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DeepSeek V4 Goes Stable: Old API Retired, Peak Pricing Live
DeepSeek completed V4's rollout to general availability on July 24, 2026, retiring legacy endpoints and starting peak-hour API pricing.
Qwen-Image-3.0: Alibaba Ships AI Image Model, No Benchmarks
Alibaba released Qwen-Image-3.0, a text-heavy AI image model with 4.5x longer prompts, but shipped without benchmarks or open weights.
Qwen3.8-Max-Preview: Alibaba's 2.4T Multimodal Model Launches at WAIC
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model, at WAIC 2026. It handles text, images, video, and documents with a 1M-token context, though key claims remain unverified.
Kimi K3 Launch: Moonshot AI's 2.8T-Parameter Model Rattles Markets
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, a 2.8T-parameter MoE model that outscored Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, triggering a broad tech stock sell-off.
Grok 4.5 Launch: xAI and Cursor's First Joint Model Targets Legal, Finance
xAI and Cursor jointly launched Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026, a coding, legal, and finance-focused model priced from $2/$6 to $4/$18 per million tokens.
Mistral Leanstral 1.5: An LLM That Proves Its Own Code
Mistral AI's Leanstral 1.5 is an open-weight Lean 4 model that formally proves code correctness, solving 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems.
Mistral OCR 4 Launch: Structure-Aware Document AI with 85.20 OlmOCRBench Score
Mistral AI launched OCR 4 on June 23, 2026. The structure-aware model scores 85.20 on OlmOCRBench, supports 170 languages, and offers self-hosting for data sovereignty.
GLM-5.2 Review: Top Open-Weight Coding LLM, 1M Context, MIT Licensed
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2 on June 17, 2026. MIT-licensed with no regional locks, it tops the AA Intelligence Index v4.1 at 51 points and scores 74.4% on FrontierSWE.
Mistral AI Seeks €3B at €20B Valuation: Europe's AI Bet Doubles Down
Mistral AI is in early talks to raise €3B (~$3.5B) at a €20B valuation — nearly doubling its Sept 2025 valuation of €11.7B. The French startup crossed $400M ARR in early 2026.
xAI Launches Grok Imagine Video 1.5: #1 Ranked Video Generation API with Native Audio
xAI released Grok Imagine Video 1.5 on June 3, 2026, debuting at #1 on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena with native synchronized audio, 15-second clips, and developer-ready API access.
MiniMax M3 Review: Open-Weight Model with 1M Context at 5% of Frontier AI Cost
MiniMax M3 launched June 1, 2026 as the first open-weight model combining frontier coding, 1M-token context, and native multimodality at a fraction of proprietary model prices.
xAI Grok Build 0.1: Terminal-Native Coding Agent Enters Public Beta with Parallel Subagents
xAI released Grok Build 0.1 to public beta on May 28, 2026, a terminal-native coding model with 256K context, parallel subagents, plan mode, and $1/M token pricing to compete with Claude Code.
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