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 Sep 14, 2026, 10:22 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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Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows via Hacker NewsCode found in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate appears to let third-party models like Claude or GPT-5.6 fully replace Siri's brain, personal data included.
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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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats via 404 MediaReal ChatGPT conversations — including intimate personal details — are being read by hired contractors, 404 Media reports.
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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DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro via Hacker NewsDeepSeek customers paying for V4 Pro will automatically be moved to the cheaper V4.1 Flash, which DeepSeek claims is better, on September 10, 2026.
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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Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses via Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)Anyone hosting GLM-5.3 as a commercial service now faces licensing conditions — and an undefined 'affiliates' clause — that GLM-5.2's MIT license never imposed.
Moonshot AI's open-weights family, strong on long context and agentic work.
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GitHub - sqliteai/waste: Run the full 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model beyond available RAM by streaming activated weights directly from NVMe. A dependency-free, embeddable C inference engine. via r/LocalLLaMATrillion-parameter models could run on machines without enough RAM to hold them, if streaming experts from NVMe storage proves fast enough in practice.
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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Samsung leads Mistral’s €3B round, pushing Europe’s AI champion to a €21B valuation via Tech Funding NewsEurope's open-weight champion now has €3 billion and Samsung as an owner, giving enterprises a better-funded alternative to US frontier labs.
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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