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Models & Economics
Model releases, capability changes, context windows, inference economics, pricing, availability and model business economics.
Oct 14, 2026 → Oct 17, 2026 · 1 story
Historical Coverage
Briefing #6 — AI News Week of 2026-10-03 to 2026-10-13
Oct 3, 2026 → Oct 13, 2026 · 7 stories
OpenAI pushes GPT-6 and a model-drawn 'Intelligent UI' to all 1.2 billion ChatGPT users in two days
OpenAI
Anthropic cuts Haiku pricing 90% and puts a 1M-token context on its cheapest tier
Anthropic
Mistral's 'le Chonk' hits the top tier outside the US and China, but its weights are not out yet
Mistral AI
Meta's first frontier model, Muse Wonder, is proprietary and priced to undercut OpenAI and Anthropic
Meta AI (Meta Superintelligence Labs)
Microsoft ships Decision-1, a cheap 'decision model' that returns probabilities instead of prose
Microsoft
OpenAI publishes hundreds of machine-written maths proofs - and pulls three within a day
OpenAI
OpenAI adds image ads to ChatGPT - and the measurement stack that unlocks real budgets
OpenAI
Historical Coverage
Briefing #4 — AI News Week of 2026-09-26 to 2026-10-02
Sep 26, 2026 → Oct 2, 2026 · 9 stories
Google shipped its strongest model, then declined to sell it
Google DeepMind
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra capability one tier down
OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 5.5 arrives faster, at the same price per token
Anthropic
Open-weight models took the tokens. The money barely moved.
Vercel / AT&T / Coinbase
Cloudflare shipped decision models that answer with probabilities, not prose
Cloudflare
AWS published a 2B decision model that runs on one consumer GPU
Amazon Web Services
A 309B open-weights model with no full-attention layers anywhere in it
NaiveAI
A superhuman Stratego system, reported at a few thousand dollars of compute
MIT / Carnegie Mellon / NYU / Stanford
Bilibili published 150-language translation under Apache 2.0, with the rules in the prompt
Bilibili Index Team
Historical Coverage
Briefing #3 — AI News Week of 2026-09-22 to 2026-09-25
Sep 22, 2026 → Sep 25, 2026 · 1 story
Historical Coverage
Briefing #2 — AI News Week of 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-22
Sep 18, 2026 → Sep 22, 2026 · 8 stories
OpenAI launches two cheaper AI models at half price
OpenAI
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 offers frontier coding at budget prices
xAI / SpaceXAI (xAI folded into SpaceX Corp., now branded SpaceXAI)
Harvey's margins crashed until it switched to an open model
Harvey (legal AI); Moonshot AI (base-model provider); Fireworks (post-training partner); Abridge, Decagon, Ramp, Rogo (peers)
Xiaomi's new open AI model tops the open-weight rankings
Xiaomi (Xiaomi MiMo team; official brand "Xiaomi MiMo")
StepFun launches a low-cost flagship model and promises open weights
StepFun (阶跃星辰, Shanghai; discovery record's "步知" form was not found in any consulted source — all official pages, docs and coverage use 阶跃星辰 / "StepFun")
Alibaba's new Qwen model hears, sees and costs very little
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen (Qwen Team; announced via the Qwen official blog and Qwen's X account @Alibaba_Qwen)
Claude went buggy for 80 minutes, and no reason was given
Anthropic
Alibaba AI reads one CT scan for many findings
Alibaba DAMO Academy (阿里达摩院); The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine; Hupan Laboratory (co-authors from multiple Chinese medical centers)
Historical Coverage
Briefing #1 — AI News Week of 2026-09-10 to 2026-09-17
Sep 10, 2026 → Sep 17, 2026 · 10 stories
GPT-6 Astra becomes generally available on Microsoft Foundry
OpenAI / Microsoft
Apple announces Siri AI with on-device and server inference at iPhone event
Apple
Google's new voice AI can talk, see and get work done at the same time
Google
Elon Musk announces Grok 4.8: 2.5-trillion-parameter model, new C++ stack, reinforcement-learning run begins
xAI
Meta launches "Meta One" subscription for AI across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and web
Meta
Microsoft brings Grok into Copilot for Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Microsoft / SpaceXAI (xAI, acquired by SpaceX 2026-02-02; corporate branding "SpaceXAI" from July 2026)
Suno launches v6 music-generation model
Suno
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash fast reasoning model
DeepSeek
Shanghai AI Lab releases Atria-Dawn Preview open agent model
Shanghai AI Laboratory
OpenAI adds GPT-Live-1 real-time full-duplex VOICE model to API (discovery said "video" — CORRECTED)
OpenAI
Historical Coverage
Briefing #5 — AI News Week of 2026-09-03 to 2026-10-07
Sep 3, 2026 → Oct 7, 2026 · 1 story
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