StepFun released Step 5 Preview, a next-generation flagship foundation model built for real-world tasks with a focus on coding and professional knowledge work. The model natively supports text, image,…
Philipp Dubach released pi-jev-router, an open-source extension for the pi coding agent that uses TypeSafe's Jev System One model to classify each task and route it to a model on the Pareto frontier b…
Artificial Analysis, co-founded by CEO Micah Hill-Smith and Chief Product Officer George Cameron, added safety-refusal reporting to its Coding Agent Index on September 18th alongside version 1.5 of it…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, cutting the cache-read price 75% from $1.00 to $0.25 per million tokens while leaving input at $10 and output at $50 per million tokens unchanged. T…
SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on September 18th, claiming the speech recognition model is twice as accurate as version 1.0 at the same price of $0.10 per batch hour and $0.20 for streami…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking in September 2026, a model that narrates its reasoning in real time via live audio, ranking first on the Artificial Analysis Speech-to-Speech Quality …
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-FlashX, a native multimodal model that delivers inference speeds of up to 200 tokens/s, faster than GLM-5.3-Flash. The model uses a hybrid sparse and linear attention architectur…
A stealth model called Union Alpha appeared on OpenCode on 2026-09-16 as a free one-week preview under the model id opencode-go/union-alpha, and the same day on OrcaRouter as a free OpenAI-compatible …
Fal launched H3 Max on August 27, a post-trained variant of MiniMax's open source H3 video model that delivers roughly 35 times the throughput of MiniMax's official endpoint, generating a 5-second 768…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking in its API and Google AI Studio, adding native speech-to-speech capability for voice-first agents. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinki…
The Georgian AI Lab outlined a resource-efficiency framework for agentic development that treats model selection as an ongoing cycle of capability investment and cost optimization, arguing open-weight…
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Sept. 15, a voice model that continues reasoning through multistep tasks and runs tools in the background while audio streams, alongside the lower-…
Artificial Analysis released Capability Indices v1.1 on September 14, 2026, adding Agentic Tool Use and Agentic Knowledge Work evaluations while removing Agentic Customer Interaction (𝜏³-Banking) acro…
OpenAI will shut down the Sora API on September 24, 2026, after the product reportedly burned close to $1 million a day against just over $2 million in total lifetime revenue, according to a cited Ope…
Agnes AI released Agnes-3.0-Flash Preview, a 33-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal language model under an Apache 2.0 license with a 262,144-token context window and a hybrid attention architect…
Suno launched its v6 music-generating AI model last week to mixed reviews, with the platform ranked best on Artificial Analysis's instrumental music leaderboard. Suno v6 generates songs quickly and ad…
Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index version 4.1.1 weights agentic workloads at 34% and general reasoning at 18%, a shift an analysis of 586 model evaluations argues distorts what the score measur…
Google released new Gemini Live models in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, including Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which the company says rank first on Artificial Analysis' Speec…
Speechify released Simba 3.2 and Simba 3.0, text-to-speech models that cut time-to-first-audio to roughly 100ms on Coval's benchmark while keeping the same voices, quality, and per-character pricing. …
Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max (0902), released September 2, 2026, scores 45 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, well above the median of 25 for comparable models, but its cost per task runs higher …