Software and IT services, ranked and explained

Google’s second Gemini 4 frontier model, announced 28 October 2026 and released first to cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program; $2 in and $10 out per million tokens at launch, then $4 and $20.

Baidu's open-weight document parsing model, released 27 October 2026 under the MIT licence, which reads every page of a long document in one request with near-constant memory per step.

Liquid AI's open-weight 1.7-billion-parameter text model, released 27 October 2026 as the base of the LFM3 family, with a 256K context, about 1 GB at 4-bit, and fine-tuning on a single GPU.

Cohere's speed-optimised reranking model, released 21 October 2026 at $0.02 per million tokens, for search and retrieval pipelines where latency and cost matter more than the last points of accuracy.

Cohere's higher-accuracy reranking model for search and retrieval, released 21 October 2026 at $0.05 per million tokens, with a Context Focus option that returns only the relevant passages of each document.

Free MIT-licensed pre-commit hook and CLI that reads the values in your untracked .env files and fails when any of them is staged, tracked or anywhere in git history, including URL, JSON and base64 forms.