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Claude Opus 5 Launches: Near-Fable-5 Intelligence at Half the Price | 2026-07-25
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at $5/$25 per million tokens (same as Opus 4.8), setting new records on Frontier-Bench, CursorBench, and OSWorld benchmarks. It delivers near-Fable-5 intelligence at half the cost.
7/25/2026
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Google Gemini 3.6 Flash, Alibaba Qwen-Image-3.0, NVIDIA Video Detector Launched | 2026-07-22
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with improved pricing and performance, Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-3.0, and NVIDIA debuts its synthetic video detector.
7/22/2026
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OpenAI Launches GPT 5.6: Soul, Terra, Luna Tiered Models, All-in on Agent Execution Pipeline | 2026-07-21
OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 with three tiers (Soul, Terra, Luna), alongside ChatGPT Work, a new desktop app, and Hosted Sites, building a complete Agent execution pipeline.
7/21/2026
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Kimi K3, Grok Build, Xiaomi Robotics: Three Major AI Announcements | 2026-07-17
Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3 (2.8T params, 1M context, open weights by July 27), SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build coding agent, Xiaomi unveils embodied foundation model, NVIDIA expands Jetson Thor edge AI lineup.
7/18/2026
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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: 2.8T Parameters, Top 3 Intelligence Globally | 2026-07-16
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 with 2.8T parameters, scoring 57 on the Intelligence Index (4th globally) and 1679 points on Front End Code Arena (1st, beating Claude Fable 5). Available now.
7/17/2026
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Alibaba Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-Realtime: Real-Time Voice Model with Function Calling and Empathetic Dialogue | 2026-07-16
Alibaba released Qwen-Audio-3.0-Realtime on July 15, a real-time voice interaction model available in Plus and Flash variants, with function calling, empathetic dialogue, and duplex communication via Alibaba Cloud Bailian.
7/16/2026
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SenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova-Vision: Unified Vision Model | 2026-07-14
SenseTime open-sourced SenseNova-Vision on July 13, a unified vision model combining understanding and generation, along with a 50M-sample dataset.
7/14/2026
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GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5, Seedream 5.0 Pro: Three Major AI Model Releases | 2026-07-12
Three major AI model releases this week: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series (Sol/Terra/Luna), SpaceXAI's programming agent model Grok 4.5, and ByteDance's multimodal image generation model Seedream 5.0 Pro.
7/12/2026
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GPT-5.6 Series, Grok 4.5, Seedream 5.0 Pro: Three Major AI Model Launches | 2026-07-11
July 9-10 saw three major AI launches: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series (Sol/Terra/Luna), xAI's programming agent model Grok 4.5, and ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro.
7/11/2026
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Kimi K2.7 Code Released: Agent Workflow Rivals Opus 4.8 | 2026-07-09
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7 Code, a coding model focused on long-context tasks and Agent workflows. It surpasses Opus 4.8 on MCP Mark Verified and undergoes real-world testing on bug fixing, 3D game generation, and code refactoring.
7/9/2026
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Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic AI, plus Anthropic launches Claude Science for researchers | 2026-07-01
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 yesterday — the most agent-capable Sonnet model yet, with performance approaching Opus 4.8 at lower prices. Also released: Claude Science, an AI workbench for researchers.
7/1/2026
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LongCat-2.0: Meituan's Open-Source Trillion-Parameter Agentic Coding Model | 2026-06-30
Meituan LongCat releases LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T parameter MoE coding model with native 1M context. Scores 59.5 on SWE-bench Pro, surpassing GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.6.
7/1/2026
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