Release tracker
Model, API, and platform releases that matter if you run AI in production, with a one-line note on why. Newest first. Updated October 9, 2026.
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Type
| Date | Release | Vendor | Type | Status | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9 | Microsoft-Decision-1 | Microsoft | Small model | GA | Decision-scoring model post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B; returns probabilities per answer option. $0.042/M input, $0 output on OpenRouter. |
| Oct 9 | Dynamic workflows (Claude Managed Agents) | Anthropic | API | Preview | An agent writes a workflow that runs up to 1,000 agents in phases; beta behind managed-agents-2026-04-01. |
| Oct 8 | Gemini agent for work | Product | Announced | Single "universal agent" across Workspace and Gemini Enterprise, announced at Gemini at Work. | |
| Oct 7 | GPT-6 Sol / GPT-6 Luna | OpenAI | LLM | Rolling out | ChatGPT models with Intelligent UI. Sol for paid tiers, Luna for Free and Go. |
| Oct 7 | GPT-6.1 Sol (API) + Decisions API | OpenAI | API | GA | Coding and computer-use model at $0.10/M cached input; Decisions API in limited preview. |
| Oct 7 | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | Small model | GA | $0.10 in / $0.50 out per million tokens under 100K context. About 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5. |
| Oct 7 | Claude Opus 5.5 | Anthropic | LLM | GA | Positioned at Fable 5.1 quality on most work, 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5. |
| Oct 7 | GLM 5.3 Fast | Z.AI | LLM | GA | Latency-tuned member of the GLM 5.3 family. |
| Oct 6 | EmbeddingGemma 2 | Small model | GA | Google says the open-weight (Apache 2.0) 740M multimodal embedder maps text, images, audio and video into one space, with 768-dim vectors truncatable to 128. | |
| Oct 6 | Mistral Large 4 | Mistral | LLM | Preview | 1.05T-parameter MoE (52B active), 1M context. Open weights promised for October 27. |
| Oct 6 | Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 | Image | GA | Efficiency-focused image generation model; GA in the Gemini API on October 8. | |
| Oct 5 | HY Image 3.5 Preview | Tencent Cloud | Image | Preview | Image generation preview. |
| Oct 2 | Ling 3.1 Flash | inclusionAI | LLM | GA | Fast-tier open model. |
| Sep 30 | Gemini 4 Argon | LLM | Preview | Google says access is limited to trusted cyber defenders for now, with paid API customers and AI Ultra next; introductory pricing is $2 input / $10 output per million tokens. |