Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud. It generates and edits video up to 15 seconds, adds multi-turn conversational edits, and drops 720p pricing 30% to $0.07 per second.
OpenAI says Astra designed a device's case, circuit board and firmware with no direct human edits. Two people did it in under a week, but it still needed rounds of manufacturing fixes.
The Biological Computing Co. launched Mischief 1 on Oct 30, 2026: an image-to-video model built on Wan 2.2 that it says runs 5x faster from lessons learned from living neurons. The neurons stay in the lab. What it is, what it costs, and what isn't proven yet.
Mistral released open weights for Mistral Large 4 "Le Chonk" on 29 Oct 2026: about 1 trillion parameters, 52B active, 1M-token context. Artificial Analysis scores it 26 on Intelligence Index v5, the top open-weight model built outside China.
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on 28 Oct 2026. It goes first to a subset of cyber defenders, then trusted partners in the Fairwind Program, before developers and consumers. Google reports 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym and 71.0% on CWE-bench; Artificial Analysis ranks it #1 on its Intelligence Index v5.0 at 59.
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4 on 27 Oct 2026, a world model that generates photorealistic, interactive scenes with native audio and real-time natural-language steering. It is in research preview for trusted testers, with Google AI Ultra and Gemini API early access coming soon.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 Oct 2026: $1 / $5 per million input/output tokens, a 1.05M-token context window, 50.3% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at max effort, and a 'Critical' cybersecurity rating under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.
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