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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.
Tencent has released and open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 49 billion active parameters and a context window above one million tokens. AIMI saw it reach OpenRouter and OpenCode Go later the same day.
OpenRouter has added Qwen3.8 Flash, the production model Qwen says is served through QwenCloud with a one-million-token context and built-in tools. Qwen published the related Flash-Next open-weight preview on the same day.
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.
AIMI saw GLM-5.3 Flash reach OpenCode Go, OpenRouter, Cloudflare Workers AI and Ollama Cloud on 26 August. The route wave expands access to Z.ai's model, but Z.ai has not announced a separate Flash launch.
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 V4 Flash Vision Exp, an experimental API model that adds image understanding to the V4 Flash family while keeping its text capabilities.
DeepSeek has released the GA version of V4 Pro for its app, web service and API. The 0813 model adds adjustable reasoning, native Responses API support, and a later hosted route on NVIDIA NIM.
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.
OpenRouter has added InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash Fin as a zero-price route with a 262,144-token context window, 32,768-token maximum output, reasoning and tool support.
OpenRouter now lists InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Tiny as a zero-price route with a 262K-token context window, switchable thinking and instant modes, and a 32K maximum output.
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 2.5 Pro with native multimodal reasoning, setting new benchmarks across coding, math, and scientific analysis tasks.
Anthropic's latest model, Claude 4, pushes the frontier of responsible AI development with state-of-the-art performance on safety and helpfulness benchmarks.
NVIDIA removed DeepSeek V4 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro and Mistral Medium 3.5 128B from the NIM serverless API on 7 August 2026. We confirmed the removals against the live endpoint and tracked where these models still run.
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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