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.

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.

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.