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Model releases · TechCrunchOpen models are taking over more of the AI workloadModel releases · TechCrunchOpenAI launches GPT-5.6 model familyModel releases · Business InsiderOpenAI folds Codex into ChatGPT as GPT-5.6 rolls outModel releases · The VergeMeta opens Muse Spark 1.1 coding model through an API previewModel releases · Business InsiderOpenAI launches GPT-Live for more natural voice conversationsModel releases · AxiosSpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5 for coding and agentic workModel releases · Business InsiderOpenAI's GPT-5.6 rollout collides with Grok 4.5 launchModel releases · Business InsiderBusiness Insider says AI distillation threatens frontier-lab profitsModel releases · The Economic TimesOpenAI gets US approval for broad GPT-5.6 rolloutModel releases · TechCrunchMicrosoft is reportedly routing more Office AI work to its own modelsModel releases · The Economic TimesReport says Meta's Watermelon model has reached GPT-5.5-level performanceModel releases · MarkTechPostLlamaIndex ships legal-kb as an agentic retrieval reference appModel releases · MarkTechPostAnthropic launches Claude Science beta for reproducible research workflowsModel releases · MarkTechPostMistral releases Leanstral 1.5 for Lean 4 proof engineeringModel releases · TechCrunchMeta quietly launches Pocket for vibe-coded mini gamesModel releases · AnthropicAnthropic details Fable 5 cyber safeguards and jailbreak scoringModel releases · Unite.AIOmniOps and Allai Newroz launch KI, a Kurdish conversational AI platformModel releases · MIT Technology ReviewMIT Technology Review says a startup is trying to break LLM groupthinkModel releases · TechCrunchGoogle releases Nano Banana 2 Lite for faster low-cost image generationModel releases · TechCrunchAnthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 for cheaper agent workflowsModel releases · TechCrunchBase44 trains its own model for vibe codingModel releases · Economic TimesIndian firms weigh Chinese AI models as U.S. frontier access tightensModel releases · TechCrunchAsian AI startups pitch Mythos-like models as export controls biteModel releases · OpenAI + Business InsiderOpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol under a limited government testModel releases · GoogleGoogle gives Gemini 3.5 Flash computer-use abilitiesModel releases · Business InsiderGoogle pushes Gemini 3.5 Pro launch into JulyModel releases · Economic TimesChina's 360 launches AI cyber tools to rival Anthropic MythosModel releases · MarkTechPostDFlash claims up to 15x faster LLM inference on Nvidia BlackwellModel releases · Economic TimesJ.P. Morgan says China is closing the AI gap with cheaper modelsModel releases · MarkTechPostMistral OCR 4 adds citation-ready structure for RAG and agentsModel releases · MarkTechPostDatalab releases lift, a 9B open-weights vision model for PDFsModel releases · Economic TimesSakana launches Fugu as a multi-agent AI systemModel releases · Business InsiderZ.ai's GLM-5.2 open model draws Silicon Valley attentionModel releases · Tom's HardwareZ.ai says China can reach Fable 5-class models before 2027Model releases · The Times of IndiaIIT Bombay launches BharatGen for Indian-language AIModel releases · TechCrunch + Avataar AIIndia-backed Varya cuts AI video generation cost by roughly 20xModel releases · The RegisterGoogle brings diffusion techniques to open-weight text generationModel releases · TechCrunch + AnthropicAnthropic details unusually extensive guardrails for Fable 5Model releases · Nvidia ResearchNvidia releases Nemotron 3 Ultra for long-running open agentsModel releases · Nvidia / Hugging FaceNvidia releases an open multimodal safety model with custom policiesModel releases · OpenAIOpenAI upgrades GPT-Rosalind for life-sciences workflowsModel releases · TheQueryIdeogram 4 open weights sharpen the image-model raceModel releases · Microsoft AIMicrosoft rolls out MAI-Code-1-Flash for CopilotModel releases · RubrikRubrik gets Claude Mythos access for defensive vulnerability workModel releases · AxiosMicrosoft pairs Scout agents with its first in-house reasoning modelModel releases · PR Newswire / DnotitiaDnotitia releases DNA 3.0 enterprise models on Hugging FaceModel releases · VentureBeatMiniMax-M3 raises the pressure on costly frontier APIsModel releases · Hugging Face / JetBrainsJetBrains releases Mellum2, a 12B MoE coding modelModel releases · NVIDIANvidia launches Cosmos 3 as an open physical-AI foundation modelModel releases · AnthropicAnthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with dynamic workflows for larger agent tasksModel releases · VentureBeatDeepSeek makes its V4 price cut permanent and pressures Western token marginsModel releases · The VergeMicrosoft ships MAI-Image-2.5 and moves deeper into in-house modelsModel releases · Computer Weekly + Qwen coverageAlibaba's Qwen 3.7-Max shows China's agent-model race is still moving fastModel releases · CohereCohere releases Command A+ as an open-source sovereign AI modelModel releases · Stability AIStability AI releases open-weight Stable Audio 3.0 modelsModel releases · Baidu ERNIEBaidu releases ERNIE 5.1 with a cheaper agent-training stackModel releases · PR Newswire / Genesis AIGenesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 for dexterous robot manipulationModel releases · Mistral Docs + coverageMistral Medium 3.5 keeps Europe in the open-weight agent race