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Importance: important OpenAI New models ✓ official

OpenAI makes GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna available on the Amazon Bedrock platform

GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI are now generally available on the Amazon Bedrock platform at lower prices than GPT-5.6; according to OpenAI, GPT-6 Sol makes about half as many factual errors as GPT-5.6 Sol.

Importance: important Anthropic New models ✓ official

Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock with lower costs per task

Anthropic, together with AWS, has made Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock – according to the company, it is more efficient and cheaper per task than Claude Opus 5, with adaptive thinking and stricter safety classifiers.

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The Claude Opus 5.5 model is available in GitHub Copilot

The Claude Opus 5.5 model from Anthropic is now available in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans. According to Anthropic, it handles tasks comparably to Opus 5, but with fewer steps and tokens.

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AWS makes a biological AI model from The Biological Computing Company available in limited testing for video generation

Since 23 September 2026, Amazon Web Services has been making a biological AI model from The Biological Computing Company available to selected customers in limited testing. According to the manufacturer, the model mimics how brain cells process information and is intended to make video generation faster and cheaper.

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The Austrian Academy of Sciences releases the Apollo language model for filling in damaged ancient Greek texts

The Austrian Academy of Sciences, together with Mistral and Sail Reply, is releasing the Apollo model, trained on 600 million words of ancient Greek. It fills in missing passages in damaged papyri and manuscripts and is available free through a chatbot for academics, but the final choice of words remains with experts.

Importance: important OpenAI New models update ✓ 3

OpenAI halved prices for the GPT-6 Sol and Luna models; independent analysis does not confirm a performance improvement

OpenAI released the GPT-6 Sol and Luna models on 22 September 2026 at prices 50% lower than GPT-5.6 (Sol 2/10 USD, Luna 0.10/0.50 USD per million tokens). However, an independent analysis by Artificial Analysis shows that actual capabilities remain at the level of their predecessors and have even declined on some tasks.

New: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on the same day (2026-09-23), roughly an hour after OpenAI; Claude Opus 5.5 is 20% cheaper than the previous Opus 5.0 ($4/$20 vs $5/$25); Opus 5.5 improved communication style and token efficiency; The model releases launch a 'price war' between the two largest AI companies; GPT-6 Luna and Sol are part of a broader strategy of price competition, not an isolated release

Importance: monitoring Meta New models 1 source

The Muse app from Meta surpassed the ChatGPT app in adoption, according to early data

According to estimates from Apptopia, in its first 12 days the Muse app from Meta had more downloads (1.8 million on iOS in the USA/Canada vs. 1.3 million for ChatGPT) and daily active users (642 000 vs. 231 000 in the USA) than ChatGPT in the comparable period.

Importance: monitoring xAI New models ✓ official

xAI made Grok 4.6 available in Amazon Bedrock

Grok 4.6 from xAI has been available in Amazon Bedrock since 18 August 2026, with a context window of 500 thousand tokens and four reasoning effort levels, targeting long-running agents and work with code.

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Microsoft Research published the RetroChimera model for predicting molecular retrosynthesis

Microsoft Research published the RetroChimera model in Nature, a combination of the transformer model R-SMILES 2 and the graph network NeuralLoc for predicting molecular retrosynthesis. According to the company, chemists in blind tests prefer its synthesis proposals over older methods. The model is on GitHub under the MIT license and…

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GitHub Copilot makes Grok 4.7 from xAI available

Grok 4.7 from xAI is gradually becoming available in GitHub Copilot for all paid tiers (Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, Enterprise), billed at the provider's list prices.

Importance: important New models update ✓ 3

Jev from TypeSafe AI: confirmed pricing and concerns about opacity and hidden bias

TypeSafe AI clarified the price of Jev (0.042 USD/million input tokens, output free), and commentators point to the risk of hidden bias and the absence of explanations for decisions in this classification model with no text output.

New: Model price: $0.042 per million input tokens, output free; Risk of hidden bias in the classification model; The model operates as a black box without explaining its decisions; Applicable to spam filtering and search reranking; TypeSafe AI categorizes it as 'System One models'

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Skild AI's S1 robotic model deployed at NVIDIA factory for Blackwell GPU assembly

Skild AI has deployed the S1 model at NVIDIA's factory in Houston, where, together with partner Foxconn, it helps assemble systems with Blackwell GPUs, and has announced annual revenue of $100 million. The model was previously introduced as a system that learns new tasks from a single video.

New: The S1 model is deployed at the Nvidia factory in Houston; The application of the deployment is Blackwell GPU assembly; Skild reached $100 million in annual revenue in ten months; The deployment partner is Foxconn; The model uses a dual robotic arm

Importance: major Meta New models update ✓ 4

Zuckerberg defends the open strategy of Meta and distillation in an essay; the company also plans to open the weights of Muse Spark 1.2

To accompany the release of the open model Muse Glimmer (30B, Apache 2.0), Meta published an extensive essay by Mark Zuckerberg defending distillation and its open strategy against OpenAI and Anthropic; it also promised to open the weights of Muse Spark 1.2.

New: Mark Zuckerberg published an essay (6000+ words) on AI philosophy, governance and the strategy of Meta; The announcement includes Muse Code, an AI agent for the terminal; Meta strategically positions open-weight models as an alternative to proprietary approaches from OpenAI and Anthropic; The essay criticizes lobbying by competitors and mentions competition from Chinese open-weight models; The new strategy of Meta focuses on differentiation through an open-source approach

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Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is newly available on the Amazon Bedrock platform

Kimi K3 (2.8 trillion parameters) from Moonshot AI has also been available on the Amazon Bedrock platform since 18 September 2026, with support for prompt caching and AWS data protection. The model was released in July 2026 as the first open model in the 3 trillion parameter class.

New: Kimi K3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock as a new distribution channel; The model supports prompt caching on Bedrock; Data in AWS Bedrock is protected by the AWS data boundary without being shared with the provider; The Bedrock deployment optimizes the model for long coding and knowledge workflows

Importance: important Anthropic New models ✓ 3

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5 – a cheaper model close to Fable 5 in performance

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5 at the same price as Opus 4.8 (5 USD/25 USD per million tokens), which the company says is half the price of Fable 5. It leads in agentic coding and ARC-AGI-3, while lagging in cyber exploitation and some domains such as healthcare and law.