South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT cut Motif Technologies from its Sovereign AI Foundation Model project after the first-phase evaluation, advancing LG AI Research Institute, SK Telecom, and Up…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3's token-metered API on August 18, 2026, at $1.40 input / $4.40 output per million tokens, the same rates as GLM-5.2, and OpenRouter listed the model the same day. The model, whic…
Two unreleased AI video models, code-named Polaris and Vega, appeared on the Artificial Analysis Arena leaderboard, sparking speculation that Meta is behind them. The models generate 10-second, 1080p …
Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter dense model from Alibaba, ranks #1 of 135 models on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index with a score of 52, one point above GLM-5.2, a 753-billion-parameter op…
XAI's Grok 4.6 ranked third on the Artificial Analysis Healthcare and Medical Index, behind Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 (max) and Claude Fable 5 (with fallback), according to a benchmark weighting clini…
OpenAI halted internal work on its unreleased 'Astra' model after internal testing found it could autonomously develop zero-day exploits, marking the first time a model triggered the 'Critical' cybers…
GLM-5.2 scores 99.2% on AIME 2026 with 40 billion active parameters, while Qwen3.5's 9B model hallucinates on 82% of knowledge questions in Artificial Analysis's Omniscience benchmark, reflecting a de…
Reasoning models are deliberately trading world knowledge for reasoning skill, with GLM-5.2 scoring 99.2% on AIME 2026 using about 40 billion active parameters per token, while factual recall remains …
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6, released August 12, 2026, scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and beating Grok 4.5 by five points, while costing $2 per million inp…
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows, comparing models on quality, cost, and time per task. The tool address…
XAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 35 days after Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, making it 2.5x to 5x cheaper than GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 at c…
AI inference costs are becoming a major problem for many companies, with AI spend per employee per month rising sharply, according to the Ramp AI Index via a16z. To reduce costs, companies should audi…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) released Grok 4.6, its latest flagship AI model for enterprise workflows, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, less than half of …
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax's H3, released on the same day two weeks ago, have propelled China to dominate the AI video race, with nine of the top 10 text-to-video systems on Artificial Analy…
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.7 Flash, which scores 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with high reasoning, a 4-point improvement over Gemini 3.6 Flash, and achieves an average Time …
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B, released on August 12, 2026, scores 58 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, well above the median of 27, but is priced at $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output…
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash, launched August 13, 2026 at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output, wins 9 of 19 benchmark rows in its own model card, while GPT-5.6 Terra wins 6 and Cl…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, claiming all benchmark gains, including a Terminal-Bench 3.0 score jump from 4.6 to 28.3, come from post-training alone on the identical GLM-5.2 base model. T…
State-of-the-art AI models are two-thirds smarter than last November, with two new models released every three days, yet 84% of tokens on OpenRouter are not state of the art, and the six most-used mod…
Investors in Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI models, are targeting a $2 trillion valuation for its October IPO, according to the Financial Times, citing the company's projected revenue of $1…