Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) - The Batch

Graph trends show steady ECI increase from 120 to 170, highlighting models like Opus and Mythos enhancing capability.

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Fable Holds The Top Spot (For Now): Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 is an agentic powerhouse

While last week’s OpenAI launch may have made a bigger splash, Anthropic’s new model remains an agentic workhorse, with top marks on independent evaluations from Artificial Analysis and Vals AI.

A graph shows GPT-6 Astra's accuracy over cost, with stars marking its top performance at lower API costs.

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GPT-6 Astra Is a Star: OpenAI’s latest model shines at computer use, front-end engineering, and general knowledge

OpenAI’s new model tops or comes close to topping AI leaderboards, and it does so using a fraction of the tokens and at a fraction of the cost of the few models that outperform it.

The graph situates GLM-5.3-Flash high on performance with low cost, highlighted in red, among many AI models.

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Ox Alpha Revealed as GLM-5.3-Flash: Z.ai’s latest model built viral buzz as Ox Alpha while being served on China-made chips

For over a week, the name and maker of the most-used model on OpenRouter remained unknown.

Graph depicts Qwen3.8-Max's rising score from 0.474 to peak at 0.725 during RL training environments.

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Qwen3.8-Max Lands With A Bang: Inside Alibaba's two new models, Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B

Open models are getting larger and more capable. A few weeks ago, Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3, the largest and best-performing open weights model yet. Last week, Alibaba answered by releasing weights for a giant of its own.

The table compares model metrics; Grok 4.6 excels in GDPVal-AA v2 and CursorBench v3.2.

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Grok’s Cursor Alliance Pays Off: Grok 4.6 rivals Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol at a lower price

Once a lab that produced mid-tier models, SpaceXAI has steadily improved. It just built one of the most capable models in the world while keeping prices relatively low.

Table illustrates Opus 5 scoring 90.8% in agentic search, outperforming Fable 5 and Opus 4.8. Data comparison displayed.

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Claude Debuts Another Opus: Anthropic addresses some (but not all) complaints about Fable with Claude Opus 5

After launching Claude Fable 5, the future of Anthropic’s once-flagship Opus line was uncertain, except as a fallback for the company’s premium models.

Kimi diagram of open frontier model size over time, with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 at 2.8 trillion parameters, ahead of DeepSeek at 1.6T parameters

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Kimi K3 Reveals How A Giant Frontier AI Model Works: Moonshot's latest model outshines all but GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude 5 Fable

Moonshot’s latest model leapfrogged the month-old GLM-5.2 and a host of proprietary competitors to finish just behind GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on many benchmarks.

Diagram illustrates real-time audio processing with async checks and turn-based message checks in models.

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One Model Talks, Another One Thinks: GPT-Live pairs full-duplex voice models with a reasoning model (GPT-5.5) on the backend

ChatGPT’s voice mode now listens and speaks at the same time, passing harder questions posed to the conversational model to a reasoning model in the background.

Graph compares image generation, editing, latency, and price for Nano Banana models against competitors.

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Google Pairs Nano Banana Update With Video API: Gemini's image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) and video (Gemini Omni Flash) models, built to work together

Google built a low-cost, high-throughput pipeline for developers working with media, combining Gemini’s fastest image model yet with a similarly speedy multimodal model that can turn images into video with synchronized sound.

Gemini 3.5 Flash shows improved performance, surpassing previous model scores in most benchmarks.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Pairs Smarts With Speed: Google's updated Flash levels up, approaching top models but raising prices

Google’s faster model brings substantive gains at a substantially higher price, part of a rising trend in prices per token.

Performance data table displays metrics for conversational models, emphasizing TML-Interaction-Small's results.

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Built-In Conversational Interactivity: Thinking Machines reveals its first interaction model, a new type of multimodal AI

Conversational models typically wait for a turn before they respond.

Through a rainy window, a pizza worker prepares food beneath menu boards and a red neon "Pizza" sign.

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ByteDance Bids for Video Leadership: ByteDance adds state-of-the-art Seedance 2.0 video to Capcut, while OpenAI retreats

As OpenAI prepares to shut down Sora, ByteDance made its own video generation model available to hundreds of millions of users.