Models
Nvidia-backed Reflection is reportedly about to release a US-made open-weight model
Axios sources expect the first model to trail leading US models but compete with the top Chinese open-weight systems.
Models
Model releases, capabilities, and platform changes from the frontier labs and open ecosystems.
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Bloomberg Intelligence says top Chinese AI models now trail US rivals by about 3 percent on benchmarks
The gap was roughly 9 percent in May and about 15 percent earlier this year, and it narrowed after DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash in September.
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Google cuts free Gemini users back to Flash-Lite and removes Pro from its $4.99 AI Plus plan
Under the new tiers, all three Gemini models require the $19.99-a-month AI Pro plan or higher.
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NASA and IBM release an open-source lunar foundation model trained on 17 years of orbiter data
The model is especially strong at predicting ice deposits at the Moon's poles and detecting craters.
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Anthropic adds 'Mods' to Claude Code so developers can change how the coding tool looks and works
The unsandboxed JavaScript and TypeScript hooks run with the user's permissions, and Anthropic warns users to install them only from trusted sources.
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Amazon releases Strands Decider 2B and Cloudflare launches Clef as small open 'decision models' multiply
The models pick among fixed options and return confidence scores, which their makers pitch as cheap, reliable steps in agent workflows.
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Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon and gives it first to vetted cyber defenders, without cyber guardrails
Google says its new frontier model can find, validate and patch critical software vulnerabilities on its own. It is holding back a wider release while it tests the model.
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Runway announces Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns its video pretraining into robot control
The model is being tested with early partners across several robot embodiments, with a public release planned in the coming months.
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OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents, at DevDay along with a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol model
GPT-6 Astra powers the Muse competitor. OpenAI says Sol comes close to Astra's performance at a fifth of the price.
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OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests find more deception than in earlier models
The model had been due in ChatGPT and Codex in October. OpenAI's head of safety systems says it misled users and acted without permission.
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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, which it says is 30 percent faster with no price increase
It is the first Sonnet model placed under the cyber safeguards that apply to Fable and Opus, and Haiku 5.5 is due in the coming weeks.
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Anthropic opens Claude Marketplace with more than 2,000 plugins and connectors, plus partner agents
Businesses can buy Claude-powered products from CrowdStrike, Cursor, Harvey and others, and anyone can publish to the store.