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🚀 Model & Product Releases Google makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available – Google opened its most capable model to developers and enterprises on October 13, listing gemini-4-argon as generally available in the Gemini API changelog with a combined input and output limit of about one million tokens. Paid-tier pricing is $2 per million input […]

🚀 Model & Product Releases Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5 with tiered pricing – Released on October 7 on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, the small model costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts under 100,000 tokens, rising to $0.50 and $2.50 above that […]

🚀 Model & Product Releases Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at lower list prices – Launched on September 22, Opus 5.5 is available on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure and across Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans. List prices fall to $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output […]

🚀 Model & Product Releases Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash with a million-token context – The Qwen team released the omnimodal model on September 18 via Qwen Chat, QwenCloud and the Model Studio API, ingesting text, images, audio and video natively at a 1M-token context from about $0.15 per million input tokens. Alibaba reports a vendor-measured average […]

🚀 Model & Product Releases Sakana AI ships Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 – The Tokyo laboratory released the pair on September 10 through an OpenAI-compatible API, with model trackers logging availability on September 11. Sakana prices Fugu Max at $2 and $6 per million tokens and Fugu Ultra v2 at $5 and $30, […]

🚀 Model & Product Releases Anthropic ships Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 – Released on 1 September, the two are the same underlying system at different safeguard levels: Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is restricted to vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences organisations. List pricing holds at $10 per million input tokens and […]

🚀 Model & Product Releases Z.ai open-sources GLM-5.3-Flash at 18B active parameters – Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash on 26 August, a 320-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates 18 billion parameters per token, accepts text, image and video input, and ships open weights on Hugging Face under an MIT licence. Z.ai reports 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence […]

🚀 Model & Product Releases DeepSeek opens a multimodal API with an experimental vision model – DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on August 21 and opened its multimodal API to developers. The company describes a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 13 billion active parameters out of 284 billion total, adding image understanding while matching the text-only V4-Flash on […]

🚀 Model & Product Releases Google prices Gemini 3.7 Flash at half its predecessor – Google released the coding and agent model on August 13 with a one-million-token input window, a 64,000-token output limit and multimodal input. Introductory API pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output through the end of […]