releases, ideas, and moments that changed how everyone’s work gets done. model deep dives in the wiki.

2026 · Q31
Jul
2026 · Q227
Jun
modelNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra

NVIDIA enters the open-weights frontier with a 550B-parameter MoE running 55B active parameters per …

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modelMiniMax M3

MiniMax releases M3 on June 1 with a sparse attention architecture (MSA — MiniMax Sparse Attention) …

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May
modelClaude Opus 4.8

Anthropic's next flagship ships with a deliberately quiet announcement, but the improvements are str …

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modelGemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash goes GA on May 19 and immediately reshapes how the tier system is supposed to work. …

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modelClaude Opus 4.7

Anthropic ships Opus 4.7, the first model in the Claude 4 family designed explicitly for sustained, …

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momentGoogle I/O 2026

Google's annual developer conference bets the keynote on AI and for once the products justify it. …

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momentMicrosoft Build 2026

Build goes deep on 'AI-native Windows': Copilot+ PCs now run Phi-4 locally with a new Windows AI API …

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modelMistral Large 3

Mistral releases Large 3 — a 200B+ dense model under a non-commercial research license, their heavie …

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toolPerplexity Comet

Perplexity ships Comet, a standalone browser built around an AI agent that operates the web on your …

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Apr
modelGPT-5.5

OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 on April 23 with an explicit focus on agentic work: coding, computer use, and k …

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modelDeepSeek V4 preview

DeepSeek drops V4-Flash and V4-Pro on April 24 under MIT — 1M-token context, dual Thinking/Non-Think …

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momentProject Glasswing

Anthropic launches a cybersecurity coalition with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others — backed …

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modelGemma 4

Google DeepMind ships Gemma 4 in four sizes — E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, and 31B Dense — distilled from Gemi …

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modelMeta Muse Spark

Meta's first major model release since acquiring Scale AI's Alexandr Wang scores #4 on the Artificia …

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Mar
modelGPT-5.4

OpenAI deprecates GPT-5.1 and ships GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 Thinking, and GPT-5.4 mini. …

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2026 · Q18
Mar
toolSymphony

Open-sourced March 4, 2026 under Apache 2.0 at github.com/openai/symphony, Symphony is a Codex App S …

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Feb
modelClaude Opus 4.6

Anthropic's flagship at release, later succeeded by Opus 4.7. …

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modelClaude Sonnet 4.6

The first Sonnet-class model to hit 1M token context, which matters because previous Sonnet models t …

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modelGPT-4.5

Released February 27, 2025, GPT-4.5 is OpenAI's largest non-reasoning model — the explicit bet that …

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Jan
2025 · Q41
Oct
modelClaude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic ships Haiku 4.5 on October 15 — the fastest and cheapest model in the Claude 4 family, and …

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2025 · Q311
Sep
Aug
modelMistral Medium 3.1

Mistral ships Medium 3.1 on August 12 — a multimodal proprietary model with a custom-trained vision …

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modelGPT-5

OpenAI ships GPT-5 on August 7 — not as a single new model but as a unified system: a fast tier for …

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Jul
signalNVIDIA hits $4T

NVIDIA closes at a $4 trillion market capitalization on July 10 — the first publicly traded company …

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modelGrok 4

xAI ships Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy on July 9, unveiled via a livestream that drew 1.5 million concurr …

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modelKimi K2

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2 on July 11 — a 1.04 trillion parameter MoE with 32B active parameters p …

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Jun
modelGemini 2.5 Flash GA

Google moves Gemini 2.5 Flash to general availability on June 17, completing the transition from exp …

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modelGemini 2.5 Pro GA

Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro moves from experimental to general availability, bringing its top-ranked lon …

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2025 · Q26
May
toolCodex CLI

OpenAI open-sources Codex CLI under Apache 2.0 in May 2025 — a terminal-native coding agent that acc …

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Apr
toolClaude Code GA

Launched as a limited research preview in February 2025, Claude Code went generally available on May …

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Mar
modelGemini 2.5 Pro Experimental

Released March 2025 as an experimental preview — meaning rate-limited, no SLA, and subject to change …

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2025 · Q15
Mar
toolOpenAI Agents SDK

OpenAI open-sources a multi-agent orchestration framework with first-class primitives for handoffs, …

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Feb
momentVibe coding

Karpathy coins the term in a tweet: describe a project in natural language, accept AI-generated code …

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modelClaude 3.7 Sonnet

Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model: standard fast responses for most tasks, extended thinking …

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modelGrok 3

xAI ships Grok 3, trained on 10x the compute of Grok 2. …

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Jan
modelDeepSeek R1

DeepSeek releases the first open-source reasoning model trained via pure reinforcement learning to m …

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2024 · Q410
Dec
modelOpenAI o1

OpenAI ships the full o1 on December 5, 2024 — not a preview, a production model — and the gap over …

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modelLlama 3.3 70B

Meta closes out 2024 on December 6 with Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — and the headline is efficiency, not …

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modelGemini 2.0 Flash

Google announces Gemini 2.0 Flash: native image and audio output, a Multimodal Live API for real-tim …

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modelDeepSeek V3

A 671B MoE model trained for $5.58M that matches Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o1 on most benchmarks and run …

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Nov
modelClaude 3.5 Haiku

Anthropic's fastest model in the 3.5 family ships in November 2024 and immediately reframes what 'sm …

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momentMac Mini M4

Apple's redesigned Mac Mini ships with M4 and M4 Pro chips at $600 and $1,400. …

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modelQwen 2.5 Coder

Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5-Coder in 7B (Sep), 32B, and 72B (Nov) variants. …

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Oct
toolComputer use

Anthropic ships Claude 3.5 computer use in public beta: Claude can see your screen, move the cursor, …

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toolGPT-4o Realtime API

OpenAI opens the Realtime API to public beta in October 2024, giving developers a persistent WebSock …

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2024 · Q37
Sep
modelOpenAI o1 preview

OpenAI ships o1-preview and o1-mini: models that 'think before they answer' via long internal chain- …

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modelQwen 2.5

Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5 across dense and MoE variants, describing it as 'perhaps the largest open- …

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modelLlama 3.2

Meta releases Llama 3.2 in four sizes: 1B and 3B text-only models optimized for edge and mobile, plu …

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Jul
modelLlama 3.1 405B

Meta ships Llama 3.1 with a 405B parameter flagship, 128K context, and support for eight additional …

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modelGPT-4o mini

OpenAI releases GPT-4o mini on July 18, 2024 at $0.15/$0.60 per million input/output tokens — more t …

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modelMistral Large 2

Mistral releases Large 2 on July 24, 2024 — 123B parameters, 128K context, MIT license — their most …

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2024 · Q25
Jun
modelClaude 3.5 Sonnet

Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet on June 20, 2024 — at 80% lower cost than Claude 3 Opus, while …

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toolApple Intelligence

Apple announces Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024: on-device models across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — wri …

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May
modelGPT-4o

OpenAI ships GPT-4 Omni: natively multimodal across text, audio, image, and video — no separate enco …

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modelGemini 1.5 Pro GA

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro becomes generally available with a 1-million-token context window. …

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Apr
modelLlama 3

Meta releases Llama 3 in 8B and 70B sizes, trained on 15 trillion tokens — 7x more data than Llama 2 …

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2024 · Q14
Mar
modelClaude 3 family

Anthropic launches Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus — the first model family to give developers meaningful sp …

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Feb
modelSora

OpenAI announces Sora: a text-to-video diffusion model that generates 60-second photorealistic clips …

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2023 · Q44
Dec
modelMixtral 8x7B

Mistral AI drops Mixtral 8x7B without announcement — a torrent link on X with no blog post. …

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modelGemini 1.0

Google announces Gemini 1.0 — its multimodal response to GPT-4. …

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Nov
momentOpenAI DevDay

OpenAI hosts its first developer conference: GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context, GPTs (custom instruction …

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modelGrok (xAI)

Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok to X Premium+ subscribers — a 314B MoE model trained from scratch with …

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2023 · Q34
Sep
modelMistral 7B

Mistral AI, founded in April by ex-Meta and Google researchers, releases its first model — Mistral 7 …

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modelFalcon 180B

The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi releases Falcon 180B — a 180B parameter model train …

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Aug
modelCode Llama

Meta releases Code Llama (7B, 13B, 34B) — Llama 2 fine-tuned on 500B tokens of code with fill-in-the …

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Jul
modelLlama 2

Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2 with 7B, 13B, and 70B variants, trained on 2 trillion tokens — do …

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2023 · Q23
Jun
toolGitHub Copilot Chat GA

GitHub launches Copilot Chat in general availability — a conversational interface for code in VS Cod …

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May
toolLangChain hits 1.0

LangChain consolidates its position as the default framework for building LLM applications — chains, …

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Apr
momentAuto-GPT goes viral

Auto-GPT — an open-source experiment that chains GPT-4 calls into a goal-directed autonomous agent — …

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2023 · Q14
Mar
modelGPT-4

OpenAI releases GPT-4: the first multimodal frontier model, passing the bar exam in the 90th percent …

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Feb
toolBing AI

Microsoft ships Bing Chat (later Bing AI) — a GPT-4-powered search engine before GPT-4 was publicly …

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Jan
Signals8
signalContext is the new API

The meaningful unit of AI integration has shifted from the API call to the context window. …

signalInference cost inversion

For most tasks, the bottleneck has inverted: generating tokens is cheap, sampling enough to find a g …

signalThe eval collapse

The major benchmarks that defined frontier capability for 2022–2024 are saturated or compromised. …

signalAgent infrastructure, not agent models

The bottleneck in deploying AI agents is not model capability — it's context management, tool reliab …

signalThe open-weight treadmill

The gap between open-weight and frontier closed models closed in 2023–2024, then widened again in 20 …

signalThe Bitter Lesson

Richard Sutton's March 2019 essay distills 70 years of AI research into a single uncomfortable obser …

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Papers · Foundations13
paperDeepSeek-R1

The DeepSeek team trains a frontier reasoning model using pure RL — no supervised fine-tuning on cha …

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