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On July 31, 2026, DeepSeek launched the official DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 API in public beta — architecture unchanged, gains from post-training alone, with agent benchmarks far above the V4-Pro preview.
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Apple, Huawei and Xiaomi are putting two-way live translation into earbuds; meetings, travel and cross-border talks are the main uses so far.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026 for coding, research and data analysis; GPT-5.5 Instant became ChatGPT's default in May.
EssilorLuxottica reports Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses sold over 7 million units in 2025 — more than triple the prior pace — as Meta eyes 20M annual capacity.
Moonshot AI released and open-sourced Kimi K2.5 on January 27, 2026, adding large-scale visual data atop the K2 trillion-parameter base.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2 in November 2025 with multi-reference editing; FLUX.2-dev open weights landed on Hugging Face.
Anthropic released Opus 4.5 on November 24, 2025, completing the 4.5 family and retaking the coding crown.
Google released Gemini 3 on November 18, 2025, calling it its most intelligent model — and for the first time embedded it in Search on launch day.
OpenAI released GPT-5.1 on November 12, 2025, adding adaptive reasoning, a warmer conversational style and eight personality presets.
Cursor released 2.0 on October 29, 2025, debuting Composer — its first frontier model, 4x faster than similarly intelligent models.
OpenAI released Atlas, a browser with ChatGPT built in, on October 21, 2025 — joining Perplexity's Comet in making the browser the new AI-entry battleground.
Figure AI unveiled Figure 03 in October 2025 — designed for Helix, the home and scale — now deployed at BMW's Spartanburg plant.
Tesla began rolling out FSD (Supervised) V14 in October 2025, adding Speed Profiles and Arrival Options — but a driver must still supervise.
OpenAI released the Sora 2 model and a social app on September 30, 2025, letting users cameo themselves and friends in AI videos — topping the App Store at launch.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 on September 29, 2025, billing it as the world's best coding model with sharply higher long-task autonomy.
Alibaba released Qwen3-Max on September 24, 2025 — its largest model ever at over 1 trillion parameters — alongside Nvidia partnership news.
Suno launched v5 on September 23, 2025, touting more immersive audio and authentic vocals, alongside its generative DAW, Suno Studio.
At Connect on September 17, 2025, Zuckerberg unveiled the first Ray-Ban glasses with a display, paired with an EMG neural wristband.
Google released the image-editing model codenamed Nano Banana on August 26, 2025; the 3D-figurine craze swept global social media.
OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, calling it its 'smartest, fastest, most useful model yet,' with built-in thinking available to free users.
OpenAI released the gpt-oss-120b and 20b open-weight reasoning models on August 5, 2025 — its first open weights since GPT-2.
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2 with 1 trillion total parameters — the largest open model at launch — excelling at agentic and coding tasks.
xAI released Grok 4 in July 2025, setting records on GPQA and other hard benchmarks, plus a multi-agent Heavy edition.
At its first Code with Claude developer conference, Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, built for hours-long autonomous coding.