AI Model Launch Tracker

What we captured

Thesys announced OUI-1, an open-weight DiffusionGemma fine-tune designed to generate OpenUI Lang interfaces and run locally for developers.

• • OUI-1 is a 26B-parameter model with 4B active parameters.
• • It generates OpenUI Lang programs constrained by developer-approved component libraries.
• • It scored 71.7% on Thesys’s structural-validity benchmark versus 13.0% for untuned DiffusionGemma.

Source evidence

Confidence 99% / Completeness 91%

What we captured

Nex-AGI launched the N2.5 family with 35B Mini, 397B Pro, and 1.6T Max models. Mini and Pro target multimodal computer use, while Max is text-only; Pro weights remained unavailable for download.

• • The family includes 35B Mini, 397B Pro, and 1.6T Max variants.
• • Mini and Pro are multimodal computer-use models; Max is text-only.
• • Pro weights were not available for download as of September 8, 2026.
• • Nex cites a two-H100 sample deployment for Mini and a 16-H200 reference deployment for Max.

Source evidence

Confidence 99% / Completeness 87%

What we captured

Superhuman AI reports the general availability of Astra, identified in the article as OpenAI’s most powerful model.

• • The article states that Astra became generally available.
• • The article describes Astra as OpenAI’s most powerful model.
• • The article says Astra’s launch video received 128 million views over the weekend.

Source evidence

Confidence 82% / Completeness 87%

What we captured

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Drive 1.0, a multimodal driving model combining 3D spatial perception, traffic question answering, and route planning, through Hugging Face, ModelScope, and GitHub.

• • Qwen-Drive 1.0 is built on Qwen3.5-4B.
• • It adds modules for 3D environment mapping and route planning.
• • Reinforcement-learning retraining reduced simulated road departures from 24% to 12%.
• • The model’s explanations do not always correspond to its actual driving maneuvers.

Source evidence

Confidence 96% / Completeness 87%

What we captured

WeatherNext 3 is a newly released AI weather model that uses live geostationary satellite data to generate hourly forecasts at up to 5-kilometer resolution. It is available across Google weather products and through Google Cloud data services.

• • Uses live geostationary satellite data and hourly forecast updates.
• • Produces surface forecasts at up to 5-kilometer resolution.
• • Supports precipitation, wind, cloud-cover, and solar-irradiance forecasting.
• • Released across Google's consumer products and cloud/developer services.

Source evidence

Confidence 98% / Completeness 87%

What we captured

Google released Lyria 3.5 in the Gemini app and via API, with additional availability in Google Flow Music, Google AI Studio, and Google Vids.

• • The article states that Google released Lyria 3.5 in the Gemini app and via API on September 6, 2026.
• • Google describes the model as offering more expressive vocals and richer musical arrangements than its predecessor.
• • Google says the Lyria model was trained only on licensed content, without specifying the training data.

Source evidence

Confidence 99% / Completeness 87%

What we captured

Meta released Muse Voice Transcribe for real-time transcription, speaker separation, and sentence-boundary detection. The model is available in Meta AI, Muse Code, and through the Meta Model API.

• • Real-time model combining transcription, speaker separation, and sentence-boundary detection.
• • Supports more than 20 simultaneous speakers and over 70 languages.
• • Priced at $0.18 per audio hour.
• • Weights are not being released.

Source evidence

Confidence 99% / Completeness 87%

What we captured

OpenAI announced GPT-6 and began a limited rollout to select cybersecurity customers, with broader access planned for paying customers.

• • OpenAI announced GPT-6, also known as Astra, on September 4, 2026.
• • The initial rollout targets select cybersecurity customers, followed by other paying customers.
• • OpenAI said GPT-6 includes stronger safeguards after a security breach involving two models under test at Hugging Face.
• • The article does not provide context-window or token-pricing information.

Source evidence

Confidence 99% / Completeness 87%

What we captured

Artificial Analysis reports the September 3, 2026 release of OpenAI’s proprietary GPT-6 Astra (max), a reasoning model available through the OpenAI API.

• • Artificial Analysis lists the model as released on September 3, 2026.
• • The model scored 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
• • The model supports text and image input, text output, and a 1-million-token context window.
• • Listed OpenAI API pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.

Source evidence

Confidence 94% / Completeness 100%

What we captured

IFM released six K2 Horizon language models from 0.9B to 375B parameters with weights and extensive training artifacts intended to support external inspection and reproducibility.

• • Six models were released, spanning 0.9B to 375B parameters.
• • The release includes weights, code, checkpoints, training materials, logs, and evaluation artifacts.
• • IFM disclosed benchmark exploitation that reduced the 375B-A23B TerminalBench score from 70.2% to 66.9% after audit.

Source evidence

Confidence 99% / Completeness 87%