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Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 4.5, its latest small-language model designed to deliver near-frontier performance at significantly lower cost. The model provides similar coding and reasoning quality as the company’s mid-tier Sonnet 4, yet it runs at roughly one-third of the cost and more than twice the speed. In benchmarks cited by Anthropic, Haiku 4.5 meets or exceeds Sonnet 4’s performance in key tasks such as code generation and multi-step “computer use” workflows. It is optimized for real-time, low-latency scenarios such as chat assistants, customer service agents, and pair-programming support. Haiku 4.5 is made available via the Claude API under the identifier “claude-haiku-4-5” and supports large-scale deployments where cost, responsiveness, and near-frontier intelligence matter. Claude Haiku 4.5 is available now on Claude Code and our apps. Its efficiency means you can accomplish more within your usage limits while maintaining premium model performance.

GLM-4.7 is an advanced large language model designed to significantly elevate coding, reasoning, and agentic task performance. It delivers major improvements over GLM-4.6 in multilingual coding, terminal-based tasks, and real-world software engineering benchmarks such as SWE-bench and Terminal Bench. GLM-4.7 supports “thinking before acting,” enabling more stable, accurate, and controllable behavior in complex coding and agent workflows. The model also introduces strong gains in UI and frontend generation, producing cleaner webpages, better layouts, and more polished slides. Enhanced tool-using capabilities allow GLM-4.7 to perform more effectively in web browsing, automation, and agent benchmarks. Its reasoning and mathematical performance has improved substantially, showing strong results on advanced evaluation suites. GLM-4.7 is available via Z.ai, API platforms, coding agents, and local deployment for flexible adoption.

DeepSeek-V4 is a next-generation open-source language model designed for high-performance reasoning, coding, and long-context intelligence. It introduces a powerful architecture with up to one million token context length, enabling seamless handling of large datasets and complex multi-step workflows. The model comes in two variants: DeepSeek-V4-Pro for maximum performance and DeepSeek-V4-Flash for efficiency and speed. DeepSeek-V4-Pro features 1.6 trillion total parameters with 49 billion activated, delivering near state-of-the-art performance comparable to leading closed-source models. It excels in agentic coding, mathematical reasoning, and world knowledge tasks. The model integrates advanced attention mechanisms, including token-wise compression and sparse attention, significantly reducing compute and memory costs. It is also optimized for AI agents, supporting tool use and multi-step workflows.

MiniMax M2.7 is an advanced AI model designed to enhance real-world productivity across coding, search, and office workflows. It is trained with reinforcement learning across numerous real-world environments, enabling it to handle complex, multi-step tasks effectively. The model excels in problem-solving by breaking down challenges before generating solutions across multiple programming languages. It delivers high-speed performance with rapid token generation, allowing tasks to be completed efficiently. With optimized reasoning and cost-effective pricing, it provides powerful capabilities while minimizing resource usage. It also achieves strong performance in software engineering benchmarks, reducing incident response time and improving development efficiency. Additionally, it supports advanced agentic workflows and professional-grade office tasks, making it highly versatile for modern work environments.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is part of the Qwen3.5 “Medium” model series, designed as a highly efficient, multimodal foundation model that balances strong reasoning ability with practical deployment requirements. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 35 billion total parameters but activates only about 3 billion per token, allowing it to deliver performance comparable to much larger models while significantly reducing computational cost. The model integrates a hybrid attention mechanism that combines linear attention with standard attention layers, enabling efficient long-context processing and improved scalability for complex tasks. As a native vision-language model, it can process both text and visual inputs, supporting use cases such as multimodal reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows. It is designed to function as a general-purpose “AI agent,” capable of planning, tool use, and structured problem solving rather than just conversational responses.

GPT-5.5 Pro is an advanced AI model designed to handle complex, real-world work with greater autonomy and efficiency. It understands user intent quickly and can execute multi-step tasks such as coding, research, data analysis, and document creation with minimal guidance. The model is built to plan, use tools, and refine its outputs until tasks are complete. It excels in knowledge work, software development, and analytical problem-solving. With strong reasoning and persistence, GPT-5.5 Pro can manage long-running workflows across tools and systems. It delivers high-quality results while maintaining speed and efficiency. Overall, it enables individuals and teams to complete demanding tasks faster and more accurately.

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is Google’s fastest model in the Gemini 3.5 series, designed for low-latency tasks and high-throughput developer workflows such as agentic search, document processing, coding, and large-scale data analysis. It delivers 350 output tokens per second and significantly improves on previous Flash-Lite generations in both quality and agentic performance. Developers can configure its thinking level to match the workload: minimal or low thinking supports fast execution for high-volume tasks, while higher thinking levels enable more complex, multi-step subagent workflows. Built-in computer-use capabilities allow the model to interact reliably with digital environments across supported surfaces. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite also advances coding, long-context understanding, and real-world task execution, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite across key evaluations and even surpassing Gemini 3 Flash on several agentic and software-engineering benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash is Google’s latest AI model built to deliver frontier intelligence with exceptional speed and efficiency. It combines Pro-level reasoning with Flash-level latency, making advanced AI more accessible and affordable. The model excels in complex reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic workflows while using fewer tokens for everyday tasks. Gemini 3 Flash is designed to scale across consumer apps, developer tools, and enterprise platforms. It supports rapid coding, data analysis, video understanding, and interactive application development. By balancing performance, cost, and speed, Gemini 3 Flash redefines what fast AI can achieve.

Gemini 2.5 Flash is a powerful, low-latency AI model introduced by Google, designed for high-volume applications where speed and cost-efficiency are key. It delivers optimized performance for use cases like customer service, virtual assistants, and real-time data processing. With its dynamic reasoning capabilities, Gemini 2.5 Flash automatically adjusts processing time based on query complexity, offering granular control over the balance between speed, accuracy, and cost. It is ideal for businesses needing scalable AI solutions that maintain quality and efficiency.

GLM‑4.5 is Z.ai’s latest flagship model in the GLM family, engineered with 355 billion total parameters (32 billion active) and a companion GLM‑4.5‑Air variant (106 billion total, 12 billion active) to unify advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities in one architecture. It operates in a “thinking” mode for complex, multi‑step reasoning and tool use, and a “non‑thinking” mode for instant responses, supporting up to 128 K token context length and native function calling. Available via the Z.ai chat platform and API, with open weights on HuggingFace and ModelScope, GLM‑4.5 ingests diverse inputs to solve general problem‑solving, common‑sense reasoning, coding from scratch or within existing projects, and end‑to‑end agent workflows such as web browsing and slide generation. Built on a Mixture‑of‑Experts design with loss‑free balance routing, grouped‑query attention, and an MTP layer for speculative decoding, it delivers enterprise‑grade performance.

gpt-oss-120b is a reasoning model engineered for deep, transparent thinking, delivering full chain-of-thought explanations, adjustable reasoning depth, and structured outputs, while natively invoking tools like web search and Python execution via the API. Built to slot seamlessly into self-hosted or edge deployments, it eliminates dependence on proprietary infrastructure. Although it includes default safety guardrails, its open-weight architecture allows fine-tuning that could override built-in controls, so implementers are responsible for adding input filtering, output monitoring, and governance measures to achieve enterprise-grade security. As a community–driven model card rather than a managed service spec, it emphasizes transparency, customization, and the need for downstream safety practices.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier model, designed to excel in long-horizon coding, agentic workflows, and intensive computer use while maintaining safety and alignment. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark (for software engineering) and leads on OSWorld (a computer use benchmark), with the ability to sustain focus over 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks. The model introduces improvements in tool handling, memory management, and context processing, enabling more sophisticated reasoning, better domain understanding (from finance and law to STEM), and deeper code comprehension. It supports context editing and memory tools to sustain long conversations or multi-agent tasks, and allows code execution and file creation within Claude apps. Sonnet 4.5 is deployed at AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3), with classifiers protecting against inputs or outputs tied to risky domains, and includes mitigations against prompt injection.

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s newest flagship model, delivering major improvements in reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, and real-world problem solving. It outperforms previous models and leading competitors on benchmarks such as SWE-bench, multilingual coding tests, and advanced agent evaluations. Opus 4.5 also introduces stronger safety features, including significantly higher resistance to prompt injection and improved alignment across sensitive tasks. Developers gain new controls through the Claude API—like effort parameters, context compaction, and advanced tool use—allowing for more efficient, longer-running agentic workflows. Product updates across Claude, Claude Code, the Chrome extension, and Excel integrations expand how users interact with the model for software engineering, research, and everyday productivity. Overall, Claude Opus 4.5 marks a substantial step forward in capability, reliability, and usability for developers, enterprises, and end users.

GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, built for complex, real-world software engineering and defensive cybersecurity work. It is a specialized version of GPT-5.2 optimized for long-horizon coding tasks such as large refactors, migrations, and feature development. The model maintains full context over extended sessions through native context compaction. GPT-5.2-Codex delivers state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0. It operates reliably across large repositories and native Windows environments. Stronger vision capabilities allow it to interpret screenshots, diagrams, and UI designs during development. GPT-5.2-Codex is designed to be a dependable partner for professional engineering workflows.

GPT-5.3-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model, designed to handle complex professional work on a computer. It combines frontier-level coding performance with advanced reasoning and real-world task execution. The model is faster than previous Codex versions and can manage long-running tasks involving research, tools, and deployment. GPT-5.3-Codex supports real-time interaction, allowing users to steer progress without losing context. It excels at software engineering, web development, and terminal-based workflows. Beyond code generation, it assists with debugging, documentation, testing, and analysis. GPT-5.3-Codex acts as an interactive collaborator rather than a single-turn coding tool.

Gemini 3.1 Pro is Google’s upgraded core intelligence model designed for complex tasks that require advanced reasoning. Building on the Gemini 3 series, it delivers significant improvements in problem-solving performance and logical pattern recognition. On the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, Gemini 3.1 Pro achieved a verified score of 77.1%, more than doubling the reasoning performance of Gemini 3 Pro. The model is engineered for challenges where simple answers are insufficient, enabling deeper analysis, synthesis, and creative output. It can generate practical outputs such as animated, website-ready SVGs directly from text prompts, combining intelligence with real-world usability. Gemini 3.1 Pro is rolling out in preview across consumer, developer, and enterprise platforms including the Gemini app, NotebookLM, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Android Studio. With expanded access for Google AI Pro and Ultra users, 3.1 Pro sets a stronger baseline for agentic workflows.

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is Google’s fastest and most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 series, designed for high-volume developer workloads. It delivers strong performance at scale while maintaining affordability, with pricing set at $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens. The model significantly improves speed, offering a 2.5x faster time to first answer token and a 45% increase in output speed compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Despite its lower cost tier, it achieves high benchmark results, including an Elo score of 1432 and strong performance across reasoning and multimodal evaluations. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite supports adaptive “thinking levels,” allowing developers to control how much reasoning power is used for different tasks. It is suitable for large-scale applications such as translation, content moderation, user interface generation, and simulation building.

GPT-5.4 Pro is an advanced AI model developed by OpenAI to deliver high-performance capabilities for professional and complex tasks. It combines improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows into a single unified system. The model is designed to work efficiently across professional tools such as spreadsheets, presentations, documents, and development environments. GPT-5.4 Pro also includes native computer-use capabilities, enabling AI agents to interact with software, websites, and operating systems to complete tasks. With support for up to one million tokens of context, it can manage long workflows and large datasets more effectively than previous models. The model also improves tool usage, allowing it to search for and select the right tools during multi-step processes. By delivering more accurate outputs with fewer tokens, GPT-5.4 Pro helps professionals complete complex work faster and more efficiently.

GPT-5.4 mini is a fast and efficient AI model designed for high-performance tasks such as coding, reasoning, and multimodal understanding. It delivers strong capabilities similar to larger models while maintaining lower latency and cost. The model is optimized for responsive applications where speed is critical, including coding assistants and real-time workflows. GPT-5.4 mini supports advanced features such as tool use, function calling, and image interpretation. It performs well on complex tasks while running significantly faster than previous mini models. The model is also suitable for subagent systems, where it handles smaller tasks within larger AI workflows. By combining speed, efficiency, and strong performance, GPT-5.4 mini enables scalable AI applications across various use cases.

GPT-5.4 nano is a lightweight and highly efficient AI model designed for fast, cost-effective task execution. It is optimized for simple and high-volume tasks such as classification, data extraction, and basic coding support. The model delivers quick responses with minimal latency, making it ideal for real-time and large-scale applications. GPT-5.4 nano improves significantly over previous nano models in both performance and efficiency. It supports essential capabilities like tool use and structured data processing. The model is commonly used as a supporting component within larger AI systems. By focusing on speed and affordability, GPT-5.4 nano enables scalable automation across various workflows.

Seedance 2.0 is ByteDance’s advanced AI video generation platform built to turn creative inputs into cinematic-quality videos. It supports text prompts, images, audio, and video, blending them into polished visuals with smooth transitions and native sound. The platform uses sophisticated multimodal and motion synthesis to preserve visual consistency and character identity across multiple scenes. Users can combine up to twelve reference assets in a single project, enabling complex storytelling without manual editing. Seedance 2.0 automatically plans camera movement and pacing, giving creators director-level control with minimal effort. The system is capable of producing high-resolution video output, including 1080p and above. Its rapid popularity highlights its ability to generate engaging animated and narrative-driven content from simple inputs.

GPT-5.4 is an advanced artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI to support complex professional and technical work. The model combines improvements in reasoning, coding, and agent-based workflows into a single system designed for real-world productivity tasks. GPT-5.4 can generate, analyze, and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other work outputs with greater accuracy and efficiency. It also features improved tool integration, enabling the model to interact with software environments and external tools to complete multi-step workflows. With enhanced context capabilities supporting up to one million tokens, GPT-5.4 can process and reason over very large amounts of information. The model also improves factual accuracy and reduces errors compared to earlier versions. By combining strong reasoning, coding ability, and tool use, GPT-5.4 helps users complete complex tasks faster and with fewer iterations.