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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
An agent model with up to 1 million tokens of context, for text and images. MiniMax says it is nearly three times faster and 70% cheaper to use than before. Weights are due later.
Claim check: MixedArtificial Analysis scores it 42, fourth of 173 models, but measured 120.1 tokens per second, not 200+, and a 93% hallucination rate.
Price $0.15 / $0.60 per million input / output tokens
MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash at half the price of M3
September 2026
Voice agents with a lip-synced video face for Gemini Enterprise customers, in 97 languages, with a SynthID watermark on every video.
Google’s Gemini can now talk to customers as a video avatarThe English beta started on September 14: Siri can use messages, email, photos, screen content and app actions, with device, region and daily cloud limits.
Siri AI is finally on real devicesMeta says the agent uses fewer tool calls and fewer tokens than the earlier version.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Meta says its new AI agent can finish work with fewer steps
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An entry appears when one of our stories covers a model launch, a preview, a reported plan, or a model becoming available on a new platform. A claim is Backed when an outside test supports it, Mixed when it holds only in part or only in some settings, and Disputed when an outside test contradicts it. The date is the one the story gives; when a story gives none, it is the story’s own date. We add entries with each edition and correct them under the story when a fact changes.
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