Ali Asif

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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 20263 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

August 20263 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 10 Aug 2026Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash and GLM-5.3 arrive in four daysFrontier · Open weights · Science
  3. Week of 3 Aug 2026Qwen3.8-Max at 2.4T, Motif 3, and WeatherNext goes openFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science

July 20263 entries

  1. 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
  2. Week of 13 Jul 2026Grok 4.5 lands, Kimi K3 and Inkling open up huge modelsFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding · Image, video, world
  3. 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 20264 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 8 Jun 2026Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 arrive, plus Kimi K2.7 CodeFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
  4. 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 20264 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 2 Mar 2026GPT-5.4 ships, Karpathy's autoresearch, and Qwen3.5 goes smallFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Agents and coding

February 20263 entries

  1. Week of 16 Feb 2026Qwen3.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro in one weekFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding
  2. 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
  3. Week of 2 Feb 2026Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex land on the same dayFrontier · Open weights · Agents and coding

January 20261 entry

  1. Week of 12 Jan 2026Anthropic's Cowork, DeepSeek's Engram and a new open image editorFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Science

December 20252 entries

  1. 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
  2. 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

November 20253 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

October 20252 entries

  1. Week of 13 Oct 2025Claude Haiku 4.5, Skills, Veo 3.1, and nanochatFrontier · Agents and coding · Image, video, world · Open weights · Science
  2. Week of 6 Oct 2025DevDay apps, Gemini drives a browser, 7M-parameter reasoningFrontier · Agents and coding · Open weights · Science

September 20252 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 15 Sep 2025GPT-5-Codex, Grok 4 Fast, and Anthropic explains its bad monthFrontier · Open weights · Image, video, world · Policy and business