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Announced September 17, Astra for Law bundles GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and legal drafting instructions; on Vals AI's Legal Research Bench it passes overall correctness at 54.0% versus 38.7% for web search alone.
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On September 17 Google's CC agent got its own Google account and a permissions model so up to six household members can share context and delegate forms, schedules and errands.
On September 15 Google shipped two live voice models; Extended Thinking tops the Artificial Analysis Speech to Speech Quality Index at 82.6 and posts 68.6% agentic task completion on tau-Voice.
Apple's 2026 releases land September 14 with an LLM-based, context-aware Siri AI as the flagship feature on every platform except tvOS — and Golden Gate is the last macOS to support Rosetta.
Four independent trackers all log DeepSeek V4.1 Flash going live as deepseek-flash on Sept 10, 2026—MIT-licensed, 552B MoE, 1M context. All benchmarks are vendor-reported; we could not verify a first-hand announcement.
Both launched September 10: a hosted version of the Codex agent harness with no extra fee beyond tokens and tools, and OpenAI's full-duplex voice model at $0.05 per minute for the front-end layer.
Suno released its v6 model series around September 10, 2026, its first trained on licensed music from Warner, BMG and Believe, retiring the older models and reaching the free tier.
On September 9 OpenAI's enterprise post says GPT-6 Astra is now generally available in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API from $10/$50 per million tokens; the official posts never use 'AGI era' framing.
On September 1, 2026 Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 publicly alongside Claude Mythos 5.1 for vetted organisations; multiple outlets report a 75% reduction in cache-read pricing.
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.
Apple is putting Apple Intelligence-powered live translation into AirPods; 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.