12:22" description="New Model" tags={["ByteDance", "New Model"]}>
  🚀 **Seed 2.1 Turbo is live — both endpoints verified 15/15** —— ByteDance's high-frequency production text model `dola-seed-2-1-turbo-260628` is available on the `default` / `svip` groups at \$0.50 input / \$2.50 output per 1M tokens; Chat Completions and Responses are both verified, with implicit + explicit two-layer caching. Note deep thinking is ON by default — disable it explicitly for high-frequency workloads. Onboarding: [Model Overview](/en/api-capabilities/dola-seed-2-1-turbo/overview).

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/seed-2-1-turbo-launch)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/20 20:08" description="Service Notice" tags={["Service Notice"]}>
  🚀 **AI Image Master playground upgraded: hardened network stability and a redesigned model picker UI** —— The model picker is now grouped by vendor (Google / OpenAI / Seedream / Flux — 17 models), with each model labeled with its expected generation time and per-image price; network-layer stability has been hardened in the same release. Try it login-free: [imagen.apiyi.com](https://imagen.apiyi.com/).

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/imagen-stability-ui-upgrade)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/18 01:12" description="New Model" tags={["Moonshot", "New Model"]}>
  🚀 **Kimi K3 is live — \$3/\$15 per 1M tokens, identical to official pricing** —— Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source flagship released 7/16, the largest open-source model ever: a 1M context priced flat across the whole range, #1 on LMArena Frontend Code Arena, native image/video input; APIYI has launched `kimi-k3`, with cache-hit input as low as \$0.30 and recharge bonuses giving an easy \~9% off (recharge \$100, get 10%), up to \~17% off — deep dive at [Kimi K3 Launch](/en/news/kimi-k3-launch).

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/kimi-k3-launch)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/17 11:58" description="Model Status" tags={["Google", "Model Status"]}>
  ✅ **Nano Banana Pro & 2 run on pure official AI Studio relay — consistently stable, bring your traffic** —— Since Nano Banana launched in November 2025, `gemini-3-pro-image` / `gemini-3.1-flash-image` and the lite series have run exclusively on the official AI Studio relay (an official Vertex group is also available) — never a reverse-engineered channel; a price well below official does not mean a reverse-engineered source. Professionalism earns trust.

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/nano-banana-pro-2-official-aistudio)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/15 16:19" description="Model Status" tags={["OpenAI", "Model Status"]}>
  ✅ **`gpt-image-2-all` speed is back to normal — fast cases complete in about 40 seconds** —— The ChatGPT website has recovered its compute capacity and this reverse-engineered model's speed has returned to normal with it, with first-byte times mostly in the 30-60 second range in our logs; send traffic with confidence — no RPM cap to worry about, and supply is ample.

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/gpt-image-2-all-compute-restored)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/15 13:52" description="Model Status" tags={["Google", "Model Status"]}>
  📊 **Nano Banana Pro & 2 have stayed fast for the past 20 days — averaging about 30 seconds per image** —— Cards on the table: `gemini-3-pro-image` and `gemini-3.1-flash-image`, the core workhorse image models on APIYI, have been consistently fast in our monitoring over the past 20 days and just as stable under high concurrency; we'll keep working hard to safeguard operations and supply.

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/nano-banana-pro-2-speed-report)
</Update>

<Update label="2026/7/15 12:49" description="Docs Update" tags={["Docs Update"]}>
  📚 **New docs group "Image API Essentials" with the new "Must-Read & Best Practices" page now live** —— Key takeaway: all image models are synchronous calls with no async task ID — a dropped connection loses the result but is still billed, so a generous `timeout` is rule number one; the page includes per-model timeout recommendations and a base64 / URL output reference table, and the existing "Image Compression & Output Resolution" and "How to Generate Satisfying Images" pages have moved into this group — read it at [Must-Read & Best Practices](/en/api-capabilities/image-api-best-practices).

  📖 [View details](/en/live/2026-07/image-api-best-practices)
</Update>

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> 📖 For earlier updates, visit the [Live Updates Archive](/en/live/archive) — browse history by month, category, or vendor.

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