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A professional AI updates site, not a hype feed. Every launch is dated, sourced, and split by what you can actually use today — versus a waitlist, a preview, or a rumour.
Kimi K3.1 Pro — Moonshot's newest general model
The most recent flagship-class release tracked in October: general, coding and multimodal work from Moonshot AI.
Just launched, newest first.
Kimi K3.1 Pro — Moonshot's newest general model
The most recent flagship-class release tracked in October: general, coding and multimodal work from Moonshot AI.
Carbon-X — Hugging Face open model that chats with DNA
An open 14.8-billion-parameter model that takes raw DNA in a chat message and answers in English — for researchers, not for medical decisions.
FLUX 3 Max — new video model from Black Forest Labs
A video-generation release in the same 19 Oct cluster as MiniMax's flash model.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash — fast general and coding model
A speed-focused release: general use and coding, positioned as the fast tier in MiniMax's line.
Muse Spark Open — Meta's open general model
Meta's open release on 15 Oct, for general, coding and multimodal use.
FLUX 3 Image Klein — open image model
The image sibling of FLUX 3 Max, released the same week, in open form.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL — open post-trained model
NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, reported as beating Claude Opus 5 and GPT-6.1 Sol on specialised task benchmarks in VentureBeat's coverage.
Gemini 4 Argon — Google's new general model, broadly available
Google opened Gemini 4 Argon to paid Gemini API developers on 13 Oct, after a 30 Sep defender preview.
Muse Wonder and Wonder Full — Meta steers users to Muse
Meta is directing users from Meta AI toward Muse Wonder. Only the weaker model is available via API; the strongest is subscription-only so far.
Not launched yet — and we say so.
Claude Duet — general release
Waitlist opened 21 Oct 2026 for US Pro/Max. No general-release date has been published. We will move this to Latest only when Anthropic opens it generally.
OpenAI models on Google Cloud Model Garden
Announced 21–23 Oct 2026: frontier OpenAI models and Codex coming to Google Cloud Model Garden, payable from Google Cloud commitments. No single ship date published.
Next flagship from any major lab
No lab has published a confirmed date for its next flagship as of 25 Oct 2026. Like NextAIModel, we track rhythm (how long since the last release in each line) and label it Due-next / Mid-cycle / Just released — never a fake exact date.
Gemini 4 Argon price step
Intro $2/$10 per 1M tokens ends 30 Nov 2026. Standard price $4/$20 starts 1 Dec. This is a confirmed price change, not a new model — but it changes every budget built on Argon.
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