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Google’s September 30 announcement starts with restricted access for cyber defenders. The model also targets long-running software and knowledge work, with a larger output allowance and introductory API prices.

Anthropic’s September 29 report separates exploit-development capability from safeguard behavior. The open-weight model’s availability is central to the company’s concern, while an earlier NIST assessment provides a different benchmark comparison.

OpenAI’s September 29 release lowers cached-input prices and reports gains over GPT-6 Sol. Its comparisons with Astra depend on the task and evaluation setup, while access remains split between Work, Codex and the API.

The September 28 release retains Sonnet 5’s base token prices, adds deployment safeguards and changes a setting developers need when migrating workloads that previously disabled thinking.

Meta’s Connect recap moves its hosted model API beyond preview, while coding tools, cloud partnerships and local weights give developers distinct routes into the Muse family.

Google has made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available in Gemini Enterprise. The release combines voice and video interaction with background tool calls, while custom avatar creation remains allowlisted and Extended Thinking remains in private preview.

Alibaba announced Qwen models for live translation and audio, with an image model planned for later in 2026. Qwen 4 is still in training; the 5–10 trillion parameter target applies to later models.