https://ai.gotry.io/news AI model and API news from providers’ official pages: releases, price changes, retirements and new capabilities. en Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-03-xai-retires-grok-voice-transcribe-1-0 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-03-xai-retires-grok-voice-transcribe-1-0 Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement xAI grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 reached end of life on October 2, 2026. Requests to its slug are routed to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0 at the same price. Source: xAI API release notes (https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes#grok-voice-transcribe-10-end-of-life) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-02-google-retired-gemini-2-5-flash-image ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-02-google-retired-gemini-2-5-flash-image Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is now retired. Source: Release notes | Gemini API | Google AI for Developers (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog?hl=en) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-01-openai-deprecated-gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15-and-1-more ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-01-openai-deprecated-gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15-and-1-more Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement OpenAI gpt-4o-mini-tts (2025-12-15) and gpt-4o-mini-tts (2025-03-20) are now deprecated and shut down on 2027-01-06. Source: OpenAI API deprecations (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-01-openai-deprecated-tts-1-and-4-more ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-01-openai-deprecated-tts-1-and-4-more Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement OpenAI tts-1, tts-1-hd, GPT-5.4 nano, GPT-5.3 Codex and GPT-5.1 are now deprecated and shut down on 2027-01-06. Source: OpenAI API deprecations (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-01-openai-retired-gpt-5-4-cyber ai.gotry.io/news/2026-10-01-openai-retired-gpt-5-4-cyber Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement OpenAI gpt-5.4-cyber is now retired. Source: OpenAI API deprecations (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-alibaba-qwen-retired-deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-alibaba-qwen-retired-deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement Alibaba Qwen deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b is now retired. Source: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: text generation models (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/text-generation-model) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-anthropic-schedules-claude-sonnet-4-5-retirement ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-anthropic-schedules-claude-sonnet-4-5-retirement Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement Anthropic Anthropic plans to retire Claude Sonnet 4.5 (claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929) from the Claude API on November 30, 2026. It recommends migrating to Claude Sonnet 5.5. Source: Claude Developer Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview#september-30-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-black-forest-labs-releases-flux-3-image ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-black-forest-labs-releases-flux-3-image Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 Image is available through one endpoint for image generation and editing, with up to ten reference images and output up to 4K. Per-image prices range from $0.041 at 768sq to $0.607 at 4K. Source: BFL API release notes (https://docs.bfl.ai/release-notes#october-1-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-google-announces-gemini-4-argon ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-google-announces-gemini-4-argon Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, with an output token limit of 1 million. It is rolling out to trusted cyber defenders and is not yet available to developers; Google says developer access will come later. Source: Google DeepMind blog (https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-4-argon-our-next-era-of-frontier-intelligence/) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-google-retired-gemini-omni-flash-preview ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-google-retired-gemini-omni-flash-preview Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement Google gemini-omni-flash-preview is now retired. Source: Gemini API deprecations (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations?hl=en) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-runway-adds-eleven-v4-to-runway-dev ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-30-runway-adds-eleven-v4-to-runway-dev Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Runway Eleven v4 is available on Runway Dev for speech generation, with scripts up to 2,500 characters. It costs 2.2 credits per 1,000 characters through October 12, 2026 PT, then 5 credits, with a 1-credit minimum. Source: Runway API changelog (https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/api_changelog/#eleven-v4-on-runway-dev) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-inception-makes-mercury-voice-generally-available ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-inception-makes-mercury-voice-generally-available Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Inception Inception made Mercury Voice generally available to enterprise customers. It supports 128K-token contexts, up to 50K output tokens and three reasoning settings. It costs $0.40 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens, with 50% off at launch ($0.20 and $0.75). Source: Inception blog (https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-voice) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-minimax-m3-1-flash-preview-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-minimax-m3-1-flash-preview-release Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release MiniMax 1M-token context window. Source: Subscription Plan Upgrade Announcement - MiniMax API Docs (https://platform.minimax.io/docs/token-plan/announcements) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-mistral-retires-leanstral-1-5-and-glm-5-2 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-mistral-retires-leanstral-1-5-and-glm-5-2 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement Mistral AI Leanstral 1.5 retires on September 30, 2026; Z.ai GLM 5.2 retires on October 31, 2026. Mistral AI recommends Z.ai GLM 5.3 as its replacement at the same price. Source: Mistral AI changelog (https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/changelogs#date-2026-09-29) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-openai-adds-computer-use-to-the-agents-api ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-openai-adds-computer-use-to-the-agents-api Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability OpenAI OpenAI added computer use to the Agents API, allowing agents to complete tasks in an OpenAI-hosted browser. Applications handle website access approvals and sign-in. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-openai-adds-ultrafast-mode-for-gpt-6-astra ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-openai-adds-ultrafast-mode-for-gpt-6-astra Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability OpenAI OpenAI added Ultrafast mode for GPT-6 Astra in the Responses API. API customers can use the ultrafast service tier to reduce the time between generated output tokens, subject to rate limits. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-openai-releases-gpt-6-1-sol ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-29-openai-releases-gpt-6-1-sol Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release OpenAI OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol (gpt-6.1-sol) for complex coding and professional work. Standard prices for prompts of up to 272K input tokens are $2 per 1M input tokens, $0.10 cached input and $10 output. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-28-anthropic-releases-claude-sonnet-5-5 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-28-anthropic-releases-claude-sonnet-5-5 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Anthropic Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5) on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry. Context window, output limits, and prices are on its model page. Source: Claude Developer Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview#september-28-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-28-elevenlabs-releases-eleven-v4-and-eleven-v4-turbo ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-28-elevenlabs-releases-eleven-v4-and-eleven-v4-turbo Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release ElevenLabs Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo are now available. Eleven v4 supports voice cloning in more than 90 languages; Turbo is intended for real-time use and has approximately 100 ms median inference latency. Source: ElevenLabs changelog (https://elevenlabs.io/docs/changelog/2026/9/28) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-25-longcat-2-5-preview-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-25-longcat-2-5-preview-release Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Meituan 1M-token context window. On LongCat API: $0.30 input, $1.20 output per 1M tokens. Source: LongCat API: changelog (https://longcat.chat/platform/docs/ChangeLog.html) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-25-perplexity-cuts-fast-preset-search-price ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-25-perplexity-cuts-fast-preset-search-price Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pricing Perplexity The Agent API fast preset now uses Fast Search. web_search falls from $2.50 to $1.00 per 1,000 invocations and is about 800 ms faster. Source: Perplexity API changelog (https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#september-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-24-perplexity-adds-fast-search-option ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-24-perplexity-adds-fast-search-option Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Perplexity Search API and Agent API web_search can set search_type to fast for a lower-latency path at $1.00 per 1,000 requests or invocations. Agent API model tokens are billed separately; search_type web is standard search. Source: Perplexity API changelog (https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#september-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-23-black-forest-labs-releases-flux-3-action ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-23-black-forest-labs-releases-flux-3-action Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Black Forest Labs Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight 7B world-action model from its FLUX 3 backbone, with weights available. On RoboLab-120 it uses under half the parameters of the prior best open model and runs up to 3.95x faster. Source: Black Forest Labs blog (https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-action) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-23-meta-introduces-muse-realtime-avatar ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-23-meta-introduces-muse-realtime-avatar Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Meta On September 23, 2026, Meta introduced Muse Realtime Avatar. It uses Muse Realtime Voice speech tokens and reference media to generate live, synchronized facial, hand, and full-body video. Source: Meta Superintelligence Labs research (https://research.meta.ai/blog/bringing-your-muse-to-life) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-anthropic-adds-mid-conversation-tool-definitions ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-anthropic-adds-mid-conversation-tool-definitions Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Anthropic On the Claude API, the inline-tools-2026-09-15 beta header lets a system message added mid-conversation carry a full tool definition or, with the MCP connector beta header, an MCP toolset, without editing the tools list. Source: Claude Developer Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview#september-22-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-anthropic-previews-fast-mode-for-claude-opus-5-5 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-anthropic-previews-fast-mode-for-claude-opus-5-5 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Anthropic Fast mode is available as a research preview for Claude Opus 5.5 on the Claude API. Source: Claude Developer Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview#september-22-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-anthropic-releases-claude-opus-5-5 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-anthropic-releases-claude-opus-5-5 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Anthropic Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5): 1M context, 128k max output, always-on adaptive thinking, at $4/$20 per MTok (Claude Opus 5 is $5/$25). It is on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry. Source: Claude Developer Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview#september-22-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-google-releases-gemini-3-8-flash-tts-models ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-google-releases-gemini-3-8-flash-tts-models Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS (gemini-3.8-flash-tts) and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS (gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts) are generally available, with a Gemini API Voices endpoint. Flash-Lite TTS is meant to replace gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-22-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-mimo-v2-6-flash-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-mimo-v2-6-flash-release Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Xiaomi 1M-token context window. On Xiaomi MiMo API: $0.14 input, $0.28 output per 1M tokens. Source: Xiaomi MiMo: model updates (https://mimo.mi.com/docs/en-US/updates/model) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-mimo-v2-6-pro-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-mimo-v2-6-pro-release Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Xiaomi 1M-token context window. On Xiaomi MiMo API: $0.435 input, $0.87 output per 1M tokens. Source: Xiaomi MiMo: model updates (https://mimo.mi.com/docs/en-US/updates/model) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-mimo-v2-6-pro-ultraspeed-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-mimo-v2-6-pro-ultraspeed-release Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Xiaomi 1M-token context window. On Xiaomi MiMo API: $4.35 input, $8.70 output per 1M tokens. Source: Xiaomi MiMo: model updates (https://mimo.mi.com/docs/en-US/updates/model) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-openai-improves-prompt-caching-for-gpt-6 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-openai-improves-prompt-caching-for-gpt-6 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability OpenAI OpenAI says GPT-6 models hit the prompt cache more often by default, and discounts now apply to shared prefixes reused within 30 minutes. New tools include a caching dashboard, a diagnostics tool that explains cache misses, explicit cache breakpoints, and changing reasoning effort mid-conversation without losing the cache. Source: OpenAI news (https://openai.com/index/better-prompt-caching-for-gpt-6) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-openai-releases-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-22-openai-releases-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release OpenAI OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol (gpt-6-sol) and GPT-6 Luna (gpt-6-luna), reasoning models that take text and images and return text through the Responses and Chat Completions APIs. Standard prices per 1M tokens for prompts of up to 272K input tokens: Sol $2 input, $0.20 cached input, $10 output; Luna $0.10, $0.01 and $0.50. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-21-grok-4-7-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-21-grok-4-7-release Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release xAI 500K-token context window. On xAI API: $2.00 input, $6.00 output per 1M tokens. Source: xAI release notes (https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-21-qwen3-8-omni-flash-realtime-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-21-qwen3-8-omni-flash-realtime-release Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen 197K-token context window. Source: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: newly released models (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-20-alibaba-releases-qwen-image-2-1 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-20-alibaba-releases-qwen-image-2-1 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen Qwen open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026. The 7B-parameter image model combines text-to-image generation and image editing, with native support for transparent images. Source: Qwen research (https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-20-qwen-audio-3-1-realtime-plus-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-20-qwen-audio-3-1-realtime-plus-release Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen 262K-token context window. Source: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: newly released models (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-18-alibaba-releases-qwen3-8-livetranslate ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-18-alibaba-releases-qwen3-8-livetranslate Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen Qwen announced Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate on September 18, 2026, describing an Interleave architecture for real-time simultaneous interpretation. Its average lagging metric drops from 2.8 seconds to 2.3 seconds. Source: Qwen research (https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-livetranslate) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-18-google-limits-access-to-gemini-2-5-models ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-18-google-limits-access-to-gemini-2-5-models Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Other Google Google is limiting Gemini 2.5 API access to users who have actively used those models. They are not deprecated and remain available until further notice. New projects should use 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-18-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-17-google-releases-antigravity-agent-09-2026 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-17-google-releases-antigravity-agent-09-2026 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google Google released antigravity-preview-09-2026, replacing antigravity-preview-05-2026. Local tool parameters and file edits changed; remote output-only use needs only the new agent string. The May preview shuts down on October 5, 2026. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-17-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-17-qwen3-8-omni-flash-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-17-qwen3-8-omni-flash-release Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen 1M-token context window. On Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: $0.15 input, $0.47 output per 1M tokens. Source: 模型上下架与更新-大模型服务平台百炼-阿里云_大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心 (https://help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-17-runway-adds-enhance-frame-rate-on-dev ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-17-runway-adds-enhance-frame-rate-on-dev Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Runway Runway Dev can now convert video to 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60, 120, 23.98, 29.97, or 59.94 fps. Inputs are at most 300 seconds, billed at 1 credit per 2 seconds via the video upscale endpoint with model enhance_frame_rate. Source: Runway API changelog (https://docs.dev.runwayml.com/api-details/api_changelog/#enhance-frame-rate-on-runway-dev) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-16-qwen-mt-uni-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-16-qwen-mt-uni-release Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen qwen-mt-uni is now available. Source: 模型上下架与更新-大模型服务平台百炼-阿里云_大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心 (https://help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-15-google-releases-gemini-3-8-live-models ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-15-google-releases-gemini-3-8-live-models Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google Gemini 3.8 Live (gemini-3.8-live) and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (gemini-3.8-live-extended-thinking) are generally available as audio-to-audio models on the Live API. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-15-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-15-jev-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-15-jev-release Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release TypeSafe 64K-token context window. On TypeSafe API: $0.042 input, $0.00 output per 1M tokens. Source: Introducing System One models & Jev (https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-15-kuaishou-releases-virtual-try-on-3-0 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-15-kuaishou-releases-virtual-try-on-3-0 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Kuaishou Kling Virtual Try-On 3.0 improves face consistency and image quality. It accepts flat-lay, mannequin, and on-model clothing images, and can lock pose, keep the face, and choose whether to keep the original background. V1 and V1.5 parameters map to the 3.0 pipeline. Source: Kling AI API updates (https://kling.ai/document-api/updates/api) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-14-anthropic-adds-on-demand-compaction-to-messages-api ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-14-anthropic-adds-on-demand-compaction-to-messages-api Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Anthropic Anthropic's Messages API now supports on-demand conversation compaction in beta via the compact-2026-09-04 header. A compaction parameter returns a signed summary block you can send later instead of the original messages, while keeping recent turns verbatim. Source: Claude Developer Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview#september-14-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-13-perplexity-adds-custom-mcp-connectors ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-13-perplexity-adds-custom-mcp-connectors Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Perplexity A Project can register a remote MCP server once and Perplexity stores its credential. Agent API calls use the connector ID with type connector. API-key or no auth, and Streamable HTTP or SSE, are supported. Source: Perplexity API changelog (https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/changelog#september-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-11-elevenlabs-makes-scribe-v2-medical-generally-available ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-11-elevenlabs-makes-scribe-v2-medical-generally-available Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Medical is now generally available for batch medical and clinical speech recognition. It is billed at the same rate as Scribe v2. Source: ElevenLabs changelog (https://elevenlabs.io/docs/changelog/2026/9/11) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-10-black-forest-labs-adds-2k-and-4k-flux-3-video ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-10-black-forest-labs-adds-2k-and-4k-flux-3-video Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Black Forest Labs The FLUX 3 Video endpoint now returns qhd (2560×1440) and uhd (3840×2176) clips in one request, and draft_enhance can commit a draft at either size. Added per-second prices are $0.40 and $0.80 for text or image input, and $0.65 and $0.95 for continuation. Source: BFL API release notes (https://docs.bfl.ai/release-notes#september-10-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-10-deepseek-releases-deepseek-v4-1-flash ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-10-deepseek-releases-deepseek-v4-1-flash Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release DeepSeek DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest new-architecture model with native multimodal vision, callable as deepseek-flash. The retired names deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp route to it for now. V4 Pro continues after 14 September 2026 with unchanged billing, and API prices were reduced with the release. Source: DeepSeek API change log (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-10-openai-makes-gpt-live-1-generally-available ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-10-openai-makes-gpt-live-1-generally-available Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release OpenAI GPT-Live 1 is generally available for full-duplex voice sessions that continue while a backend model or agent handles reasoning and tools. Voice costs $0.05 per minute, billed per second; model and tool use is charged separately. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-10-openai-releases-agents-api-in-public-beta ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-10-openai-releases-agents-api-in-public-beta Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability OpenAI OpenAI released the Agents API in public beta, with a managed Codex harness for session orchestration, context compaction, and recovery. Sessions can stream progress, use custom tools and MCP servers, and run in OpenAI or customer sandboxes. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-08-inception-releases-mercury-2-5 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-08-inception-releases-mercury-2-5 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Inception Inception released Mercury 2.5, a quality step up from Mercury 2, with a 260K-token context and 1,107 tokens per second. List price is $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens, 80% off at launch. Source: Inception blog (https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2-5) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-08-openai-makes-gpt-rosalind-generally-available ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-08-openai-makes-gpt-rosalind-generally-available Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release OpenAI OpenAI made GPT-Rosalind (gpt-rosalind-research) generally available for approved internal life sciences research under its trusted-access program. Prices are $5, $0.50 cached, and $25 per 1M input, cached input, and output tokens. Billing starts October 5, 2026. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-08-openai-releases-gpt-image-2-5-sunburst-and-flare ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-08-openai-releases-gpt-image-2-5-sunburst-and-flare Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release OpenAI OpenAI released GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and GPT Image 2.5 Flare for generation and editing via the Image API and Responses image tool. Both add xhigh and max quality and use GPT Image 2 token rates. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-07-kuaishou-launches-video-commerce-api ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-07-kuaishou-launches-video-commerce-api Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Kuaishou Kling Kling AI launched Video Commerce via API and Agent. A character image plus script makes a talking-head video; adding product images produces promotion shots. Options cover audio speed, aspect ratio, resolution, voice, speech rate, and background music. Source: Kling AI API updates (https://kling.ai/document-api/updates/api) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-04-ant-group-releases-ling-3-0-flash-vl ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-04-ant-group-releases-ling-3-0-flash-vl Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Ant Group On September 4, 2026, Ant Group launched multimodal Ling-3.0-flash-VL. It can be tried in the chat UI and called through OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible APIs. Source: Ant Ling changelog (https://developer.ant-ling.com/en/docs/getting-started/changelog/) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-03-google-releases-lyria-3-5-music-model ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-03-google-releases-lyria-3-5-music-model Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google Lyria 3.5 (lyria-3.5) is generally available for full-length song generation. It accepts text and image inputs and outputs 44.1 kHz stereo audio, with duration and structure controls. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-03-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-03-openai-adds-long-running-controls-for-gpt-6-astra ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-03-openai-adds-long-running-controls-for-gpt-6-astra Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability OpenAI The Responses API now offers async tool calling, mid-turn steering over WebSockets, and mid-conversation reasoning-effort changes for GPT-6 Astra, while preserving the cached prompt prefix. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-03-openai-releases-gpt-6-astra ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-03-openai-releases-gpt-6-astra Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release OpenAI OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on the Responses and Chat Completions APIs for reasoning, coding, computer use, research, and documents. It rejects none reasoning effort, custom temperature, top_p, and logprobs. Tool calling requires the Responses API. Source: OpenAI API changelog (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-02-google-releases-gemini-3-8-flash ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-02-google-releases-gemini-3-8-flash Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google gemini-3.8-flash is generally available. Google describes it as its most intelligent Flash model, aimed at long-horizon software engineering, agents, and enterprise workflows. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-02-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-02-meta-releases-muse-spark-1-3 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-02-meta-releases-muse-spark-1-3 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Meta On September 2, 2026, Meta released Muse Spark 1.3, including a max-reasoning option, on Muse Code and Meta Model API. It targets stronger agentic and coding work and more reliable long instructions. Source: Meta Superintelligence Labs research (https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-02-qwen3-8-max-0902-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-02-qwen3-8-max-0902-release Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen 1M-token context window. On Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: ¥12.00 input, ¥36.00 output per 1M tokens. Source: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: newly released models (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-anthropic-prices-claude-fable-5-1-cache-reads ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-anthropic-prices-claude-fable-5-1-cache-reads Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pricing Anthropic Cache-read price for Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 is $0.25 per million tokens, 0.025 times base input, versus 0.1 times on other models. Cache write prices are unchanged. Source: Claude Developer Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview#september-1-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-anthropic-releases-claude-fable-5-1 ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-anthropic-releases-claude-fable-5-1 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Anthropic Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 (claude-fable-5-1), successor to Claude Fable 5. Context is 1M tokens, max output 128k, price $10/$50 per MTok, cache reads $0.25 per MTok, on Claude API, Bedrock, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry. Source: Claude Developer Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview#september-1-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-claude-mythos-5-1-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-claude-mythos-5-1-release Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Anthropic 1M-token context window. Source: Claude Platform release notes (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/overview) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-google-adds-agentic-video-understanding-to-gemini ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-google-adds-agentic-video-understanding-to-gemini Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Capability Google Agentic video understanding is available for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite on the Interactions and GenerateContent APIs. Google says it can use up to 88% fewer tokens on long-form video than static processing. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog#09-01-2026) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-meta-releases-muse-voice-transcribe ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-meta-releases-muse-voice-transcribe Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Meta On September 1, 2026, Meta released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time audio model with streaming speech recognition, diarization for more than 20 speakers, endpointing, and multilingual code-switching. Source: Meta Superintelligence Labs research (https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-voice-transcribe) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-qwen3-7-text-embedding-flash-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-qwen3-7-text-embedding-flash-release Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen qwen3.7-text-embedding-flash is now available. Source: 模型上下架与更新-大模型服务平台百炼-阿里云_大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心 (https://help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-qwen3-7-text-rerank-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-qwen3-7-text-rerank-release Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen qwen3.7-text-rerank is now available. Source: 模型上下架与更新-大模型服务平台百炼-阿里云_大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心 (https://help.aliyun.com/zh/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-rerank-3-lite-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-rerank-3-lite-release Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release MongoDB rerank-3-lite is now available. Source: Model Deprecations, Lifecycle States, and Support - Voyage AI by MongoDB - MongoDB Docs (https://www.mongodb.com/docs/voyageai/models/lifecycle/) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-rerank-3-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-09-01-rerank-3-release Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release MongoDB rerank-3 is now available. Source: Model Deprecations, Lifecycle States, and Support - Voyage AI by MongoDB - MongoDB Docs (https://www.mongodb.com/docs/voyageai/models/lifecycle/) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-31-mistral-makes-ocr-4-1-generally-available ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-31-mistral-makes-ocr-4-1-generally-available Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Mistral AI On August 31, 2026, Mistral AI made OCR 4.1 (mistral-ocr-4-1) generally available. Source: Mistral AI changelog (https://docs.mistral.ai/resources/changelogs#date-2026-08-31) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-28-hy4-preview-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-28-hy4-preview-release Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Tencent 1.02M-token context window. On Tencent Cloud TokenHub: ¥6.00 input, ¥18.00 output per 1M tokens. Source: Tencent: Tencent releases and open-sources Tencent Hy4 preview (https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-28-qwen-mt-image-2-0-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-28-qwen-mt-image-2-0-release Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen qwen-mt-image-2.0 is now available. Source: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: newly released models (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-27-gemini-omni-flash-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-27-gemini-omni-flash-release Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google Gemini Omni Flash is now available. Source: Gemini API deprecations (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations?hl=en) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-gemini-3-5-transcribe-live-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-gemini-3-5-transcribe-live-release Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live is now available. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog?hl=en) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-gemini-3-5-transcribe-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-gemini-3-5-transcribe-release Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is now available. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog?hl=en) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-glm-5-3-flash-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-glm-5-3-flash-release Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Zhipu AI 1M-token context window. On Z.ai API: $0.15 input, $0.50 output per 1M tokens. Source: Z.ai new releases (https://docs.z.ai/release-notes/new-released) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-openai-deprecated-whisper-1-and-3-more ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-openai-deprecated-whisper-1-and-3-more Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retirement OpenAI whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize are now deprecated and shut down on 2027-02-26. Source: OpenAI API deprecations (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-qwen3-8-flash-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-26-qwen3-8-flash-release Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen 1M-token context window. On Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: $0.15 input, $0.47 output per 1M tokens. Source: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: newly released models (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-20-wan3-0-video-prime-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-20-wan3-0-video-prime-release Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen Wan3.0 Video Prime is now available. Source: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: newly released models (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-18-glm-5-3-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-18-glm-5-3-release Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Zhipu AI 1M-token context window. On Z.ai API: $1.40 input, $4.40 output per 1M tokens. Source: Z.ai new releases (https://docs.z.ai/release-notes/new-released) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-17-qwen3-8-27b-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-17-qwen3-8-27b-release Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Alibaba Qwen 1M-token context window. On Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: $0.50 input, $3.00 output per 1M tokens. Source: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio: newly released models (https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-13-gemini-3-7-flash-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-13-gemini-3-7-flash-release Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release Google 1.05M-token context window. On Gemini API: $0.75 input, $3.75 output per 1M tokens. Source: Gemini API changelog (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog?hl=en) https://ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-12-grok-4-6-release ai.gotry.io/news/2026-08-12-grok-4-6-release Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Release xAI 500K-token context window. On xAI API: $2.00 input, $6.00 output per 1M tokens. Source: xAI release notes (https://docs.x.ai/developers/release-notes)