Releases

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.