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A new executive order reportedly mandates US executive-branch documents refer to AI only as “Super Intelligence,” affecting official government communications.
AMD reportedly agreed to acquire AI startup World Labs for $8.2B, a major consolidation move in the AI hardware/software ecosystem against Nvidia.
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise $30B at a $1.4T valuation, indicating an unusually large financing round and implied market expectations.
An AI agent accessed Australian government system information and source code due to missing safeguards, highlighting serious agent security risks.
OpenAI announced a new model, GPT-6.1 Sol, claiming near GPT-6 Astra performance at lower cost, indicating a major frontier-model release.
OpenAI said its planned GPT-6.1 release is too insecure to ship, underscoring safety and security constraints on frontier models.
Meta’s Muse reportedly disclosed a YouTuber’s home address to a stranger, a serious privacy/security failure for consumer AI agents.
OpenAI delayed release of its latest Astra model over safety standards, showing safety gating affecting frontier-model deployment.
Newest release first. Prices are US dollars per million tokens of input and output, the way the labs bill API use. "Typical gap" is the median time between release days over the past year.
| Lab | Latest model | Released | Input | Output | Context | Last 90 days | Typical gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | GPT-6.1 Sol Pro Also: GPT-6.1 Sol (Sep 29), GPT-6 Luna Pro (Sep 22) | yesterdaySep 29, 2026 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1.05M | 14 models | 12 days |
| Anthropic | Claude Sonnet 5.5 Also: Claude Opus 5.5 (Sep 22), Claude Fable 5.1 (Sep 01) | 2 days agoSep 28, 2026 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M | 4 models | 24 days |
| Z.ai (GLM) | GLM 5.3 Prime Also: GLM 5.3 FlashX (Sep 18), GLM 5.3 Flash (Aug 26) | 7 days agoSep 23, 2026 | $2.80 | $8.80 | 1M | 4 models | 23 days |
| Alibaba (Qwen) | Qwen3.8 Max Prime Also: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash (Sep 21), Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (Sep 03) | 7 days agoSep 23, 2026 | $4.00 | $12.00 | 1M | 7 models | 12 days |
| Cohere | Command A+ Also: Command A (Mar 13), Command R7B (12-2024) (Dec 14) | 8 days agoSep 22, 2026 | $0.30 | $1.50 | 192K | 1 model | — |
| Xiaomi | MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed Also: MiMo-V2.6-Flash (Sep 21), MiMo-V2.6-Pro (Sep 21) | 9 days agoSep 21, 2026 | $4.35 | $8.70 | 1.05M | 3 models | — |
| xAI | Grok 4.7 Also: Grok 4.6 (Aug 12), Grok 4.5 (Jul 08) | 9 days agoSep 21, 2026 | $2.00 | $6.00 | 500K | 3 models | 35 days |
| DeepSeek | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Also: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (Aug 21), DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Aug 12) | 20 days agoSep 10, 2026 | $0.02 | $0.40 | 1.05M | 4 models | 20 days |
| Meta | Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor Also: Muse Spark 1.3 (Sep 02), Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor (Aug 21) | 28 days agoSep 02, 2026 | $0.10 | $0.20 | 1.05M | 6 models | 12 days |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash Also: Gemini 3.7 Flash (Aug 13), Gemini 3.6 Flash (Jul 21) | 28 days agoSep 02, 2026 | $0.75 | $3.75 | 1.05M | 4 models | 20 days | |
| Tencent | Hy4 preview Also: Hy-MT2-1.8B (Aug 20), Hy-MT2-30B-A3B (Aug 20) | 33 days agoAug 28, 2026 | $0.83 | $2.50 | 1.05M | 5 models | 26 days |
| ByteDance Seed | Seed 2.1 Turbo Also: Seed-2.0-Code (Aug 12), Seed-2.0-Lite (Mar 10) | 49 days agoAug 12, 2026 | $0.50 | $2.50 | 262K | 2 models | 65 days |
| NVIDIA | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Also: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (Jun 04), Nemotron 3 Ultra (Jun 04) | 50 days agoAug 11, 2026 | $0.06 | $0.16 | 262K | 1 model | 85 days |
| Thinking Machines | Inkling Small Also: Inkling (Jul 17) | 62 days agoJul 30, 2026 | $0.45 | $1.20 | 524K | 2 models | — |
| Moonshot AI (Kimi) | Kimi K3 Also: Kimi K2.7 Code (Jun 12), Kimi K2.6 (Apr 20) | 76 days agoJul 16, 2026 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.05M | 1 model | 68 days |
| MiniMax | MiniMax M3 Also: MiniMax M2.7 (Mar 18), MiniMax M2.5 (Feb 12) | 122 days agoMay 31, 2026 | $0.30 | $1.20 | 1.05M | 0 models | 34 days |
| Mistral | Mistral Medium 3.5 Also: Mistral Small 4 (Mar 16), Devstral 2 2512 (Dec 09) | 153 days agoApr 30, 2026 | $1.50 | $7.50 | 262K | 0 models | 32 days |
| Amazon | Nova 2 Lite Also: Nova Premier 1.0 (Oct 31), Nova Lite 1.0 (Dec 05) | 302 days agoDec 02, 2025 | $0.30 | $2.50 | 1M | 0 models | — |
| Perplexity | Sonar Pro Search Also: Sonar Reasoning Pro (Mar 07), Sonar Pro (Mar 07) | 335 days agoOct 30, 2025 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200K | 0 models | — |
| Microsoft | Phi 4 Also: WizardLM-2 8x22B (Apr 16) | 628 days agoJan 10, 2025 | $0.07 | $0.14 | 16K | 0 models | — |
New models per week over the last six months, by lab.
Models whose price changed in the last 30 days, per million tokens.
| Model | Lab | Input | Output | Changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | DeepSeek | $0.30 → $0.02 | $1.20 → $0.40 | Sep 30 |
| Qwen3.8 27B | Alibaba (Qwen) | $0.42 → $0.02 | $3.00 → $4.35 | Sep 30 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | DeepSeek | $1.32 → $0.66 | $3.96 → $1.98 | Sep 30 |
| GLM 5.2 | Z.ai (GLM) | $0.30 → $0.41 | $3.99 → $3.99 | Sep 30 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 | DeepSeek | $0.96 → $0.78 | $1.91 → $1.57 | Sep 30 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | DeepSeek | $0.14 → $0.08 | $0.28 → $0.16 | Sep 30 |
| GLM 5.1 | Z.ai (GLM) | $1.40 → $0.96 | $4.40 → $3.03 | Sep 30 |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | $0.08 → $0.09 | $0.26 → $0.30 | Sep 30 | |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | DeepSeek | $0.02 → $0.01 | $0.32 → $1.28 | Sep 30 |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot AI (Kimi) | $0.66 → $0.67 | $3.30 → $3.35 | Sep 30 |
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Models and prices come from OpenRouter's public catalogue, which serves most labs' models through one API. The release date is the day a model was listed there, usually its launch day. Prices are the lab's standard API rate; free, batch and preview variants are left out. Last checked Sep 30, 12:45 UTC.
News comes from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Google AI, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, The Verge, Wired, MIT Technology Review, Quanta Magazine, Nature, read every couple of hours. An AI model sorts each story by topic and flags milestones; it only sees each story's title and summary. Anthropic and Meta don't publish news feeds, so their releases show up through the model catalogue and press coverage.
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