Model launches and upgrades from the big labs and open-weight teams, explained in plain words.
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OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol ($2/$10 per million tokens) and GPT-6 Luna ($0.10/$0.50), lower-cost models that bring some of GPT-6 Astra's advances in coding, computer use and…
OpenAI
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Grok 4.7 improves on Grok 4.6 for long-running coding and knowledge tasks, with better self-verification and context management, while keeping pricing at $2 input and $6 output…
SpaceXAI
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OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra, which it calls its most capable and most aligned model, through ChatGPT, the API, Azure and AWS Bedrock, priced at $10 input and $50 output…
OpenAI
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Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's new workhorse model for coding and agents, with reported gains over 3.6 Flash on software engineering benchmarks such as DeepSWE (65.3% vs 49.0%)…
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DeepSeek made V4-Pro generally available in its app and API, adding agent upgrades, low/high/max reasoning-effort settings, and native support for the OpenAI Responses API tuned…
DeepSeek
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Claude Opus 5 launched at $5/$25 per million tokens, with Anthropic saying it comes close to Fable 5 on coding benchmarks such as CursorBench at about half the cost per task. The…
Anthropic
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OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in three tiers: Sol as the flagship, Terra as a mid-tier model, and Luna as the low-cost option, priced from $5/$30 down to $1/$6 per million tokens at…
OpenAI
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Anthropic released two versions of its Mythos-class model: Fable 5 for general use with safeguards, and Mythos 5 with some safeguards lifted for vetted cybersecurity and…
Anthropic
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Claude Opus 4.8 launched at the same $5/$25 per million token price as Opus 4.7, with Anthropic reporting it is about four times less likely to miss code flaws. Alongside it…
Anthropic
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At I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash across the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, Antigravity and the Gemini API, saying it beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding and agentic benchmarks…
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GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro rolled out to paid ChatGPT plans and to Codex with a 400K context window, with API pricing announced at $5 input and $30 output per million tokens. OpenAI…
OpenAI
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Meta introduced Muse Spark, the first model in its new Muse series, powering the Meta AI app and website with a planned rollout to WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and…
Meta
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GPT-5.4 arrived in ChatGPT (as GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro) and the API, adding native computer-use abilities, up to 1M tokens of context and a tool search feature that OpenAI says…
OpenAI
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Google rolled out Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview across AI Studio, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Vertex AI and the Gemini app. Google reported a verified 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, more than…
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Claude Opus 4.6 became the first Opus-class model with a 1M-token context window (API beta) and 128k output tokens, at unchanged pricing of $5/$25 per million tokens. The launch…
Anthropic
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OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 in three variants, Instant, Thinking and Pro, positioned for professional knowledge work, coding and long-context analysis. It reported gains on SWE-Bench…
OpenAI
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Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.5, reporting state-of-the-art performance on SWE-bench Verified and gains in agentic and computer-use tasks. Pricing fell to $5 per million input…
Anthropic
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Google released Gemini 3 Pro, which it described as its most capable model, and shipped it on day one in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, AI Studio and Vertex AI. It also…
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OpenAI launched Sora 2, a video generation model with synchronised dialogue and sound effects and improved physical realism compared with the original Sora. It came with an…
OpenAI
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Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, reporting state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench Verified and on computer-use benchmarks at the same price as Sonnet 4. It also renamed the…
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