Models

New models worth building on, in every modality.

  1. ModelSPECIALIZEDlightricks2 Oct 2026

    LTX 2.5

    Lightricks' image-to-video successor, aimed at turning stills into motion without a render farm.

  2. ModelOPEN FRONTIERorcarouter2 Oct 2026

    OrcaSAQ-2 27B

    OrcaRouter's second SAQ generation ships as a general-purpose text generator straight to open weights.

  3. ModelLOCALstrandsagents1 Oct 2026

    Strands Decider 2B

    An agent decider shrunk to 2B so routing calls run on your own hardware, not a metered API.

  4. ModelSPECIALIZEDnvidia1 Oct 2026

    PixelUMM

    NVIDIA's pixel-level image-to-text model for vision tasks that need spatial grounding, not just captions.

  5. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERunbiased1 Oct 2026

    Pareto 26.10 Preview

    Multimodal composite built for research, coding, and agentic workflows with a 1M-token context window.

  6. ModelSPECIALIZEDfermionresearch1 Oct 2026

    Phonon 2

    Permissively licensed ASR you can ship in a product without a legal review.

  7. ModelCLOSED FRONTIER30 Sept 2026

    Gemini 4 Argon

    Google's flagship model tops Arena text at 1524.8 with a 15% hallucination rate, but rollout is just beginning.

  8. ModelCLOSED FRONTIER30 Sept 2026

    GPT-6 Luna Pro

    OpenAI's Pro tier adds a 1,050,000-token context window at $0.10 input / $0.50 output per million tokens.

  9. ModelCLOSED FRONTIER29 Sept 2026

    Flash

    Gemini Flash update, the lighter model in the September comparison.

  10. ModelCLOSED FRONTIER29 Sept 2026

    Astra

    Gemini's September update, appearing in the latest cross-lab IQ comparison.

  11. ModelCLOSED FRONTIER29 Sept 2026

    Fable 5.1

    Anthropic's Fable line point release, shipping alongside Sonnet 5.5.

  12. ModelOPEN FRONTIERbaai29 Sept 2026

    AREX 2

    BAAI's 27.4B image-text-to-text model under Apache 2.0, a general multimodal with open weights for builders who need vision-language without a closed API.

  13. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERopenai29 Sept 2026

    GPT-6.1 Sol

    Upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, positioned below Astra, aimed at agentic coding, computer use, and document-heavy professional work; Pro variant sets reasoning.mode=pro for higher-quality complex tasks.

  14. ModelSPECIALIZEDinternlm29 Sept 2026

    AdvancedMathBench AutoVerifier

    36B image-text-to-text model built to auto-verify math benchmark solutions.

  15. ModelSPECIALIZED29 Sept 2026

    Mercury Voice

    Inception's voice model, confirmed Sep 29, for audio/voice tasks.

  16. ModelCLOSED FRONTIER28 Sept 2026

    Grok 4.6

    High-capability xAI model now available as a managed model on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

  17. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERanthropic28 Sept 2026

    Claude Sonnet 5.5

    Anthropic's Sonnet-class upgrade for well-scoped everyday work, direct successor to Sonnet 5.

  18. ModelSPECIALIZEDxingchen-agi28 Sept 2026

    TeleOCR

    Small 1.4B OCR specialist for extracting text from images.

  19. ModelOPEN FRONTIERhcompany28 Sept 2026

    Holotron4 30B A3B

    Sparse image-text-to-text model sized to fit a single node while still taking visual input.

  20. ModelOPEN FRONTIERxiaomimimo28 Sept 2026

    MiMo V2.6 Flash RL

    RL-tuned text-generation variant of MiMo V2.6 Flash.

  21. ModelSPECIALIZEDinternlm26 Sept 2026

    Intern Decision 0.8B

    Apache-2.0 image-text-to-text model for visual decision tasks; 0.8B params.

  22. ModelLOCAL26 Sept 2026

    Julia 1

    A 144.3M-param open-weight model built to run decision workloads on CPU, not GPU clusters.

  23. ModelSPECIALIZEDinternlm26 Sept 2026

    Intern Decision 4B

    Apache-2.0 image-text-to-text model for visual decision tasks; 4B params.

  24. ModelSPECIALIZEDinternlm26 Sept 2026

    Intern Decision 2B

    Apache-2.0 image-text-to-text model for visual decision tasks; 2B params.

  25. ModelSPECIALIZEDperceptron25 Sept 2026

    Perceptron Mk1.5

    Embodied reasoning model for physical agents; accepts text, image, video, audio and returns text plus structured annotations.

  26. ModelSPECIALIZEDedge025 Sept 2026

    Audio8 ASR Infinite

    4.1B streaming ASR for infinite-length audio; Apache-2.0 makes it embeddable without licensing friction.

  27. ModelOPEN FRONTIERxiaomimimo25 Sept 2026

    MiMo V2.6 Pro RL

    RL-tuned follow-up to MiMo V2.6 Pro; reasoning-focused RL on the 1024B backbone for builders needing stronger agentic outputs.

  28. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERfireworks24 Sept 2026

    Ember 1

    Fireworks Research's specialized reasoning model built on Kimi K3, with 1M context and $3/$15 pricing.

  29. ModelOPEN FRONTIERhcompany24 Sept 2026

    Holo4 27B

    Open image-text-to-text generalist for non-commercial multimodal work.

  30. ModelOPEN FRONTIERhcompany24 Sept 2026

    Holo4 35B A3B

    Apache-licensed sibling with 35B total params for commercial multimodal use.

  31. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERopenai23 Sept 2026

    GPT-6 Sol

    Cost-efficient high-end tier in the GPT-6 series, positioned below Astra and above Luna.

  32. ModelSPECIALIZEDaion-labs23 Sept 2026

    Aion 3.5

    Multi-model roleplaying and storytelling system built on GLM, using collaborative generation across specialized models.

  33. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERcohere23 Sept 2026

    Command A+

    Cohere's flagship for enterprise agentic workflows with native tool calling and strict schemas.

  34. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERanthropic23 Sept 2026

    Claude Opus 5.5

    Anthropic's flagship for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work, succeeding Opus 5.

  35. ModelSPECIALIZEDmicrosoft23 Sept 2026

    Rho-RoboEval

    Microsoft's 5.2B model for robotics evaluation.

  36. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERopenai23 Sept 2026

    GPT-6 Luna

    Fast, cost-efficient GPT-6 tier for high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads.

  37. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERqwen23 Sept 2026

    Qwen3.8 Max Prime

    Higher-throughput SKU of Qwen3.8 Max accepting text, image, and video at a premium price point.

  38. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERstealth23 Sept 2026

    Space Bunny Alpha

    Anonymous large model with fast inference, strong coding, and native multimodal input โ€” currently free.

  39. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERz-ai23 Sept 2026

    GLM 5.3 Prime

    High-throughput variant of GLM-5.3 with 1.5โ€“2ร— faster output via inference acceleration, same 1M context.

  40. ModelCLOSED FRONTIERx-ai22 Sept 2026

    Grok 4.7

    Flagship coding and agentic model succeeding Grok 4.6, with DeepSWE at 71%.