Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash at I/O 2026, Beating Its Own Pro Model on Agentic and Coding Benchmarks
Google's new efficiency flagship outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on most evals while running 4x faster and costing 40% less.
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Anthropic and the Gates Foundation Form a $200 Million Partnership to Deploy Claude in Global Health, Education, and Agriculture
The four-year commitment — described as the largest deal of its kind between an AI company and a global philanthropy — targets health services for 4.6 billion people in low-income countries.
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Mistral Medium 3.5 Folds Chat, Reasoning, and Coding Into a Single 128-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight Flagship
Mistral released Medium 3.5, a dense 128B open-weight model with a 256k context window that consolidates Medium 3.1, Magistral, and Devstral 2 under a Modified MIT license, with a per-query reasoning toggle.
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DeepSeek Releases V4 Under MIT License, Putting a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Open Model Within Three to Six Months of the Frontier
DeepSeek's V4-Pro and V4-Flash arrive with 1M-token context, three reasoning modes, and pricing that undercuts frontier rivals by up to 8x.
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OpenAI Releases Privacy Filter as Open-Weight Apache 2.0 Model, Offering Local PII Detection With 97% F1 Accuracy
OpenAI open-sources a 1.5B-parameter PII detection model under Apache 2.0, enabling local redaction of names, emails, and secrets without sending data to external servers.
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5, the First Fully Retrained Base Model Since GPT-4.5, With 1M-Token Context and State-of-the-Art Agentic Benchmarks
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 arrives as a ground-up retrain with a 922K-token context window, 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, and two-tier pricing starting at $5/$30 per million tokens.
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Moonshot AI Open-Sources Kimi K2.6, a Trillion-Parameter Model That Runs 300-Agent Swarms for Hours
Moonshot released Kimi K2.6 under a modified MIT license, claiming parity with GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks while orchestrating agent swarms that run for half a day unattended.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 as It Tests Safer Cyber Guardrails Ahead of Mythos
Opus 4.7 lands across Claude, Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry with unchanged pricing, while Anthropic uses it to trial new cyber safeguards before any broader Mythos rollout.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber With Binary Reverse Engineering, Expanding Trusted Access Program One Week After Anthropic's Mythos
OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.4-Cyber on April 14, a cyber-permissive variant with binary reverse engineering capabilities, limited to vetted defenders through an expanded Trusted Access for Cyber program.
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Z.ai Open-Sources GLM-5.1, a 744-Billion-Parameter Model That Tops SWE-Bench Pro Ahead of GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6
Chinese AI lab Z.ai has released GLM-5.1 under the MIT license, a mixture-of-experts model that claims the top score on the SWE-Bench Pro coding benchmark while introducing agentic capabilities designed to sustain autonomous work sessions lasting up to eight hours.
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Nvidia's Nemotron-Cascade 2 Achieves Gold-Medal AI Reasoning with 20x Fewer Parameters Than Its Nearest Rival
Nvidia open-sources a 30B mixture-of-experts model that activates only 3B parameters yet matches DeepSeek's 671B model on olympiad-level math and coding benchmarks.
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Xiaomi Unmasked as Creator of Mystery Hunter Alpha AI Model After Week of DeepSeek Speculation
An anonymous trillion-parameter AI model that topped OpenRouter usage charts and triggered widespread speculation about a stealth DeepSeek V4 launch turned out to be Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro, signaling the smartphone and EV maker's escalating ambitions in the AI model race.
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