OpenAI releases GPT-5.5
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.
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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 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.
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 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.
On 16 December 2025 Databricks announced a Series L of more than $4 billion at a $134 billion valuation, up 34% from its August 2025 round, alongside a $4.8 billion revenue run-rate.
On 9 December 2025 Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123B dense coding model, and the smaller Devstral Small 2, alongside Mistral Vibe, an open-source command-line coding agent built on them.
On 3 December 2025 Anthropic said Claude Code had reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue, and agreed to acquire Bun, a JavaScript runtime that had already worked with Anthropic on Claude Code's native installer.
On 1 December 2025 Hugging Face released Transformers v5.0.0rc0, the first major version since v4 in November 2020. The library grew from about 40 architectures to more than 400.
MiniMax released MiniMax-M2.1, an open-weights model built for multilingual coding and tool use, with SWE-bench Multilingual rising from 56.5 to 72.5 over its predecessor M2.
In December 2025 Zhipu released GLM-4.7, an MIT-licensed open model aimed at multilingual agentic coding, with higher scores than GLM-4.6 on SWE-bench and Terminal Bench 2.0.
On 24 November 2025 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 at $5 and $25 per million tokens, a third of the previous Opus price, with a new effort parameter for trading capability against cost.
On 19 November 2025 the European Commission proposed a digital omnibus on AI that would tie high-risk AI obligations to the availability of standards, stretch their start to at most 16 months, add a 2028 sandbox and strengthen the AI Office.
On 19 November 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, an agentic coding model added to its Codex agent, and alongside it GPT-5.1 Pro, which replaced GPT-5 Pro.