Today — April 18, 2026
No new releases, deprecations, or shutdowns today.
Yesterday — April 17, 2026
11:00
New Model
Claude Design — Anthropic Labs design tool on Opus 4.7
Research preview for designs, prototypes, slides, decks. Derives brand systems from your codebase. Free for Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise.
Anthropic Imagem Anthropic Labs
10:15
New Model
GPT-Rosalind — OpenAI research model for life sciences
Reasoning model for biology, drug discovery, translational medicine. Bundled with Codex research plugin connecting to 50+ scientific tools.
OpenAI LLM OpenAI
14:30
New Model
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 — embodied reasoning upgrade
DeepMind release improving spatial pointing, counting, success detection, and instrument reading. Available on Gemini API + AI Studio. Prior 1.5 sunsets April 30.
DeepMind 3D DeepMind blog
April 16, 2026
09:00
New Model
Claude Opus 4.7 GA — Anthropic flagship upgrade
SWE-bench Verified 87.6% (from 80.8%), CursorBench 70%, GPQA Diamond 94.2%. Adds xhigh effort, Task budgets, /ultrareview multi-agent review. Same $5/$25 pricing as 4.6.
Anthropic LLM Anthropic
03:20
New Model
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B open-sourced — Alibaba sparse MoE
30B activated MoE targeting agentic coding. Apache-style open weights on Hugging Face. Leads Gemma 4 on several agentic coding benchmarks.
Alibaba LLM Hugging Face
April 15, 2026
09:30
New Model
Adobe Firefly AI Assistant — creative agent across Creative Cloud
Orchestrates multi-step workflows across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator. Public beta incoming.
Adobe Imagem Adobe blog
April 14, 2026
10:00
New Model
OpenAI GPT-5.4-Cyber — defensive cybersecurity variant
GPT-5.4 fine-tuned for cyber defense including binary reverse engineering. Access gated via expanded Trusted Access for Cyber program.
OpenAI LLM OpenAI
16:45
Update
Midjourney V8.1 Alpha — faster, cheaper, with image prompts
HD mode 3x faster and 3x cheaper; standard res 50% faster / 25% cheaper. Image prompts and image weights now supported. New Prompt Shortener tool.
Midjourney Imagem Midjourney updates
13:00
Deprecated
Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 retirement announced
Both models scheduled for retirement on June 15, 2026 on the Claude Developer Platform. Migrate to 4.5 or 4.7.
Anthropic LLM Release notes
April 12, 2026
02:30
New Model
MiniMax M2.7 open-sourced — first self-evolving agent model
229B sparse MoE (10B active) on Hugging Face / ModelScope under Modified-MIT. 56.22% on SWE-Pro, 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2.
MiniMax LLM Hugging Face
April 9, 2026
13:30
New Model
GPT-5.3 Instant Mini — smoother fallback in ChatGPT
New fallback model replacing GPT-5 Instant Mini after rate limits. Smoother writing and context handling on the cheaper tier.
OpenAI LLM OpenAI
04:15
New Model
Seedance 2.0 on fal — ByteDance multi-modal video
Text/image/video/audio inputs with 15s multi-shot output, native stereo audio, director-level camera control.
ByteDance Vídeo fal.ai
April 8, 2026
09:00
New Model
Meta Muse Spark — first Meta frontier NOT released as open weights
Native multimodal reasoning, tool use, visual chain-of-thought, multi-agent orchestration. Available in Meta AI app, meta.ai, private API preview. Ground-up overhaul from Llama.
Meta LLM TechCrunch
15:00
New Model
Claude Managed Agents — fully-managed agent runtime (public beta)
Agent loop, tool execution, sandbox, state persistence all via REST. $0.08/session-hour + API token costs. Header-gated: managed-agents-2026-04-01.
Anthropic Código SiliconANGLE
April 7, 2026
10:30
New Model
Claude Mythos Preview — new frontier class, gated access
Anthropic research preview positioned as new model class with SOTA cyber/code/reasoning. Limited to internet-critical orgs + OSS maintainers. On Bedrock and Vertex AI.
Anthropic LLM red.anthropic.com
22:10
New Model
Zhipu/Z.ai GLM-5.1 — post-training upgrade on 744B MoE
40B active, 200K context. 58.4 on SWE-Bench Pro (edges GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6). MIT license on HF. API: $1/$3.20 per M tokens.
Zhipu / Z.ai LLM Testing Catalog
14:00
Update
Runway ships Seedance 2.0 integration
Use text, image, video, or audio to generate or edit videos. Available on Unlimited/Enterprise plans outside the US.
Runway Vídeo Runway changelog
April 6, 2026
03:45
New Model
Alibaba Wan 2.7 — text-to-video with Thinking Mode
First/last-frame control, video-to-video editing, subject referencing. Launched on Together AI April 3.
Alibaba Vídeo Together AI
April 3, 2026
16:00
Deprecated
GPT-4o fully retired from all ChatGPT plans
Business/Enterprise/Edu Custom GPTs lost GPT-4o access (after Feb 13 consumer retirement). API access still available.
OpenAI LLM OpenAI
11:30
New Model
Google Veo 3.1 Lite — most cost-effective Veo
$0.05/sec at 720p, $0.08/sec at 1080p. Paid preview on Gemini API, AI Studio, Vertex AI.
Google Vídeo Google blog
09:15
Update
Tripo3D — intelligent AI texturing tools
New texturing tools for faster, smarter 3D content creation on existing models.
Tripo AI 3D Press release
April 2, 2026
08:45
New Model
ElevenLabs ElevenMusic — free iOS text-to-song app
Up to 7 songs/day with commercial-safe licensing (Merlin + Kobalt deals). Competes with Suno and Udio.
ElevenLabs Áudio TechCrunch
04:30
New Model
Alibaba Qwen3.6-Plus — proprietary agentic coding model
1M-token context window. Proprietary flagship for enterprise agentic AI deployments.
Alibaba LLM Alibaba Cloud
12:00
New Model
Google Gemma 4 — open-weight family under Apache 2.0
4 sizes (E2B, E4B, 26B-A4B MoE, 31B dense). 140+ languages, function calling, audio/video inputs. 31B ranks #3 on Arena open leaderboard.
Google LLM Google blog
April 1, 2026
10:00
New Model
Tripo Smart Mesh P1.0 — production-grade native 3D diffusion
Low-poly asset generation in ~2 seconds. Tripo AI frames it as the start of 'AI 3D 2.0.' Debuted at GDC 2026.
Tripo AI 3D PR Newswire
March 30, 2026
22:30
New Model
Alibaba Qwen3.5-Omni — native multimodal (text/image/audio/video)
Thinker-Talker + Hybrid-Attention MoE. 256K context, 113 languages. SOTA on 215 audio/video benchmarks. Kept closed-source.
Alibaba LLM MarkTechPost
March 26, 2026
09:30
New Model
Mistral Voxtral TTS — 4B open-weights voice model
9 languages, 5-sec voice cloning, TTFA 90 ms, RTF 6x. Human-preference beat ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 68.4% of the time.
Mistral Voice TechCrunch
11:00
New Model
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live — Google's highest-quality voice model
128K context, 90+ languages. Powers upgraded Gemini Live and Search Live in 200+ countries.
Google Áudio Google blog
March 25, 2026
14:15
New Model
Google Lyria 3 Pro — up to 3-minute music tracks
Upgrade from Lyria 3 (30s cap): 3-min tracks with structural control over intros/verses/choruses/bridges. In Gemini app (paid), Google Vids, Vertex AI preview.
Google Áudio Google blog
March 24, 2026
17:30
Deprecated
OpenAI shuts down Sora
Web/app end April 26, API end September 24. OpenAI cites compute cost (~$1M/day dev, ~$15M/day inference vs $2.1M lifetime revenue). Disney walks from $1B deal.
OpenAI Vídeo CNN
March 18, 2026
03:00
New Model
Xiaomi MiMo V2-Omni — native omnimodal (image/video/audio/text)
262K context, $0.40/$2.00 per M tokens on OpenRouter. Tops BigBench Audio (94.0), MMAU-Pro (69.4).
Xiaomi LLM OpenRouter
March 17, 2026
14:23
New Model
Claude Opus 4.6 — 1M context window now available
Anthropic's most capable model now supports 1 million token context. Pricing unchanged. Available via API and platform immediately.
Anthropic LLM API monitor
11:07
Breaking Change
Vidu API model names silently changed — viduq2 no longer valid
Vidu deprecated bare "viduq2" model name. Must now use "viduq2-pro", "viduq2-pro-fast", "viduq3-pro", "viduq3-turbo", "viduq1", or "vidu2.0". No announcement from Vidu — discovered via our API monitor when requests started failing.
Vidu Vídeo Discovered in production
09:45
New Model
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview — native image generation
Google added image generation to Gemini 3.1 Flash via the standard generateContent endpoint. Supports 4K output, web search grounding, and character consistency. $0.08/image at 1K resolution.
Google Imagem API monitor
08:12
Insight
Bria AI — the image utility API nobody's talking about
Tested Bria's API: background removal, 2x/4x upscaling, image expansion, background replacement — all synchronous, instant results. No cold starts, no queues. $0.018-$0.04/image. This is what fal.ai should have been.
Bria AI Imagem Hands-on testing
March 16, 2026
18:30
New Model
Kling 2.6 Pro — new video model, strong motion quality
Kling AI added 2.6 Pro and Standard variants via Together.ai. $0.14/sec. Early testing shows significant motion improvement over 2.5 Turbo, especially for camera movements and character animation.
Kling AI Vídeo API monitor
15:12
Deprecated
Kling Video O1 Pro & Standard removed from Together.ai
Both models return "unable to access model" errors. Removed from our platform. No deprecation notice from Together or Kling — just stopped working.
Together.ai Vídeo Error monitoring
10:01
Insight
The AI wrapper economy: fal.ai, Veed, and HuggingFace all route to the same backends
After extensive testing: Veed.io's API redirects to fal.ai. HuggingFace Inference Providers routes to fal.ai, Replicate, or WaveSpeed. fal.ai itself is serverless GPU with 10+ minute cold starts on less popular models (Beatoven, Cosmos). Direct APIs are faster and cheaper.
fal.ai Veed HuggingFace Production testing
08:30
New Category
Tripo V2.5 — text-to-3D and image-to-3D in 60 seconds
First 3D model generation service integrated. Text or image → GLB model with PBR textures in ~60 seconds. Interactive viewer with auto-rotate. $0.20/model, 3 modes (text, image, multiview).
Tripo 3D New integration
March 15, 2026
16:00
Pricing
Qwen3.5 Plus added — Alibaba's latest, aggressive pricing
New Qwen3.5 Plus model from Alibaba Cloud. Competitive pricing at $0.0008/1K input, $0.002/1K output. 128K context window. Strong multilingual performance, especially CJK languages.
Alibaba LLM API monitor
12:30
Update
Chatterbox TTS — Resemble AI adds multilingual support
Chatterbox model now supports multiple languages beyond English. New chatterbox-multilingual variant available. Voice cloning quality remains best-in-class for conversational TTS.
Resemble AI Áudio API monitor
09:00
Weekly Insight
This week: 12 new models, 3 deprecated, 2 silent breaking changes
New: Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, Kling 2.6 Pro/Standard, Qwen3.5 Plus, Chatterbox Multilingual, FLUX 2 Klein 4B/9B, Tripo V2.5 (3 modes). Deprecated: Kling O1 Pro/Standard, viduq2 bare name. Breaking: Vidu model names, Bria enhance sync mode removed for 4MP+ images.
Weekly digest
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