# Highlights - August 2026

Added inference-kimi-k3 (Kimi K3) to Sandbox Models for performance, stability, and cost validation; promotion to the Active Models catalog is pending successful evaluation. Hugging Face reference: moonshotai/Kimi-K3.

Added inference-minimax-h3 (MiniMax H3) to Sandbox Models for performance, stability, and cost validation; promotion to the Active Models catalog is pending successful evaluation. Hugging Face reference: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3.

Added Document conversion with Docling, a managed document conversion API on the AI Model as a Service platform that turns PDFs, Office files, images and more into structured output such as Markdown, JSON and HTML using inference-qwen3-vl-235b.

Added inference-deepseek-v4-flash (DeepSeek V4 Flash) to Active Models on the Phoeniqs Model Service. Hugging Face reference: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731. Reasoning model with a 1M-token context window.

Scheduled inference-apertus-70b (Apertus 70B) for decommissioning on 21.08.2026; see Scheduled for Retirement. Suggested replacement: inference-apertus-v15-70b (Apertus v1.5 70B) on Active Models.

Added IPv4 address documentation to How Phoeniqs Cloud Works, covering subscription assignment to Capacity Pools, public internet reachability, and allocation rules.

Updated GPU Infrastructure and How Phoeniqs Cloud Works: users can enable VM passthrough or container GPU when provisioning a GPU subscription in the portal.