Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, as a cloud service on 3 August 2026, and published open weights for a variant of it on 12 August 2026.
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MCP publishes the 2026-07-28 specification with a stateless core
On 28 July 2026 the Model Context Protocol project published a specification built on a stateless core, turning MCP into a request/response protocol whose requests any instance behind a plain round-robin load balancer can serve.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5
On 24 July 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at $5 and $25 per million tokens. Anthropic said it came close to Claude Fable 5's frontier intelligence at half the price.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, co-trained with Cursor
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.
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1 and opens the Meta Model API
On 9 July 2026 Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, an upgrade built for agentic tasks, with a 1-million-token context and access for developers through the Meta Model API in public preview.
ByteDance releases Seed2.1
On 23 June 2026 ByteDance Seed announced Seed2.1 for Doubao and Volcano Engine users. It has Pro and Turbo models for productivity work and builds on Seed2.0.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B open model
On 4 June 2026 NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, the largest model in its Nemotron 3 family, with 550 billion total parameters and 55 billion active per token.
Microsoft AI launches seven MAI models led by MAI-Thinking-1
On 2 June 2026 Mustafa Suleyman announced seven new in-house MAI models at Microsoft Build, led by the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1. The group also included coding, image, transcription and voice models, and a healthcare collaboration with Mayo Clinic.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8
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.
Mistral merges Le Chat into Vibe, a unified agent for work and code
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.
Poolside releases its first two Laguna coding models
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 AI releases open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5
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.
Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal, ending cloud exclusivity
On 27 April 2026 Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership so OpenAI can sell on any cloud, ending Azure's exclusivity while Microsoft keeps a non-exclusive licence to its models.
DeepSeek releases the DeepSeek-V4 preview with a 1M-token context
On 24 April 2026 DeepSeek released the DeepSeek-V4 preview, two open mixture-of-experts models with a 1M-token context that became the default across its official services. Both models support thinking and non-thinking modes.
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.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7
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.
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark
On 8 April 2026 Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark, the first model from the lab and the first of the Muse series. It is closed: its weights were not released, and it was offered through a private API preview.
Zhipu open-sources GLM-5.1, topping SWE-Bench Pro
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.
Anthropic announces Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
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.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.6 for agentic coding
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.
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 in Foundry
On 2 April 2026 Mustafa Suleyman announced three Microsoft AI models for developers: MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2. All three became available in Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground, with published model cards.