Zhipu releases GLM-4.6 with a 200K context and domestic-chip support
In late September 2025 Zhipu released GLM-4.6 under the MIT License, with a 200K-token context window, stronger coding and agent abilities, and support for Chinese domestic chips.
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Alibaba open-sources the Qwen3-Omni speech-and-vision model
In September 2025 Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3-Omni, an omni-modal model under Apache 2.0 that processes text, audio and video and claimed state-of-the-art results on many audio benchmarks.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-VL with visual-agent and 3D grounding abilities
In September 2025 Alibaba released Qwen3-VL, a vision-language model family under Apache 2.0 whose flagship handles hours-long video, operates PC and mobile interfaces and does 3D grounding.
Qwen releases Qwen3-Next with hybrid linear attention
In September 2025 Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3-Next, an 80B-parameter open model with 3B parameters active per token, built on a hybrid of linear attention and sparse mixture-of-experts layers.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Max, a model of over 1 trillion parameters
In September 2025 Alibaba released Qwen3-Max, a proprietary model with over 1 trillion parameters trained on about 36 trillion tokens. It became the flagship of Alibaba's closed Max tier, released alongside several open Qwen3 models.
Kuaishou releases Kling 2.5 Turbo
Kuaishou released Kling 2.5 Turbo in late September 2025; ten days later it ranked No. 1 in both text-to-video and image-to-video on Artificial Analysis, per-video costs fell nearly 30%, and Kling AI revenue exceeded RMB 300 million in Q3 2025.
ByteDance Seed releases Seedream 4.0
ByteDance Seed released Seedream 4.0 in September 2025, with text-to-image generation, image editing and multi-image composition in one model, producing images from 1K to 4K.
xAI releases Grok Code Fast 1 for agentic coding
On 28 August 2025 xAI released Grok Code Fast 1, a fast reasoning model for agentic coding. It launched free for a limited time inside several popular coding tools.
Microsoft AI unveils its first in-house models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview
On 28 August 2025 Microsoft AI announced its first in-house models, the MAI-Voice-1 speech model and the MAI-1-preview language model. Coverage read the release as a first step to reduce dependence on OpenAI.
Google releases Nano Banana image editing model
On 26 August 2025 Google added a new image editing model, nicknamed Nano Banana, to the Gemini app and called it the top-rated image editing model on the LMArena image-edit leaderboard. Developers could use the same model as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image.
Anthropic pilots Claude in Chrome
On 25 August 2025 Anthropic began a limited pilot of Claude in Chrome, a browser extension that can act on web pages, publishing prompt-injection test results alongside a rollout that widened to more plans by December.
DeepSeek releases hybrid-thinking DeepSeek-V3.1
On 21 August 2025 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3.1, its first hybrid model, which runs in either a thinking or a non-thinking mode under the MIT License.
Cohere releases Command A Reasoning, its first reasoning model
On 21 August 2025 Cohere released Command A Reasoning, a hybrid reasoning model for complex agentic tasks. It has 111 billion parameters, a 256k-token context and users can switch its thinking on or off.
ByteDance Seed open-sources Seed-OSS-36B under Apache-2.0
On 20 August 2025 ByteDance Seed released the Seed-OSS-36B models on Hugging Face under Apache-2.0. The 36B models were trained on 12T tokens and support a native context of up to 512K tokens.
Zhipu releases the GLM-4.5V vision-language model
GLM-4.5V is a vision-language model released by Zhipu on 11 August 2025, built on GLM-4.5-Air and published under the MIT License; Zhipu reported state-of-the-art results among similarly sized models on 42 vision-language benchmarks.
OpenAI launches GPT-5
On 7 August 2025 OpenAI introduced GPT-5, a unified system that routes each request between a fast model and a deeper reasoning model. It rolled out the same day to ChatGPT Free, Plus, Pro and Team users.
Google DeepMind announces the real-time Genie 3 world model
On 5 August 2025 Google DeepMind announced Genie 3, a world model that turns text into navigable environments generated in real time at 24 frames per second and 720p, released as a limited research preview.
OpenAI releases the open-weight gpt-oss models
On 5 August 2025 OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two open-weight reasoning models under the Apache 2.0 license, sized to run on a single GPU or a 16 GB device.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1
On 5 August 2025 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Opus 4 for agentic tasks, coding and reasoning, at unchanged pricing. Anthropic said larger improvements would follow.
Alibaba open-sources the 20B Qwen-Image model
On 4 August 2025 the Qwen team released Qwen-Image, a 20-billion-parameter image generation model with open weights under Apache 2.0, noted for rendering text inside images, especially Chinese.
Baichuan open-sources the Baichuan-M2 medical model
In August 2025 Baichuan open-sourced Baichuan-M2-32B, its second medical-enhanced model, which it called the world's strongest open-source medical model.