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01 Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle DeepMind · Oct 13, 2026 Multimodal 02 Muse Wonder / Muse Wonder FullMeta (Meta Superintelligence Labs) · Oct 12, 2026 Multimodal 03 Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic · Oct 7, 2026 Multimodal 04 Mistral Large 4Mistral AI · Oct 6, 2026 Multimodal 05 Nano Banana 2.1Google · Oct 6, 2026 Image 06 FLUX 3 ImageBlack Forest Labs · Oct 1, 2026 Image

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OpenAI will remove GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 from its API on January 14, 2027

GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini shut down in the API on Jan 14, 2027. OpenAI recommends gpt-6-luna; fine-tunes follow the…

Oct 14, 20262 min read
Model releasesMeta launches Muse Wonder, an agentic model with 1M context, on its APIOct 12, 2026 Policy & safetyAnthropic updates Claude usage policy, effective November 12, 2026Oct 8, 2026 Product updatesOpenAI rolls out GPT-6 with Intelligent UI to all ChatGPT usersOct 7, 2026 Model releasesAnthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokensOct 7, 2026 Model releasesGoogle releases EmbeddingGemma 2, an open on-device multimodal embedderOct 6, 2026 Model releasesMistral Large 4 enters public preview; open weights due end of OctoberOct 6, 2026

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Google Flow

Google

Google's AI filmmaking tool built on Veo, Omni and Nano Banana

PaidImage generationVideo generation

Udio

Uncharted Labs

AI music generator in a licensed, download-restricted transition period

FreemiumFree tierMusic

Luma (Dream Machine / Luma Agents)

Luma AI

Creative agent and Ray video models for video, image and audio

PaidAgents & automationImage generation

Le Chat

Mistral AI

Mistral's European AI assistant for chat, search and coding

FreemiumFree tierChat assistantsCoding

Zapier (Agents & AI)

Zapier, Inc.

No-code automation with AI agents, Copilot and MCP

FreemiumFree tierAgents & automationProductivity & notes

Descript

Descript

Edit video and podcasts by editing the transcript

FreemiumFree tierVideo generationVoice & audio

Cursor

Anysphere (part of SpaceX)

AI code editor and coding agent for building software

FreemiumFree tierAgents & automationCoding

DeepSeek

DeepSeek

Free AI chat app built on DeepSeek's own models

FreeFree tierChat assistantsCoding

DeepL

DeepL SE

Machine translation and AI writing assistance for text and documents

FreemiumFree tierTranslationWriting

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