A running watch on frontier LLMs, updated weekly.
released 2026-06-10
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⚠ US-GOV HOLD — temporarily blocked in the U.S. by federal order. Access restricted pending review.
First Claude 5 model. Mythos-class tier above Opus; most intelligent generally available Claude. Added dual-use safety measures vs. the Mythos sibling.
released 2026-05-20
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Final Opus 4.x point release; faster output in Claude Code fast mode; stronger agentic tool use.
released 2026-05-15
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Real-time X integration; agent improvements; faster tool loops.
released 2026-05-01
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Unified reasoning model; auto-router replaces o-series picker.
released 2026-04-22
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2M token context; native video understanding; Deep Think mode.
released 2026-04-22
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High-throughput tier; multimodal at low latency.
released 2026-04-22
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On-device tier; ships with newer Pixel/Android.
released 2026-04-15
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Long-context reasoning improvements; better tool use under uncertainty; reduced sycophancy. Superseded by Opus 4.8 / Fable 5.
released 2026-04-10
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Open-source agent model; trained on real tool-call traces.
released 2026-04-01
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Search-grounded; web-native answers; citations first-class.
released 2026-03-20
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Speed/cost-optimized; near-Opus reasoning on most benchmarks.
released 2026-03-15
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Chain-of-thought reasoning successor to R1; open weights.
released 2026-03-05
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RAG-specialized; tool-use leader at this tier.
DeepSeek /
DeepSeek V4
[current] ▲ +1.0
released 2026-02-28
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MoE architecture refinements; aggressive pricing remains.
released 2026-02-20
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Agent-tuned coder model; open weights.
released 2026-02-10
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Sub-second latency; agent workflows; budget tier.
released 2026-01-22
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Improved multilingual; function calling parity with frontier.
Alibaba /
Qwen 3 Max
[current] ▲ +1.0
released 2026-01-10
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Massive multilingual; strong code; competitive with frontier closed models.
Meta /
Llama 4 Behemoth
[latest] [current] · —
released 2025-12-15
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2T total params; teacher model; not open-weight (yet).
OpenAI /
GPT 5.0
[stable] · —
released 2025-12-12
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Initial GPT-5 launch; replaced o3/o4-mini routing.
xAI /
Grok 4 Heavy
[stable] · —
released 2025-11-30
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Multi-agent reasoning tier (premium plus).
01.AI /
Yi Large 2
[latest] [current] · —
released 2025-11-12
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Bilingual leader (en/zh); strong reasoning at mid-tier price.
Meta /
Llama 4 Maverick
[current] · —
released 2025-10-01
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MoE; 17B active / 400B total; instruction-tuned flagship open weights.
Meta /
Llama 4 Scout
[current] · —
released 2025-10-01
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10M token context; MoE 17B active / 109B total.
OpenAI /
o-series 4-mini
[legacy] · —
released 2025-09-18
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Reasoning-tuned mini; superseded by GPT-5 auto-router.
Mistral /
Codestral 25
[current] · —
released 2025-08-14
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Code-specialized; 80+ languages; FIM optimized.
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Notable releases on watch — flagged the moment they ship.