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AI model releases 2026
Every AI model launch, preview and reported plan from our reporting, newest first, with prices and the sourced story behind each entry. Updated with every edition.
Prices and claims are what each story reports; a company’s own benchmark stays a company claim. The claim check compares each maker’s main claim with an independent test that our story cites. Released models so far: 6 backed, 9 mixed, 12 not checked yet.
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October 2026
Anthropic’s new small model, the first Haiku with effort controls. In the Claude apps, Claude Code, the API and the big clouds.
Claim check: BackedArtificial Analysis scores it 43 on its Intelligence Index, second of 182 models in its class, though it uses many tokens. Anthropic’s benchmark gains are its own.
Price $0.10 / $0.50 per million input / output tokens up to 100K tokens; $0.50 / $2.50 above
Anthropic’s Haiku 5.5 cuts small-model prices by 90% Try it yourself: who can use it, the price, an example promptMicrosoft’s first live speech-to-text model, in 60 languages, in public preview in Microsoft Foundry. Two text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and 2.1-Flash, came with it.
Claim check: BackedOn Artificial Analysis’s streaming leaderboard it gets 2.5% of words wrong at the first partial transcript, the lowest of 32 models shown; the next is 3.4%.
Price $0.54 per audio hour (introductory, until the end of 2026)
Microsoft’s live transcription model tops an outside test
September 2026
An upgrade to GPT-6 Sol. OpenAI says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on coding, computer use and office work at a fifth of Astra’s token prices.
Claim check: BackedArtificial Analysis scores it 52, against 53 for GPT-6 Astra, at $0.72 per task instead of $3.26.
Price $2 / $10 per million input / output tokens; cached input $0.10
Independent test puts GPT-6.1 Sol a point behind AstraA 7-billion-parameter model that turns camera images and text into robot movements. Black Forest Labs says it tops the RoboLab-120 benchmark. Weights free for non-commercial use.
Claim check: BackedIt ranks first on NVIDIA Research’s public RoboLab-120 leaderboard, at 42.9%. We could not confirm whether NVIDIA re-ran the result itself.
Image AI maker Black Forest Labs released a robot modelAnthropic says it performs like its more expensive Fable 5.1 on most work.
Claim check: BackedArtificial Analysis ranked it first of the 206 models it tracked at launch, with 58 points. Most other figures are Anthropic’s.
Price $4 per million input tokens, $20 per million output tokens, 20% below the previous price
Claude Opus 5.5 cuts token prices by 20%A 2.5-billion-parameter long-context model for local and on-device use; much of its training data is shared. OpenBMB says it leads open models of its size.
Claim check: BackedArtificial Analysis gives it 15 points, the highest among open-weight models under four billion parameters.
MiniCPM5-2B packs long-context AI into a much smaller model
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