Claude Haiku 4.5 is now available and beats Claude Sonnet 4 on SWE-Bench Claude Opus 4.5 might be the next model

Gemini 3 Pro related strings found on the Gemini site. The release should be really close now

2 new Google Gemini models "Orionmist" & "Lithiumflow" are currently being tested in LmArena

Gemini 3 "9d30" 🆚Lithiumflow 🆚Orionmist 🆚Gemini 2.5 Pro - 3D Voxel first gen starter Pokemon scene Lithiumflow and Orionmist seem slightly less consistent and overall weaker than some of the Gemini 3 checkpoints I’ve tested on AI Studio Still, they demonstrate a significant

xAI plans to release an image editing model comparable to Nano-Banana before the end of the year

Oak 🆚 Willow - Xbox Controller SVG These 4 mystery models are likely different GPT-5 checkpoints

The new GPT-5 model "Willow" seems to have a low reasoning budget of "16" For comparison, the reasoning budgets of the Codex models are: GPT-5-Codex-Low : 64 GPT-5-Codex-Medium : 192 GPT-5-Codex-High : 256

New GPT-5 checkpoints have been added to DesignArena The reasoning budget of the new models: Firefly: 0 Chrysalis: 16 Cicada: 64 Caterpillar: 256 The new checkpoints seem a bit better than the old ones from initial testing

Grok Image "Mandarin"🆚Nano-Banana - Last paragraph from "Faust" The new Grok Image model "Mandarin" seems really good, text generation capabilities seem to be on par with Nano-Banana Impressive how quickly xAI is improving and iterating on their image and video generation

A new Google Gemini model "Riftrunner" is currently being tested on LmArena

Gemini 3 appears to be rolling out now The Canvas feature in the mobile app seems to use the new Gemini 3 model The difference between Web and mobile for the 3D Pokemon voxel scene is huge

xAI has been testing different versions of Grok 4.1 on LmArena and Openrouter Don’t expect a huge jump in performance, significant improvements will likely come with Grok 5

Gemini 3 Pro Model card has been leaked Arc-Agi-2 : 31.1%, Humanity's last exam: 37.5% and Terminal-Bench 2.0: 54.2% are very impressive