AI Model Updates & Releases

September 2026

Sep 3
NewGPT 6 Astra releasedOpenAI · IQ 139 · $101.76 per 1M I/O tokens · 1.1M context
Sep 2
NewGemini 3.8 Flash releasedGoogle · IQ 125 · $35.75 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Sep 1
NewFable 5.1 releasedAnthropic · IQ 137 · $143.72 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context

August 2026

Aug 29
UpdatedDeepSeek V3.2 (repriced)API pricing updated.
Aug 28
NewHy4 Preview releasedopen weights · IQ 104 · $7.36 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 26
NewAgnes 2.5 Pro Beta releasedIQ 111 · $1.22 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 26
NewGLM-5.3-Flash releasedZ.ai · open weights · IQ 121 · $4.99 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 26
NewQwen3.8 Flash releasedAlibaba · open weights · IQ 113 · $6.74 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 21
NewDeepseek V4 Flash Vision Exp releasedDeepSeek · IQ 113 · $1.39 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 18
NewGLM-5.3 releasedZ.ai · IQ 123 · $35.95 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 14
NewQwen3.8 27B releasedAlibaba · open weights · IQ 112 · $19.03 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Aug 13
UpdatedDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Post-training update — benchmark results re-measured on the refreshed checkpoint.
Aug 13
NewGemini 3.7 Flash releasedGoogle · IQ 123 · $16.62 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 12
NewGrok 4.6 releasedxAI · IQ 123 · $21.06 per 1M I/O tokens · 500K context
Aug 12
NewSolar Pro 4 releasedIQ 99 · $5.70 per 1M I/O tokens · 384K context
Aug 11
NewNemotron 3.5 Lightning releasedopen weights · IQ 95 · $0.33 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 10
NewMuse Glimmer releasedMeta · open weights · IQ 92 · $1.55 per 1M I/O tokens · 128K context
Aug 8
NewQwen3.8 2.4T A95B releasedAlibaba · open weights · IQ 121 · $20.74 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 5
NewMuse Spark 1.2 releasedMeta · IQ 122 · $4.19 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Aug 3
NewQwen3.8 Max releasedAlibaba · IQ 121 · $14.39 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context

July 2026

Jul 31
UpdatedDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Post-training update — benchmark results re-measured on the refreshed checkpoint.
Jul 30
NewInkling-Small releasedopen weights · IQ 106 · $1.01 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 24
NewLing 3.0 Flash releasedopen weights · IQ 92 · $0.34 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Jul 24
NewOpus 5 releasedAnthropic · IQ 135 · $37.56 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 21
NewGemini 3.5 Flash Lite releasedGoogle · IQ 108 · $3.60 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 21
NewGemini 3.6 Flash releasedGoogle · IQ 123 · $16.62 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 16
NewKimi K3 releasedKimi · IQ 123 · $15.40 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 15
NewInkling releasedopen weights · IQ 108 · $3.92 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 15
NewQwen3.7 Flash releasedAlibaba · IQ 92 · $0.27 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 9
NewGPT 5.6 Luna releasedOpenAI · IQ 129 · $9.29 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 9
NewGPT 5.6 Sol releasedOpenAI · IQ 136 · $40.81 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 9
NewGPT 5.6 Terra releasedOpenAI · IQ 132 · $20.25 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 9
NewMuse Spark 1.1 releasedMeta · IQ 119 · $4.19 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jul 8
NewGrok 4.5 releasedxAI · IQ 122 · $9.47 per 1M I/O tokens · 500K context

June 2026

Jun 30
NewSonnet 5 releasedAnthropic · IQ 125 · $26.12 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jun 29
NewLongCat 2.0 releasedopen weights · IQ 98 · $13.06 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jun 13
NewGlm 5.2 releasedZ.ai · open weights · IQ 120 · $7.28 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jun 12
NewKimi K2.7 Code releasedKimi · open weights · IQ 118 · $3.73 per 1M I/O tokens · 256K context
Jun 9
NewFable 5 releasedAnthropic · IQ 137 · $70.52 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jun 8
NewNex N2 Pro releasedopen weights · IQ 109 · $6.62 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Jun 2
NewQwen3.7 Plus releasedAlibaba · IQ 115 · $1.67 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Jun 1
NewMinimax M3 releasedMiniMax · open weights · IQ 114 · $5.74 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context

May 2026

May 28
NewOpus 4.8 releasedAnthropic · IQ 130 · $39.12 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
May 20
NewCommand A Plus releasedopen weights · IQ 88 · 192K context
May 18
NewGemini 3.5 Flash releasedGoogle · IQ 124 · $18.48 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
May 18
NewQwen3.7 Max releasedAlibaba · IQ 118 · $17.99 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context

April 2026

Apr 29
NewMistral Medium 3.5 releasedopen weights · IQ 97 · $31.61 per 1M I/O tokens · 256K context
Apr 28
NewLaguna M.1 releasedopen weights · IQ 82 · $0.95 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Apr 28
NewLaguna Xs.2 releasedopen weights · IQ 83 · $0.47 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Apr 26
NewMimo V2.5 Pro releasedXiaomi · open weights · IQ 116 · $1.80 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Apr 24
NewDeepseek V4 Flash releasedDeepSeek · open weights · IQ 113 · $1.39 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Apr 24
NewDeepseek V4 Pro releasedDeepSeek · open weights · IQ 117 · $6.96 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Apr 23
NewGPT 5.5 releasedOpenAI · IQ 133 · $31.38 per 1M I/O tokens · 922K context
Apr 21
NewMimo V2.5 releasedXiaomi · open weights · IQ 109 · $0.96 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Apr 20
NewKimi K2.6 releasedKimi · open weights · IQ 119 · $4.50 per 1M I/O tokens · 256K context
Apr 17
NewGrok 4.3 releasedxAI · IQ 115 · $2.60 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Apr 17
NewQwen3.6 Max releasedAlibaba · IQ 114 · $16.34 per 1M I/O tokens
Apr 16
NewOpus 4.7 releasedAnthropic · IQ 127 · $48.34 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Apr 8
NewMuse Spark releasedMeta · IQ 116 · 262K context
Apr 7
NewGlm 5.1 releasedZ.ai · open weights · IQ 114 · $3.14 per 1M I/O tokens · 200K context
Apr 6
NewSolar Pro 3 releasedIQ 82 · $2.85 per 1M I/O tokens · 128K context
Apr 1
NewQwen3.6 Plus releasedAlibaba · IQ 110 · $10.53 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context

March 2026

Mar 18
NewMimo V2 Pro releasedXiaomi · open weights · IQ 109 · $2.75 per 1M I/O tokens
Mar 18
NewMinimax M2.7 releasedMiniMax · open weights · IQ 109 · $1.98 per 1M I/O tokens · 205K context
Mar 17
NewGPT 5.4 Mini releasedOpenAI · IQ 112 · $8.46 per 1M I/O tokens · 400K context
Mar 5
NewGPT 5.4 releasedOpenAI · IQ 128 · $21.96 per 1M I/O tokens

February 2026

Feb 19
NewGemini 3.1 Pro releasedGoogle · IQ 127 · $9.47 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context
Feb 17
NewGrok 4.20 releasedxAI · IQ 116 · $4.69 per 1M I/O tokens
Feb 16
NewQwen3.5 2b releasedAlibaba · open weights · IQ 79 · $0.30 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Feb 16
NewQwen3.5 397b releasedAlibaba · open weights · IQ 108 · $5.12 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Feb 16
NewQwen3.5 4b releasedAlibaba · open weights · IQ 87 · $0.34 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Feb 16
NewQwen3.5 9b releasedAlibaba · open weights · IQ 90 · $0.62 per 1M I/O tokens · 262K context
Feb 12
NewMinimax M2.5 releasedMiniMax · open weights · IQ 105 · $1.65 per 1M I/O tokens
Feb 11
NewGlm 5 releasedZ.ai · open weights · IQ 106 · $4.88 per 1M I/O tokens
Feb 6
NewOpus 4.6 releasedAnthropic · IQ 126 · $36.05 per 1M I/O tokens

January 2026

Jan 27
NewKimi K2.5 releasedKimi · open weights · IQ 111 · $2.94 per 1M I/O tokens

December 2025

Dec 31
NewK Exaone releasedopen weights · IQ 95 · $1.14 per 1M I/O tokens · 256K context
Dec 23
NewMinimax M2.1 releasedMiniMax · open weights · IQ 100 · $1.56 per 1M I/O tokens
Dec 22
NewGlm 4.7 releasedZ.ai · open weights · IQ 104 · $3.14 per 1M I/O tokens
Dec 11
NewGPT 5.2 releasedOpenAI · IQ 119 · $22.78 per 1M I/O tokens
Dec 2
NewMistral Large 3 releasedopen weights · IQ 85 · $0.63 per 1M I/O tokens · 256K context
Dec 1
NewDeepseek V3.2 releasedDeepSeek · open weights · IQ 103 · $0.93 per 1M I/O tokens

November 2025

Nov 24
NewOpus 4.5 releasedAnthropic · IQ 113 · $25.68 per 1M I/O tokens
Nov 18
NewGemini 3 Pro releasedGoogle · IQ 118 · $8.14 per 1M I/O tokens
Nov 13
NewGPT 5.1 releasedOpenAI · IQ 111 · $9.37 per 1M I/O tokens

September 2025

Sep 18
NewMagistral Medium 1.2 releasedopen weights · IQ 91 · $4.02 per 1M I/O tokens · 128K context

August 2025

Aug 21
NewDeepseek V3.1 releasedDeepSeek · open weights · IQ 95 · $1.22 per 1M I/O tokens
Aug 7
NewGPT 5 releasedOpenAI · IQ 112 · $8.84 per 1M I/O tokens
Aug 5
NewOpus 4.1 releasedAnthropic · IQ 94

July 2025

Jul 11
NewKimi K2 releasedKimi · open weights · IQ 92 · $2.81 per 1M I/O tokens
Jul 9
NewGrok 4 releasedxAI · IQ 103 · $15.87 per 1M I/O tokens

June 2025

Jun 17
NewGemini 2.5 Pro releasedGoogle · IQ 100 · $7.53 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context

May 2025

May 22
NewOpus 4 releasedAnthropic · IQ 93

April 2025

Apr 16
NewO3 releasedOpenAI · IQ 101 · $10.52 per 1M I/O tokens · 200K context
Apr 5
NewLlama 4 Maverick releasedMeta · open weights · IQ 85 · $0.34 per 1M I/O tokens · 1M context

February 2025

Feb 17
NewGrok 3 releasedxAI · IQ 88 · $3.26 per 1M I/O tokens
Feb 5
NewGemini 2.0 Pro releasedGoogle · IQ 83

January 2025

Jan 20
NewDeepseek R1 releasedDeepSeek · open weights · IQ 88 · $2.30 per 1M I/O tokens

December 2024

Dec 5
NewO1 releasedOpenAI · IQ 88 · $28.35 per 1M I/O tokens

August 2024

Aug 14
NewGrok 2 releasedxAI · IQ 79

May 2024

May 13
NewGPT 4o releasedOpenAI · IQ 81

March 2024

Mar 4
NewOpus 3 releasedAnthropic · IQ 79

February 2024

Feb 15
NewGemini 1.5 Pro releasedGoogle · IQ 82

November 2023

Nov 6
NewGPT 4 Turbo releasedOpenAI · IQ 78

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