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 …
China is rapidly closing the US lead in artificial intelligence, with Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 ranking No. 3 globally in model intelligence in July behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5…
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, two native speech-to-speech models available now in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Extended Thinking scores…
The cost of completing a given task with a machine learning model is falling sharply even though per-token prices for frontier models are not consistently declining, according to an analysis citing Ep…
StepFun released five StepAudio 3 models on September 15th, giving developers separate APIs for real-time voice interaction, transcription, speech synthesis, general audio generation and music. Artifi…
Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two voice models from the Gemini Audio Team that pair spoken conversation with parallel reasoning. Extended Thinking leads Arti…
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which it calls its "most advanced live dialogue models yet," following the March launch of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. Gemini 3.8 Liv…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models, available today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio at $0.005/min for audio input. Gem…
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard. Google priced Gemini …
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two live audio models that Google says top Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index at 82.6% and cost $0.84 a…
Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two models built for near real-time reasoning and production-ready voice agents. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking took the #1 …
Frontier AI labs have a financial incentive to advocate for regulatory pacing that protects their commercial position, according to an essay published at pacingthefrontier.com. The essay cites Anthrop…
InclusionAI released Ling-3.0-flash-VL, a hybrid instant/reasoning model with tool calling that builds on Ling 3.0 Flash (124B total / 5.5B active MoE) and adds native visual perception and advanced v…
Artificial Analysis has been named the official global evaluation partner for South Korea's Sovereign AI Foundation Model project, known as Dokpamo, with its Intelligence Index accounting for 25 of 10…
Artificial Analysis benchmarked Cognition's Devin Fusion, which pairs a frontier model with the cheaper SWE-2 model as a sidekick, finding the GPT-6 Astra pairing costs 43 percent less and runs 31 per…
A developer analysis of Artificial Analysis benchmarking data finds that GLM-5.3-Flash scores 42 at $0.25 per task while Kimi K3 scores 44 at $2.00 per task, an eight-fold cost gap for a two-point cap…
A developer reports that Qwen 3.8 27b, a locally run open-source model, now matches frontier cloud models like Claude Opus 4.6 for agentic coding tasks, scoring 34 versus 32 on the Artificial Analysis…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, and Towards AI Deployment was named an OpenAI Select Partner. Astra scored 53 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index 4.3, tied with Fable 5.1, and pass…
AI output is accelerating faster than human review can adapt, shifting the bottleneck from generation to verification, according to engineering teams and researchers. OpenAI claims an unreleased model…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 18 billion active parameters, under the MIT license, claiming it outperforms GLM-5.2 at one-tenth the price, but the …