A frontier agentic-coding model at $2/$6 per million tokens with 500k context, trained in agentic RL environments. Available in the API, Grok Build, and Cursor at launch.
Grok 4.6, frontier-scale open weights from Qwen, security models with lowered refusals, and the EU AI Act gets concrete.
August so far: open weights reach frontier scale, xAI ships an agentic coding model at a fighting price, and OpenAI lowers refusals for authorized security work. On top of that, the EU AI Act now applies to everyone whose product talks to users in Europe.
A frontier agentic-coding model at $2/$6 per million tokens with 500k context, trained in agentic RL environments. Available in the API, Grok Build, and Cursor at launch.
The first Max-tier Qwen with open weights: a mixture-of-experts model with 2.4 trillion parameters, 95B of them active. The open variant is text only, drops the hosted 1M context, and ships under a custom license; the smaller Qwen3.8-27B followed under Apache 2.0.
The 1.6T flagship is now generally available on the DeepSeek API, topping off the V4-Flash weights opened in July.
Google's new workhorse for coding and agents, with introductory pricing through the end of 2026. It follows the GA of 3.6 Flash by only three weeks.
A Sol-based model with lowered refusals for authorized security work, gated behind a vetted Daybreak Red tier; Daybreak Blue gives defenders frontier models with defensive guardrails. Relevant even without access: it shifts what attacker tooling can do.
Plugins can be searched and installed across local, workspace, and remote catalogs, plus scoped auto-approval via --approve-for-me. A Linux desktop preview covers Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.
With 2.1.234, sessions can message each other by name, continue automatically when a usage limit resets, and GitLab merge requests reach parity with GitHub. Subagent forking is now on by default.
Selectable in the model picker across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, and the Copilot CLI. Off by default for Business and Enterprise until an admin enables the policy.
The Frontier Red Team catalogs failure modes in emerging multiagent deployments. Directly applicable if you orchestrate subagents in production.
Since August 2, AI content labeling, chatbot disclosure, and the penalty regime apply; the heavy high-risk obligations moved to 2027 and 2028. If your product talks to EU users, disclosure and labeling are live requirements now.