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Anthropic

Claude Fable

5.2

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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Decart

Lucy

6

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.
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Meituan

LongCat

2.5

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.
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Google DeepMind

Genie 2

4

Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation

  • Official model announcement. See the source for capabilities and availability.
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OpenAI

GPT Astra

6.1T

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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2wNEW DROP
Baidu

Unlimited-OCR

2

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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2wNEW DROP
Moonshot AI

Kimi

K3.1P

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 2โ€“3 times faster.
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3wNEW DROP
Mistral AI

Voxtral

3

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

DeepSeek V4.1

4.1

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.
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MiniMax

MiniMax M

3.1

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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Kuaishou

Kling

4.0

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

Hailuo

3 Max

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

Claude Code

1.2

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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Anthropic

Claude Haiku

5.5

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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4wNEW DROP
Ant Group

Ling Flash

3.1

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
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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

Muse Wonder

1.0

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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4wNEW DROP
Skywork

Matrix-Game

4.0

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

2.0

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

Suno

4.5

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

Hunyuan3D

2.0

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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Alibaba

Qwen-Image

2.1T

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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Kyutai

Moshi

1.5

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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Decart

Oasis

1.5

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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Black Forest Labs

FLUX

2T

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 AI

Mistral Large

4

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

Midjourney

8.5

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

Ideogram

4.5

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 Googleโ€™s Fairwind Program while safeguards are tested before broad availability.
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Anthropic

Claude Opus

5.5

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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OpenAI

GPT Astra

6.1S

GPT-6.1 Sol offers near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth of Astraโ€™s API token prices.

  • OpenAI summary: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use and professional work.
  • Priced at one-fifth of Astraโ€™s 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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OpenAI

GPT Astra

6S

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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xAI

Grok

4.7

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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Google DeepMind

Veo

3.2

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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ElevenLabs

ElevenMusic

2.5

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

Qwen-Image

2.1

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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Anthropic

Claude Fable

5.1

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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Alibaba

Qwen

0902

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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OpenAI

GPT Astra

6.0

GPT-6 Astra debuts as OpenAIโ€™s 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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Meta

Muse Spark

1.3

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

GLM

5.3

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

DeepSeek R1

R1

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, Googleโ€™s most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.

  • Official model announcement. See the source for capabilities and availability.
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xAI

Grok

4.6

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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Lightricks

LTX

2.5

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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Microsoft

MAI Image

2.6

MAI-Image-2.6 launches at No. 2 on Arenaโ€™s 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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ByteDance

Seedream

5 Pro

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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Tripo AI

Tripo

H3.1

Tripo3D image-to-3D object generation.

  • Single image in, 3D model out.
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Meta

Muse Spark

1.2

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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Alibaba

Qwen

3.8

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

DeepSeek V4.1

4

DeepSeek V4 Flash delivers high-throughput reasoning at record-low inference cost.

  • Flagship speed tier for production agent deployments.
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MiniMax

Hailuo

3

MiniMax H3 text-to-video lands with high frame consistency and fluid physics.

  • First generation H3 model release.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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Hitem3D

Hi3D

1

Hi3D generates 3D models from a single image.

  • Direct competitor to Tripo in the image-to-3D slot.
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Moonshot AI

Kimi

K3

Full K3 weights published on Hugging Face, on the date Moonshot committed to.

  • Moonshot calls K3 the worldโ€™s first open 3T-class model.
  • Released under Moonshotโ€™s own kimi-k3 licence.
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Alibaba

Qwen

3.7

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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Anthropic

Claude Opus

5

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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Ant Group

Ling Flash

3.0

Ling-3.0-flash released with open weights.

  • Throughput-oriented MoE.
  • Part of the July open-weight wave.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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Microsoft

MAI Image

2.5P

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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Alibaba

Qwen

3.5

Three Qwen releases inside 72 hours.

  • Rapid-fire release train across sizes.
  • Open weights on all three.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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Laguna S

2.1

Laguna S 2.1 released into the July model wave.

  • Incremental gains on repo-scale editing.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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OpenAI

GPT-5.6

5.6

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

Sonilo

1.1

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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Meituan

LongCat

2.0

LongCat 2.0, a 1.6T-parameter sparse MoE from Meituan.

  • 48B active parameters.
  • Positioned for coding and repository tasks.
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xAI

Grok

4.5

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.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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Meta

Muse Spark

1.1

Muse Spark 1.1 leans hard into computer use.

  • 1,000,000-token context window.
  • Positioned on agent work rather than chat.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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Moonshot AI

Kimi

K3

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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Lightricks

LTX

2.3

LTX-2.3 ships text-, image- and audio-to-video.

  • Pro and Fast variants.
  • Generates synchronised audio with video.
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Black Forest Labs

FLUX

3

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.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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Decart

Lucy

2.5

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.
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Reve

Reve

2.1

Reve 2.1 edits from text prompts with layout intelligence.

  • Prompt adherence and accurate text rendering.
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Kwaipilot

KAT-Coder

2.5

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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ByteDance

Seedream

5

Seedream 5.0 Lite editing endpoint.

  • Fast variant, multi-input editing.
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Tencent

Hy3

3

Hy3 ships with configurable reasoning.

  • 21B active of 295B total.
  • 192 experts with top-8 routing.
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Ideogram

Ideogram

4.0

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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Anthropic

Claude Sonnet

5

Sonnet 5 arrives under the Opus 5 flagship.

  • Tracked separately from Opus โ€” different cadence, different tier.
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Google

Nano Banana

2 Lite

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

Unlimited-OCR

1

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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ByteDance

Seedance

2.5

Seedance 2.5 extends clip length and shot consistency.

  • Now the strongest long-form image-to-video option.
  • Better identity retention across cuts.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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Z.ai

GLM

5.2

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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Anthropic

Claude Fable

5

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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Luma AI

Ray

3.2

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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Tripo AI

Tripo

Splat

TripoSplat converts one image into 3D Gaussians.

  • Open-source, from TripoAI / VAST AI Research.
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Microsoft

MAI Image

2.5

MAI-Image-2.5 and 2.5-Flash launch; 2.5 ranks No. 2 on Arenaโ€™s image-edit leaderboard.

  • Generation and precise, localized editing in one model.
  • 2.5-Flash targets fast, scalable production workloads.
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MiniMax

MiniMax M

3.0

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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5mo
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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Meta

Muse Spark

1.0

First Muse Spark release.

  • Agent-first framing from launch.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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6mo
Recraft

Recraft

V4.1

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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Midjourney

Midjourney

V8.1

V8.1 is the fastest Midjourney yet โ€” 4โ€“5ร— on standard jobs.

  • HD 2K output added.
  • Better prompt adherence and small-detail retention.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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6mo
Alibaba

Qwen

3.0

Qwen 3 generation opens with hybrid reasoning.

  • Thinking and non-thinking modes in one checkpoint.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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6mo
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Tencent

Hy3

3-pre

Hy3 preview, ahead of the full release.

  • High-efficiency MoE for agentic workflows.
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6mo
Ideogram

Ideogram

3.0

V3 with style training from reference images.

  • Fine-tuning on a small reference set.
First listedSource needed
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6mo
Moonshot AI

Kimi

K2.6

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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7mo
Microsoft

MAI Image

2E

MAI-Image-2-Efficient: flagship quality at nearly 41% lower cost.

  • Microsoft reports 22% faster generation.
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7mo
Anthropic

Claude Opus

4.8

Incremental bump to the 4-series flagship.

  • Coding and tool-use gains over 4.5.
  • Same pricing as 4.5.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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7mo
MiniMax

MiniMax M

2.7

MiniMax-M2.7 open-weight 228B MoE lands on Hugging Face.

  • 228B-parameter text reasoning checkpoint preceding the M3 generation.
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ElevenLabs

ElevenMusic

1.1

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.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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Skywork

Matrix-Game

3.0

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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Suno

Suno

v5.5

v5.5 adds custom fine-tuning and verified voice cloning.

  • Better vocal expressiveness over v5.
  • Custom model fine-tuning for users.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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7mo
OpenAI

Sora

2

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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7mo
Microsoft

MAI Image

2

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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8mo
Google DeepMind

Gemini Flash

3.0

Gemini 3 generation reaches the Flash tier.

  • 1M-token context standard across the tier.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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8mo
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Laguna S

2.0

Laguna S 2 targets whole-repository reasoning.

  • Trained on execution feedback rather than static code alone.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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8mo
Google

Nano Banana

2

Nano Banana 2, Google's image generation and editing model.

  • Generation and editing in one endpoint.
First listedSource needed
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8mo
Kuaishou

Kling

3.0

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.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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8mo
OpenAI

GPT-5.6

5.2

5.2 tightens routing between fast and thinking modes.

  • Less visible mode-switching.
  • Lower latency on short turns.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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8mo
Recraft

Recraft

V4

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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9mo
ByteDance

Seedance

2.0

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.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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9mo
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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Moonshot AI

Kimi

K2.5

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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Luma AI

Ray

3.14

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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Midjourney

Midjourney

V8

V8 resets the base model.

  • Large jump in prompt following.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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9mo
Black Forest Labs

FLUX

klein

FLUX klein targets local and enterprise inference.

  • 40% less memory on NVIDIA RTX cards.
  • Roughly 40% faster.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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11mo
Udio

Udio

v2

v2 improves stem separation and instrumental control.

  • Preferred by musicians over Suno on instrumental work.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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11mo
Runway

Gen-4

4.5

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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11mo
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.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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11mo
Anthropic

Claude Opus

4.5

Opus 4.5 lands with a large price cut.

  • Roughly a third of 4.1 pricing.
  • Effort control added to the API.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Google DeepMind

Veo

3.1

Veo 3.1 brings true 4K at up to 60fps.

  • 3840ร—2160 output.
  • Ambient sound, dialogue and effects generated with the video.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Microsoft

MAI Image

1

MAI-Image-1 debuts in the top 10 on LMArena.

  • Later added to Bing Image Creator.
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1y
OpenAI

Sora

2

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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1y
Kuaishou

Kling

2.5

2.5 Turbo cuts cost while improving motion.

  • Faster generation at lower price per second.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Suno

Suno

v5

v5 sets the current quality benchmark at 1,293 ELO.

  • Ahead of every competitor on fidelity, structure and vocal realism.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Luma AI

Ray

3

Luma launches Ray3.

  • New generation of the Ray video model; Ray2 and Dream Machine are now deprecated.
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1y
OpenAI

GPT-5.6

5.0

GPT-5 replaces the 4-series across ChatGPT.

  • Unified router over reasoning and non-reasoning paths.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Anthropic

Claude Opus

4.1

Opus 4.1 refines agentic search and coding.

  • Drop-in replacement for Opus 4.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
ElevenLabs

ElevenMusic

1.0

ElevenLabs enters music generation.

  • Built on licensed training data from the start.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Alibaba Wanx

Wan

2.2

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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1y
Moonshot AI

Kimi

K2

K2 established the open MoE line.

  • 1T-parameter MoE, agentic tool use.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
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xAI

Grok

4.0

Grok 4 released with a heavy multi-agent tier.

  • Grok 4 Heavy runs multiple agents in parallel.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
ByteDance

Seedance

1.0

First public Seedance release.

  • Multi-shot generation from a single prompt.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
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ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs TTS

v3

v3 adds audio tags for directed emotional delivery.

  • Inline tags control emotion and pacing.
  • 70+ languages.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Google DeepMind

Veo

3.0

Veo 3 introduces synchronised native audio.

  • First major model to generate video and matching audio together.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Suno

Suno

v4.5

v4.5 leads on lyric integration.

  • Best-in-class lyric-to-melody alignment at release.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Kuaishou

Kling

2.0

Kling 2.0 rebuilds the motion model.

  • Large improvement in physical plausibility.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
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Midjourney

V7

V7 introduces draft mode and personalisation by default.

  • Personalisation on by default for the first time.
Date basis unconfirmedSource needed
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1y
Runway

Gen-4

4.0

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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1y
Alibaba Wanx

Wan

2.1

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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1y
Anthropic

Claude Cyber Shield

1

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

1

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

Oasis

1.0

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

Recraft

V3

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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2y
Mistral AI

Mistral Large

2

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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2y
Kyutai

Moshi

1.0

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

3

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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