Topic
Model launches
New frontier AI model releases and what they change.
OpenAI3mo ago
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, but locks the launch
The brief: OpenAI's new flagship trio is real, priced and gated to about 20 government-approved partners.
2 min read · 26 June 2026
Google3mo ago
Gemini 3.5 Pro still not out as its 'next month' window closes
Announced at I/O, due 'next month' — and late June arrived without it.
2 min read · 23 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago
Anthropic ships Fable 5 — its most powerful public model yet
The frontier just moved. Here's the brief.
2 min read · 9 June 2026
MiniMax4mo ago
MiniMax ships M3 — open-weight frontier claims, weights to follow
Cheap, capable, and not quite downloadable yet. The brief on what shipped and what to watch.
2 min read · 1 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with a 1M-token context
Six weeks after 4.7, a faster, longer-memory Claude — and a tease of something bigger.
2 min read · 28 May 2026
xAI4mo ago
Musk says Grok V9-Medium has finished training
An announcement, not a release. The brief.
2 min read · 25 May 2026
DeepSeek5mo ago
DeepSeek ships V4: 1.6T open-weight model, $1.74 a million tokens
The brief: two MIT-licensed MoE models, 1M context, and the first DeepSeek architecture built for Huawei chips.
2 min read · 24 April 2026