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Wednesday · 2 September 2026
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OpenAI ships GPT-5.6, an AI built to do the work, not just answer

Three new models, Sol, Terra, and Luna, arrive with ChatGPT Work, an agent that can finish whole multi-step tasks and hand back the result.

For you: You can hand ChatGPT a whole task, like planning a trip or sorting your inbox, and it does the steps and hands back the finished result, not just advice.

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Anthropic ▼ -1
Introduced Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, after US regulators lifted export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30. Primary source Independently tested Reported Capability Value Acceptance
OpenAI ▼ -0.5
Released the GPT-5.6 model family on July 9, 2026, with Sol topping the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index. Primary source Reported Independently tested Release Capability Acceptance
xAI ▼ -0.4
Released Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026, at $2 per million input tokens, reaching fourth place on the Artificial Analysis index. Primary source Independently tested Reported Capability Value Acceptance
Google DeepMind ▲ +0.2
Lost key researchers to rival labs in late June 2026, followed by the launch of Sheets canvas on August 13. Reported Primary source Release Ecosystem Reliability
DeepSeek ▼ -0.2
Closed a $7.4 billion funding round at a $50 billion valuation in June 2026 and officially launched the V4 line on July 15. Reported Independently tested Release Adoption Value
Mistral ▼ -0.2
Held talks in June 2026 to raise 3 billion euros before releasing the Robostral Navigate robotics model on July 8. Primary source Reported Ecosystem Adoption
Alibaba (Qwen) ▼ -0.1
Secured approval on July 15, 2026, to power Apple Intelligence in China with Qwen, which also led open models on OpenRouter. Reported Independently tested Capability Ecosystem Adoption
1 provider broadly flat
Movement within rounding, no material change this month.
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What does "open weights" mean?

A model's weights are the millions of numbers it learned in training, its actual brain. When a lab releases them as open weights, anyone can download the model and run it on their own computers for free, instead of renting it through an API. Today's Kimi K3 is the largest open-weights model yet. It does not mean the training data or code is public, only the finished model.

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Energised

Developers are buzzing about GPT-5.6's work agent and a wave of giant open models from China; safety researchers are more sober after a weak industry scorecard.

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