Ali Asif

Since September 2025

The AI log

Every launch links the primary artifact: the model card, the repo, the lab post or the paper page. Then my take. The weekly roundups before October 2026 were written afterwards, from the same primary sources. There is an RSS feed.

Entries
60
releases and tools logged
402
Primary sources linked
393
Covering since
Sep 2025

A year in AI

Scroll to move from Sep 2025 to today. Select a week to read it.

  1. Sep 20251 Sep 2025Kimi K2 stretches to 256K, Switzerland opens Apertus
  2. 8 Sep 2025Claude makes files, Qwen3-Next goes sparse, ERNIE 4.5 Thinking
  3. 15 Sep 2025GPT-5-Codex, Grok 4 Fast, and Anthropic explains its bad month
  4. 22 Sep 2025Qwen3-Omni and VL arrive, Gemini Robotics 1.5 learns to think first
  5. 29 Sep 2025Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, and DeepSeek's sparse attention
  6. Oct 20256 Oct 2025DevDay apps, Gemini drives a browser, 7M-parameter reasoning
  7. 13 Oct 2025Claude Haiku 4.5, Skills, Veo 3.1, and nanochat
  8. 20 Oct 2025Claude Code on the web, DeepSeek-OCR, Anthropic's TPU deal
  9. 27 Oct 2025MiniMax-M2 for agents, Cursor 2.0, and a robot you can preorder
  10. Nov 20253 Nov 2025Kimi K2 Thinking, Google's space-compute idea, and Nested Learning
  11. 10 Nov 2025GPT-5.1, World Labs' Marble, and Anthropic's espionage report
  12. 17 Nov 2025Gemini 3 Pro, Antigravity, Grok 4.1, Nano Banana Pro, SAM 3
  13. 24 Nov 2025Claude Opus 4.5, FLUX.2, and a wave of strong open releases
  14. Dec 20251 Dec 2025DeepSeek V3.2, Mistral 3, and Anthropic buys Bun
  15. 8 Dec 2025GPT-5.2 lands, MCP moves to a foundation, Devstral 2 and GLM-4.6V
  16. 15 Dec 2025Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5.2-Codex and Nvidia's open Nemotron 3
  17. 22 Dec 2025GLM-4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 open up, Nvidia licenses Groq's tech
  18. 29 Dec 2025DeepSeek's mHC paper, Qwen-Image-2512 and a Tencent translation model
  19. Jan 20265 Jan 2026CES week: Nvidia's open driving model, Atlas for factories, LTX-2
  20. 12 Jan 2026Anthropic's Cowork, DeepSeek's Engram and a new open image editor
  21. 19 Jan 2026GLM-4.7-Flash, Qwen3-TTS opens up, and Claude's new constitution
  22. 26 Jan 2026Kimi K2.5, DeepMind's Project Genie, and the OpenClaw frenzy
  23. Feb 20262 Feb 2026Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex land on the same day
  24. 9 Feb 2026GLM-5, MiniMax M2.5 and Seedance 2.0 arrive before Lunar New Year
  25. 16 Feb 2026Qwen3.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro in one week
  26. 23 Feb 2026Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLM
  27. Mar 20262 Mar 2026GPT-5.4 ships, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Qwen3.5 goes small
  28. 9 Mar 2026Nemotron 3 Super opens up and Gemini Embedding 2 goes multimodal
  29. 16 Mar 2026GTC week: NemoClaw, GPT-5.4 mini and nano, and Mistral Small 4
  30. 23 Mar 2026Google's TurboQuant, open voice from Mistral and Cohere, Flash Live
  31. 30 Mar 2026Gemma 4 goes Apache 2.0, Qwen3.6-Plus, GLM-5V-Turbo
  32. Apr 20266 Apr 2026Anthropic gates Mythos Preview, Meta's Muse Spark, GLM-5.1
  33. 13 Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7, Seedance 2.0 report, Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6
  34. 20 Apr 2026GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4 preview and Kimi K2.6 in one week
  35. 27 Apr 2026Grok 4.3, Mistral Medium 3.5 weights, and the Qwen3.6 family
  36. May 20264 May 2026GPT-Realtime-2, Anthropic's SpaceX compute deal, MolmoAct2
  37. 11 May 2026Claude Platform on AWS, Codex on your phone, Grok Build beta
  38. 18 May 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, Qwen3.7-Max, Cursor Composer 2.5
  39. 25 May 2026Claude Opus 4.8, NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 keynote, Codex on Windows
  40. Jun 20261 Jun 2026Nemotron 3 Ultra ships, MiniMax M3, Gemma 4 12B, Glasswing grows
  41. 8 Jun 2026Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 arrive, plus Kimi K2.7 Code
  42. 15 Jun 2026GLM-5.2 with a 1M window, Codex Record and Replay
  43. 22 Jun 2026Claude Tag in Slack, Sakana Fugu, Mistral OCR 4, Codex Remote
  44. 29 Jun 2026Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 and $10, Fable 5 returns, Nano Banana 2 Lite
  45. Jul 20266 Jul 2026GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, Muse Spark 1.1, Tencent Hy3
  46. 13 Jul 2026Grok 4.5 lands, Kimi K3 and Inkling open up huge models
  47. 20 Jul 2026Claude Opus 5 arrives, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Solar Open 2 follow
  48. 27 Jul 2026Gemini Robotics 2, plus Korean labs open 700B-class models
  49. Aug 20263 Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes open
  50. 10 Aug 2026Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash and GLM-5.3 arrive in four days
  51. 17 Aug 2026A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on games
  52. 24 Aug 2026Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open up
  53. 31 Aug 2026Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra both land, plus Gemini 3.8 Flash
  54. Sep 20267 Sep 2026DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Devin's SWE-2 and a petabyte of DNA predictions
  55. 14 Sep 2026Gemini 3.8 Live, open Qwen-Image-2.1 and Anthropic's Accenture pact
  56. 21 Sep 2026Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol land, Claude finds a new enzyme
  57. 28 Sep 2026Gemini 4 Argon debuts to cyber defenders, Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol
  58. Oct 20265 Oct 2026Mistral Large 4, Claude Haiku 5.5 and a wave of decision models
  59. 12 Oct 2026Muse Wonder ships without scores, Anthropic tests self-copying
  60. 13 Oct 2026Gemini 4 Argon lands, Run:ai goes open sourceLatest

October 20263 entries

  1. 14 Oct 2026Gemini 4 Argon lands, Run:ai goes open sourceFrontier · Open weights · Robotics · Image, video, world · Science · Agents and coding
  2. 13 Oct 2026Muse Wonder ships without scores, Anthropic tests self-copyingFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Science · Robotics
  3. Week of 5 Oct 2026Mistral Large 4, Claude Haiku 5.5 and a wave of decision modelsFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding

September 20264 entries

  1. Week of 28 Sep 2026Gemini 4 Argon debuts to cyber defenders, Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 SolFrontier · Agents and coding · Open weights · Science · Policy and business
  2. Week of 21 Sep 2026Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol land, Claude finds a new enzymeFrontier · Open weights · Science · Image, video, world
  3. Week of 14 Sep 2026Gemini 3.8 Live, open Qwen-Image-2.1 and Anthropic's Accenture pactFrontier · Image, video, world · Open weights · Policy and business
  4. Week of 7 Sep 2026DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Devin's SWE-2 and a petabyte of DNA predictionsOpen weights · Agents and coding · Science · Image, video, world

August 20265 entries

  1. Week of 31 Aug 2026Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra both land, plus Gemini 3.8 FlashFrontier · Open weights · Science · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 24 Aug 2026Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video, Tencent's Hy4 and GLM-5.3-Flash open upImage, video, world · Open weights · Agents and coding · Policy and business
  3. Week of 17 Aug 2026A quiet week: Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek adds vision, DeepMind on gamesOpen weights · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world
  4. Week of 10 Aug 2026Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash and GLM-5.3 arrive in four daysFrontier · Open weights · Science
  5. Week of 3 Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes openFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science

July 20264 entries

  1. Week of 27 Jul 2026Gemini Robotics 2, plus Korean labs open 700B-class modelsRobotics · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science
  2. Week of 20 Jul 2026Claude Opus 5 arrives, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Solar Open 2 followFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  3. Week of 13 Jul 2026Grok 4.5 lands, Kimi K3 and Inkling open up huge modelsFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world
  4. Week of 6 Jul 2026GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, Muse Spark 1.1, Tencent Hy3Frontier · Open weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world

June 20265 entries

  1. Week of 29 Jun 2026Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 and $10, Fable 5 returns, Nano Banana 2 LiteFrontier · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Science
  2. Week of 22 Jun 2026Claude Tag in Slack, Sakana Fugu, Mistral OCR 4, Codex RemoteAgents and coding · Frontier · Policy and business
  3. Week of 15 Jun 2026GLM-5.2 with a 1M window, Codex Record and ReplayOpen weights · Agents and coding · Science
  4. Week of 8 Jun 2026Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 arrive, plus Kimi K2.7 CodeFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
  5. Week of 1 Jun 2026Nemotron 3 Ultra ships, MiniMax M3, Gemma 4 12B, Glasswing growsOpen weights · Robotics · Frontier · Agents and coding

May 20264 entries

  1. Week of 25 May 2026Claude Opus 4.8, NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 keynote, Codex on WindowsFrontier · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Science
  2. Week of 18 May 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O, Qwen3.7-Max, Cursor Composer 2.5Frontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Science
  3. Week of 11 May 2026Claude Platform on AWS, Codex on your phone, Grok Build betaAgents and coding · Frontier · Science
  4. Week of 4 May 2026GPT-Realtime-2, Anthropic's SpaceX compute deal, MolmoAct2Frontier · Agents and coding · Robotics · Policy and business

April 20264 entries

  1. Week of 27 Apr 2026Grok 4.3, Mistral Medium 3.5 weights, and the Qwen3.6 familyFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 20 Apr 2026GPT-5.5, DeepSeek V4 preview and Kimi K2.6 in one weekFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  3. Week of 13 Apr 2026Claude Opus 4.7, Seedance 2.0 report, Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6Frontier · Agents and coding · Robotics · Image, video, world
  4. Week of 6 Apr 2026Anthropic gates Mythos Preview, Meta's Muse Spark, GLM-5.1Frontier · Open weights · Agents and coding

March 20265 entries

  1. Week of 30 Mar 2026Gemma 4 goes Apache 2.0, Qwen3.6-Plus, GLM-5V-TurboOpen weights · Frontier · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 23 Mar 2026Google's TurboQuant, open voice from Mistral and Cohere, Flash LiveFrontier · Open weights · Science · Agents and coding
  3. Week of 16 Mar 2026GTC week: NemoClaw, GPT-5.4 mini and nano, and Mistral Small 4Frontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
  4. Week of 9 Mar 2026Nemotron 3 Super opens up and Gemini Embedding 2 goes multimodalOpen weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world
  5. Week of 2 Mar 2026GPT-5.4 ships, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Qwen3.5 goes smallFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding

February 20264 entries

  1. Week of 23 Feb 2026Nano Banana 2, Qwen3.5 medium models and a diffusion LLMOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  2. Week of 16 Feb 2026Qwen3.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro in one weekFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
  3. Week of 9 Feb 2026GLM-5, MiniMax M2.5 and Seedance 2.0 arrive before Lunar New YearFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding · Policy and business
  4. Week of 2 Feb 2026Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex land on the same dayFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding

January 20264 entries

  1. Week of 26 Jan 2026Kimi K2.5, DeepMind's Project Genie, and the OpenClaw frenzyOpen weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 19 Jan 2026GLM-4.7-Flash, Qwen3-TTS opens up, and Claude's new constitutionOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  3. Week of 12 Jan 2026Anthropic's Cowork, DeepSeek's Engram and a new open image editorFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science
  4. Week of 5 Jan 2026CES week: Nvidia's open driving model, Atlas for factories, LTX-2Open weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Policy and business

December 20255 entries

  1. Week of 29 Dec 2025DeepSeek's mHC paper, Qwen-Image-2512 and a Tencent translation modelOpen weights · Image, video, world · Science
  2. Week of 22 Dec 2025GLM-4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 open up, Nvidia licenses Groq's techOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  3. Week of 15 Dec 2025Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5.2-Codex and Nvidia's open Nemotron 3Frontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  4. Week of 8 Dec 2025GPT-5.2 lands, MCP moves to a foundation, Devstral 2 and GLM-4.6VFrontier · Agents and coding · Open weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  5. Week of 1 Dec 2025DeepSeek V3.2, Mistral 3, and Anthropic buys BunOpen weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Policy and business

November 20254 entries

  1. Week of 24 Nov 2025Claude Opus 4.5, FLUX.2, and a wave of strong open releasesFrontier · Image, video, world · Open weights · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 17 Nov 2025Gemini 3 Pro, Antigravity, Grok 4.1, Nano Banana Pro, SAM 3Frontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Open weights · Policy and business
  3. Week of 10 Nov 2025GPT-5.1, World Labs' Marble, and Anthropic's espionage reportFrontier · Image, video, world · Policy and business · Open weights · Science
  4. Week of 3 Nov 2025Kimi K2 Thinking, Google's space-compute idea, and Nested LearningOpen weights · Science

October 20254 entries

  1. Week of 27 Oct 2025MiniMax-M2 for agents, Cursor 2.0, and a robot you can preorderOpen weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Robotics · Science
  2. Week of 20 Oct 2025Claude Code on the web, DeepSeek-OCR, Anthropic's TPU dealAgents and coding · Open weights · Policy and business
  3. Week of 13 Oct 2025Claude Haiku 4.5, Skills, Veo 3.1, and nanochatFrontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Open weights · Science
  4. Week of 6 Oct 2025DevDay apps, Gemini drives a browser, 7M-parameter reasoningFrontier · Agents and coding · Open weights · Science

September 20255 entries

  1. Week of 29 Sep 2025Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sora 2, and DeepSeek's sparse attentionFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding
  2. Week of 22 Sep 2025Qwen3-Omni and VL arrive, Gemini Robotics 1.5 learns to think firstOpen weights · Image, video, world · Robotics · Science · Policy and business
  3. Week of 15 Sep 2025GPT-5-Codex, Grok 4 Fast, and Anthropic explains its bad monthFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business
  4. Week of 8 Sep 2025Claude makes files, Qwen3-Next goes sparse, ERNIE 4.5 ThinkingAgents and coding · Open weights
  5. Week of 1 Sep 2025Kimi K2 stretches to 256K, Switzerland opens ApertusOpen weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business