Claude Fable 5.2 is listed on OpenRouter.
- First listed 2026-11-07 as anthropic/claude-fable-5.2.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
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Lucy 6 is listed on fal.ai.
- First listed 2026-11-05 as decart/lucy-2-6/realtime.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
LongCat 2.5 is listed on Hugging Face.
- First listed 2026-11-04 as meituan-longcat/LongCat-2.5.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
- Official model announcement. See the source for capabilities and availability.
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GPT-6.1 Terra brings fast and capable computer use to everyone.
- OpenAI summary: "Bringing fast and capable computer use to everyone."
- Official model announcement. See the source for capabilities and availability.
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Baidu releases Unlimited-OCR 2 open weights under MIT license on Hugging Face.
- 3.34B vision-language OCR checkpoint (arXiv:2610.39308) with 147,000+ downloads in its first week.
- Handles dense multi-column document parsing, mathematical formulas, and handwriting recognition.
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Kimi K3.1 Pro and Highspeed launch across Kimi apps, Code, and API.
- Post-trained from K3 with improvements to coding, 3D creation, and agentic workflows, according to Moonshot.
- One-million-token context; Highspeed is advertised as 2โ3 times faster.
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Voxtral 3 brings new speech-to-text and text-to-speech models and a voice-agent SDK.
- Voxtral Small Transcribe 3, Mini Transcribe 3 (4B), Mini Transcribe Realtime 3 and Mini TTS 3.
- Voice-agent pipeline combines listening, reasoning, tool calls and speech in one stream.
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DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 lands with integrated Search & Fetch APIs and sub-second reasoning.
- Drastically reduces agent memory overhead while maintaining top-tier math and coding benchmarks.
- Full open weights available under MIT license.
MiniMax releases MiniMax-M3.1-Flash multimodal open weights on Hugging Face.
- 220B-parameter vision-language MoE optimized for fast long-context reasoning.
- Ships as open safetensors weights on Hugging Face.
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Fish Audio
Fish Audio Drama
3.0
Fish Audio drops Drama 3: 35B MoE emotive speech model with 16-character multi-speaker synthesis.
- Directable performance via natural language bracket tags ([whispers], [laughs], [anger], [crying]).
- Multi-character dialogue handling up to 16 distinct speaker tags in a single request.
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Anthropic
Claude Cyber Shield
2.0
Claude Cyber Shield 2.0 deploys real-time continuous supply-chain audit and dependency invariant verification.
- Proactively scans open source registries for behavioral anomalies and malicious code injection.
- Generates automated, cryptographically verifiable remediation PRs.
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Kling 4.0 launches globally with native 4K 10-bit HDR and Omni Reference.
- Single-pass video generation expanded up to 30 continuous seconds.
- Omni Reference combines up to 15 reference assets and 10 keyframe controls.
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MiniMax launches H3 Max Director mode with native camera path scripting and 3D relighting.
- Enables virtual cinematography with pan, zoom, roll, and dolly trajectory controls.
- Dynamic relighting tools allow shifting time-of-day lighting post-generation.
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Google DeepMind
Big Sleep
2.0
Big Sleep 2.0 discovers autonomous zero-days in kernel subsystems and opens automated patch validation.
- First AI agent capable of end-to-end vulnerability reproduction, triage, and verifiable patch drafting.
- Expanded from single user-space libraries to complex operating system kernel modules.
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Anthropic ships Claude Code 1.2 with automated cross-repository refactoring and git verification.
- Direct terminal agent runs builds, tests, git commits, and interactive PR drafting.
- Built-in sandbox isolates bash execution and verifies tests before finishing.
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Claude Haiku 5.5 ships with 1M context window and near-Opus coding speed.
- Expands context to 1,000,000 tokens while maintaining sub-second response times.
- Adaptive thinking mechanism scales reasoning compute dynamically.
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Ling 3.1 Flash expands reasoning performance and instruction adherence.
- repo inclusionAI/Ling-3.1-flash (created 2026-10-13, modified 2026-10-15)
- Source adapter: hf-api
Google DeepMind
Gemini Argon
4
Gemini 4 Argon opens to developers, enterprises and consumers.
- Available via the API in AI Studio and the Gemini platform, and in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers.
- Introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
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Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, frontier models for agents.
- Meta calls them its most capable models to date.
- Active Memory carries context across conversations; Active Focus keeps long tasks on track.
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Skywork releases Matrix-Game 4.0 interactive world model weights under Apache-2.0.
- Controllable video-to-video and action-conditioned world generation on Hugging Face.
- Apache-2.0 open-weight release from Skywork AI.
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Cartesia Sonic 2 sets real-time voice benchmark with sub-90ms full-duplex conversational synthesis.
- Engineered specifically for low-latency agent architectures.
- Emotion control slider via WebSocket API.
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Suno v4.5 introduces stem-level studio mixing, custom lyrical structure controls, and lossless 48kHz audio.
- Allows downloading separated stems (vocals, drums, bass, synth) directly from any generated track.
- Enhanced genre blending and acoustic instrument warmth.
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Tencent open-sources Hunyuan3D 2.0 with production-ready PBR material generation.
- Outputs clean topology ready for game engines (Unreal Engine 5, Unity).
- Fast two-stage diffusion generates textured mesh in under 15 seconds.
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Google DeepMind
AlphaFold
3.2
AlphaFold 3.2 expands de novo molecular drug design with quantitative binding affinity scoring.
- Directly generates novel molecular binders targeting previously undruggable viral proteins.
- Integrated structural confidence scoring for RNA-protein complex interactions.
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Google DeepMind
Genie 2
2.0
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, generating endless interactive playable 3D worlds in real time.
- Takes keyboard/controller inputs and generates consistent 3D world physics on the fly.
- Capable of simulating complex platformers, racing, and first-person perspectives.
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Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo lands on Hugging Face for few-step image synthesis.
- 7.1B distilled checkpoint accelerating Qwen-Image 2.1 generation.
- Accompanied by Prompt-Editing (PE) text-to-image and image-to-image variants.
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Moshi 1.5 drops latency to 110ms with multilingual conversational turn-taking and emotional mirroring.
- Native speech-to-speech dialogue with instantaneous human interruption handling.
- Open weights and Mimi audio codec updated with enhanced voice timbre clarity.
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Oasis 1.5 reaches 60 FPS real-time neural simulation with multi-agent persistent memory.
- Fluid gameplay with zero game engine code; all rendering and world mechanics emerge from weights.
- Persistent terrain changes survive long-horizon exploration sessions.
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FLUX.2 Turbo drops latency to 8 steps with complete typography prompt adherence.
- Ultra-fast distilled weights for real-time graphics pipelines.
- Renders multi-line typography with zero spelling distortion.
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Mistral Large 4: a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal MoE.
- 52 billion active parameters.
- Public preview API live in Mistral Studio, served from European datacenters.
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Fish Audio
Fish Audio Drama
2.0
Fish Speech 2.0 introduces sub-100ms streaming TTS.
- Zero-shot voice cloning from 3 seconds of audio.
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Midjourney V8.5 introduces direct web-canvas camera re-framing and 4K photorealism.
- Interactive 3D bounding box controls for multi-character scene consistency.
- Significant improvement in complex hand anatomy and legible signage text.
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Stability AI
Stable Audio
2.5
Stable Audio 2.5 expands diffusion style-transfer to full 5-minute continuous audio arrangements.
- Multi-track stems export with discrete drum and bass separation.
- Trained exclusively on licensed commercial music catalogs.
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Ideogram 4.5 is listed on fal.ai.
- First listed 2026-09-30 as ideogram/v4.5/edit, ideogram/v4.5.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
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Google DeepMind
Gemini Argon
4 Pre
Gemini 4 Argon announced, rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders.
- Early access runs through Googleโs Fairwind Program while safeguards are tested before broad availability.
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Claude Opus 5.5 takes #1 on frontier reasoning and autonomous software engineering.
- Sets state-of-the-art across SWE-bench Verified and competitive coding benchmarks.
- Native multi-agent orchestration for continuous 24-hour development runs.
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GPT-6.1 Sol offers near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth of Astraโs API token prices.
- OpenAI summary: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use and professional work.
- Priced at one-fifth of Astraโs standard API input and output token prices.
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ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs TTS
v4
Eleven v4, ElevenLabsโ most emotive model, launches with a new architecture.
- Adds a Turbo model for low-latency use cases.
- ElevenLabs cites more authentic, consistent voice cloning across languages.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet
5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is listed on OpenRouter and models.dev.
- First listed 2026-09-28 as anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5, anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5:batch.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna bring frontier intelligence to everyday work.
- Two models with different balances of capability and cost.
- Official model announcement. See the source for capabilities and availability.
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Grok 4.7 is listed on OpenRouter and models.dev.
- First listed 2026-09-21 as x-ai/grok-4.7.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
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Veo 3.2 integrates Google DeepMind spatial audio and 4K visual resolution.
- Cinematic lighting controls and temporal consistency across scene transitions.
- Deep integration with YouTube Shorts and Gemini creator workflows.
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ElevenMusic 2.5 is listed on fal.ai.
- First listed 2026-09-14 as elevenlabs/music/v2.5.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
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Alibaba releases Qwen-Image 2.1 open weights on Hugging Face.
- 7.1B-parameter text-to-image foundation model with over 220,000 Hub downloads.
- Supports bilingual typography rendering and structured prompt adherence.
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Fable 5.1 expands multi-agent alignment and complex scientific theorem proving.
- Pinnacle intelligence tier exceeding Opus in sustained mathematical rigor.
- Strict safety evaluations and verified cyber-safeguards.
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Qwen3.8 Max 0902 checkpoint introduces refined multi-turn tool-use.
- openrouter lists qwen/qwen3.8-max-0902 ("Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)") from 2026-09-03
- Source adapter: openrouter
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GPT-6 Astra debuts as OpenAIโs most intelligent and aligned model yet.
- OpenAI cites state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity and science.
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Google DeepMind
Gemini Flash
3.8
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber arrive three weeks after 3.7.
- Google calls 3.8 its best reasoning and coding model yet, at the speed and cost of 3.7.
- 3.8 Flash Cyber is a cybersecurity variant.
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Muse Spark 1.3 is listed on OpenRouter and models.dev.
- First listed 2026-09-02 as meta/muse-spark-1.3.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
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Z.ai releases GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash open-weight checkpoints on Hugging Face.
- 753B-parameter MoE flagship alongside a high-throughput Flash variant.
- Over 6.3 million downloads across the GLM-5.3 release repositories on Hugging Face.
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DeepSeek R1 matches frontier reasoning with open weights and emergent self-verification chains.
- Trained via large-scale reinforcement learning without cold-start SFT.
- Distilled dense variants run on single consumer workstations.
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Google DeepMind
Gemini Flash
3.7
Gemini 3.7 Flash, Googleโs most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.
- Official model announcement. See the source for capabilities and availability.
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Grok 4.6 is listed on OpenRouter and models.dev.
- First listed 2026-08-12 as x-ai/grok-4.6.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
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LTX 2.5 is listed on fal.ai.
- First listed 2026-08-11 as lightricks/ltx-2.5/image-to-video/pro, lightricks/ltx-2.5/image-to-video/fast, lightricks/ltx-2.5/text-to-video/pro.
- Platform listing, not a lab announcement. See the source for availability and details.
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MAI-Image-2.6 launches at No. 2 on Arenaโs text-to-image leaderboard.
- Microsoft reports +79 Elo over MAI-Image-2.5 overall and +91 Elo on text rendering.
- MAI-Image-2.6 and 2.6-Flash entered Public Preview on Microsoft Foundry (post updated 4 September 2026).
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Seedream 5.0 Pro adds grounded, layer-separated editing.
- Edits a single region while holding the rest of the frame.
- Layer separation for compositing.
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Tripo3D image-to-3D object generation.
- Single image in, 3D model out.
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Muse Spark 1.2 ships with Muse Code, a terminal coding agent.
- Terminal-Bench 2.1 up to 82.9% from 76.2%; DeepSWE v1.1 to 59.3% from 53.0%.
- Trained on whole software engineering workflows rather than completion.
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Qwen3.8-Max, 2.4T parameters and the first Max tier to open.
- 2.4 trillion parameters, 95B active. Text, image and video, 1M context.
- First Max-class Qwen to be open-sourced โ a return to the open strategy after several proprietary flagships.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash delivers high-throughput reasoning at record-low inference cost.
- Flagship speed tier for production agent deployments.
MiniMax H3 text-to-video lands with high frame consistency and fluid physics.
- First generation H3 model release.
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Hi3D generates 3D models from a single image.
- Direct competitor to Tripo in the image-to-3D slot.
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Full K3 weights published on Hugging Face, on the date Moonshot committed to.
- Moonshot calls K3 the worldโs first open 3T-class model.
- Released under Moonshotโs own kimi-k3 licence.
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Qwen3.7-Flash lands between the 3.5 train and 3.8-Max.
- Flash tier; announcement date not yet confirmed against Alibaba.
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Opus 5 lands below Fable 5, at half the price.
- New Opus-tier flagship above Opus 4.8.
- Anthropic positions it near Fable 5's intelligence at $5/Mtok input against Fable 5's $10.
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Ling-3.0-flash released with open weights.
- Throughput-oriented MoE.
- Part of the July open-weight wave.
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MAI-Image-2.5-Pro introduced alongside MAI-Voice-2-Flash.
- Microsoft highlights accurate text rendering and natural-language edits.
- Also listed on fal.ai as microsoft/mai-image-2.5-pro.
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Three Qwen releases inside 72 hours.
- Rapid-fire release train across sizes.
- Open weights on all three.
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Laguna S 2.1 released into the July model wave.
- Incremental gains on repo-scale editing.
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GPT-5.6 arrives as a lineup: Sol, Terra and Luna.
- Three named variants released together instead of a single flagship.
- Splits reasoning depth, speed and cost across the tiers.
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Sonilo V1.1 generates licensed music from one prompt.
- Control over style, mood, instrumentation and exact duration.
- Licensing is the differentiator, not fidelity.
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Google DeepMind
Gemini Flash
3.6
Gemini 3.6 Flash ships as a three-model trio.
- Three Flash variants released simultaneously.
- Aimed at high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads.
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LongCat 2.0, a 1.6T-parameter sparse MoE from Meituan.
- 48B active parameters.
- Positioned for coding and repository tasks.
Grok 4.5 pushes coding and knowledge work at lower token use.
- Headline claim is efficiency, not raw capability.
- Fewer tokens consumed per completed task.
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Muse Spark 1.1 leans hard into computer use.
- 1,000,000-token context window.
- Positioned on agent work rather than chat.
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Kimi K3 launches at 2.8T parameters with native vision and a 1M-token context.
- Built on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals, per Moonshot.
- Available on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API at launch.
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LTX-2.3 ships text-, image- and audio-to-video.
- Pro and Fast variants.
- Generates synchronised audio with video.
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FLUX 3 enters early access โ video, audio and robot actions from one model.
- First BFL model to generate video, audio and robot action-prediction from a single set of weights.
- FLUX 3 Video does up to 20-second clips with native audio.
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Lucy 2.5 edits webcam and streamed video live.
- Restyle, background swap and object replacement at interactive rates.
- Runs over WebRTC rather than as a batch job.
Reve 2.1 edits from text prompts with layout intelligence.
- Prompt adherence and accurate text rendering.
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KAT-Coder V2.5 lands in Pro and Air sizes.
- Both variants shipped the same day.
- Scoped at whole issues and workflows.
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Seedream 5.0 Lite editing endpoint.
- Fast variant, multi-input editing.
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Hy3 ships with configurable reasoning.
- 21B active of 295B total.
- 192 experts with top-8 routing.
Ideogram V4.0 sharpens text rendering and fine detail.
- Accurate typography remains the selling point.
- Posters and logos as the target use.
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Sonnet 5 arrives under the Opus 5 flagship.
- Tracked separately from Opus โ different cadence, different tier.
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Nano Banana 2 Lite, also listed as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image.
- Same model under two ids โ the case the alias map exists for.
- Lite tier below Nano Banana 2.
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Baidu open-sources Unlimited-OCR with 3.34B MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face.
- Over 4.2 million Hub downloads and 4,900+ likes since release (arXiv:2606.23050).
- End-to-end image-text-to-text document recognition in safetensors format.
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Seedance 2.5 extends clip length and shot consistency.
- Now the strongest long-form image-to-video option.
- Better identity retention across cuts.
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GLM-5.2 ships 753B MIT-licensed open weights on Hugging Face.
- MIT-licensed open-weight foundation model for reasoning and agentic coding.
- Published in BF16 and FP8 weight configurations.
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Fable 5 ships as Anthropics premier Mythos-class intelligence engine.
- Designed specifically for multi-day uninterrupted agentic task planning.
- Introduced prior to the Opus 5 release window.
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Ray3.2 adds frame-by-frame direction and a public API.
- Clips up to 20 seconds at 1080p.
- Up to 16 keyframes per clip to shape motion and pacing.
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TripoSplat converts one image into 3D Gaussians.
- Open-source, from TripoAI / VAST AI Research.
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MAI-Image-2.5 and 2.5-Flash launch; 2.5 ranks No. 2 on Arenaโs image-edit leaderboard.
- Generation and precise, localized editing in one model.
- 2.5-Flash targets fast, scalable production workloads.
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MiniMax-M3 ships 427B multimodal MoE weights on Hugging Face.
- 427B-parameter native image-text-to-text architecture.
- Released with BF16 and MXFP8 weight checkpoints.
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Baidu PaddlePaddle
PaddleOCR-VL
1.6
PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 upgrades compact 0.96B multilingual document and table parsing on Hugging Face.
- Apache-2.0 open weights supporting vLLM and Transformers inference for text, tables, formulas, and charts.
- 87,000+ Hub downloads with ultra-low sub-1B parameter footprint.
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First Muse Spark release.
- Agent-first framing from launch.
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Recraft V4.1 brings quieter photorealism and new illustration styles.
- Adds a Utility variant for when simplicity matters more than creative surprise.
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V8.1 is the fastest Midjourney yet โ 4โ5ร on standard jobs.
- HD 2K output added.
- Better prompt adherence and small-detail retention.
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Qwen 3 generation opens with hybrid reasoning.
- Thinking and non-thinking modes in one checkpoint.
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Hy3 preview, ahead of the full release.
- High-efficiency MoE for agentic workflows.
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V3 with style training from reference images.
- Fine-tuning on a small reference set.
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Kimi K2.6 open-sources long-horizon coding and agent swarms.
- Available via Kimi.com, the Kimi App, the API and Kimi Code.
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MAI-Image-2-Efficient: flagship quality at nearly 41% lower cost.
- Microsoft reports 22% faster generation.
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Incremental bump to the 4-series flagship.
- Coding and tool-use gains over 4.5.
- Same pricing as 4.5.
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MiniMax-M2.7 open-weight 228B MoE lands on Hugging Face.
- 228B-parameter text reasoning checkpoint preceding the M3 generation.
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ElevenMusic launches on iOS, unifying voice, music and SFX.
- One app across voice, music and sound effects.
- Positioned against Suno on licensing rather than quality.
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Matrix-Game 3.0 open-sources image-and-text-conditioned playable world generation.
- Apache-2.0 open weights for interactive environment synthesis.
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v5.5 adds custom fine-tuning and verified voice cloning.
- Better vocal expressiveness over v5.
- Custom model fine-tuning for users.
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Sora 2 deprecated; API removal set for 24 September 2026.
- OpenAI notified developers on 24 March 2026.
- The Videos API and every sora-2 and sora-2-pro snapshot leave the API on 24 September 2026.
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MAI-Image-2 targets natural light, accurate skin tones and lived-in scenes.
- Official model announcement. See the source for capabilities and availability.
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Google DeepMind
Gemini Flash
3.0
Gemini 3 generation reaches the Flash tier.
- 1M-token context standard across the tier.
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Laguna S 2 targets whole-repository reasoning.
- Trained on execution feedback rather than static code alone.
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Nano Banana 2, Google's image generation and editing model.
- Generation and editing in one endpoint.
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Kling 3.0 adds multilingual lip sync and cinematic motion controls.
- Lip sync across multiple languages in one pass.
- Holds four separate entries in the video top ten.
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5.2 tightens routing between fast and thinking modes.
- Less visible mode-switching.
- Lower latency on short turns.
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Recraft V4, a ground-up rebuild focused on design taste.
- Targets visual taste, prompt accuracy and output quality for production design work.
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Seedance 2.0 takes the #1 slot on Artificial Analysis.
- Displaces Veo and Kling at the top of the video board.
- Large jump in motion coherence.
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Baidu PaddlePaddle
PaddleOCR-VL
1.5
PaddleOCR-VL 1.5 ships Apache-2.0 vision-language OCR checkpoints on Hugging Face.
- Sub-billion-parameter document layout and OCR model from Baidu's PaddlePaddle team.
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Kimi K2.5 turns K2 into a native multimodal model.
- Continued pretraining on about 15T mixed visual and text tokens, per Moonshot.
- Can direct an agent swarm of up to 100 sub-agents.
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Ray3.14: native 1080p, 3x cheaper and 4x faster.
- Luma positions it as removing the quality, speed and cost tradeoff of Ray3.
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V8 resets the base model.
- Large jump in prompt following.
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Black Forest Labs
FLUX
klein
FLUX klein targets local and enterprise inference.
- 40% less memory on NVIDIA RTX cards.
- Roughly 40% faster.
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v2 improves stem separation and instrumental control.
- Preferred by musicians over Suno on instrumental work.
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Runway Gen-4.5 tops the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard.
- Runway cites 1,247 Elo on the leaderboard as of 30 November 2025.
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Black Forest Labs
FLUX
2 Pro
FLUX.2 replaces FLUX.1 as the flagship.
- Leads open-weight image quality.
- Strong on photoreal and commercial work.
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Opus 4.5 lands with a large price cut.
- Roughly a third of 4.1 pricing.
- Effort control added to the API.
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Veo 3.1 brings true 4K at up to 60fps.
- 3840ร2160 output.
- Ambient sound, dialogue and effects generated with the video.
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MAI-Image-1 debuts in the top 10 on LMArena.
- Later added to Bing Image Creator.
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Sora 2 launches with synced audio and a social app.
- Best-in-class physical motion.
- Shipped with a consumer feed app.
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2.5 Turbo cuts cost while improving motion.
- Faster generation at lower price per second.
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v5 sets the current quality benchmark at 1,293 ELO.
- Ahead of every competitor on fidelity, structure and vocal realism.
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Luma launches Ray3.
- New generation of the Ray video model; Ray2 and Dream Machine are now deprecated.
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GPT-5 replaces the 4-series across ChatGPT.
- Unified router over reasoning and non-reasoning paths.
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Opus 4.1 refines agentic search and coding.
- Drop-in replacement for Opus 4.
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ElevenLabs enters music generation.
- Built on licensed training data from the start.
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Wan 2.2 releases open weights and inference code.
- Text-to-video and image-to-video A14B models plus a 5B text-image-to-video model.
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K2 established the open MoE line.
- 1T-parameter MoE, agentic tool use.
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Grok 4 released with a heavy multi-agent tier.
- Grok 4 Heavy runs multiple agents in parallel.
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First public Seedance release.
- Multi-shot generation from a single prompt.
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ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs TTS
v3
v3 adds audio tags for directed emotional delivery.
- Inline tags control emotion and pacing.
- 70+ languages.
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Veo 3 introduces synchronised native audio.
- First major model to generate video and matching audio together.
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v4.5 leads on lyric integration.
- Best-in-class lyric-to-melody alignment at release.
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Kling 2.0 rebuilds the motion model.
- Large improvement in physical plausibility.
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V7 introduces draft mode and personalisation by default.
- Personalisation on by default for the first time.
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Runway Gen-4 keeps characters, locations and objects consistent across scenes.
- Official model announcement. See the source for capabilities and availability.
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Alibaba open-sources Wan 2.1 matching commercial video generators with consumer GPU support.
- Supports both T2V and I2V at native 1080P resolution.
- 1.3B model runs on consumer RTX 4090 GPUs.
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Anthropic
Claude Cyber Shield
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Anthropic deploys specialized Claude cybersecurity defense suite for automated patch verification.
- Provides deep binary and source-level security audits with verifiable proof-of-fix.
- Rigorous safety evaluation preventing dual-use weaponization.
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Google DeepMind
Big Sleep
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Big Sleep discovers first-ever in-the-wild zero-day in widely used open source software (SQLite).
- Evolved from Project Naptime into a specialized LLM-assisted vulnerability discovery agent.
- Discovered stack buffer underflow in SQLite before it reached any production release.
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Decart and Etched release Oasis, a real-time neural game engine running Minecraft without game code.
- Takes keyboard and mouse inputs and generates the next video frame autoregressively.
- Simulates physics, inventory, biome rendering, and ray-traced lighting purely from weights.
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Recraft V3 sets a new image-generation standard, led by text rendering.
- Recraft cites first place on the Artificial Analysis text-to-image benchmark.
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Mistral Large 2 delivers 123B parameter frontier reasoning with 128k context.
- State-of-the-art multilingual reasoning rivaling GPT-4o and Llama 3.1 405B.
- Engineered to drastically minimize hallucination and sycophancy.
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Kyutai open-sources Moshi, achieving conversational speech-to-speech without STT/TTS cascade.
- First native audio-to-audio foundation model with realistic emotional prosody and backchanneling.
- Full duplex: can listen and speak simultaneously without audio cutoffs.
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Google DeepMind
AlphaFold
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AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of lifes molecules.
- Goes beyond proteins to model DNA, RNA, ligands, antibodies, and chemical modifications.
- Diffusion-based architecture replacing previous Evoformer.
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Stability AI
Stable Audio
2.0
Stable Audio 2.0 introduces audio-to-audio style transfer and 3-minute stereo generation.
- Generates full-length structured tracks (intro, development, outro) from text or audio prompts.
- Trained on AudioSparx licensed catalog for copyright integrity.
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