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.

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

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.

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.

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

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash, improving intelligence and multimodal performance while retaining low latency.

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 with a focus on long-running agents and ambitious interactive and visual work.

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Image-2.6 with major benchmark improvements in generation and image editing.

OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 Cyber for high-end defensive cybersecurity use through Daybreak.

SpaceXAI released Imagine Image 2.0 for precise image generation and editing with stronger text rendering.

Anthropic updated Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards as part of its safety work for high-capability models.

DeepSeek released the official Flash API in public beta with upgraded coding and agent performance.

SpaceXAI added text, image and voice references plus native 1080p support to Imagine Video 1.5.

SpaceXAI released its second-generation real-time speech-to-speech model.

Moonshot published the full Kimi K3 weights and implementation resources.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with improvements in coding, long-running agents, professional work, and scientific reasoning.

SpaceXAI expanded Grok 4.5 availability across grok.com, X, iOS and Android.

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with stronger reasoning and agentic performance at Flash-class latency.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for defensive cybersecurity analysis and agentic workflows.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for cost-efficient production workloads.

Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.

SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.5 as its strongest model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, trained alongside Cursor.

SpaceXAI open-sourced the Grok Build coding-agent harness and terminal user interface.

NVIDIA introduced an edge-optimized Cosmos 3 model for real-time physical AI systems.

Cohere Labs documented the Tiny Aya family and community applications for compact open multilingual AI.

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and made it available through Meta Model API.

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna broadly across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, a vision-language-action model for robotic navigation.

OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini for low-latency, natively multimodal voice and realtime interaction.

Cohere released an open speech-recognition model tailored to Arabic languages and dialects.

Meta announced Muse Video, a generative video model with native audio support, as coming soon.

Meta released Muse Image for instruction-following image generation, precise editing and multi-reference composition.

Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5 with improved formal reasoning and theorem-proving capabilities.

Anthropic restored global access to Fable 5 and resumed restricted access to Mythos 5 after the relevant export controls were lifted.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 as an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work, coding, and professional tasks.

Meta released training code for Brain2Qwerty v1 and v2; v2 performs real-time non-invasive sentence decoding from brain recordings.

OpenAI began a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol and previewed the Terra and Luna variants.

Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 4, its fourth-generation document-understanding model.

SpaceXAI made Grok models including the cost-efficient Grok 4.3 available through Amazon Bedrock.

SpaceXAI moved Imagine Video 1.5 out of preview into general API availability with improved quality and speed.

Anthropic suspended access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US government export-control directive concerning model safeguards.

Google releases DiffusionGemma as an open diffusion-based model in the Gemma ecosystem.

Cohere established its compact North Small family with North Mini Code for developer workflows.

Cohere launched its first compact model built specifically for developer and coding workflows.

Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5 to a limited set of vetted cybersecurity partners through trusted-access programs.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model adapted with safeguards for general use across Claude products and the API.

NVIDIA made the 550-billion-parameter Nemotron 3 Ultra open model available for long-running agent workflows.

SpaceXAI released grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview through the API for image-to-video generation.

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Voice-2 Flash as a lower-cost, ultra-efficient speech-generation variant.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Voice-2 with natural multilingual speech generation and safeguarded short-sample voice adaptation.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1.5 with high-speed transcription and support for domain terminology across 43 languages.

Microsoft AI launches a lower-cost, latency-optimized Flash variant of MAI-Image-2.5.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2.5 for high-fidelity text-to-image generation and controllable image editing.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Code-1-Flash, an efficient agentic coding model integrated into GitHub Copilot and VS Code.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Thinking-1, its flagship in-house reasoning model for complex instructions, mathematics and coding.

Moonshot previewed an intermediate K2-generation model before Kimi K3.

NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3 as an open frontier world foundation model for physical AI and formed the Cosmos Coalition.

NVIDIA introduced a 34-billion-parameter open reasoning vision-language-action model for level 4 robotaxi development.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger coding, agentic, computer-use, and professional-work capabilities plus dynamic workflows in Claude Code.

Perplexity open-sourced Bumblebee, a security framework for agent systems.

Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3.5 with improved agentic and enterprise production capabilities.

Cohere released Command A+, a 218B-total/25B-active MoE model for multilingual, multimodal reasoning and agentic work.

Google introduces Gemini Omni, a native multimodal model family designed to accept and generate across multiple media, beginning with video.