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Models2026-09-17 · source-backed
stale.jock.pl tracks release date against training cutoff for 20 current models across eight labs. Widest gaps: Gemini 3.1 Pro at 13 months (released 2026-02-19, cutoff January 2025), Llama 4 at 8 months, Grok 4.6 at 6 months. A fresh release number tells you nothing about whether the model knows your framework's current API, and this is the first place I've seen it tabulated.
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Two data points that tell the same story. First, Value Add Pulse counts four frontier launches in 30 days: Gemini 3.5 Pro, Grok 5, Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, plus open-weight GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7. The model-layer moat compressed from quarters to weeks. Second, TechCrun...
Launched August 8 as the new Quality Mode at grok.com/imagine and in the Grok mobile apps, pitching precision editing, crisp text rendering, and improved factuality, with API access promised but not shipped (The Decoder). On the August 7 Arena leaderboards the faster "low" var...
"Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking" argues Google quietly shelved 3.5 Pro, which industry chatter placed at roughly Opus 4.5 level, shipping Gemini 3.6 Flash as a bridge the authors call worse than Muse Spark 1.2, Grok 4.5, and tier-1 Chinese open-source models. The hard num...
The models are good. The license is the real story. Google released Gemma 4 on April 2 with four variants: E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, and 31B Dense. All built on the Gemini 3 architecture. The 31B Dense variant claimed #3 on Arena AI's text leaderboard, beating models 20x its size. Th...
Perplexity Computer treats Opus 4.6, Gemini, GPT-5.2, Grok, and others like specialized employees on a shared team. It decomposes goals into subtasks, spawns subagents, and routes each to the optimal model — Claude for reasoning, Gemini for research, Grok for speed. Workflows...
Google is closing the current Imagen generation's API endpoints and pointing callers at the Gemini image model (LLM Stats). It consolidates image generation under a single Gemini surface, which means anyone still pinned to Imagen endpoints has a migration today. Confirmed thro...
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