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OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5, its most advanced language model to date, featuring breakthrough reasoning capabilities that bring AI closer to human-level problem solving.
Qwen has released Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. The dense vision-language model has a native 262,144-token context, adjustable reasoning, image and video input, and a live OpenRouter route while Qwen Cloud hosting remains pending.
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3 through its Coding Plan and ZCode. The model uses the same 743B base as GLM-5.2, adds low, high and max thinking effort, and is already listed by OpenCode Go and ClinePass. Maker-hosted API access and open weights remain staged.
Dots Studio has released dots3-note preview, its first open-weight dots3 model. The multimodal MoE has 280 billion total parameters, 16 billion active parameters, a 512K context window, and an Apache 2.0 release.
DeepSeek has released the GA version of V4 Pro for its app, web service and API. The 0813 model adds low, high and max reasoning effort, native Responses API support, and a new peak and off-peak pricing schedule from 16 August.
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash as a stable model for coding, agent workflows and multimodal reasoning. It has a 1,048,576-token input limit, 65,536-token output, and direct API pricing from $0.75 per million input tokens through 2026.
xAI announced Grok 4.6 on 12 August 2026, tuned for long-running agents and ambitious visual work. It is live on OpenRouter with a 500,000-token context at $2 per million input tokens, and the release date is confirmed by the official announcement.
ByteDance released Seed 2.1 Turbo on 23 June 2026. Its OpenRouter route reached AZ Labs monitoring on 12 August with text, image and video input, a 262,144-token context, and pricing from $0.50 per million input tokens.
Anthropic's latest model, Claude 4, pushes the frontier of responsible AI development with state-of-the-art performance on safety and helpfulness benchmarks.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer 30B, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model distilled from Muse Spark and tuned for local agent workflows on consumer GPUs. It covers tool use, long-context reasoning and multimodal input in a package that fits under 20 GB with 4-bit quantisation.
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