# Highlights - August 2026
- Added `inference-kimi-k3` (Kimi K3) to [Sandbox Models](../maas/sandbox-models.md) for performance, stability, and cost validation; promotion to the [Active Models](../maas/active-models.md) catalog is pending successful evaluation. Hugging Face reference: [moonshotai/Kimi-K3](https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3).

- Added `inference-minimax-h3` (MiniMax H3) to [Sandbox Models](../maas/sandbox-models.md) for performance, stability, and cost validation; promotion to the [Active Models](../maas/active-models.md) catalog is pending successful evaluation. Hugging Face reference: [MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3).

- Added [Document conversion with Docling](../maas/model-service-guides/document-conversion-with-docling.md), 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](../maas/active-models.md) on the Sunrise Model Service. Hugging Face reference: [deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731](https://huggingface.co/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](../maas/scheduled-for-retirement.md). Suggested replacement: `inference-apertus-v15-70b` (Apertus v1.5 70B) on [Active Models](../maas/active-models.md).

- Added IPv4 address documentation to [How Sunrise Cloud Works](../iaas/getting-started/how-it-works.md#ipv4-address), covering subscription assignment to Capacity Pools, public internet reachability, and allocation rules.

- Updated [GPU Infrastructure](../iaas/platform-architecture/gpu-infrastructure.md) and [How Sunrise Cloud Works](../iaas/getting-started/how-it-works.md#gpu): users can enable **VM passthrough** or **container GPU** when provisioning a GPU subscription in the portal.