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On 5 November 2026 Anthropic launched Personal Finance for Claude, a read-only tool that connects bank and credit card accounts through Plaid so users can ask questions about their money in everyday language, with no ads or sponsored recommendations.
A US bankruptcy court approved the bidding procedures for the sale of Character.ai's assets, with a 13 October 2026 agreement with Disney Worldwide Services as the stalking horse and an auction set for 1 December 2026.
On 5 November 2026 SenseTime announced the official version of SenseNova 6.8 Flash, a multimodal agent model for office and design work that offers free trial access.
On 22 October 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2.6, a device-cloud model series, at its developer festival in Beijing. The same event also launched a speech foundation model and a digital-employee platform.
On 15 October 2026, IFM and Inception42 announced Jais 3, six Arabic-centric language models from 900 million to 375 billion parameters plus a speech recogniser, evaluated on 24 audited Arabic benchmarks.
On 12 October 2026 Character.ai began a voluntary Chapter 11 case in Delaware to carry out a court-supervised sale of the company, warning that the platform will be wound down if no actionable bid emerges.
Released on 7 October 2026, Claude Haiku 5.5 is the third model of the Claude 5.5 family. It is the first Haiku model with an adjustable effort setting, and its prices start at $0.10 per million input tokens.
MiniMax posted the weights of M3.1-Flash to Hugging Face on 17 October 2026. The model is a multimodal M3-line release with about 428 billion parameters, MiniMax Sparse Attention throughout, and DSpark speculative decoding.
In October 2026 Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an open-weights upgrade for financial research, 3D modeling and coding. It was the first model in the K3.1 series.
On 21 September 2026 xAI released Grok 4.7, with a larger base model and a longer reinforcement-learning run. Its Fast variant was limited to Cursor and Grok Build.
On 18 September 2026 Character.ai said its CEO Karandeep Anand was joining Disney as its Chief Technology Officer, a newly created role, with members of Character's technical team expected to follow.
On 10 September 2026 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with a causal encoder-decoder design that splits its active parameters between reading input and writing output. Its KV cache is much smaller than that of the previous generation.
On 3 September 2026 OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra, first to its Daybreak cybersecurity program and then to ChatGPT paid plans, the API and AWS, after pausing some research following the July breach.
On 1 September 2026, Manus announced that it had formally resumed independent operations, with its founding team continuing to lead the company as an independent agent lab advancing general AI agents.
In September 2026 StepFun released Step 5 Preview as its new flagship foundation model. It is a sparse MoE with 600 billion total parameters, supports up to 1 million tokens of context, and is offered through the StepFun Open Platform API.
On 12 August 2026 xAI released Grok 4.6, a month after Grok 4.5, aimed at long-running agents. Pricing stayed the same, and the model launched across Cursor, Grok Build and the API.
On 11 August 2026 Manus published a note saying it would soon operate as an independent company again, setting out when some users' data would be deleted and when access would return.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on 16 July 2026, a model with 2.8 trillion total parameters. Its weights followed on 27 July 2026 under the Kimi K3 License.
On 16 July 2026 xAI released Grok 4.5, co-trained with Cursor, and made it the default model in Grok Build. xAI also published its coding benchmark results.
On 9 July 2026 OpenAI released GPT-5.6, a three-model family named Sol, Terra and Luna, together with ChatGPT Work for enterprise teams, and merged its Codex app into the ChatGPT desktop app.
