whenmodel: frontier model release intelligence, home
Sat 3 Oct · 15:28Z

Radar

Service notices

What has come before launches, each with its track record, then the launches that already came. None of it moves the level.

5early warnings posted, none scored

Early warnings

LIVE · 5 SOURCES

Unmarked trains 1

Track 11 revealed slots listed officially a median 7 days later.

Space Bunny Alpha10d in stealthOpenRouter · lab unknown

Scheduled streams 0

Track Streams went up ahead of 5 of 9 OpenAI launches checked, a median 4.9 h ahead (2.2–44.2 h); none before GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6 Sol/Luna.

No upcoming streams on the watched lab channels.

Pending architectures 1

Track Led 7 of 16 dated releases, a median 6.9 days ahead (Qwen and Z.ai only), but none of the 5 since Feb 2026.

qwen4_exp38d pendingtransformers · Alibaba Qwen · frontier lab

Recent arrivals

LIVE · 6 SOURCES

Frontier launches in the last 7 days, each once, with every source that saw it. Listed, never scored.

  1. Gemini 4 ArgonWed 30 Sep 20:04ZGoogle DeepMindHN
  2. GPT-6.1 Sol / GPT-6.1 Sol ProTue 29 Sep 17:28ZOpenAIOPENROUTEROPENAI POSTHN
  3. Claude Sonnet 5.5Mon 28 Sep 18:04ZAnthropicOPENROUTERANTHROPIC POSTHN

Fresh drops

LIVE · OPENROUTER
  1. Ling 3.1 Flash1d agoinclusionAI · 262k ctx · FREE
  2. Apodex 1.1 Mini (free)1d agoApodex · 262k ctx · FREE
  3. Pareto 26.10 PreviewVIS2d agounbiased · 1.0M ctx · $0.8 / $3.2
  4. GPT-6.1 Sol ProVIS29 SEPOpenAI · 1.1M ctx · $2 / $10
  5. GPT-6.1 SolVIS29 SEPOpenAI · 1.1M ctx · $2 / $10
  6. Claude Sonnet 5.5VIS28 SEPAnthropic · 1M ctx · $2 / $10
  7. Perceptron Mk1.5VIS25 SEPPerceptron · 37k ctx · $0.15 / $1.5
  8. Ember-1VIS24 SEPFireworks · 1.0M ctx · $3 / $15
14 MORE LISTINGS
  1. GLM 5.3 Prime23 SEPZ.ai GLM · 1M ctx · $2.8 / $8.8
  2. Qwen3.8 Max PrimeVIS23 SEPAlibaba Qwen · 1M ctx · $4 / $12
  3. Space Bunny AlphaSTEALTHVIS23 SEPStealth · 1M ctx · FREE
  4. Aion 3.5 Mini23 SEPAionLabs · 262k ctx · $0.7 / $1.4
  5. Aion 3.523 SEPAionLabs · 262k ctx · $3 / $6
  6. Solar Mini 423 SEPUpstage · 524k ctx · $0.05 / $0.2
  7. Command A+VIS22 SEPCohere · 192k ctx · $0.3 / $1.5
  8. GPT-6 Luna ProVIS22 SEPOpenAI · 1.1M ctx · $0.1 / $0.5
  9. GPT-6 LunaVIS22 SEPOpenAI · 1.1M ctx · $0.1 / $0.5
  10. GPT-6 Sol ProVIS22 SEPOpenAI · 1.1M ctx · $2 / $10
  11. GPT-6 SolVIS22 SEPOpenAI · 1.1M ctx · $2 / $10
  12. Claude Opus 5.5VIS22 SEPAnthropic · 1M ctx · $4 / $20
  13. MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeedVIS21 SEPXiaomi · 1.0M ctx · $4.35 / $8.7
  14. MiMo-V2.6-FlashVIS21 SEPXiaomi · 1.1M ctx · $0.14 / $0.28

The feed

LIVE · 6 FEEDS60 REPORTS · 10 ALERTS
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken1h agoHN · 78▲ · 98 commentsShow HN: Germany's new sovereign AI model Kolibri4h agoHN · 197▲ · 97 commentsAnthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap16h agoANTHROPICFrom the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds421h agoHN · 295▲ · 89 commentsAlert: Google GenAI SDK v2.28.0 · confirms gemini-omni-1.1-flash21h agoGITHUB · googleapis/python-genaiA model guide for the GPT-6 family23h agoOPENAIOpenAI SDK v3.24.023h agoGITHUB · openai/openai-pythonOne month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash23h agoHN · 197▲ · 155 commentsGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow1d agoHN · 75▲ · 58 commentsDeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows1d agoHN · 392▲ · 211 commentsGreg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]1d agoHN · 279▲ · 106 commentsShow HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas1d agoHN · 322▲ · 101 comments
48 MORE REPORTSgrok-voice-transcribe-1.0 end of life1d agoXAIOpenAI SDK v3.23.01d agoGITHUB · openai/openai-pythonGoogle GenAI SDK v2.27.01d agoGITHUB · googleapis/python-genaiUsing Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo1d agoHN · 222▲ · 78 commentsThe eternal complement1d agoOPENAIHow Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out1d agoOPENAIBarclays scales Claude to upgrade operations and improve client experience2d agoANTHROPICAnthropic SDK v1.11.02d agoGITHUB · anthropics/anthropic-sdk-pythonGemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence2d agoDEEPMINDAnthropic SDK v1.10.02d agoGITHUB · anthropics/anthropic-sdk-pythonIntroducing SynthID Bio3d agoDEEPMINDDisrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign3d agoOPENAIDevDay 2026 Recap4d agoOPENAIAlert: Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol4d agoOPENAIIntroducing dots4d agoOPENAIHow we will do better for Australia4d agoOPENAITowards safety cases for frontier AI training4d agoOPENAIThe Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support5d agoOPENAIAre you a Codex Original?5d agoOPENAIAlert: Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.55d agoANTHROPICxAI SDK v1.20.08d agoGITHUB · xai-org/xai-sdk-pythonAlert: Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar8d agoDEEPMINDClaude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats9d agoANTHROPICAdvancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory9d agoDEEPMINDGemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello10d agoDEEPMINDAlert: Introducing Claude Opus 5.511d agoANTHROPICThe Situation Report11d agoANTHROPICAlert: Grok 4.712d agoXAIPartnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation14d agoANTHROPICIntroducing the Life Sciences Verification Program15d agoANTHROPICGrok Voice Transcribe 2.016d agoXAIAlert: Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking17d agoDEEPMINDDetecting and countering misuse of AI: September 202623d agoANTHROPICAlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome25d agoDEEPMINDIntroducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model30d agoDEEPMINDProactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises30d agoDEEPMINDAlert: Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber30d agoDEEPMINDgrok-imagine-image-quality retirement on November 231d agoXAIDeveloping Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers31d agoANTHROPICImagine image API updates36d agoXAIxAI SDK v1.19.045d agoGITHUB · xai-org/xai-sdk-pythonAlert: Grok 4.652d agoXAIGrok Bot53d agoXAIgrok-imagine-video-1.5 modalities64d agoXAIGrok Voice Think Fast 2.0 is available66d agoXAIAdjustable VAD threshold for Speech to Text72d agoXAIGrok 4.5 available in the EU78d agoXAIAlert: Grok 4.587d agoXAI
Elsewhere on the network open weights, papers, the X watchlist

Open weights trending

LIVE · HF TRENDING
  1. 1Cloudflare/clef925 likes 3k DLs · 2d
  2. 2Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B17k likes 6.9M DLs · 59d
  3. 3Cloudflare/clef-flash331 likes 4k DLs · 2d
  4. 4orcarouter/OrcaSAQ-2-Cyber-27B-Uncensored-GGUF299 likes 12k DLs · 7d
  5. 5prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf2k likes 4.0M DLs · 16d
  6. 6TaichuAI/ZDTaichu5.0-9B3k likes 12k DLs · 29d
6 MORE REPOS
  1. 7ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-Coder-GGUF225 likes 303k DLs · 7d
  2. 8ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-GGUF491 likes 1.5M DLs · 26d
  3. 9ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF2k likes 1.7M DLs · 35d
  4. 10deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash4k likes 788k DLs · 23d
  5. 11DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NEO-CODER-MAX-MTP-GGUF1k likes 2.1M DLs · 32d
  6. 12Infatoshi/GLM-5.3-UNCENSORED-EXL3-3.0bpw159 likes 520 DLs · 2d

Papers of the day

LIVE · HF PAPERS

X watchlist

NO FREE API · CLICK THROUGH

X killed free read access, so we can't ingest the vague-posts. These are the accounts that leak first.

9 MORE ACCOUNTS