The Model Tracker
Every model that matters, and its latest move.
The current state of the model landscape — frontier commercial families and open-weights challengers — each with its most recent development, verified by two independent AI reviewers before it appears here.
Updated Oct 30, 2026, 8:22 AM EDT · refreshed as the newsroom publishes
Frontier & commercial
Anthropic's frontier model family: Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, and the Mythos tier.
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Cursor Removes Malicious Claude Code 2.1.313 Extension From Its Marketplace via SocketUp to 5,000 Cursor users may have installed a backdoored Claude Code extension — and the registry first blamed for distributing it wasn't the source.
Command
CohereCohere's enterprise-focused model family.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Google's flagship multimodal family spanning Flash to Ultra tiers.
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Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 via Hacker NewsGoogle's Gemini 4 Carbon now tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, giving teams a new leading model to evaluate for reasoning and coding work.
OpenAI's flagship model family behind ChatGPT and the API.
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Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra via The DecoderRobotics teams can now label training video at roughly 1/125th the cost of GPT-6 Astra using Nvidia's open-source Flora.
xAI's model family integrated with X.
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says via Ars Technica AIxAI faces a lawsuit claiming Grok was trained on child abuse imagery, intensifying legal and regulatory scrutiny of AI-generated CSAM.
Midjourney
MidjourneyThe independent lab's image generation model.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Nova
AmazonAmazon's in-house foundation model family on Bedrock.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Sora
OpenAIOpenAI's video generation model.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Veo
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind's video generation model.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Open weights
The Chinese lab whose efficient open releases repeatedly reset price-performance expectations.
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Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China via Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)Washington has barred DeepSeek from federal procurement and Beijing is drafting export pre-approval for frontier models, narrowing the open-weight AI supply chain.
Black Forest Labs' image and video generation family.
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Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model via Latent SpaceBlack Forest Labs' new FLUX 3 video model introduces native audio and agentic chaining, with an open-weights Dev version coming to challenge closed frontier generators.
Google's small open-weights siblings of Gemini.
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Turbo-fieldfare: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on Apple Silicon via r/LocalLLaMAEnables deployment of 26B parameter models with tool-calling capabilities on constrained Apple Silicon devices using only 2GB of RAM.
Zhipu AI's bilingual open-weights family.
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Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours via The DecoderEpoch AI's result suggests the safe window between publishing a security fix and users installing it has collapsed to hours for Firefox.
Moonshot AI's open-weights family, strong on long context and agentic work.
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Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro via Simon WillisonBuilders can now get near-frontier benchmark performance at half the price of Claude Opus 5.5, with open weights promised by November 2026.
Llama
MetaMeta's open-weights family that seeded much of the local-model ecosystem.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
The French lab's efficient open and commercial model line.
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Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) is now Open Weight via Hacker NewsTeams can now download and self-host a 1-trillion-parameter model Mistral says leads open-weight coding and security benchmarks, instead of renting closed APIs.
Phi
MicrosoftMicrosoft Research's small-model family arguing for data quality over scale.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Alibaba's open-weights family — a frequent leader among open models.
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Alibaba's latest Qwen models routed some requests through company servers, researchers find via The DecoderAnyone self-hosting Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models for private data may have prompts silently sent to company servers, undermining the privacy case for local deployment.
Stable Diffusion
Stability AIThe image-generation family that started the open generative-media wave.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
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