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On 5 November 2026 OpenAI released ChatGPT Cyber, a model for cybersecurity work, limited to the top tier of its Daybreak Red programme. OpenAI says it scanned the Linux kernel and found flaws in Firefox.
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.
In early November 2026 Meta acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces. Conductor's cloud service was set to shut down on 20 November 2026.
Fal, a startup that hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, raised $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation, double its valuation from earlier in the year.
On 28 October 2026 Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight, free speech recognition model covering up to 40 languages, alongside the second version of its Granary speech dataset.
On 21 October 2026 Liquid AI released LFM3-Omni-2B, the first omni-modal model in its LFM3 family, taking text, images, video and audio as input and returning text or speech. At 2.17B parameters it targets phones and laptops.
On 17 October 2026 DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an update to its smallest model with better benchmarks, faster task completion and shorter outputs; its weights were published and its Search and Fetch APIs opened at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
On 15 October 2026 Kuaishou's video generation model Kling 4.0 became available to all users, adding longer shots, more dynamic motion and Omni Reference, with a faster Flash variant released alongside it.
On 15 October 2026 Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight, natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters, optimised to run on Apple's Mac Studio. Its weights were published on Hugging Face.
On 6 October 2026 Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a model with about 1 trillion total parameters. On 29 October 2026 it released open weights of an improved version.
On 3 October 2026 Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an open-weight model pitched at public administration, industry and aerospace, with German-language specialization and a traceable training process presented as its advantage rather than raw scale .
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.
On 29 September 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol at its DevDay developer event, saying it nearly matched GPT-6 Astra at lower cost. A planned Astra release was withheld over safety results, and GPT-6.1 Terra followed in October.
Released on 28 September 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the second model of the Claude 5.5 family. It kept the price of Sonnet 5 and was the first Sonnet model to ship with cyber safeguards and anti-distillation classifiers.
Released on 22 September 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 is the first model of the Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic said it matched Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, at a lower price.
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 16 September 2026 Cohere and German AI company Aleph Alpha signed a merger agreement, reportedly valuing the combined company at about $20 billion. The deal still needed regulatory approval.
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 8 September 2026 Mistral AI announced a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung Electronics, valuing the company at more than €21 billion after the round.
On 7 September 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2.5, a 293B-A30B mixture-of-experts model trained and served on domestic compute, focused on code and agent tasks, with open-source on-device models supporting up to 1 million tokens of context.
On 3 September 2026 Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face said it would remain an open platform, and the deal was expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval.
