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Showing 1-60 of 80 launches · 1 Sept 2026 - 30 Sept 2026
- 1Fugu MaxAI model
Not a model — an orchestrator that routes each task to the leanest model able to solve it, at $2/$6.
- 2Fugu Ultra v2.0AI model
The capability half of Sakana's orchestration pair — 74.3 on DeepSWE, top 2 on seven of eight benchmarks.
- 3Claude Fable 5.1AI model
Anthropic's top generally available model — price unchanged, cache reads cut 75%, 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science.
TL score - 4Claude Mythos 5.1AI model
The same model as Claude Fable 5.1, with the safeguards relaxed — and no way to buy your way in.
TL score - 5Gemini 3.8 FlashAI model
Google's third Flash in six weeks — 90.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, introductory price until 31 December 2026.
TL score - 6Gemini 3.8 Flash CyberAI model
A security variant with looser cyber mitigations, gated to trusted defenders via the Fairwind Program.
TL score - 7Muse Spark 1.3AI model
Meta's multimodal reasoning model — plus a Contributor tier at $0.10/$0.20 in exchange for training on your usage.
TL score - 8Qwen3.8-Max-0902AI model
A dated snapshot of Qwen3.8-Max, aimed at coding depth and multi-tool agent work.
TL score - 9GPT-6 AstraAI model
OpenAI's new flagship — a premium $10/$50 tier, 1.05M context, and the first model at its own "critical" cyber threshold.
TL score - 10WeatherNext 3AI model
DeepMind's global weather model — hourly forecasts at 5 km, live satellite ingest, up to 50% better precipitation a day out.
TL score - 11GPT Image 2.5 SunburstAI model
The capability tier of OpenAI's image pair — "our most capable model for image generation and editing".
TL score - 12GPT Image 2.5 FlareAI model
The everyday tier of the same pair — "fast, high-quality everyday image generation".
TL score - 13Mercury 2.5AI model
A diffusion language model that writes text in parallel — 1,107 tokens a second, 260K context, $0.20/$0.75.
TL score - 14DeepSeek V4.1 FlashAI model
A 1M-context flash model priced by the clock — off-peak tokens cost half what peak tokens do.
TL score - 15SWE-2AI model
Cognition's coding model for Devin, post-trained from Kimi K3 — within a point of Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode, on its own figures.
TL score - 16NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation ModelAI model
IBM and NASA's open-source foundation model for lunar remote sensing, released 10 September 2026 under Apache 2.0 and trained on about two million multimodal lunar image bundles for crater, volcanic-feature and ice-prospectivity mapping.
TL score - 17Kimi K2.8 PreviewAI model
Moonshot's coding and agent model for Kimi Code — close to K3 on its own account, with up to 1M tokens of context.
TL score - 18Atria Dawn PreviewAI model
An MIT-licensed 744B agentic model built on GLM-5.2, released as open weights by the lab behind InternLM.
TL score - 19Agnes 3.0 FlashAI model
Singapore-based Agnes AI's agentic coding model — $0.05/$0.15 list price (currently free), with a 33B open-weights Preview.
TL score - 20Gemini 3.8 LiveAI model
Google's low-latency speech-to-speech model for voice agents — sees video as it talks, 97 languages, $3/$12 per million audio tokens.
TL score - 21
The reasoning version of Gemini 3.8 Live — thinks and speaks at the same time; 82.6 on Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, on Google's figures.
TL score - 22JevAI model
A decision model, not a text generator: typed answers with calibrated probabilities in 70-500 ms, $0.042 per million input tokens and free output.
TL score - 23KoaAI model
Salesforce's first CRM reasoning model, post-trained from NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super and run inside Salesforce's own trust boundary.
TL score - 24LimiX-2AI model
A 400M-parameter foundation model for tables rather than text: classification, regression and missing-value imputation from one pretrained checkpoint — but the licence is non-commercial.
TL score - 25Pareto 26.9AI model
A blended model that runs several models on every request and keeps the best answer — 262K context, $2.50/$7.50 per million tokens.
TL score - 26Bonsai 2 27BAI model
A 27-billion-parameter model compressed to 5.9 GB of ternary weights, released under Apache 2.0 — small enough to run on a laptop.
TL score - 27HappyOyster 1.0AI model
Alibaba's real-time interactive world model, offered on Model Studio from 17 September 2026 in Adventure, Directing and Acting modes that turn a prompt and a first-frame image into a live video world, billed per call and per second.
TL score - 28Qwen3.8-Omni-FlashAI model
Takes text, images, audio and video in one request across a million tokens of context — up to an hour of continuous audio-video per call, at $0.15 per million input tokens.
TL score - 29Needle 3AI model
An 8-29 MB automation model that runs tool calls and structured extraction on a phone, a wearable or a microcontroller, with no API bill at all.
TL score - 30GLM-5.3-FlashXAI model
The same GLM-5.3-Flash served faster: 200 tokens a second, 2.5x the price of the model it is built from, and no claim of extra capability anywhere in the vendor's own documentation.
TL score - 31CUA-S1-FORMSAI model
A 2.8 MB model that decides which value belongs in which form field, in one forward pass, on the machine doing the work — 706,048 parameters, MIT licensed, with no API call and no bill.
TL score - 32LayaAI model
An open-weight decision model that answers typed questions with probabilities in one forward pass, about 33 ms on a T4 — and whose own model card shows where it fails while staying confident.
TL score - 33Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash-RealtimeAI model
Alibaba's streaming audio-and-video conversation model with spoken replies, tool calling and remote MCP, announced 18 September 2026; audio input costs $0.93 and audio output $1.87 per million tokens in Singapore.
TL score - 34Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0AI model
xAI's second-generation speech-to-text model, released 18 September 2026, for batch and streaming transcription with diarisation and up to eight channels, priced at $0.10 per audio hour batch and $0.20 streaming.
TL score - 35Tinfield 1AI model
Bad Theory Labs' open-weight fine-tune of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next for terminal and software-engineering agents, 177B parameters with 6.6B active and a 256K context, under the Qwen Community License; its benchmark claims are self-reported.
TL score - 36decision-machine-1AI model
CloudRaker's hosted decision model behind Milliseconds.ai, launched 19 September 2026, returning typed labels, yes/no answers, scores and extracted fields from text or images for $0.04 per million input tokens, with output free.
TL score - 37Step 5 PreviewAI model
A 600B mixture-of-experts flagship with 27B active per token and a million-token window, at $1.00 per million in and $2.70 out — priced well under the frontier it is measured against.
TL score - 38Qwen-Image-2.1AI model
A 7B image model that generates and edits in one checkpoint, with native transparent output — and, unlike every Qwen image release before it, a licence that forbids commercial use.
TL score - 39Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime-PlusAI model
Alibaba's full-duplex speech-to-speech model on Model Studio, released 20 September 2026, with a 262,144-token context, function calling, web search and voice cloning; audio output costs $24 per million tokens in Singapore.
TL score - 40Hemmingway-1AI model
A 27B open-weight fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B for emails, messages and short stories, with a 262,144-token context; weights under CC BY-NC 4.0 since 22 September, hosted API $0.24 in and $0.90 out per million tokens.
TL score - 41KevAI model
Jared Palmer's open-source family of small decision models (0.8B, 4B and 9B) on Qwen3.5 that return typed yes/no, choice and score probabilities, released 20 September 2026 under Apache 2.0 with training code and evaluation data.
TL score - 42Grok 4.7AI model
The new Grok flagship, at Grok 4.6's price: $2 in and $6 out per million tokens under 200k-token prompts, a 500k context, reasoning from low to xhigh — and, on the Responses API, reasoning returned encrypted whether asked for or not.
TL score - 43Altar-1AI model
Aikido Security's open-weight security model, a pruned 4-bit version of GLM-5.3 that keeps 168 of 256 experts in 328 GB, released 21 September 2026 to run on-premises on four H200 GPUs under the GLM-5.3 licence.
TL score - 44Limite 1B - ViolettoAI model
Paradigma's first model, a 1B-parameter dense transformer trained from scratch for competition-level mathematics, handling sequences of about 131K tokens, with Apache 2.0 weights; it is lightly instruction-tuned and not a general assistant.
TL score - 45Light-O1-PreviewAI model
Light Origins' open-weight research preview that turns text instructions into whole-body humanoid motion, built on Qwen3.5-4B and released under Apache 2.0 on 21 September 2026; a separate controller is needed to drive a robot.
TL score - 46MiMo-V2.6-ProAI model
Xiaomi's open-weight flagship: 1.02T parameters with 42B active, a 1M-token context and text, image, video and audio input, at $0.435 in and $0.87 out per million tokens — the price of the mimo-v2.5-pro that Xiaomi retires on 21 October.
TL score - 47MiMo-V2.6-FlashAI model
The smaller MiMo-V2.6: 309B parameters with 15B active, the same 1M context and omni-modal input, open under MIT, at $0.14 in and $0.28 out per million tokens — and the replacement for mimo-v2.5 before 21 October.
TL score - 48Solar Mini 4AI model
Upstage's compact language model for agentic work, with 35B parameters (3B active), a 512K-token context and Korean, English and Japanese support, priced at $0.10 in and $0.40 out per million tokens.
TL score - 49GPT-6 SolAI model
The working tier of the GPT-6 family at half its predecessor’s price: $2 in and $10 out per million tokens, $0.20 cached, a 1,050,000-token context, 128,000 output tokens and an April 2026 knowledge cutoff.
TL score - 50GPT-6 LunaAI model
The cheapest GPT-6: $0.10 in and $0.50 out per million tokens, $0.01 cached, with the same 1,050,000-token context and 128,000-token output limit as GPT-6 Sol and a May 2026 knowledge cutoff.
TL score - 51Claude Opus 5.5AI model
Anthropic’s new default model at $4 in and $20 out per million tokens, a 1M-token context, 128,000 output tokens, a June 2026 cutoff — and a published retirement floor of 22 September 2027, a year to the day from release.
TL score - 52Ming-Image-0.1-DesignAI model
An open-weight 6B text-to-image model from Ant Group’s inclusionAI lab for interface screens, dashboards, infographics and posters with legible text and transparent backgrounds, under the MIT licence.
TL score - 53Ming-Image-0.1-Design-LayerAI model
An open-weight 6B model from Ant Group’s inclusionAI that splits a finished, flattened design back into separate transparent layers that can be edited, under the MIT licence.
TL score - 54ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27BAI model
BottleCap AI’s fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B that thinks less: 37% fewer reasoning tokens for under one point of accuracy on the developer’s tests. Free for small businesses; larger ones need a commercial licence.
TL score - 55Gemini 3.8 Flash TTSAI model
Google’s expressive text-to-speech model: 130 languages, voice design from a written description, $0.50 in and $9.00 out per million tokens until 31 December 2026 — and double that from 1 January 2027.
TL score - 56Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSAI model
The cheaper Gemini 3.8 speech model for dubbing and voice agents: 101 languages, $0.50 in and $6.00 out per million tokens until 31 December 2026, doubling from 1 January 2027. Replaces the 3.1 Flash TTS preview.
TL score - 57Recraft V4.1 FlashAI model
The speed and cost tier of Recraft’s V4.1 text-to-image family: $0.007 an image through the API, against $0.035 for standard V4.1, with a median of 1.3 seconds per image on Recraft’s own tests.
TL score - 58FLUX 3 ActionAI model
Black Forest Labs’ 7B open-weight model that turns camera views, joint positions and a plain-language instruction into robot-arm actions. Commercial use is free only below US$5 million in annual revenue.
TL score - 59Nemotron 3 DiarizationAI model
NVIDIA’s open-weight 100M speaker-diarization model: it labels who spoke when for up to eight speakers, streaming or offline, and ranked first of twelve systems on Voice Arena’s independent early results.
TL score - 60Ember-1AI model
Fireworks AI’s retrain of Kimi K3 to reason with fewer tokens: about 40% fewer on the developer’s own tests at similar quality, $3 in and $15 out per million tokens, as a two-week research preview.
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