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 Jul 31, 2026, 12:39 PM EDT · refreshed as the newsroom publishes
Frontier & commercial
Anthropic's frontier model family: Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, and the Mythos tier.
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Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude via Simon WillisonDemonstrates that frontier models can conduct genuine scientific research but require massive compute and persistent human prompting to avoid giving up on hard problems.
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 Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration via Google DeepMindDeepMind's new robotics foundation model introduces multi-robot collaboration and advanced video understanding, setting a new baseline for embodied AI systems.
OpenAI's flagship model family behind ChatGPT and the API.
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New Deepseek Flash model matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna at roughly 60 percent lower cost via The DecoderDeepSeek's latest Flash update delivers near-frontier performance at a fraction of the cost of comparable OpenAI models, shifting the cost-performance baseline for high-volume API routing.
xAI's model family integrated with X.
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Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 now available on AI Gateway via Vercel BlogxAI's new speech-to-speech model reasons in parallel with audio generation, significantly reducing latency for real-time voice agents.
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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New Deepseek Flash model matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna at roughly 60 percent lower cost via The DecoderDeepSeek's latest Flash update delivers near-frontier performance at a fraction of the cost of comparable OpenAI models, shifting the cost-performance baseline for high-volume API routing.
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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GLM 5.2 with vision on Hugging Face via r/LocalLLaMAGives builders a new open-weight multimodal option by combining GLM 5.2's text capabilities with a proven vision encoder for local deployment.
Moonshot AI's open-weights family, strong on long context and agentic work.
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moonshotai/Kimi-K3 via Simon WillisonMoonshot’s new licensing terms restrict commercial Model-as-a-Service use for companies over $20M in revenue without a separate agreement, fundamentally altering the economics of building on this open-weights model.
Llama
MetaMeta's open-weights family that seeded much of the local-model ecosystem.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Mistral
Mistral AIThe French lab's efficient open and commercial model line.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Phi
MicrosoftMicrosoft Research's small-model family arguing for data quality over scale.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
Qwen
AlibabaAlibaba's open-weights family — a frequent leader among open models.
No recent coverage — appears when the newsroom publishes about it
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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