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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
A 27-billion-parameter model on Google’s Gemma 3, made with AI Singapore, for Indonesian, English, Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese and Batak Toba. GoTo says it scored highest on regional languages in its own tests, with no scores published.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Price Free weights under the Gemma licence
GoTo releases a free AI model for Indonesian and JavaneseA “minor update” to V4.1 Flash with open weights under the MIT licence and up to 1 million tokens of context. DeepSeek says it scores higher on coding and agent tests, works faster and writes shorter answers.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Price $0.30 / $1.20 per million input / output tokens (peak, unchanged)
DeepSeek releases an open update of its V4.1 Flash model Try it yourself: who can use it, the price, an example promptA small decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B that scores a fixed list of options, as a rival to Jev. Microsoft says it is the most accurate on 36 tests; no outside test yet.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Price $0.042 per million input tokens; output is free
Microsoft launches Decision-1, a fast model for AI choicesTwo decision models for AI agents (27B and 9B) that also read images, offered as an open rival to Jev. Cloudflare says a Clef model tops 7 of 10 decision tests; no outside test yet.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Price $0.24 / $0.09 per million input tokens on Workers AI; free weights (Apache 2.0)
Cloudflare releases open Clef models to take on JevA small decision model that picks one option from a fixed list for AI agents, as an open alternative to Jev. AWS says it takes about 115 ms on one graphics card; no outside test yet.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Price Free (Apache 2.0)
Amazon releases a free, open rival to the Jev decision model
September 2026
A reasoning model for CRM work, based on Nvidia Nemotron and trained on synthetic business tasks. Its strongest results come from Salesforce’s own tests.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Salesforce built a reasoning model for CRM workA small model that publishes checkpoints, data, code and hashes for every training step, so its training can be replayed. About five times slower to run.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Gensyn made a small model whose training can be replayedA model that returns choices and probabilities instead of text, from former OpenAI researchers, with $40 million in seed funding.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Price $0.042 per million input tokens; output is free
Former OpenAI researchers launched Jev, a model that decidesKeeps important details during repeated edits and cuts waiting time; new sketch and comment tools guide the result.
Claim check: Not checked yet
ChatGPT Images 2.5 makes editing fasterA free research map of every possible one-letter change in the human genome, about 9 billion of them. A prediction is not a diagnosis.
Claim check: Not checked yet
AlphaGenome Atlas maps 9 billion DNA changesBetter computer-use skills, and OpenAI’s first widely released model with a “Critical” cyber rating.
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GPT-6 Astra is powerful enough to need stricter cyber rulesMeta says the agent uses fewer tool calls and fewer tokens than the earlier version.
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Meta says its new AI agent can finish work with fewer steps
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