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Model release Jun 25, 2026

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 with native 30-second video generation and 50-input reference capacity

ByteDance announced Seedance 2.5 at the Volcano Engine FORCE conference on June 23, 2026, targeting an early July launch with 30-second single-pass video and 50 multimodal reference inputs.

Model release Jun 25, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Pro slips to July as Google misses Sundar Pichai's I/O commitment

Google has pushed Gemini 3.5 Pro's general availability to July 2026, breaking a public June window Pichai gave developers at Google I/O and arriving as two of Google's most decorated AI scientists leave for OpenAI and Anthropic.

Model release Jun 24, 2026

Sakana AI releases Fugu Ultra, an orchestration model that routes across frontier LLMs to match top benchmark scores

Sakana AI launched Fugu and Fugu Ultra on June 22, 2026, delivering multi-model orchestration through a single OpenAI-compatible API and pitching it as a hedge against export-control disruptions like the one that cut off Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models.

Model release Jun 22, 2026

DeepSeek V4-Pro and Huawei Ascend 950DT were co-designed from the ground up, cutting inference costs 75%

A SemiAnalysis trace-level analysis published in June 2026 found that DeepSeek V4-Pro and Huawei's Ascend 950DT accelerator were co-designed together, not adapted post-hoc, slashing per-million-token costs to 0.20 yuan and raising new questions about the reach of US semiconductor export controls.

Model release Jun 22, 2026

OpenAI GPT-5.6 release window opens June 22 as Pachocki memo and Pro user reports converge

OpenAI has not announced GPT-5.6, but a Pachocki internal memo, $1.1M in Polymarket contracts, and ChatGPT Pro user reports of unusual response quality all point to a soft rollout already under way.

Model release Jun 18, 2026

Alibaba Qwen team ships three foundation models for robot navigation, manipulation, and world modeling

Alibaba's Qwen AI research team announced the Qwen-Robot Suite on June 16, 2026: three foundation models designed to give physical robots autonomous navigation, arm control, and scene understanding capabilities.

Model release Jun 10, 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, first Mythos-class models for general use

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on June 9, 2026, making a Mythos-class model available for general use for the first time and pricing both at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.

Model release Jun 3, 2026

GPT-5.5 reaches general availability in Microsoft Foundry at $5 per million input tokens

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 went generally available in Microsoft Foundry on April 24, 2026, with a Pro tier priced at $30 per million input tokens for the most demanding enterprise agent workloads.

Model release May 29, 2026

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 with dynamic workflows and cheaper fast mode

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, pairing the model upgrade with a new dynamic workflows feature for Claude Code and a fast-mode price cut of roughly three times compared to the previous generation.

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