Grok 4.6
Keeps xAI’s rapid frontier-model cadence visible while full model-card, benchmark and pricing details remain to be verified.
Frontier model brief · Checked several times daily
A signal-first view of the newest models from the labs shaping AI—what launched, what changed, and why it matters.
No major launch signal is still a result: the refresh ran and the index stayed conservative.
Editorial check queue
These launches are visible on the radar, but at least one important field still needs stronger first-party confirmation before treating it as fully verified.
Keeps xAI’s rapid frontier-model cadence visible while full model-card, benchmark and pricing details remain to be verified.
Marks Meta’s return to frontier APIs with native multi-agent orchestration and active context management.
Shows a compact model moving beyond screens into autonomous navigation across real environments.
Verified release stream
Only first-party announcements. No composite scores, rumours or leaderboard theatre.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
DeepSeek’s October refresh of its V4.1 Flash model for fast reasoning and coding workloads.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptKeeps the Flash endpoint aligned with DeepSeek’s newest model revision.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
Mistral’s model family for time-series forecasting and temporal reasoning.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptExtends Mistral into native forecasting for operational and scientific data.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
OpenAI’s updated real-time voice model for responsive spoken interaction.
The release is linked to a source controlled by the releasing lab.
Verified source · 1 receiptAdvances the live audio line with a newer safety-reviewed deployment.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
An expressive GPT-Live-1.1 variant for engaging real-time conversation.
The release is linked to a source controlled by the releasing lab.
Verified source · 1 receiptAdds a distinct live-audio personality variant with the 1.1 safety controls.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
xAI’s third-generation voice model for real-time spoken interaction.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptMoves xAI’s voice stack to a newer generation in the official release notes.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Anthropic’s fastest small model for high-volume, cost-sensitive routing, summarization and subagent work.
The release is linked to a source controlled by the releasing lab.
Verified source · 1 receiptExtends the Claude 5.5 family to real-time and high-volume workloads at sharply lower prices.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Mistral’s trillion-parameter, natively multimodal flagship preview for coding, agents and enterprise work.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptMistral’s largest model so far uses 49B active parameters and is intended for an open-weight release.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
Cohere’s frontier embedding family with Pro and Fast variants sharing one multimodal, multilingual space.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptTeams can index for quality and query for speed without rebuilding their corpus.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Near-Astra coding, computer-use and professional-work intelligence at one-fifth of Astra’s token price.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptMaterially improves the cost-performance frontier for capable agents.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
A faster, lower-cost Sonnet upgrade for everyday work, coding and polished document creation.
The release is linked to a source controlled by the releasing lab.
Verified source · 1 receiptRuns more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less for most work.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
OpenAI’s balanced GPT-6 tier for capable coding, computer use and professional work.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptBrings GPT-6 intelligence to everyday agents while halving API prices from GPT-5.6 Sol.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
OpenAI’s fastest and most economical GPT-6 tier for focused, high-volume workloads.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptExtends GPT-6 improvements to latency- and budget-sensitive applications.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Anthropic’s latest Opus model for long-running agentic coding and knowledge work, with always-on adaptive thinking.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 3 receiptsImproves substantially over Opus 5 while reducing standard token prices to $4/$20 and retaining a million-token context window.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
SpaceXAI’s new frontier model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, with stronger long-horizon execution and self-verification.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 3 receiptsMoves Grok beyond 4.6 with a larger base model and sizeable gains on long-running coding and professional-work benchmarks while keeping the same standard API price.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
Google’s real-time Gemini model for low-latency multimodal conversation.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptAdds a live interaction tier to the Gemini 3.8 family.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
A Gemini 3.8 Live variant combining real-time interaction with extended reasoning.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptBrings deeper deliberation to Google’s low-latency live model line.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
DeepSeek’s smaller V4.1 model with native visual understanding and a higher-throughput architecture.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptRaises coding and agentic performance while reducing inference cost and retiring the prior V4 Flash aliases.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
An open-weight mixture-of-experts translation model covering more than 50 languages.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptProvides a sovereign translation option for evaluation and deployment on controlled infrastructure.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
Google DeepMind’s updated model for controllable music generation.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptAdvances Google’s dedicated generative-music model line.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
OpenAI’s flagship GPT-6 model for demanding coding, computer-use, research and professional workloads.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptEstablishes the top GPT-6 capability tier with a million-token context window.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Google’s latest low-latency Gemini tier for high-volume multimodal and agentic workloads.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptUpdates the Flash line with stronger everyday reasoning and tool use while preserving its speed-oriented position.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
A security-focused Gemini 3.8 Flash variant for authorized cyber defence and vulnerability workflows.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptAdds a specialised security tier to Google’s newest Flash family with controlled access for higher-risk capabilities.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Anthropic’s updated Mythos tier for frontier reasoning, coding and knowledge work.
The release is linked to a source controlled by the releasing lab.
Verified source · 1 receiptUpdates the Mythos branch to the current first-party version.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Anthropic’s updated Fable tier for sustained frontier coding and demanding knowledge work.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptReplaces the original Fable 5 entry with the current first-party model version.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Z.ai’s efficient GLM-5.3 variant for strong coding and agentic performance with lower compute.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptBrings the 5.3 family to higher-throughput workloads while remaining openly available.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
DeepSeek’s experimental V4 Flash variant with visual understanding.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptIntroduced native vision before the later V4.1 Flash production release.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Z.ai’s open-weight flagship for complex coding, long-horizon agents and advanced cyber reasoning.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptImproves Z.ai’s coding benchmark by 50% over GLM-5.2 using scaled post-training.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
An open-weight model that composes, arranges, performs and produces complete songs.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptTargets coherent five-minute structure, expressive intent, realistic instruments and natural vocals.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Google’s latest Flash model is generally available in the Gemini API with improved multimodal and coding performance.
Primary model documentation is available and linked from this brief.
Strong source · 2 receiptsMoves the Flash tier forward from 3.6 to 3.7 and gives developers a newer low-latency default with an introductory price window.
Potentially important, but source strength or availability still needs editorial confirmation.
xAI’s latest Grok model release, announced by SpaceXAI on X as the successor to Grok 4.5.
Keeps xAI’s rapid frontier-model cadence visible while full model-card, benchmark and pricing details remain to be verified.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
A general-purpose multimodal model that understands text, images, video and audio and generates video with stereo sound.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
Verified source · 1 receiptUnifies multimodal understanding, generation and editing for commercial video workflows.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Google’s newest Flash model, tuned for token-efficient coding, knowledge work and multimodal tasks.
Primary model documentation is available and linked from this brief.
Strong source · 1 receiptPushes a fast model into long-horizon agents and computer-use workflows without Pro-tier pricing.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
A fast frontier model built around coding, agentic execution and professional knowledge work.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
First-party source · 1 receiptPairs deep software-engineering ability with an advertised serving speed of 80 tokens per second.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
A three-tier family: Sol for frontier work, Terra for balance and Luna for fast, efficient tasks.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
First-party source · 1 receiptBrings stronger multi-agent work and programmatic tool coordination across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
Potentially important, but source strength or availability still needs editorial confirmation.
Meta’s multimodal reasoning model for agentic tasks, computer use, coding and rich media understanding.
Tracked on the radar while at least one comparable field awaits stronger source confirmation.
Editorial review · 1 receiptMarks Meta’s return to frontier APIs with native multi-agent orchestration and active context management.
Potentially important, but source strength or availability still needs editorial confirmation.
An embodied navigation model that follows language instructions using a single ordinary RGB camera.
Tracked on the radar while at least one comparable field awaits stronger source confirmation.
Editorial review · 1 receiptShows a compact model moving beyond screens into autonomous navigation across real environments.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Anthropic’s fifth-generation Sonnet model for autonomous agents, coding, tool use and knowledge work.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
First-party source · 1 receiptBrings performance close to Opus 4.8 at a lower price, with stronger planning and long-running execution.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
An open flagship model designed to hold context and execute over long software-engineering horizons.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
First-party source · 1 receiptCombines a stable million-token window with multiple reasoning-effort levels and openly released weights.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Cohere’s first agentic coding model, built to run locally with a small active compute footprint.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
First-party source · 1 receiptMakes sovereign coding agents practical: 30B total parameters, but only 3B active at inference time.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
Anthropic’s fifth-generation frontier model for sustained coding, science, vision and demanding knowledge work.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
First-party source · 1 receiptIntroduces a capability tier above Opus for complex, days-long and asynchronous tasks.
High-signal launch with broad capability, access or platform-level implications.
A natively multimodal frontier model for coding and agents, built on MiniMax Sparse Attention.
Release is backed by the lab’s own announcement or newsroom post.
First-party source · 1 receiptCombines open weights, a million-token context window and long-horizon agentic execution in one model.
Material model update, access expansion, pricing shift or comparable capability change.
A new API generation offered as V4-Pro and V4-Flash, with both thinking and non-thinking modes.
Release is backed by first-party product or API change documentation.
Strong source · 1 receiptKeeps compatibility with both OpenAI- and Anthropic-style interfaces, lowering the cost of switching.
Reading the radar
“Latest” means the newest named model announcement we could verify from each lab’s own newsroom or documentation. Release dates reflect the original announcement, not later availability updates.
Claims are deliberately attributed to the releasing company. Benchmark results are not normalized across labs, so this index does not rank models or declare a winner.