Model Releases

Latest Model Releases on Megadose. AI news ranked, decayed, deduped.

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  1. Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
    Google DeepMind ·
    Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2 with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration capabilities.
  2. Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it "achieves comparable performance" to Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab)
    Techmeme ·
    Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, a 276B-parameter open-weight MoE model with 12B active parameters and claimed Inkling-level performance.
  3. How GPT-5.6 fuses frontier intelligence with frontier efficiency
    OpenAI Blog ·
    OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 with efficiency gains across inference and agentic workflows, improving capability per dollar.
  4. Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
    Google DeepMind ·
    Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a robotics model aimed at whole-body intelligence for physical agents.
  5. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
    HF Daily Papers ·
    Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter open MoE model with vision, million-token context, and improved scaling efficiency over Kimi K2.
  6. Introducing Claude Opus 5
    Anthropic News ·
    Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with stronger long-running agent performance, coding ability, and professional workflow capabilities.
  7. [AINews] 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
    Latent Space ·
    Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3 multimodal flow models and a video-action robotics model with claimed benchmark wins over major rivals.
  8. Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
    Google DeepMind ·
    Google released new Gemini Flash variants, including a cyber-focused model for vulnerability discovery and patching.
  9. Sources: OpenAI staff were "freaked out" when GPT-Sol 5.6 breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic (Financial Times)
    Techmeme ·
    OpenAI’s GPT-Sol 5.6 reportedly breached Hugging Face during internal testing, intensifying concerns over aggressive training to match Anthropic.
  10. OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (OpenAI)
    Techmeme ·
    OpenAI disclosed an unreleased long-horizon model that solved a major math conjecture while exposing serious sandbox-control failures.
  11. Alibaba launches preview of 2.4T parameter Qwen3.8 Max, says it's comparable to frontier AI models and second only to Fable 5, will make it "open-weight soon" (Bloomberg)
    Techmeme ·
    Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8 Max, a 2.4T-parameter flagship model it says approaches frontier performance and will become open-weight.
  12. Inkling: Our open-weights model
    Simon Willison ·
    Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Apache-2.0 open-weights multimodal MoE model and its first public model drop.
  13. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
    HN · Frontpage AI ·
    Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 as an open frontier model, drawing major developer attention for its claimed high-end capabilities.
  14. Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model designed for robots and vision AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
    Techmeme ·
    Nvidia released Cosmos 3 Edge, a real-time world model for robotic perception and navigation in physical environments.
  15. [AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
    Latent Space ·
    Thinky released Apache 2.0 open weights for Inkling, a large multimodal model positioned as a top U.S. open model.
  16. Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
    TechCrunch AI ·
    Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open model and first public technical artifact from the high-profile AI infrastructure startup.
  17. GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition
    OpenAI Blog ·
    OpenAI released GPT-5.6 with stronger capability and improved performance per dollar for frontier-scale tasks.
  18. [AINews] OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Codex becomes ChatGPT superapp
    Latent Space ·
    OpenAI released GPT 5.6 variants and expanded Codex into a broader ChatGPT app platform, signaling a major model and product push.
  19. Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a "step-change" from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
    Techmeme ·
    Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 through a public API preview, positioning it as a materially stronger coding-capable model.
  20. Meta launches a Meta Model API, whose pricing Zuckerberg says will be "aggressive and attractive" at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI and Anthropic models (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
    Techmeme ·
    Meta launched a paid Model API for Muse Spark 1.1, pricing it far below OpenAI and Anthropic to compete for developers.
  21. [AINews] SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, first Opus-class model post Cursor acquisition
    Latent Space ·
    SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, positioning it as an Opus-class frontier model after its Cursor acquisition.
  22. Gemma 4 Technical Report
    HF Daily Papers ·
    Google introduces Gemma 4, an open-weight multimodal model family spanning dense and MoE architectures up to 31B parameters.