Deep benchmark briefings, price reductions, and architecture analysis. Every dispatch links verified snapshot data and head-to-head showdowns.
Alibaba open-weight 27B drop. Local/open-weight lists should see it. It will not win frontier-agents.
Coding-plan live; open weights promised after a two-week safety review. Newest Zhipu row.
Google’s current workhorse drop. Official intro list and 1,048,576-token context. Compare to Luna and Haiku.
xAI’s Aug 12 2026 refresh of Grok 4.5. 500k context. The Grok vs ChatGPT hub remaps here.
Listed on public model timelines as an Aug 10 2026 API drop. Preview-quality story, indexable because we have a full snapshot.
Jul 24 2026 official API at $5/$25 and a 1M window. Preference Elo is taste, not a coding exam.
2M context, Pro-class Elo and coding. Upgrade path from Flash is this page, not a vibe check.
Jul 9 2026 family; Jul 30 price update left Sol unchanged. This is the GPT side of Claude vs GPT.
Opus 4.8 still bills $5/$25. We keep it so Opus 5 vs 4.8 is a real generation delta, not marketing.
Strong Chinese/English coding. 5.3 is the new row; 5.2 stays so the delta is visible.
