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New models released, opened and updated: flagship launches, open weights, and performance and price changes as they happen.

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9/3Thu
  1. Demis Hassabis · X78

    Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

    Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, another upgrade less than a month after the previous one, and introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for cybersecurity. Demis Hassabis says Flash Cyber advances the frontier of cyber defense; more details about the models and security work are on Google's official blog. Logan Kilpatrick says the model improves agentic and coding capabilities, marking the Flash line's third update in six weeks.

    Why it matters: Google has updated the Flash family again in under a month and introduced a dedicated Cyber version, showing its model-iteration pace and security focus.

  2. Google DeepMind82

    Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

    Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for defensive security work. The former improves substantially over 3.7 Flash in software engineering, agent tasks, and multi-step reasoning, while keeping the same price: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.

    Why it matters: The article details 3.8 Flash's gains in long-horizon coding and agent tasks, unchanged pricing, and availability, helping readers decide whether to replace existing workflows.

8/28Fri
  1. Z.ai 智谱 · X78

    Zhipu releases open weights for GLM-5.3

    Zhipu has announced open weights for GLM-5.3, which it calls its most capable model for agentic coding and cyber defense. The weights can now be downloaded, run, and customized from Hugging Face at zai-org/GLM-5.3; technical details are at z.ai/blog/glm-5.3.

    Why it matters: Zhipu has opened the weights of its flagship model for agentic coding and cyber defense, giving readers a view of the options for self-hosting and customization.

  2. Google DeepMind68

    Google DeepMind releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

    Google DeepMind has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, offering developers video-generation controls through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.

    Why it matters: The article details capabilities such as extending scenes, interpolating between first and last frames, and 4K upscaling, helping readers assess how controllable video-generation workflows are becoming.

8/27Thu
  1. Google DeepMind71

    Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe speech-to-text model

    Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, which it calls its most accurate speech-to-text model yet. It converts raw audio directly into accurate, formatted text.

    Why it matters: The official post reports WER for streaming and non-streaming APIs and compares the model with the previous-generation Chirp 3, helping readers assess speech transcription in practical workflows.

8/25Tue
  1. Hugging Face Blog62

    IBM releases Granite 4.2 reasoning models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes

    IBM's Granite team has released Granite 4.2, its first family of dense decoder-only reasoning models, in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes. They were post-trained from the Granite-4.1 base and are all licensed under Apache 2.0.

    Why it matters: The article discloses Granite 4.2's architecture, SFT data mix, and multi-stage RL curriculum in detail, offering a look at concrete post-training methods for reasoning models.

8/21Fri
  1. DeepSeek · X78

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp launches on the DeepSeek API platform

    DeepSeek has launched the experimental multimodal model DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on its API platform. Its text capabilities match DeepSeek-V4-Flash across agents, reasoning, and world knowledge.

    Why it matters: The official release gives the new model's text-capability alignment with V4-Flash and improvements on multimodal-agent benchmarks, helping readers assess its readiness for multimodal agents.

8/14Fri
8/13Thu
  1. DeepSeek · X82

    DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4-Pro

    DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4-Pro, highlighting upgraded agent capabilities and notable production gains. V4-Pro and V4-Flash offer flexible reasoning levels: low for simple tasks, high for everyday agent workflows, and max for complex tasks. The model natively supports the OpenAI Responses API and is optimized for Codex with one-click configuration. It is now available in the app, on the web in Expert Mode, and through the API; its model name is unchanged.

    Why it matters: The official announcement describes V4-Pro's agent upgrades and three reasoning levels, helping readers understand its position in production workflows.

8/12Wed
  1. Google DeepMind71

    Google DeepMind releases SL2T sign-language-to-text model, first rolling out in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11

    Google DeepMind has released SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model, bringing sign-language AI to consumer products for the first time. On Pixel 11, Gboard and Live Transcribe support dictation from American Sign Language (ASL) to English; more devices and languages are planned.

    Why it matters: The source describes the capabilities and limits of a multilingual sign-to-text model and where it is available, helping readers assess sign-language translation in real products.

8/11Tue
  1. Hugging Face Blog62

    NVIDIA releases open-weights Magpie TTS multilingual model, adding Arabic, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese

    NVIDIA has released Magpie TTS Multilingual, a 364M-parameter open-weights speech-synthesis model supporting 12 languages. The latest release adds Modern Standard Arabic, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, and improves quality in several existing languages through updated training data.

    Why it matters: The article reports the 364M open TTS model's language expansion and measured TTFA on different GPUs, helping readers estimate latency budgets for self-hosted voice pipelines.

8/10Mon
  1. Hugging Face Blog82

    Meta releases open-source 30B multimodal Muse Glimmer for local agents

    Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter multimodal model distilled from Muse and licensed under Apache 2.0. It targets local-agent use cases such as coding, document analysis, and personal assistance.

    Why it matters: Meta has open-sourced a 30B multimodal model with reproducible details on its architecture, benchmarks, local deployment, and self-improvement demonstrations.

8/6Thu
  1. Google DeepMind76

    Google DeepMind open-sources WeatherNext cyclone forecasting model

    Google DeepMind has released WeatherNext, an AI model that achieves state-of-the-art forecasts of cyclone tracks, intensity, and wind-field structure, providing about one additional day of lead time on average—roughly a decade of progress in meteorology.

    Why it matters: The source reports measured gains of about one additional day of warning for cyclone tracks and intensity and opens the model weights and code.

8/4Tue
  1. Mistral AI66

    Mistral AI releases Shieldstral, a 3B open-weight multimodal safety classifier

    Mistral AI has released Shieldstral, a 3B open-weight multimodal safety classifier available under Apache 2.0 and runnable on a single 16 GB NVIDIA GPU. It frames content moderation as a policy-adaptive question-answering task: policies are written in natural language at inference time, without retraining. It handles text and images together and outputs calibrated continuous safety scores. Mistral says it matches models up to seven times larger on text safety and sets a new state of the art in multimodal moderation.

    Why it matters: The 3B open safety classifier makes moderation policy a natural-language prompt at inference time, offering a view of what smaller models can do for content moderation.

7/31Fri
  1. DeepSeek · X78

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash official API enters public beta

    DeepSeek says its official DeepSeek-V4-Flash API is now in public beta. The company reports a major upgrade in agent capabilities, with benchmark scores well above V4-Pro-Preview. It natively supports the Responses API format and is fully adapted for Codex; setup details are in the official API documentation.

    Why it matters: DeepSeek has announced the V4-Flash API beta and improved agent capabilities, offering a basis for assessing integration with Codex.

  2. Mira Murati · X73

    Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small with full weights at a quarter of Inkling’s size

    Mira Murati says Inkling-Small is comparable to Inkling at a quarter the size, with open weights and fine-tuning on Tinker today. She looks forward to seeing what people make with it. In the quoted announcement, @thinkymachines reports 276B total parameters and 12B active, makes the full weights available, and offers text, image, and audio chat on Tinker Playground. https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/

    Why it matters: The comparison with Inkling provides context for the smaller model’s claimed performance, while the parameter counts clarify the scale of the size reduction.

7/30Thu
  1. Google DeepMind71

    Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics ER 2 embodied-reasoning model

    Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics ER 2, positioned as the robot's high-level brain: it converses with people, understands the physical world, and plans multi-step tasks before handing execution to a lower-level VLA model. It can also call tools such as Google Search natively.

    Why it matters: The official release gives concrete figures for ER 2's progress classification and temporal localization, along with access details, helping readers assess its limits on long tasks.

7/28Tue
  1. Google DeepMind80

    Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2 for full-body robot intelligence

    Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2 with three models: Gemini Robotics 2, a vision-language-action model for translating visual and language input into motion; Gemini Robotics ER 2 for embodied reasoning; and Gemini Robotics On-Device 2, which runs locally on devices.

    Why it matters: The article explains the three models' roles and access points, helping readers assess pathways to full-body robot control and multi-robot collaboration.

7/21Tue
7/17Fri
  1. Google DeepMind71

    Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber security model

    Google DeepMind has released Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model fine-tuned from 3.5 Flash to quickly find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities. Across benchmarks such as CyberGym, it approaches the results of larger models with multiple calls.

    Why it matters: The source reports the lightweight security model's performance on benchmarks such as CyberGym and the terms of its limited pilot, helping readers assess its positioning and availability.