Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026
At I/O on 19 May 2026 Google announced the Gemini 3.5 family, led by Gemini 3.5 Flash, made it the default in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode, and introduced Gemini Spark and Antigravity 2.0.
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Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal agent
At Google I/O on 19 May 2026, Google introduced Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent built on Gemini 3.5 Flash that runs around the clock and acts on the user's behalf under their direction. It launched first with trusted testers and US Google AI Ultra subscribers.
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.
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.
OpenAI releases GPT Image 2
On 21 April 2026 OpenAI released gpt-image-2, an image model that generates and edits pictures from text and image inputs and appears in ChatGPT as ChatGPT Images 2.0. It replaced the GPT Image 1 line and was later revised as versions 2.5 and 2.6.
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.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6 for long-horizon coding
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.
OpenAI discontinues Sora
On 24 March 2026 OpenAI announced that it was discontinuing Sora in its app and API. The Sora app shut down on 26 April 2026, and the planned Disney investment tied to Sora did not go ahead.
Midjourney releases the V8 alpha
Midjourney released the V8 alpha on 17 March 2026, generating images about five times faster, with a native 2K --hd mode, improved text rendering, new prompt parameters and a Grid Mode interface. Point releases followed later that year.
MiniMax releases self-improving MiniMax-M2.7
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.
OpenAI raises $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation
In early 2026 OpenAI assembled a private funding round that grew from $110 billion to $122 billion in committed capital, closing on 31 March 2026 at an $852 billion post-money valuation, with Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia and Microsoft among the backers.
ggml.ai, the team behind llama.cpp, joins Hugging Face
On 20 February 2026, ggml.ai — the founding team of llama.cpp — joined Hugging Face, which is to provide long-term resources while ggml and llama.cpp stay 100% open source and community-run.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6
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.
MiniMax releases MiniMax-M2.5 and M2.5-Lightning
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.