AI Model Launch Tracker

What we captured

HiDream.ai launched HiDream-O1-World, a native omni-modal model for generating and interacting with persistent 3D worlds.

• • The model was launched on August 24, 2026.
• • It generates explorable 3D worlds from text, images, or interactive controls.
• • It ranked first on WBench’s Navi leaderboard with an average score of 80.9.

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Confidence 99% / Completeness 79%

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Generalist AI announced a research release of GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns manipulation tasks from a single 3–12 second demonstration through in-context physical prompting.

• • One-shot prompting from a 3–12 second demonstration averaged 59% success across 10 tasks.
• • Ten gradient steps on five minutes of data per task raised average success to 83%.
• • The model was pretrained continuously for more than eight months on physical interaction data.
• • The release is research-only and is not yet deployable as a public product.

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DeepSeek announced an experimental vision model supporting Chat Completions, Messages, and Responses requests, with a 384-token billing ceiling per image.

• • The model accepts mixed text and image requests.
• • Each image is capped at 384 billable V4-Flash tokens.
• • The production V4-Flash endpoint remains text-only.
• • Peak uncached input pricing is $0.44 per million tokens and peak output pricing is $1.32 per million tokens.

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DeepSeek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model available through its API and compatible with OpenAI and Anthropic API formats.

• • The model adds image processing to DeepSeek-V4-Flash.
• • DeepSeek says it nearly matches Opus 4.8 on internal multimodal agent benchmarks.
• • The model supports image inputs and visual agent workflows.
• • Harness version 0.1.1 supports the model out of the box.

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Confidence 99% / Completeness 87%

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Murf AI announced Falcon 2, a proprietary voice foundation model positioned against leading real-time voice models on naturalness, latency, and cost.

• • Murf AI announced Falcon 2 on August 21, 2026.
• • The article reports that Falcon 2 ranked ahead of ElevenLabs Turbo v2.5, ElevenLabs Flash v2.5, and OpenAI Realtime on Artificial Analysis’s Speech Arena.
• • Murf states that Falcon 2 provides sub-100-millisecond time-to-first-audio and costs $0.01 per generated minute.
• • The model supports 150+ voices across 35+ languages and up to 10,000 concurrent calls.

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Ornith AI released Ornith-1.5, a three-size open model family designed to generate its own training tasks, scaffolds, and solution rollouts.

• • The release date is August 19, 2026.
• • The family contains 397B MoE, 35B MoE with 3B active parameters per token, and 9B dense variants.
• • Ornith AI says the models generate harder tasks, task-specific scaffolds, and solution rollouts within a reinforcement-learning loop.
• • Weights, serving instructions, and quantized formats were published for developer testing.

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Confidence 100% / Completeness 87%

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OpenAI announced a limited API release of an Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, powered by Cerebras and capable of up to 750 output tokens per second.

• • OpenAI is testing an Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol.
• • The mode is available to a small group of customers through the OpenAI API.
• • The mode is powered by Cerebras and can produce up to 750 output tokens per second.

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Zhipu announced GLM-5.3 and claimed it outperformed Anthropic's Mythos 5 on a cybersecurity benchmark and narrowed the coding capability gap.

• • Zhipu announced the GLM-5.3 model.
• • Zhipu said GLM-5.3 outperformed Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in a key cybersecurity benchmark.
• • Zhipu said GLM-5.3 closed the gap on coding capabilities.
• • Article date: 2026-08-16.

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Z.ai released GLM-5.3, a 1M-context coding and reasoning model, with API access through Together AI serverless and dedicated infrastructure.

• • Together AI lists the endpoint as zai-org/GLM-5.3.
• • Thinking is always enabled, with low, high, and max effort settings.
• • The model is listed with a 1M-token context length.
• • The listed prices are $1.40 per million input tokens and $440 per million output tokens.
• • Weights are described as released following a post-launch safety evaluation, but no current license is specified.

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Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding, agentic, software engineering, web development, and knowledge-work workflows, with availability across its API, enterprise, and consumer products.

• • Google announced the model on August 13, 2026.
• • The introductory price through the end of 2026 is $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.
• • Google reports higher performance than Gemini 3.6 Flash across coding, web development, document reasoning, and business-workflow benchmarks.
• • The model includes updated safeguards for CBRN and cyber-offense misuse domains.

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