xAI deprecates grok-voice-2.0, upgrade to grok-voice-3.0 at the same price
xAI deprecated grok-voice-2.0 and directs developers to grok-voice-3.0 or grok-voice-latest at the same price.
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Model releases, price changes and vendor announcements, with what each one means for your calls.
xAI: Grok Voice 3.0 is available with Speech to Speech
grok-voice-3.0 is now available with Speech to Speech at the same price as Grok Voice 2.0, and the alias grok-voice-latest points to it.
Grok Voice 1.0 is available with the Speech to Speech API
xAI's Grok Voice 1.0 is now available with the Speech to Speech API.
Gemini 4 Argon (gemini-4-argon) is generally available in the Gemini API
Google released its most capable model, Gemini 4 Argon (gemini-4-argon), as generally available for complex coding, agentic, math, and science tasks.
OpenAI updates chat-latest snapshot
OpenAI updated the chat-latest snapshot to point to the latest model in ChatGPT for paid tiers.
Anthropic lowers prompt cache read price for Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic reduced prompt cache read pricing on Claude Sonnet 5.5 to $0.10 USD per million tokens.
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5 with a 1M token context window and 128k max output tokens.
Google deprecates gemini-3.1-flash-image
Google has deprecated the gemini-3.1-flash-image model and recommends migrating to gemini-nano-banana-2.1.
Anthropic adds thinking.types.disabled parameter to Models API
Anthropic updated its Models API endpoints to report whether each model accepts disabling thinking mode.
OpenAI releases Decisions API in beta with gpt-6-luna
OpenAI introduced the Decisions API in beta with gpt-6-luna to convert text and images into typed answers.
Anthropic expands the Cyber Verification Program
Anthropic launched an expanded Cyber Verification Program with three access tiers for security teams.
Google releases Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 and deprecates older image model
Google released Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 for image generation and announced that gemini-3.1-flash-image will shut down on October 29, 2026.
Mistral launches Mistral Large 4 public preview
Mistral launched a public preview API for Mistral Large 4, priced at $1.36 per million input tokens and $4.18 per million output tokens.
Together AI launches Together Link for coding agents
Together AI introduced Together Link, a tool connecting coding agents to models like GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 using an API key.
xAI deprecates grok-voice-transcribe-1.0
grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 is deprecated and will reach end of life on October 2, 2026, with requests routed to grok-voice-transcribe-2.0.
Anthropic deprecates Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic announced the deprecation of Claude Sonnet 4.5, with retirement on November 30, 2026.
OpenAI adds computer use to the Agents API
OpenAI added computer use to the Agents API, allowing agents to complete tasks in a hosted browser.
OpenAI adds Ultrafast mode for GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI added Ultrafast mode for GPT-6 Astra in the Responses API to lower output token latency.
OpenAI simplifies API usage tiers from five to three
OpenAI simplified its API usage tiers to three tiers: Build, Launch, and Grow.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol (gpt-6.1-sol) for complex coding and professional work at a lower cost than GPT-6 Astra.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 across multiple cloud platforms and the Claude API.
OpenAI fixes image encoding bug in GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna
The update improves results on visual tasks in the API and Codex, including computer use.
Anthropic resumes billing for specific API refusals
Anthropic now bills for API requests that are refused before any output when the refusal category is bio, frontier_llm, or reasoning_extraction.
Together AI launches together/Tev1-4B-experimental
Together AI released together/Tev1-4B-experimental, a classification model built on top of Qwen3.5 4B and available on its serverless platform.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are generally available
Google released two text-to-speech models in the Gemini API as GA, plus a new Voices endpoint at /v1beta/voices.
Together AI deprecates four models on serverless
Together AI has deprecated openai/gpt-oss-20b, google/gemma-4-31B-it, thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small, and intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct on serverless.
OCR 4.1 from Mistral is now generally available
Mistral has made the OCR 4.1 model generally available.
Grok 4.7 is now available on the xAI API
xAI launched Grok 4.7 on its API with a 500k context window and dynamic pricing based on prompt size.
DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash model
DeepSeek launched its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model with native multimodal visual understanding and retired its V4 Flash models.
Google restricts Gemini 2.5 API access to existing active users
Google is limiting access to Gemini 2.5 models to past active users and directs new projects to 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash.
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna reasoning models
OpenAI released two reasoning models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, in the Responses and Chat Completions APIs.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5.5 with a 1M token context window and new API requirements for thinking and tool use.