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On 28 May 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, a modest improvement on Opus 4.7 at the same price. Fast mode became three times cheaper, and Claude Code gained dynamic workflows that run hundreds of parallel subagents.
On 28 May 2026 Mistral merged Le Chat into Vibe: one agent and one licence spanning work and code, adding Work Mode and sandboxed Code Mode, four tiers, and the retirement of the old Chat mode.
On 23 May 2026 Mistral AI said it had agreed to acquire Emmi AI, an Austrian physics-AI company whose large engineering models simulate power grids, injection moulding and car safety tests; more than 30 staff, including co-founder Johannes Brandstetter, are joining.
On 12 May 2026 Isomorphic Labs announced a $2.1 billion Series B round led by Thrive Capital, money the company says will scale its business globally and push its drug candidate pipeline forward.
On 28 April 2026 Poolside released Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, its first two coding models, together with pool, the agent runtime its own reinforcement learning runs on, as a research preview.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is a dense 128B model released by Mistral AI on 28 April 2026, with a 256K context, text and image input, and open weights under a modified MIT licence.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Thinking and GPT-5.5 Pro to paid ChatGPT users on 23 April 2026, then extended the models to Codex and the API, reporting strong benchmark results and later making a faster GPT-5.5 Instant the default.
On 16 April 2026 Anthropic made Claude Opus 4.7 generally available at $5 and $25 per million tokens. It was less broadly capable than Claude Mythos Preview, with deliberately reduced cyber capabilities, and was the first model to test automatic cyber safeguards.
Zhipu released GLM-5.1 to its subscribers in late March 2026 and open-sourced it under the MIT License on 7 April 2026. Its model card reports 58.4 on SWE-Bench Pro, the top score in its comparison table.
On 7 April 2026 Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, which gave a restricted group access to the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview to help secure critical software.
In April 2026 Alibaba launched Qwen3.6, starting with the proprietary Qwen3.6-Plus for agentic coding on 2 April, followed by open Qwen3.6-35B-A3B weights in mid-April.
In April 2026 Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6, an open-weight model aimed at long-horizon coding, with Agent Swarm scaled to 300 sub-agents and 4,000 coordinated steps.
In March 2026 Ali Farhadi stepped down as CEO of the Allen Institute for AI after about two and a half years in the role, and founding member Peter Clark returned as interim chief executive.
In March 2026 MiniMax released MiniMax-M2.7, a model with 229B listed parameters that the company described as its first to take part in its own evolution, and which posted strong scores on machine-learning, coding, science and competition-math benchmarks.
On 17 February 2026 Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6 at $3 and $15 per million tokens. It became the default model for Free and Pro users on claude.ai and Claude Cowork.
India hosted the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi from 16 to 21 February 2026, the first edition of the global AI summit series held in the Global South. A declaration was endorsed by 92 countries and organisations, and 13 model providers signed frontier AI commitments.
In February 2026 MiniMax released MiniMax-M2.5 together with M2.5-Lightning, a variant that runs at 100 tokens per second. MiniMax said the Lightning version costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.4 per million output tokens.
On 12 February 2026 Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue, with run-rate revenue of $14 billion and Claude Code alone above $2.5 billion.
On 10 February 2026 Runway announced a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation, nearly double its previous valuation, and said the money would fund pre-training of next-generation world models.
On 5 February 2026 OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex for its Codex coding agent, describing it as the most capable agentic coding model to date and saying it had helped build itself. A faster research preview, GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, followed a week later.
On 5 February 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, then its smartest model, with agent teams in Claude Code and a 1M-token context window in beta. Pricing stayed at $5 and $25 per million tokens.
