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Every consequential model release in one place: frontier launches, open-weight drops, capability jumps, benchmark results and pricing changes across OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and the open-source community.
DeepSeek twice warned of a "significant" increase without naming a number or a date. Both have now arrived — and the largest rise is not the one being quoted.
22h ago
Qwen3.8-27B is dense, not mixture-of-experts, carries a 262,144-token native context, and arrives with every benchmark self-reported.
2d ago
GLM-5.3 sits on the same 753B foundation as GLM-5.2. Every claimed gain comes from post-training — and the weights are not out for two more weeks.
4d ago
Enterprise automation scores nearly doubled and long-horizon software engineering went from 49.0% to 65.3%. Introductory pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens until New Year.
4d ago
V4-Pro-0813 adds the Responses API and tool calls. The more consequential line is a note on the pricing page about an imminent increase.
5d ago
An Intelligence Index of 61 and a 500K context, built by post-training Grok 4.5 rather than pretraining anything new. On coding it still trails GPT-5.6.
5d ago
Muse Glimmer runs on one consumer GPU and carries a genuinely permissive licence. The release went out through Hugging Face and a Zuckerberg essay.
6d ago
The next open-weight release is set to carry a revenue-share licence for large commercial users, following Moonshot's Kimi K3 terms. Alibaba's own percentage is not set.
Aug 9, 2026
Free and Go accounts get unlimited text chats and GPT-5.6 Luna as the default. Neither ships this week, and the reasoning models stay behind the subscription.
Aug 9, 2026
The company that started the AI price war told developers on 6 August that its API is about to get substantially more expensive. It published no rate card, no effective date and no explanation.
Aug 6, 2026
Qwen3.8-Max went live Monday morning with a benchmark table showing wins over GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5. The same table, read in full, shows it losing every hard agentic-engineering row.
Aug 3, 2026
The weights landed on Hugging Face early Monday, three days after the model was announced. The licence defines an "Applicable Territory" that excludes four of the largest markets — and the modules that produce the advertised 2K output never left the API.
Aug 3, 2026
An internal version called Astra produced proofs for ten long-open questions in mathematics and theoretical computer science, each formalised in Lean. The model is unreleased and the name is provisional.
Aug 1, 2026
V4-Flash went official on Friday at roughly a third of V4-Pro's input price, and scores above it across DeepSeek's own agent benchmarks.
Jul 31, 2026
Gemini Robotics 2 is the first model to drive a humanoid's legs, torso, arms and fingers under a single policy. DeepMind published the failure rates alongside it.
Jul 31, 2026
Luna is down 80%, Terra 20%, and the flagship is unchanged. The efficiency gain OpenAI actually measured was 20%.
Jul 31, 2026
AgiBot says WITA-Omni Preview scored 85.21 on DailyOmni and won six of eight sub-metrics, ahead of entries from Qwen, Gemini, Doubao and Nvidia. Parameters, licence and availability are all undisclosed.
Jul 29, 2026
Ten days ago Grok 4.6 was going to be the 2-trillion-parameter model. On Tuesday it became the 1.5T model again, with the bigger one renamed 4.7.
Jul 29, 2026
Moonshot AI put 1.56 terabytes of Kimi K3 weights on Hugging Face on Monday afternoon. Almost every write-up called the licence a modified MIT. The file in the repository says otherwise.
Jul 28, 2026
Multiverse Computing opened a Series C targeting up to $570 million at a $1.7 billion pre-money valuation — five times its last round, and not yet closed.
Jul 27, 2026
The lab verbally told some would-be backers it will not sign in the coming days, shelving a raise of at least 10 billion yuan at a pre-money valuation of at least 480 billion — after leaked remarks attributed to its founder went viral.
Jul 26, 2026
Motion Brain added roughly 100 million yuan to a Pre-A round it first closed in May. The revenue it reports is cash collected rather than booked, and the round labels take some untangling.
Jul 26, 2026
The deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner aliases stopped working at 15:59 UTC on Friday, forcing every remaining integration onto the V4 line after a three-month notice.
Jul 25, 2026
Claude Opus 5 keeps Opus 4.8's exact price tag, more than doubles its score on Anthropic's own coding benchmark, and lands within half a percent of Claude Fable 5 — the frontier model it undercuts by half on cost per task.
Jul 24, 2026
FLUX 3 generates 20 seconds of video with native audio in one pass. FLUX-mimic, released alongside it, controls robot arms — and is already in deployment testing at Audi.
Jul 24, 2026
China's Xiaohongshu says its beta model dots-note-3.0 solved all six IMO problems under official grading, matching just seven human contestants — with Huawei's Celia sharing the historic milestone.
Jul 23, 2026
The largest round yet in AI-native 3D lands as the company reports 12x annual revenue growth, 12 million registered users and more than 100 million models created.
Jul 22, 2026
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing to $7.50 per million tokens and advances its knowledge cutoff to March 2026, while a gated Flash Cyber variant goes only to governments and trusted partners.
Jul 22, 2026
A 30-person startup spun off from AMD-backed Moreh trained Motif-3-Beta on about 700 government GPUs — and became the highest-ranked model builder outside the US and China.
Jul 21, 2026
A generative-AI rendering stage for games this fall, physics surrogates 10,000x faster than simulation, and a 4-billion-parameter Cosmos that runs on-device.
Jul 21, 2026
