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 says custom GPTs are scheduled to retire across ChatGPT plans on December 11, 2026, with a migration path to plugins. Qualified Enterprise workspaces with an approved deferral may continue until February 11, 2027.

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.

OpenAI is scheduled to shut down the v1/prompts API and reusable prompt objects on November 30, 2026. The migration path is to keep prompt content in application code.

OpenAI is scheduled to shut down the Evals dashboard and API on November 30, 2026, after making existing evals read-only on October 31.

AWS re:Invent 2026 is scheduled for November 30 through December 4 in Las Vegas, featuring cloud and AI announcements, keynotes and technical sessions.

Microsoft Ignite 2026 is scheduled for November 17–20 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, with an online digital experience focused on AI, cloud and enterprise technology.

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 says existing content on the deprecated Evals platform becomes read-only on October 31, 2026, ahead of the platform shutdown on November 30.

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.

NVIDIA says the 64GB DGX Spark configuration will become available from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI on October 23, 2026, starting at $4,999.

Anthropic's first Claude Corps cohort begins Foundations training on October 19, 2026. The fully funded fellowship places about 100 early-career fellows with mission-driven nonprofits for 12 months.

OpenAI says billing for the trusted-access GPT-Rosalind research model begins on October 5, 2026, at $5 per million input tokens, $0.50 per million cached input tokens, and $25 per million output tokens.

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.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), SpaceXAI's publicly traded parent, closed with a consolidated equity market capitalization of approximately $2.16 trillion, with SPCX closing at $158.96 on Nasdaq. SpaceXAI is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the SpaceXAI company profile.

Oracle's closing equity market capitalization was approximately $431.38 billion on the latest completed U.S. trading day.

IBM's closing equity market capitalization was approximately $209.67 billion on the latest completed U.S. trading day.

Baidu's Nasdaq market capitalization was $28.81B at the latest market close before October 5, 2026.

At the latest market close before October 4, CoreWeave’s Nasdaq-listed equity had a market capitalization of approximately $49.38 billion, with CRWV closing at $89.62.

CoreWeave’s Fully Connected conference highlighted Forge, Vera Rubin production systems, Vera CPUs, and its expanded AI platform for more than 4,500 attendees.

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

CoreWeave launched reactive Python and SQL notebooks powered by marimo and connected to Forge experiment, artifact, and evaluation data.

ARIA became generally available in CoreWeave Forge with experiment analysis, code-aware hypothesis generation, and approval-gated run launches.

Perplexity and American Express launched business skills for cash flow, marketing, hiring and other small-business workflows in Computer.

Amazon's closing market capitalization was approximately $2.687 trillion, based on a $248.23 closing share price and 10,826,289,523 shares outstanding.

Meta Platforms closed with an estimated public equity market capitalization of $1.8474 trillion based on its Nasdaq-listed META shares.

Microsoft closed with an estimated public equity market capitalization of $3.809 trillion based on its Nasdaq-listed MSFT shares.

NVIDIA market capitalisation as of 1 October 2026, up 23% year-to-date, making NVIDIA the most valuable public company in history at that point. Growth driven by continued AI infrastructure spending and record quarterly revenues exceeding $96 billion.

Alphabet Inc., Google's publicly traded parent, closed with an estimated consolidated equity market capitalization of $4.1367 trillion. Google LLC is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the Google company profile.

Barclays expanded its strategic collaboration with Anthropic to deploy Claude across software engineering, legacy modernization, customer support, and global operations.

CoreWeave opened ARENA Pass to qualified enterprise teams seeking workload-specific production evidence and deployment recommendations.

CoreWeave said Cognition was running production workloads on its NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 system shortly after deployment.

CoreWeave announced it would offer NVIDIA Vera, a CPU designed for agentic and data-intensive AI workloads.

CoreWeave introduced a curated network of production-validated partner integrations across the AI stack.

CoreWeave launched Forge as a connected development environment spanning model and agent production, observation, curation, training, evaluation, and continuous improvement.

Databricks released a command-line workflow for developing agents integrated with Unity Gateway, Agent Bricks Runtime and MLflow tracing.

Cohere proposed RCP-nDCG@10 as a retrieval-quality measure designed to align more closely with human relevance judgments.

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.

Perplexity launched scheduled and event-triggered automations that build on prior Computer work.

Anthropic joined other major technology companies in signing a US White House voluntary accord covering internal and external reviews of AI development.

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

Perplexity added reusable agent profiles, skills and managed versioned connectors to Agent API.

Mistral AI opened a German hub in Munich to expand research, enterprise and public-sector operations in Germany.

SpaceXAI launched shareable Grok Bots that work from common team files, apps and expertise and learn as teams use them.

Microsoft makes Fabric IQ grounding generally available in Copilot Chat and Cowork, connecting governed Power BI business context to AI workflows.

NVIDIA launched an open full-stack agent safety platform combining OpenShell secure runtime and the Sentry reference design.

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

Cohere opened a managed Compass Cloud private beta for retrieval-heavy and agentic applications.

Microsoft launches Copilot Managed Runtime in preview as governed hosting infrastructure for Copilot-created apps and automations.

Microsoft introduces Cowork for delegating complex end-to-end work and returning completed deliverables for iteration.

Microsoft introduces Autopilot, formerly Scout, as a persistent agent that proactively performs recurring and long-running work.

Microsoft introduces Home as Copilot's unified starting experience combining Chat, Cowork and editable Office documents.

Microsoft introduces Copilot Code for creating sandboxed applications, dashboards, automations and workflows through natural language.

The Mission Control Agent entered console preview with deployment diagnostics and recommendations based on platform telemetry.

CoreWeave made its hosted read-only Mission Control MCP server generally available for querying metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, documentation, and resource state.

Databricks acquired Row Zero to add a live, governed spreadsheet experience for humans and agents inside Genie.

Perplexity expanded Portable Computer to supported AMD Ryzen AI Max systems.

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 introduced a new life-sciences research group and laboratory and reported that Claude agents identified a novel array-associated reverse-transcriptase system with CRISPR-like repeats.

Databricks introduced Genie One MCP to provide trusted governed business context to external AI agents and cowork tools.

Scale and Google Cloud published a joint architecture for deploying Scale’s GenAI Portfolio on Google Cloud with Gemini Enterprise, identity, governance, and cloud infrastructure.

Transformers added support for running llama.cpp GGUF quantized models within the library’s model-definition and inference workflows.

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.

Hugging Face released Tokenizers v1, a major milestone for its Rust-based tokenization stack.

Perplexity launched a marketplace for reusable Computer skills with enterprise governance.

Perplexity launched local-first Portable Computer for supported NVIDIA Windows and Linux systems.

Perplexity introduced configurable Light, Standard, High and Ultra effort levels for Computer tasks.

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

Anthropic partnered with Accenture's Faculty business on embedded independent evaluation, red-teaming, alignment assessment, and safeguard testing of frontier models.

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

Anthropic launched the Life Sciences Verification Program beta, giving verified teams access to Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models with biology safeguards tailored for legitimate scientific work.

CoreWeave added cross-region write acceleration and an Archive storage class, while LOTA served cached reads at up to 7 GB/s per GPU.

CoreWeave announced a multi-rack Vera Rubin NVL72 cluster and supporting compute, networking, storage, and orchestration capabilities.

Cohere and OpenText announced a partnership for secure agentic AI in government and regulated industries.

The companies signed an agreement to form a transatlantic sovereign-AI provider operating globally as Cohere, with headquarters and R&D in Canada and Germany; closing remained pending.

Mozilla and Mistral AI announced a partnership to advance open AI models, tools and consumer experiences.

SpaceXAI added persistent memory capabilities to Grok Build.

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.

Modal updated its JavaScript and Go SDKs to the 0.10 generation.

Modal reported support for up to one million concurrent Sandboxes.

Modal added sidecar processes to sandbox environments.

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.

DeepSeek reduced API prices following the V4.1 Flash release.

CoreWeave launched an embedded field-engineering offering that helps customers turn proprietary physical-world data into production AI systems.

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

Mistral AI and Cloudera announced a partnership to deploy governed generative AI and agents on enterprise data.

Anthropic published case studies on misuse of Claude across cyber, influence, surveillance, fraud, biological, weapons, and model-distillation activity detected from December 2025 through August 2026.

OpenAI released the Agents API as a unified platform interface for building and operating agentic applications.

DeepSeek reportedly moved toward a potential mainland listing while its next financing remained in progress.

Mistral AI raised €3 billion in a Series D led by Samsung, with Scaleup Europe Fund, EQT and PSG participating, at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.