Pins matching tag:Agents

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model for agentic tasks with a 1M-token context window, together with a public preview of the Meta Model API at $1.25 per 1 million input tokens and $4.25 per 1 million output tokens; it scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal model with a 1 million token context window, priced at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens, with weights published on 27 July.

Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, a cheaper and more token-efficient successor to 3.5 Flash that uses 17% fewer output tokens and lifts OSWorld-Verified computer use from 78.4% to 83%.

Google releases Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for high-throughput, low-latency work at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, beating Gemini 3 Flash on SWE-Bench Pro and OSWorld-Verified.

Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts flagship with a 1M-token context window, fifth in Text Arena and second in Vision Arena, and the first Max-tier Qwen whose weights it then released.

On 3 August 2026 Alibaba opened public beta testing in China of QwenWork, an agent platform that unifies desktop, cloud and enterprise-collaboration agents and is to be embedded in DingTalk.

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to Muse Spark 1.1 co-trained with the new Muse Code terminal agent, at an unchanged $1.25 per 1 million input tokens and $4.25 per 1 million output tokens; it scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Upstage releases Solar Pro 4, an API-only agentic model with a 512K context window that scores 57 on Terminal-Bench v2.1, up from 12 for Solar Pro 3, at $0.30 per 1 million input tokens.

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, built on Grok 4.5 for long-running agents and interactive work at the same $2 and $6 per 1 million token price; it scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, level with GPT-5.6 Sol and one point behind Claude Fable 5.

Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash, at half the price: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through the end of 2026, with DeepSWE up from 49.0% to 65.3%.

Z.ai (Zhipu AI) releases GLM-5.3, a post-training-only upgrade of GLM-5.2 that scores 28.3 on Terminal Bench 3.0 and 84.5% on the CyberGym vulnerability benchmark, with a 1M-token context and open weights two weeks later.

Alibaba's Qwen team open-sources Qwen3.8-27B, a dense multimodal 27B model under Apache 2.0 that it says outperforms the proprietary Qwen3.7-Plus on coding and office workflows, with a 262K native context.

IBM releases Granite 4.2, three open Apache 2.0 reasoning models (3B, 8B and 30B) with a switchable thinking mode; the 8B scores 47.67 on SWE-bench Verified and 86.67 on AIME25 in IBM's own runs.

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter (18B active) natively multimodal open-weight model on a newly trained base that it says beats GLM-5.2 at one-tenth of the price, listed at $0.15 per million input tokens.

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, its best reasoning and coding model yet at the introductory price of 3.7 Flash, alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a vulnerability-finding and patching model offered only to trusted government and enterprise defenders through its new Fairwind Program.

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth Muse Spark model in five months, trained for long agentic and coding work and still priced at $1.25 per million input tokens; Artificial Analysis ranks its top variant behind only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, an open-weight 552-billion-parameter multimodal model that it says beats its own flagship V4-Pro, and routes all V4-Pro API traffic to it at Flash prices.

Google releases two real-time voice models: Gemini 3.8 Live, built for low-cost fluid dialogue that sees through the camera and switches among 97 languages, and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which reasons while it speaks and tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech quality index at 82.6.

StepFun launches Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts flagship with 27B active parameters and a 1M-token context, priced at $1.00 per 1 million input tokens and scoring 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol for coding and agent work and GPT-6 Luna for high-volume tasks, at half the API price of their GPT-5.6 predecessors: $2 and $10 per million tokens for Sol, $0.10 and $0.50 for Luna.

Xiaomi releases and open-sources MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, natively omnimodal models with 1M-token context; Pro scores 46.32 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest of any open-source model.

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family, which it says runs more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task at the same $2 and $10 per million token prices.

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model of its Claude 5.5 family and its cheapest, fastest small model, at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens for prompts up to 100K tokens, about 90% below Haiku 4.5.

Meta releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its most capable models yet, built around 'Active Memory' and 'Active Focus' for personal and professional agents; Muse Wonder is live on the Meta Model API and Muse Code, Wonder Full for Muse Code subscribers.

Microsoft's flagship conference for IT pros, developers, security and business leaders runs 17-20 November 2026 at San Francisco's Moscone Center and online, with Satya Nadella leading the featured speakers.