Models
Frontier and open models: what shipped, what it can do, and how the claims hold up.
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Meta releases Llama 4
Scout and Maverick ship amid benchmark controversy and a missing flagship.
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OpenAI releases o3 and o4-mini
Reasoning models gain the ability to use tools inside their chain of thought.
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OpenAI releases o1, its first reasoning model
The model spends extra computation thinking before it answers.
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Llama 3.1 405B reaches the frontier
Meta releases a downloadable model at roughly GPT-4 class.
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GPT-4o makes frontier multimodality free
Voice and vision at frontier quality open to all users at no cost.
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Anthropic releases the Claude 3 family
Opus posts the first credible benchmark wins over GPT-4.
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Mixtral brings mixture-of-experts to open weights
Mistral ships a sparse model matching far larger dense ones.
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OpenAI unveils Sora
Text prompts generate near-photorealistic minute-long video.
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Gemini 1.5 Pro ships a million-token context
Whole codebases and books fit in a single prompt.
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Google announces Gemini
A natively multimodal model family is unveiled across three sizes.
