China AI Regulation
GLM-5.3 Is Called a Top Open Model, But Its Weights Aren't Public
Zhipu's API went live before dawn with a frontier benchmark claim and unchanged pricing — the open-weights release is scheduled for 28 August.
Aug 19, 2026
#AI Models
AI Models
Musk Gave Grok 4.6 a Date, and Quietly Took Away Half a Trillion Parameters
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
Google AI
Google Ships Three Gemini Models at Once — and Says Gemini 4 Pre-Training Has Started
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
Meta AI
Meta Starts Charging for AI: Muse Spark 1.1 Arrives With a 1M-Token Context
The first model sold through Meta's new Model API is an agentic coder priced far below OpenAI and Anthropic — and Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to claim Meta's models finally beat Google's.
Jul 10, 2026
Google AI
Google Reportedly Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17, Scrapping Its Base Model
According to reports, DeepMind threw out the Gemini 2.5 Pro-based foundation days before launch and started a fresh pre-training run — leaving Google the only major lab without a public flagship as GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 ship.
Jul 9, 2026
AI Agents
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.5, an 'Opus-Class' Model at a Fraction of the Cost
Elon Musk says the new model rivals Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 while running faster and cheaper, priced at $2 per million input tokens — a public launch timed one day before OpenAI's GPT-5.6 reaches everyone.
Jul 9, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 to the Public — Sol, Terra and Luna
The three tiers are reaching ChatGPT, the API and Codex today, ending a nearly two-week government-coordinated preview that had held the model to about 20 vetted partners — though the rollout is staged, not flipped on for everyone at once.
Jul 9, 2026
Meta AI
Zuckerberg Admits Meta's AI Agents Stalled as Chief Touts 'Watermelon'
At a July 2 town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said agent progress hadn't accelerated in four months — minutes before AI chief Alexandr Wang claimed a new model caught GPT-5.5.
Jul 6, 2026
OpenAI
OpenAI Debuts GPT-5.6 but Limits It to 20 Partners
The new Sol, Terra and Luna models launched to just 20 vetted partners at the US government's request, under a new process for vetting frontier AI before wide release.
Jul 4, 2026
Google AI
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Slips to July After Missing June
The delayed flagship promises a 2-million-token context window and a Deep Think mode, but Google is still holding it back over token-efficiency and long-task concerns.
Jul 4, 2026
