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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 this week, a model the company says runs agentic workloads 30% faster than its predecessor while costing 40% less per token. The release also claims parity with Anthropic's flagship Fable 5.1 on reasoning…
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OpenAI has closed $11 billion in new funding, the first slice of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reported Friday. The money is part of a larger raise that has not finished yet, and a source familiar with the…
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OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber on Thursday, November 5, 2026, a model trained to find and exploit software flaws that the company rates as "Critical" under its own Preparedness Framework. The rating is the top tier OpenAI assigns for…
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Anthropic is weighing whether to release a new AI model ahead of a planned IPO, three people familiar with the company's plans told Reuters, as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra eats into its enterprise business. The deliberation comes less than two…
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Mistral AI released the weights of its largest model, Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, on October 29, 2026. The model is a mixture-of-experts system with roughly 1 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active per token, trained from…
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OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on September 22, 2026, calling it the most intelligent and aligned model it has ever released. The company says Astra saturates ARC-AGI-3 at 99.9%, FrontierMath Tier 4 at 98%, and ExploitBench at 100%, and that…
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OpenAI has lowered the target for its latest funding round from $30 billion to $20 billion, according to a Financial Times report published Friday. The company now expects a first close below that figure, with a retail offering for wealthy…
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In a landmark development for theoretical computer science, OpenAI and Anthropic have both announced apparent refutations of the exponential time hypothesis (ETH), a pillar of computational complexity theory that has stood for nearly 30…
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Anthropic is considering releasing a new AI model ahead of its expected IPO, a move that would counter OpenAI's momentum since the September 3 launch of GPT-6 Astra, according to three people familiar with the matter. The decision sits…
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October 2026 marked an unprecedented surge in AI model releases, with 16 new models from 14 providers launching in a single month—surpassing all previous records. This explosive growth represents a fundamental shift in the AI landscape…
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Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3-trillion-parameter open-weight model with a 1-million-token context window, available today on Kimi.ai, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API. Full model weights will be released by November 4. The launch…
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Reflection AI has officially unveiled Beam, its first frontier open-weight model, claiming it matches leading Chinese models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at a fraction of the inference cost. The Brooklyn startup, founded in 2024 by two…