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Model releases: the line so far
9 developments and 3 rules, in date order. Built automatically from everything tagged with this topic.
- DeepSeek releases R1 reasoning model with open weights under MIT licence
It showed that near-frontier reasoning could be reproduced cheaply and given away openly, resetting price expectations and sharpening US debate on export controls and open weights.
- Google launches Gemini 3 Pro, shipping it in Search on day one
Distribution through Search put a frontier model in front of billions of users immediately, intensifying the release race with OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Warner Music settles with Suno and agrees licensed AI music models for 2026
Major labels converted the RIAA-backed lawsuits into licensing deals, setting a template where generative music firms pay for training and accept output controls.
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, linking medical records and wellness apps
A mass-market chatbot now ingests patient records while positioning itself outside medical-device rules, testing where consumer health information ends and regulated advice begins.
- Google releases MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR open medical models
Open-weight medical models let hospitals and startups, including in India, build imaging and scribe tools without relying on closed APIs, while leaving validation to each deployer.
- Anthropic withholds Claude Mythos Preview, gives it to defenders via Project Glasswing
It was the first time a leading lab gated a frontier model on cyber-offence grounds and steered it to patching critical software first, setting the pattern for later restricted releases.
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- DeepSeek releases V4, a 1.6-trillion-parameter open-weights model with 1M context
It kept freely downloadable Chinese models within months of the closed frontier at a fraction of the price, complicating Western strategies that rely on controlling model access.
- US export-control order forces global shutdown of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US used export controls to halt a commercial frontier model, showing that cyber-capable models can be pulled from every customer overnight.
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- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, first model it rates 'Critical' for cyber capability
It is the first model OpenAI has released at the 'Critical' top level of its own cyber-risk scale, testing whether deployment safeguards alone can contain that capability.
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