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Frontier and open-weight model releases — capabilities, benchmarks, pricing, and what changed.

AI ModelsOct 09, 20263 min read

OpenAI Accuses Moonshot AI of Stealing Model Reasoning

OpenAI says 4,000 users sent 16,000 prompts to extract its models' encrypted reasoning, and links part of the campaign to people tied to Moonshot AI.

AI ModelsOct 06, 20266 min read

Mistral Large 4 Is Out, but Le Chonk's Weights Are Not

Mistral shipped its 1-trillion-parameter Large 4 model on Tuesday, but downloadable weights are weeks out and no public benchmarks exist yet.

AI ModelsOct 06, 20264 min read

An Open 180B Model Tops 10 Hugging Face Boards, Runs on CPU

Darwin-180B-RSI leads 10 of 48 official Hugging Face leaderboards, and a 111 GB 4-bit build of it runs GPU-free at 18-21 tokens per second on CPU.

AI ModelsOct 02, 20263 min read

GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast Is 8x Faster. The Price Isn't Public.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast runs on NVIDIA Blackwell and claims up to 8x faster token generation, but the launch announcement names no price at all.

AI ModelsOct 01, 20266 min read

Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: Effort Flips the Winner

Opus 5.5 wins at max effort, GPT-6.1 Sol at medium, and Sol costs less per task in every published row. List prices, a cost-per-turn model, and the catch.

AI ModelsOct 01, 20264 min read

A 400MB Model Ran a Browser Agent on a 2017 Galaxy Note 8

Qwen3-0.6B scored 10/10 on a live browser task from a 2017 Note 8 and 0/3 without a perception layer — all figures self-reported by the layer's team.

AI ModelsSep 29, 20266 min read

OpenAI's DevDay Slate: GPT-6.1 Sol at One-Fifth the Price

OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay, claiming near-Astra coding quality at one-fifth the token price, plus reusable Codex cloud environments.

AI ModelsSep 25, 20264 min read

PrismML's 1-Bit LLM Hits Snapdragon Glasses, None Shipping Yet

Qualcomm showed PrismML's 1-bit Bonsai running on Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 glasses: a 2B vision model, 4x smaller. No glasses have been announced yet.

AI ModelsSep 24, 20263 min read

Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar: 97 Languages, Enterprise Only

Google's Live Avatar gives Gemini 3.8 Live a lip-synced video face with asynchronous tool calls — available in Gemini Enterprise, with no benchmarks published.

AI ModelsSep 23, 20264 min read

GPT-6 Sol vs Luna: Which Model Should You Actually Ship?

OpenAI cut GPT-6 Sol and Luna to half the 5.6 series API price, 90 minutes after Opus 5.5. Here is which model fits which workload, and why.

AI ModelsSep 22, 20266 min read

Claude Opus 5.5 Pricing: 20% Cheaper, 4 Breaking Changes

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 ships at $4/$20 per million tokens with cache reads 60% cheaper, plus four breaking API changes to fix before you migrate.

AI ModelsSep 18, 20263 min read

Claude Fable 5.1 Benchmarks: 27.9 Points, All Agentic

Fable 5.1 leads all nine reported rows, but the gains bunch in agentic execution while CursorBench barely moves. Input and output pricing did not change.