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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

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Google released the models Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with voice creation from text descriptions and voice cloning

Google has published details about the models Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS (GA from 22. 9. 2026): over 100 languages, voice creation from a text description, voice cloning from a 30-second recording, 2000+ preset voices, SynthID watermark.

New: The models support more than 100 languages; Ability to generate voices from text descriptions; Voice cloning from 30-second audio samples; Over 2000 preset voices with regional variants; Integrated SynthID watermark for detecting AI speech

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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.

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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.

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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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AWS SageMaker AI introduces instance preference lists for training and processing jobs

Amazon SageMaker AI now allows users to specify an ordered list of up to 5 GPU instance types for Training and Processing Jobs. The system automatically starts the job on the first available type, eliminating the need for manual retry scripts.

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StationeryBench benchmark: GPT-6 Astra model significantly outperformed MolmoAct2 in spatial reasoning for robots

The StationeryBench benchmark compared the GPT-6 Astra model from OpenAI with the MolmoAct2 model from Ai2 on robotic tasks involving objects on a table. Astra achieved a median of 46/100 and completed 7 out of 100 tasks, while MolmoAct2 achieved a median of 12/100 without completing a single task.

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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

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Google releases WeatherNext v3 with satellite data processing

Google has released WeatherNext v3, a weather forecasting model that now processes satellite data, shortening the delay between current weather conditions and a new forecast. According to the company, it achieves accuracy comparable to traditional models with lower computational requirements.

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Independent testing confirms the capabilities of GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and Flare from OpenAI, including editing with a reference image

Commentator Simon Willison tested the new image models from OpenAI, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and Flare, recommends Sunburst for precise edits and Flare for fast generation, and also verified editing using a reference image.

New: The model supports image-to-image generation with a reference image for editing; Simon Willison (an authoritative LLM commentator) tested both models and recommends Sunburst for precise edits, Flare for speed; Practical verification: the CLI tool integrates reference image support for image generation

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Release of the open-source model TelecomGPT-R1-9B for telecommunications engineering

A research team released the open-source model TelecomGPT-R1-9B (9B parameters, built on Qwen3.5-9B), focused on reasoning in telecommunications engineering. According to the authors, it achieves the best results among open-source models on the GSMA telco leaderboard.