Releases

OpenAI will remove tts-1, tts-1-hd and two GPT-4o mini TTS snapshots from the API on January 6, 2027. The recommended replacement is gpt-realtime-2.1-mini.

OpenAI will remove gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and the chatgpt-image-latest alias from the API on December 1, 2026. The recommended replacements are GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst or Flare.

SpaceXAI will retire the grok-imagine-image-quality alias on November 2, 2026. The alias will continue to resolve to grok-imagine-image-2.0 with quality set to low, at a lower per-image price.

Mistral will retire the third-party zai-glm-5-2 model from its API on October 31, 2026. Mistral directs integrations to zai-glm-5-3 at the same price.

OpenAI will remove gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 and gpt-4-0613 snapshot aliases from the API on October 23, 2026. The documented replacements are GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Sol respectively.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and most capable small model for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads. Anthropic says it costs about 75% less per task on average than Haiku 4.5, supports adjustable effort, and is available across the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, an Apache 2.0-licensed open-weight multimodal embedding model that maps text, code, images, video and audio into a shared 768-dimensional space. The modular model scales from 270 million parameters for text and code to 740 million parameters for all modalities.

Google lists October 5, 2026 as the shutdown date for antigravity-preview-05-2026 in the Gemini API. Developers are directed to migrate to antigravity-preview-09-2026.

SpaceXAI retired Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 and routed requests to Transcribe 2.0.

Cohere launched its fifth-generation frontier embedding models in Pro and Fast tiers.

Perplexity released a contextual embedding method, model and benchmark for retrieving answers with their supporting context.

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, initially making it available to trusted cybersecurity defenders and evaluators ahead of broader rollout.

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol in the API as an updated workhorse model.

ElevenLabs released the low-latency Turbo variant of Eleven v4.

ElevenLabs released Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo, its most expressive and fastest text-to-speech generation.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 as a faster, lower-cost upgrade to Sonnet 5 for everyday tasks, coding, and document work.

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar through Gemini Enterprise for real-time audiovisual agent experiences.

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS for expressive, controllable text-to-speech generation.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the Claude 5.5 family, with higher capability and lower operating cost than Opus 5.

OpenAI added GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the API as capability and efficiency tiers in the GPT-6 family.

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work with a larger base model, longer reinforcement-learning runs and stronger safeguards.

SpaceXAI released its second-generation speech-to-text model with improved transcription accuracy.

Oracle added on-demand multimodal generation and embedding models from Cohere in additional regions.

Google launches an Extended Thinking variant of Gemini 3.8 Live for deeper real-time reasoning.

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live for low-latency, real-time multimodal voice and video interactions.

Oracle added on-demand access to xAI's Grok 4.6 model in OCI Generative AI.

DeepSeek retired the experimental V4 Flash Vision model and routed it to V4.1 Flash.

DeepSeek retired V4 Flash and temporarily routed its model name to V4.1 Flash.

DeepSeek released a smaller native-multimodal V4.1 architecture model with upgraded coding, reasoning and agents.

Cohere released a compact sovereign open-weight machine-translation model optimized for speed and cost.

Suno released v6 Mini as a faster and more efficient generation option.

Suno released v6 Wild for exploratory and less predictable music generation.

Suno released v6, v6 Wild, and v6 Mini as its new family of music models.

OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst and Flare as a new generation of image models.

Microsoft makes MAI-Image-2.6 and its Flash variant available in public preview through Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-2 with automatic language identification and high-speed transcription across 60 languages.

Google DeepMind introduces WeatherNext 3, advancing probabilistic and high-resolution operational weather forecasting.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, a frontier model positioned for its most demanding reasoning and agentic workloads.

Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber to trusted cybersecurity defenders for evaluation and high-risk defensive workflows.

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash as a generally available production model with stronger reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.

Harvey made Fable 5.1 available as part of its multi-model platform.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 as a broadly available, safeguarded version of its latest Mythos-class capabilities.

Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5.1 to vetted cyberdefenders and life-sciences organizations through trusted-access programs.

Cohere established Parse as its document-intelligence model family for enterprise files.

Cohere introduced Parse for enterprise document intelligence across complex multimodal files.

Google releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash for native real-time multimodal generation and editing.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for accurate, multilingual speech-to-text workloads.

DeepSeek launched an experimental native multimodal V4 Flash model.

Harvey introduced Tenet, its first post-trained open-weight model for long-horizon legal reasoning.

DeepSeek rolled out the GA V4 Pro model across app, web and API with stronger production agent capabilities.