Topic: Models
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Rival agentic coding models ship the same day
Anthropic and OpenAI release competing coding flagships within hours.
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Google launches Gemini 3
A clear benchmark lead ships same-day into Search.
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GPT-5 launches with automatic model routing
A router picks reasoning effort on the user’s behalf.
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xAI releases Grok 4
A frontier claim arrives with a $300-a-month multi-agent tier.
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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.
