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Wire bulletin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:19:05 UTC
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MODELS DESK

Frontier-model launches, benchmark results and technical disclosures.

12 filings on the wire.

  1. [MODELS] Filed Aug 08, 2026 UTC

    SAN FRANCISCO, August 7 — OpenAI cannot rule out 'critical' cyber capability in unreleased Astra model, pauses some internal work

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  2. [MODELS] Filed Aug 04, 2026 UTC

    SHANGHAI, August 4 — MiniMax releases H3 video model weights but bars US, EU, UK and South Korea from local deployment

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  3. [MODELS] Filed Jul 27, 2026 UTC LEAD STORY

    BEIJING, July 27 — Moonshot AI releases full weights of 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  4. [MODELS] Filed Jul 26, 2026 UTC

    SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 — Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, pitching frontier-adjacent performance at half of Fable 5's price

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  5. [MODELS] Filed Jul 20, 2026 UTC

    SHANGHAI, July 20 — Moonshot's Kimi K3 triggers second 'DeepSeek moment' as chip stocks tumble

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  6. [MODELS] Filed Jul 10, 2026 UTC

    MENLO PARK, July 8 — SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, first model since IPO and Cursor deal

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  7. [MODELS] Filed Jul 03, 2026 UTC

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 — Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5 as default, cuts API price 60% through August

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  8. [MODELS] Filed Jul 01, 2026 UTC

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 — Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as default model, undercutting flagship pricing ahead of IPO

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  9. [MODELS] Filed Jun 29, 2026 UTC

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 — OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under U.S. government-managed access list

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  10. [MODELS] Filed Jun 25, 2026 UTC

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 — OpenAI, Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, first custom inference chip aimed at cutting AI compute costs

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  11. [MODELS] Filed Jun 10, 2026 UTC

    SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 — Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, first general-availability Mythos-class model, with mandatory retention and routing safeguards

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent

  12. [MODELS] Filed May 05, 2026 UTC

    SAN FRANCISCO, May 5 — OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT default; claims 52.5% fewer hallucinations

    By Mateo Quintana, Wire correspondent