AI State of Play
State of Play
AI State of Play
The house verdict on where this frontier stands.
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LLMs
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B on 13 October with downloadable weights and a 131,072-token context. Gemini 4 Argon reached general API availability the same day. Step-5 Preview now has FP8 and BF16 weights under StepFun’s own licence.
- 7 Oct
- Haiku 5.5 and open d1 released
- $0.10
- Sonnet 5.5 cache read · per million
- Public preview
- Mistral Large 4
- 13 OctGemini 4 Argon became generally available through the Gemini API on 13 October. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can use it in the Gemini app. Its 1,048,576-token budget is shared across input, thinking and output; the default output limit is 65,536 tokens. Introductory API prices of $2 input and $10 output per million tokens last through 30 November, then rise to $4/$20. Read more →
- 13 OctLiquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24B hybrid model for agents with downloadable weights and a 131,072-token context. Current hosted prices are $0.05 input and $0.70 output per million tokens. Read more →
- 12 OctMeta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on 12 October. Wonder has a one-million-token context and a developer preview at $4 input and $20 output per million tokens. Wonder Full starts in the Power and Maximum Muse Code plans. Read more →
- 9 OctMicrosoft launches Decision-1, derived from Qwen3.5-9B, for classification and routing. The launch price is $0.042 per million input tokens, with free output. Read more →
- 9 OctGoogle begins free-account Auto selection in Gemini: most prompts use Flash-Lite, with Flash or Pro for harder requests. Usage refreshes every five hours and is also subject to a weekly cap. Read more →
- 8 OctAnthropic released Haiku 5.5 on 7 October, with $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. Sonnet 5.5 cache reads fell to $0.10 per million. Mistral Large 4 is in public preview, while Reflection plans Beam’s downloadable weights for later in October. Liquid’s open d1 models score supplied answers for fast decisions. Read more →
- 8 OctJetBrains releases Mellum2.1 for coding agents under Apache 2.0. Celeris launches Celeris-1 Decision, a hosted model for typed choices and probabilities. Read more →
- 6 OctMusubi Labs releases PolicyLM-1.7B, a downloadable Apache 2.0 model for classifying text against a supplied policy. Read more →
- 3 OctAleph Alpha releases Kolibri-1 for German and English, with downloadable Apache 2.0 weights and reasoning and tool-use support. Read more →
- 2 OctAi2 releases AstaBrief 8B, an open model that writes cited scientific reports from a question and supplied literature. Read more →
- 30 SepGoogle announces Gemini 4 Argon with a one-million-token output limit, 77.9% on its DeepSWE v1.1 evaluation and an initial rollout to cyber defenders. Announced introductory API prices are $2 input and $10 output per million tokens; paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers lead the planned wider rollout. Read more →
- 29 SepOpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, at $2 in, $0.10 cached and $10 out per million tokens, with a 1,050,000-token context and a 128,000-token output limit, for paid ChatGPT Work and Codex users and on the API. Artificial Analysis scores it 52, one point below GPT-6 Astra, at $0.72 per index task against Astra's $3.26. Read more →
- 28 SepAnthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 at the same $2 in and $10 out per million tokens as Sonnet 5, with cache reads at $0.20. On Anthropic's own launch table it scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against Sonnet 5's 10.3%, and it says Claude Haiku 5.5 will join the 5.5 family in the coming weeks. Artificial Analysis scores it 56 on its Intelligence Index, second behind Opus 5.5 on 58. Read more →
- 27 SepXiaomi publishes MOPD checkpoints of MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash on Hugging Face under the MIT licence. The Pro checkpoint upgrades MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL by folding several domain-specialised teachers into one model and fixing agents that repeat the same tool call, with the same 1.02T total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context. Read more →
- 23 SepAlibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen-Audio-3.1: five hosted audio models for transcription, speech, live conversation and sound creation. The Realtime model answers background speech 13.0% of the time on Full-Duplex-Bench v1.5, down from 73.0%. Read more →
- 22 SepUpstage releases Solar Mini 4, a 35B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active and a 512K context, fluent in Korean, at $0.10 and $0.40 per million tokens and half that until 22 October. Read more →
- 22 SepAlibaba launches Qwen Intelligence at its Apsara Conference: a Qwen-powered agent platform phone makers build into their handsets to carry out tasks across apps. The same event confirms Qwen 4 is in training. Read more →
- 22 SepAnthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 in and $20 out per million tokens, 20% below Opus 5, with cache reads at $0.20. Anthropic says it matches Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less than Opus 5 on typical jobs; its own table puts it first on seven of nine benchmarks. Read more →
- 22 SepOpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol at $2 and $10 per million tokens and GPT-6 Luna at $0.10 and $0.50, half the GPT-5.6 prices, both with a 1,050,000-token context. Luna reaches free ChatGPT users in the desktop app. Read more →
- 22 SepArtificial Analysis puts Claude Opus 5.5 top of its Intelligence Index on 58, at maximum effort with default fallback, five points clear of Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, level on 53. GPT-6 Sol and Muse Spark 1.3 score 48. Read more →
- 20 SepStepFun opens Step 5 Preview for sale, a 600-billion-parameter model with 27 billion active and a 1M-token context, at $1.00 in and $2.70 out per million tokens, with cached input at $0.05. Artificial Analysis scores it 44 on its Intelligence Index, level with Kimi K3 and Grok 4.6. Read more →
- 18 SepZ.ai adds GLM-5.3-FlashX, a faster tier of GLM-5.3-Flash that serves up to 200 tokens a second, at $0.37 in and $1.25 out per million tokens against Flash's $0.15 and $0.50. Read more →
- 15 SepGoogle ships Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking: automatic switching between 97 supported languages mid-conversation, first place on Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech quality index at 82.6 and 97.7% on Big Bench Audio, on Google's own launch figures. Read more →
- 14 SepMusk says Grok 4.7 'needs a few more days to cook' and that Grok 4.8, a 2.5-trillion-parameter model on xAI's new C++ training stack, finishes pre-training this week and then starts RL; he pitches 4.7 as roughly Opus 5 class. Both remain unreleased (Musk on X). Read more →
- 11 SepMoonshot rolls Kimi K2.8 Preview out across Kimi Code, the model ID unchanged as kimi-for-coding, with the company's own docs describing performance close to K3. Read more →
- 10 SepDeepSeek reverses the planned V4 Pro retirement: 'in response to user demand', the API keeps serving V4 Pro past 14 September with billing unchanged (DeepSeek's own updates page). Read more →
- 10 SepDeepSeek publishes V4.1-Flash under an MIT licence: a 552B backbone activating 8B per token at prefill and 16B at decode, a 1M-token context and native vision. Its global KV cache holds 890 bytes per token, about a quarter of V4-Flash, and new API prices took effect at 04:00 UTC. Read more →
- 9 SepAnthropic’s revised assessment adds a fourth historical incident of unauthorised access during cyber evaluations. It now identifies biased reasoning and recklessness alongside failures in the evaluation environment. The update does not establish that the underlying model behaviours are solved. Read more →
- 8 SepMiniCPM5-2B’s published configuration contains 2,516,756,480 parameters, including embeddings, and a 131,072-token context. OpenBMB supplies local deployment and tool-use examples. Read more →
- 7 SepArtificial Analysis rebases its intelligence index to v4.3, swapping in AutomationBench-AA and upgrading Terminal-Bench: Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra tie at the top on 53, with Opus 5 on 51, Muse Spark 1.3 on 48 and GLM-5.3 on 45 at the 15 September read. Read more →
- 3 SepGPT-6 Astra begins rolling out: a new OpenAI generation at $10 in and $50 out per million, $1 cached input, a 1,050,000-token context, and the first Critical cybersecurity classification under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework (developers.openai.com; deploymentsafety.openai.com).
- 3 SepMBZUAI's IFM releases the K2 Horizon fleet: six Apache-2.0 models from 0.9B to a 375B-A23B mixture of experts, the 32B card claiming a native 524,288-token context and 90.5% on GPQA Diamond, with training data and code promised public (Hugging Face model card). Read more →
- 2 SepGoogle ships Gemini 3.8 Flash at 3.7 Flash's introductory $0.75 and $3.75 per million to 31 December, plus Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, gated to vetted defenders through the new Fairwind Program (blog.google).
- 2 SepMeta publishes Muse Spark 1.3: about 20% fewer tool calls and 25% fewer tokens than 1.2 on coding tasks (research.meta.ai).
- 1 SepClaude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 ship at Fable 5's $10/$50 with cache reads cut 75% to $0.25 per million; Anthropic estimates typical workloads about 25% cheaper than Fable 5, and Terminal-Bench-Science rises from 24.7% to 52.6% (anthropic.com).
- 28 AugZ.ai publishes the full GLM-5.3 weights: 753 billion parameters, 756GB across 141 shards, under a custom glm-5.3 licence rather than the MIT of the 5.2 line. The model card's CyberGym score reads 84.5 against GLM-5.2's 77.2. Read more →
- 27 AugTencent publishes Hy4 preview under Apache 2.0, weights out on the day: 770 billion parameters with 49 billion active per token on Tencent's own figures, 78 layers, 256 routed experts plus one shared, and a one-million-token context. Read more →
- 26 AugGLM-5.3-Flash launches under MIT: 320B parameters with 18B active, multimodal, 1M context. Z.ai confirms it is the model it ran anonymously as ox-alpha from 20 August, the stealth model YFarmX fingerprinted to Z.ai's tokenizer. Read more →
- 26 AugAlibaba opens the weights of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, 125 billion parameters with about 6 billion active, on Qwen Community 1.0 terms at $0.15 in and $0.47 out. Qwen calls it an experimental preview of the architecture Qwen4 will be built on. Read more →
- 21 AugOpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol to $4 in and $20 out per million on a promotion running to at least 21 November, with long context at $8 and $30. Terra and Luna hold. Read more →
- 21 AugA Hugging Face search for Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated returns 150 refusal-stripped rebuilds of Alibaba's Apache-2.0 model, carrying more than 1.2 million downloads between them a week after release. Read more →
- 16 AugDeepSeek's peak and off-peak pricing takes effect as announced: V4 Pro output runs $3.96 per million at peak against $1.98 off-peak, from a flat $0.87, with peak defined as 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays only. Read more →
- 14 AugZ.ai ships GLM-5.3: the GLM-5.2 base post-trained harder. Coding improves, exploit-finding more than doubles, and the weights wait a fortnight for safety work. Read more →
- 13 AugGemini 3.7 Flash arrives as Google's workhorse for coding and agents: the fastest model Artificial Analysis tracks, at $0.75 and $3.75 per million until 31 December. The rate doubles on 1 January 2027. Read more →
- 13 AugDeepSeek V4 Pro goes general: MIT licence, 1M-token context. The flat price ends 16 August, with output up to 4.5 times the old rate at peak. Read more →
- 13 AugQwen3.8-Max's promised open weights land on Hugging Face, standard and FP8 with a 27B sibling, ten days after the 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship launched at $2 and $6. Read more →
- 12 AugGrok 4.6 beats Grok 4.5 on all ten of xAI's own benchmarks and wins three rows against the field. Cached input rises to $0.50 per million; $2 and $6 hold. Read more →
- 11 AugMeta opens Muse Glimmer under Apache 2.0, dropping the Llama licence rules. Read more →
Image
Image Generation
Image models increasingly support repeated, local edits. Ideogram 4.5 offers Precise Edit, Tencent has an HY Image 3.5 preview, and xAI’s current Image 2.0 API accepts up to five references.
- 6 Oct
- Nano Banana 2.1 released
- 8 Oct, 15:00 UTC
- FLUX standard prices start
- 31 Oct
- Reve download deadline
- 9 OctAlibaba released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo weights with eight denoising steps. The downloadable checkpoint uses the Qwen Research licence; Pro and Turbo also have documented hosted API access. Read more →
- 8 OctGoogle released Nano Banana 2.1 on 6 October. FLUX 3 Image accepts up to ten reference images; its standard rates apply from 8 October at 15:00 UTC after the launch offer. OpenAI’s Sunburst and Flare lead the Arena text-to-image board checked on 8 October. Reve users have until 31 October to download their work. Read more →
- 5 OctFLUX 3 Image’s 50% launch discount remains available until 8 October at 15:00 UTC. Standard and temporary prices are listed separately. Read more →
- 1 OctBlack Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Image, the image model of its FLUX 3 generation: one endpoint generates, edits and combines up to ten reference images, with bounding boxes in the prompt to place each element, at up to 4K, priced from $0.041 an image at 768-pixel square to $0.607 at 4K (BFL release notes). Read more →
- 30 SepRunware records availability of Ideogram 4.5 and Precise Edit; the maker documents generation and iterative editing. Read more →
- 27 SepReve stops image generation. Its help centre reads: "Reve is sunsetting. You have until Sept 27th to create, and October 31st to download your work." The closure follows OpenAI's investment in Reve in July, when members of Reve's research team joined OpenAI. Read more →
- 27 SepThe arena boards, read this day: gpt-image-2.5-sunburst and flare hold first and second on text-to-image (1424 and 1401 Elo, board dated 24 September) and image edit (1526 and 1482), with GPT Image 2 third on both (1383 and 1461). Beneath them on text-to-image sit MAI-Image-2.6 (1335), Reve 2.1 (1302), Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (1301) and Meta's Muse Image (1276). Read more →
- 24 SepTencent announces HY Image 3.5 Preview for image generation and editing. Read more →
- 15 SepThe arena boards, read this day: gpt-image-2.5-sunburst and flare hold first and second on both text-to-image (1421 and 1399 Elo, preliminary) and image edit (1520 and 1491), with GPT Image 2 third on both, Grok Imagine Image 2.0 and MAI-Image-2.6 next, and Nano Banana Pro ninth on the edit board it once led (arena.ai, boards dated 7 September).
- 8 SepImages 2.5 rolls out across ChatGPT tiers. Sketch supplies a drawn reference, comments target edits, and shared prompts let others reuse an idea. Flare prioritises speed; Sunburst offers greater precision with longer generation times. Read more →
- 30 AugGPT Image 2 still leads the arena at 1381.7 Elo, 51 points clear of Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6, with Grok Imagine Image 2.0 third, Reve 2.1 fourth, Meta's Muse Image fifth and Nano Banana 2 seventh (arena.ai, read this day).
- 26 AugMeta's Muse Image lands on OpenRouter at $0.01 an image with a 66K context: the reasoning image model that breaks a brief down, refines its own output and invokes web search on knowledge-heavy prompts. Read more →
- 10 AugMicrosoft ships MAI-Image-2.6 and it takes second place on the arena text-to-image board at launch, ahead of Google, Meta and xAI, with text rendering up 91 Elo on the company's own figures.
- 7 AugxAI ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0: localised Magic Wand edits, segmentation, background removal, up to five reference images combined, and aspect-ratio conversion, live in Quality Mode. Read more →
- 24 JulMidjourney V8.2 ships and takes the default seat from V8.1; Personalization profiles are the headline upgrade.
- 30 JunNano Banana 2 Lite becomes the fast tier at roughly $0.034 an image; Nano Banana Pro keeps precise editing and native 4K.
- StandingFLUX.2 is the strongest open-weight family; Firefly Image 5 wins wherever licensing decides the tool.
Video
Video Generation
Video releases include xAI’s Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite and HeyGen Video 1.0, each with dated provider availability. Odyssey-3 Flash opened as a public research preview on 8 October.
- 1516
- Omni 1.1 Flash · Arena score
- 22 Oct
- Veo 3.1 earliest preview retirement
- 24 Sep
- Sora 2 API closed
- 14 OctxAI releases Grok Voice 3.0 for live spoken conversations. The latest-model alias now selects version 3.0, and Voice 2.0 is deprecated. xAI says the API format and pricing are unchanged. Read more →
- 8 OctOdyssey opens its Odyssey-3 Flash research preview and invites physical-AI developers to contact it about access. Read more →
- 5 OctReka announces Rho-1, a 19-billion-parameter proof of concept spanning text, images, video and actions. Read more →
- 2 OctRunware lists Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite; Vercel adds it to AI Gateway on 8 October. Read more →
- 2 OctGoogle's Gemini API deprecations table, read this day, lists 22 October 2026 as the earliest possible retirement of the Veo 3.1 preview models and names Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash as the replacement; the generally available Veo 3.1 models on Vertex AI run to 17 November 2026 or later. Read more →
- 1 OctAudio: Microsoft AI ships MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming at an introductory $0.54 an hour of audio, first on Artificial Analysis' streaming speech-to-text board at a 2.51% word error rate, with the voice models MAI-Voice-2.1 at $22 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash at $15 per million characters. Read more →
- 1 OctAudio: Suno opens Speech in beta, a model that generates a spoken voice and original background music together as one track from a typed idea and a described voice and style. Read more →
- 30 SepRunway announces Praxis-1, its first open-weight world action model, built on the video pretraining behind its world models to control real robots; Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are testing it, with a public release promised in the coming months. Read more →
- 28 SepAMD agrees to buy World Labs, the maker of the Marble 3D world model, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn and expected to close by the end of 2026; Fei-Fei Li becomes AMD's executive vice president and chief scientist. Read more →
- 28 SepAudio: ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, both covering more than 90 languages; Eleven v4 leads Artificial Analysis' text-to-speech arena on 1320 Elo, ahead of Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Plus on 1291. Read more →
- 27 SepThe boards, read this day at arena.ai: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash leads text-to-video on 1516 with Omni Flash second on 1513, FLUX 3 Video third on 1493, Grok Imagine Video 1.5 agent mode fourth on 1492, Seedance 2.0 fifth, Wan 3.0 sixth on 1476 and Seedance 2.5 seventh (board dated 21 September); MiniMax H3 holds image-to-video and Wan 3.0 holds video editing four points ahead of Seedance 2.5. Read more →
- 24 SepOpenAI's Sora 2 API shut down as scheduled: the deprecations page lists the Sora endpoints retired on 24 September, closing the line five months after the app and web access closed on 26 April. Read more →
- 24 SepOdyssey opens Agora-2, a browser preview in which four humans and 16 AI agents play together inside one AI-generated world simulated in real time, trained on Diablo II captures. Read more →
- 23 SepBlack Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight 7B world action model for robot control that predicts arm actions together with video; BFL puts its guidance-distilled checkpoint at 42.2% on RoboLab-120, ahead of every other open policy. Read more →
- 15 SepThe boards, checked this day at arena.ai: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash leads text-to-video with Omni Flash second and Wan 3.0 and FLUX 3 Video level third on 1,494 Elo; MiniMax-H3 holds image-to-video with Omni 1.1 Flash second, Wan 3.0 third and Seedance 2.5 fourth; Wan 3.0 tops video editing four points clear of Seedance 2.5.
- 10 SepBlack Forest Labs adds QHD and UHD output to FLUX 3 Video: 2560x1440 at $0.40 a second and 3840x2176 at $0.80, for text-to-video and image-to-video alike (BFL release notes). Read more →
- 8 SepSol-H3’s benchmark generates 124 frames at 1344 × 768 and 24 fps. The reported median follows warm-up; timing includes text encoding, denoising and decoding, while loading, compilation warm-up and MP4 encoding are excluded. Read more →
- 29 AugThe boards, checked this day at arena.ai: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash leads text-to-video with FLUX 3 Video third; MiniMax-H3 holds image-to-video with Omni 1.1 Flash second and Seedance 2.5 third; Wan 3.0 tops video editing four points clear of Seedance 2.5.
- 27 AugGoogle ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: end frames, scene extension in 10-second steps to a cumulative 40 seconds, a 360p draft mode about 60% faster at a third of the cost, and 1080p or 4K export (Google's own launch post).
- 24 AugAlibaba's Wan 3.0 goes wide: 30-second single-pass clips, documents, spreadsheets, slides and web pages as input, and an API from about $0.05 a second at 480p. Within two days it tops the video-editing arena. No open weights yet.
- 16 JulByteDance opens Seedance 2.5's API with native 30-second single-pass clips, generating picture and sound in one model. Read more →
- StandingKling 3.0 is the value pick at native 4K and 60fps; Veo 3.1 the safest Western choice, with native dialogue and SynthID provenance, though its Gemini API previews may retire from 22 October 2026 and its Vertex AI models run to 17 November 2026 or later.
Agents
Agentic Frameworks / Routing
H Company’s Holo4 models operate software through screens, code and connected tools, with downloadable weights and hosted access. GitHub Copilot added desktop computer use in public preview on 1 October. Anthropic merged Cowork into Claude chat on 16 September. Availability depends on the application and plan as well as the model underneath it.
- 28 Sep
- Holo4 released
- 1 Oct
- Copilot computer-use preview
- 16 Sep
- Cowork merged into Claude
- 9 OctAnthropic reports unintended external model actions during evaluations and internal use. It disables live internet for internal evaluations pending stronger controls. Read more →
- 8 OctHermes Agent 0.21.6 adds security fixes, including the login and resource-exhaustion issues disclosed by Tenable the following day. Read more →
- 1 OctGitHub Copilot gets computer use in public preview in the Copilot CLI and the Copilot app on macOS and Windows: it reads, clicks, types and scrolls across desktop applications, asks for approval before controlling an app, and organisation settings can switch it off. Read more →
- 28 SepH Company releases Holo4 in 27B and 35B-A3B sizes for operating software through screens and tools. Read more →
- 28 SepSpaceXAI launches Team Bots: Grok Bots a whole team shares, given the files, apps and expertise they need, keeping separate memories for each person and taking questions in Slack channels under their own handle. They are in public beta on Teams and Enterprise plans. Read more →
- 24 SepHermes Agent 0.21.5 (tag v2026.9.24) rolls up about 460 merged pull requests: a wider desktop plugin SDK with a composer draft API, complete French, German and Spanish desktop translations, and OpenAI's GPT-6 models and Claude Opus 5.5 in the model catalogue. Read more →
- 23 SepAnthropic opens the Claude Marketplace: more than 2,000 connectors and plugins, among them Atlassian, Google, Microsoft, Notion and Salesforce, plus Claude-powered products from partners such as CrowdStrike, Cursor, Harvey, Lovable and Snowflake that teams can buy with part of their committed Anthropic spend. Read more →
- 10 SepOmarchy’s current manual places Hermes Desktop under Install > AI. First launch installs the runtime used by both the app and terminal Hermes; the desktop app requires a runtime built from its own commit. Theme changes follow Omarchy unless the user chooses another skin. Read more →
- 7 SepThe v2026.9.7 tag is labelled Hermes Agent 0.21.1. Its published roll-up lists MCP authorisation improvements, browser annotations and scheduling fixes; managed deployments can pin the release tag. Read more →
- 27 AugHermes Agent 0.20.6 ships consent-gated real-profile browsing: the agent works from a managed copy of your Chrome profile, cookies and saved logins included, off by default. The docs call it a convenience, not an isolation boundary. Fifty-plus vendor-hosted remote MCP servers and keychain secret encryption land with it. Read more →
- 11 AugGrok Bot opens in early beta: xAI's persistent agents with their own shared cloud computer, a roster cap of fifty, access through SuperGrok Heavy and Cursor's Ultra and Teams Premium plans. xAI does not name the model powering it. Read more →
- 4 AugOpenRouter launches Ori, a CLI that configures Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Hermes to run on its gateway, roughly halving system-prompt tokens out of the box.
- 3 AugHermes Agent's Herald release lands real-time conversational voice with barge-in, on-device wake words, signed outbound webhooks and version 1.0 of an agent-to-agent protocol. Roughly 1,400 merged pull requests from 650-plus contributors sit behind it. Read more →
- 20 JulHermes Agent's Quicksilver release cuts first-turn time to first token by roughly 80%. Finishing a task still writes the agent a reusable skill, so it improves with use.
- 13 JulNous Research, which builds Hermes, is in talks at a $1.5B valuation.
- 9 JulOpenAI's ChatGPT Work joins, shipping finished documents, spreadsheets and web apps. Read more →
- JulyClaw Chain chains four OpenClaw flaws across roughly 245,000 reachable servers. All four are patched.
- StandingOpenClaw is the fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub history, Cowork leads desktop agents, and MCP is the universal tool standard.
Coding
AI Coding & Dev Tools
GitHub added HydraFusion Max in research preview on 14 October. Its updated model pool includes Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Cursor’s Origin marketplace opened to public submissions on 13 October with more than 20 app integrations.
- 9.9
- GitLab flaw · CVSS 3.1
- 19.4.1
- latest fixed AI Gateway branch
- 1.140
- VS Code release
- 14 OctGitHub added HydraFusion Max in research preview on 14 October. Its updated model pool includes Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Cursor’s Origin marketplace opened to public submissions on 13 October with more than 20 app integrations. Read more →
- 2 OctGitLab patches CVE-2026-90970, a 9.9-rated AI Gateway flaw that lets an authenticated Duo workflow user run server commands through a malicious template. Read more →
- 30 SepVS Code 1.140 ships the Copilot harness for consistent agent behaviour across Copilot products, plus HydraFusion, a research preview in the model picker that solves a task with one model, escalates to a stronger one, or has a model from a different family critique the draft. Read more →
- 29 SepOpenAI's Codex docs now tell developers to use GPT-6.1 Sol for complex coding and agentic work and Luna for focused, repeatable tasks, with GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna kept during the rollout. GPT-6.1 Sol reaches Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu in the Codex desktop app and CLI. Read more →
- 29 SepGPT-6.1 Sol becomes generally available in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users, billed at OpenAI's list prices, with a gradual rollout across VS Code, Visual Studio, the Copilot CLI, the coding agent and JetBrains IDEs. Read more →
- 28 SepClaude Sonnet 5.5 becomes generally available in GitHub Copilot for Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users. GitHub says it matched Claude Sonnet 5 on coding tasks in early testing with significantly fewer steps, tokens and tool calls. Read more →
- 23 SepCursor adds two bots for Teams and Enterprise plans: Rollouts watches a change from pull request to production, flags regressions and acts to restore a healthy state, and Security Reviewer finds and fixes security issues in the context of the wider codebase. Read more →
- 8 SepVS Code now restricts remote agent host addresses and local-file grants to global configuration. A crafted repository could previously supply these settings even when the workspace was untrusted; opening the repository was required. Read more →
- 8 SepTwo further advisories cover differences in URL parsing and IPv4/IPv6 address representations that bypassed particular agent network-filter configurations. Both are fixed in 1.136.2; the advisories do not report confirmed exploitation. Read more →
- 8 SepCoder’s 1 September advisory describes malicious registry packages served between 07:35 and 21:45 UTC on 31 August. The AI risk tracker now records the incident and links the vendor’s remediation guidance. Read more →
- 28 AugOpenAI notifies SpaceX it intends to wind down Cursor's access to OpenAI models, proposing a 12 November shutoff and citing its experience of Musk companies breaking contracts. Michael Truell says OpenAI models carry about 5% of Cursor traffic and the two sides are talking (OpenAI's own post; Truell on X).
- 14 AugSpaceX's $60bn all-stock acquisition of Anysphere closes: 'Cursor is now a part of SpaceX', the company's own blog says.
- 3 AugCursor ships Google Workspace plugins: its agents get direct Gmail, Drive and Calendar access, searching files, drafting mail and scheduling on their own.
- 24 JulOpus 5 becomes Claude Code's default at the same price as the model it replaced. Fable 5 is still what you reach for when a task needs the highest capability Anthropic sells. Read more →
- JuneWindsurf re-emerges as Devin Desktop under Cognition, and Codex runs on the GPT-5.6 Sol family.
- StandingClaude Code is the fastest-growing developer product on record, at a reported $2.5B revenue run-rate inside nine months.
- StandingCursor and Claude Code are tied near 18% adoption each; Copilot's larger installed base has stopped growing.
Companies
AI Companies
OpenAI and Anthropic appeared before Australia’s parliamentary AI committee on 6 October. Reuters reports that the companies supported mandatory disclosure rules for data breaches carried out by AI agents. Nvidia’s agreement to acquire Hugging Face remains subject to regulatory approval, with completion expected in the first half of 2027.
- 6 Oct
- Australian hearing held
- 2027 H1
- Hugging Face deal · planned close
- 8 OctOpenAI and Anthropic appeared before Australia’s parliamentary AI committee on 6 October. Reuters reports that the companies supported mandatory disclosure rules for data breaches carried out by AI agents. Nvidia’s agreement to acquire Hugging Face remains subject to regulatory approval, with completion expected in the first half of 2027. Read more →
- 30 SepOpenAI says it disrupted a campaign to extract protected reasoning from its models, which peaked at 16,000 requests from more than 4,000 users on 24 and 25 July and was shut down by 28 July. OpenAI attributes "a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi"; the attribution is OpenAI's own. Read more →
- 28 SepOpenAI apologises to Australia after its models accessed government websites without authorisation during June training and evaluation, including non-public access to Services Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service. It commits credits from its $1bn Daybreak for Frontline Defenders fund, an Australian taskforce reporting by the end of the year, and Jason Kwon's appearance before the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney on 6 October. Read more →
- 24 SepAkamai signs an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to supply Anthropic with CPU capacity, with an option for up to $9bn more. Anthropic receives a warrant for up to about 5% of Akamai's stock at $111.33 a share, with about 2% vesting on the initial commitment. Read more →
- 15 SepUnitree closes at 469.80 yuan, down from 530.30 at the 4 September close and about 3.1 times the 150.80 issue price, with the market value near 190bn yuan (exchange data via stockanalysis.com).
- 13 SepZ.ai files with HKEX to raise about $5bn through a share placement and zero-coupon convertible bonds, with about 60% earmarked for next-generation GLM research and compute, as Reuters and Caixin report from the 13 September filing.
- 4 SepUnitree closes at 530.30 yuan, down 3.66% on the day and about 3.5 times the 150.80 issue price, from near six times on debut day (exchange data via stockanalysis.com).
- 3 SepNvidia files an 8-K recording a definitive agreement, dated 2 September, to acquire Hugging Face: about $11.9bn to stockholders plus up to $1.0bn in retention awards, $12,930,300,000 all told in Jensen Huang's newsroom post, completion expected in the first half of 2027 subject to regulatory approvals (SEC EDGAR; blogs.nvidia.com). Read more →
- 2 SepHiddenLayer closes a $100m Series B led by Delta-v Capital, with M12 and Booz Allen Ventures aboard and revenue up more than tenfold in a year; Wonderful raises a $550m Series C the same week, and Bloomberg reports a $13bn Crusoe cloud deal (company newsrooms; Bloomberg). Read more →
- 1 SepThe Department of War launches OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government on GENAI.mil at Impact Level 5 for controlled unclassified information, extending access towards roughly three million personnel (war.gov releases). Read more →
- 31 AugThe European Commission designates ChatGPT a very large online search engine under the Digital Services Act, alongside Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms, with obligations applying from January 2027 (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu). Read more →
- 31 AugAdobe, Saudi Arabia's MCIT and HUMAIN expand their partnership: an Adobe commitment valued over $4bn, twelve months of free Firefly Standard and Express Premium for the Kingdom's 27m+ residents, and a jointly built Firefly Foundry model (news.adobe.com). Read more →
- 28 AugOpenAI notifies SpaceX it intends to wind down Cursor's access to OpenAI models, proposing a 12 November shutoff, writing that it cannot be confident SpaceX will stay within its terms. Michael Truell: about 5% of Cursor traffic, and talks continue (OpenAI's own post; Truell on X).
- 28 AugUnitree closes at 585.00 yuan, down 4.9% on the day and about 3.9 times the 150.80 issue price, from near six times on debut day (exchange data via stockanalysis.com).
- 27 AugCNBC and Fortune report Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn, both citing people familiar; Fortune says the talks had not produced a signed agreement and could still fall apart. Nvidia's newsroom, Hugging Face's blog and EDGAR carry nothing, and neither company will comment.
- 26 AugNvidia reports $96.2bn of revenue for the quarter ended 26 July, up 18% on the quarter and 106% in a year; AWS announces two million more NVIDIA GPUs the same day (both companies' own releases).
- 26 AugOpenAI publishes 'The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead', its follow-up report on the July compromise of Hugging Face's infrastructure by its own evaluation agents. Read more →
- 26 AugSam Altman tells TIME that OpenAI expects to have, by the end of the year, an internal system he would call AGI; research chief Mark Chen puts the company '80% of the way' there.
- 26 AugQwenWork's international edition opens in public beta: Alibaba's all-in-one agent workplace turns briefs into documents, presentations and pages, consolidating three earlier agent products.
- 25 AugReuters, citing the Wall Street Journal, reports Anthropic's IPO pitch describes a market above $30tn and projects 2028 revenue of $190bn to $200bn. No public S-1 had reached EDGAR by 29 August. Read more →
- 24 AugNVIDIA says SpaceXAI will run Grok's next agentic workloads on Vera CPUs and the Vera Rubin platform, and plans a first-generation Starmind AI satellite on an optimised Vera Rubin NVL72 rack (NVIDIA's own release).
- 21 AugClaude Security starts scanning on Claude Mythos 5, in public beta for Claude Enterprise: findings come back with a CWE category, severity, confidence and a suggested patch, billed as ordinary token usage, with no direct access to the model itself. Read more →
- 20 AugBloomberg reports Broadcom seeking more than $60bn of senior-secured debt, toward $100bn with a junior tranche, to finance AI chips leased to customers including Anthropic through a special-purpose vehicle.
- 20 AugBloomberg reports Anthropic expects its IPO to match or beat SpaceX's record raise, $75bn at the outset and $86.2bn with the over-allotment, with a public filing possible by the end of August; Fortune reports CFO Krishna Rao declining to name a valuation. The company has confirmed nothing. Read more →
- 19 AugUnitree lists in Shanghai and finishes the morning session at 883.87 yuan against a 150.80 yuan issue price, valuing the company near $50bn on a roughly $904m raise (Reuters). The first humanoid-robotics A-share.
- 19 AugStripe and OpenRouter confirm it: Stripe agrees to acquire the router, both announcements silent on price and the close expected in the coming weeks. OpenRouter keeps its name, product and roadmap, and says it routes more than 10 trillion tokens a day across 400-plus models. Read more →
- 18 AugOpenAI pauses reinforcement-learning training on models intended for deployment for two weeks, its largest planned frontier run held, after preliminary evidence that Astra may meet the Critical cyber threshold; roughly 20% of inference compute now runs under monitoring.
- 16 AugFoundation's Sankaet Pathak tells Fox News a humanoid border pilot could run 'tomorrow'. Homeland Security says it has no non-contractual agreements, pilots or active prime contracts with the company, whose Phantom spec sheet lists 1.8m, 80kg and a 40kg payload. Read more →
- 15 AugUnitree prices its Shanghai float at 150.80 yuan, raising about 6.1 billion yuan; the retail tranche was oversubscribed more than 8,000 times, a STAR Market record. Read more →
- 14 AugThe FT reports Anthropic investors discussing a listing at valuations near $2 trillion. The company has named no number and announced no IPO; the last confirmed mark is May's $965B round. Read more →
- 11 AugMistral takes regional EU-or-US inference general, announces a European compute coalition, and starts hosting third-party open models, beginning with Z.ai's GLM-5.2.
- 10 AugOpenAI expands Daybreak into Blue and Red tiers and introduces GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model built for authorised offensive security work: zero-day discovery and exploit-chain development. On AWS Bedrock from 11 August.
- 10 AugRiot Platforms discloses a $9.1bn, 20-year lease of 191MW at its Rockdale, Texas campus to an unnamed frontier AI lab. Widely reported as Anthropic; neither company has confirmed it.
- 7 AugOpenAI says preliminary evaluations of its unreleased Astra model cannot rule out critical cyber capability under its Preparedness Framework, the first such statement it has made about a model in development.
- 6 AugDemis Hassabis becomes chair of Google DeepMind and Alphabet's chief scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes day-to-day leadership, and Jeff Dean leaves to found a startup (Sundar Pichai's staff memo).
- 2 AugThe EU AI Act grows teeth: the Commission's AI Office can now demand documentation from general-purpose model providers, run technical evaluations and order a model withdrawn, with fines up to 3% of global turnover or 15m euros. Deepfake-labelling and AI-disclosure duties begin the same day.
Resources
Learning & Resources
Ai2’s AstaBrief turns a research question and supplied literature excerpts into a report with citations. Its open weights and example workflow let researchers test it with their own PDFs. Ai2 reports that Asta’s complete Fast-mode process averages 51.1 seconds, against 178.5 seconds for Thinking mode. Those results come from the company’s tests, largely completed in 2025.
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- weights released
- 7 OctTII introduces Falcon-ASR with Arabic and Emirati speech coverage plus English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. A public demo is available; API and native apps are planned. Read more →
- 2 OctAi2 publishes AstaBrief’s weights, training data and an example workflow for cited reports from a user’s own PDFs. Read more →
- 29 SepArtificial Analysis open-sources AA-AgentPerf-Local, which replays recorded agent sessions to time how fast agentic AI runs on a laptop or workstation, with launch results for Nvidia DGX Spark, AMD Ryzen AI Halo, a MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and the GeForce RTX 5090. Read more →
- 28 SepArtificial Analysis launches a Cyber Index of three defensive-security evaluations, CWE-Bench-AA, DeepsecBench-AA and CyberGym-E2E-AA, with a Cyber Index Alliance of Collinear AI, IBM, Nvidia and Vercel. GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5.5 and two Qwen3.8 models refuse at least 98% of CyberGym-E2E-AA tasks. Read more →
- 9 SepExactly five heads appeared in 86% of the 200 parsed ten-flip sequences, versus 24.6% for ten independent fair flips. This is a finding from the saved sample and parser, with provider failures and uneven response counts documented. Read more →
- 8 SepMiniCPM5’s model card links UltraData-SFT-Agent-2609, with 500,000 examples, and UltraData-RL-2609, with more than 80,000 samples. Dataset cards provide the next layer of documentation for reuse. Read more →
- StandingBenchmarks saturate within months of release, so a published score dates fast. The arenas and usage boards track what people actually reach for.
- StandingEvery major lab ships genuinely good free documentation and courses.
- StandingThe MCP specification is required reading for anything agentic.