Meituan's LongCat 2.5 went live Nov 2, 2026: 1.6T parameters, 1M context, native image and video input, at $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens. Benchmarks, price and the catches to know before you switch.
SemiAnalysis published GDPx on Nov 2, 2026: 206 real professional tasks across 11 fields, and the best AI in the world finished just 12.0%. Scores, costs, and where the models fail.
Apple Intelligence finally reaches China in December 2026 with iOS 27.3, powered by Alibaba Qwen instead of ChatGPT. Beta starts Nov 4, but Siri AI is missing.
Mistral released Large 4 open weights on Oct 29, 2026: 1T parameters, 52B active, 41% Terminal-Bench 4.0, $0.70/$2.10 API pricing, and a modified MIT license.
Google launched Gemini 4 Carbon on Oct 28, 2026: a cybersecurity-focused frontier model with 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 71.0% on CWE-bench, $2/$10 pricing, and first access only for vetted cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program.
Liquid AI launched LFM3 on Oct 27, 2026: six open-weight 2B-class models from one 1.7B backbone, 256K context, 1 GB at 4-bit, API from $0.08 per 1M tokens.
The UK announced the AI Biosecurity Lab on Oct 24, 2026: £100M in government cash, up to £200M in OpenAI and Anthropic model credits, and £65M for countermeasures.
Moonshot launched Kimi K3.1 Pro on Oct 23, 2026: a 2.8T open-weight model, 1M context, 65.7 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, priced at $2/$10 per 1M tokens, weights due Nov 4.
OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available on Oct 22, 2026. Powered by GPT-6 Luna, it returns probabilities, choices, and scores up to 10x faster, priced from $0.10 per 1M tokens. Pricing, benchmarks, and when to use it.