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Riftrunner | The Secret New AI Everyone Thinks is Gemini 3

Google just triggered the wildest week in AI without saying a single word.

A mysterious model called Riftrunner suddenly appeared on LM Arena with zero announcement, no docs, and no hint from Google and the entire AI community froze to figure out what they were seeing.

Early testers say it reads messy handwriting better than GPT-5, hits SoTA vision levels, and carries the same style as the hidden Gemini 3 checkpoints.

At the same time, ByteDance dropped a coding model priced like a cup of coffee, OpenAI pushed out GPT-5.1 with a huge personality shift, and Black Forest Labs quietly moved Flux 2 Pro into internal preview.

Everything is moving fast, and this breakdown covers all the shocks hitting the AI world right now.

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