OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, its most expensive model ever and the first it calls "AGI era." It saturates frontier math and reasoning benchmarks, at a price to match.
AnthropicAnthropic's Claude Opus 5 tops both the Intelligence and Agentic indexes on day one, with a 1M-token context and a new effort dial, priced at half of Fable 5.
Black Forest Labs, the team behind Flux, unveiled FLUX 3, a single multimodal model that generates image, video, audio, and even robot actions from one set of weights.
AI model releasesJuly 9, 2026 was the first time three frontier labs shipped new models at once, OpenAI's GPT-5.6, xAI's Grok 4.5, and Meta's Muse Spark 1.1.
OpenAI makes GPT-5.5 the default in ChatGPT with more natural answers and fewer hallucinations, while older GPT-5.2 and GPT-4.5 models are retired.
Google AIGoogle launches Gemini 3.1 Ultra with a 2-million-token context window, native multimodality, a sandboxed code tool, and better grounding to cut hallucinations.
AnthropicAnthropicAnthropic launches Claude Fable 5, a new top-tier 'Mythos' class model that leads on coding, knowledge work, vision and long-context tasks.
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