https://zabio.ai/news/ What the model vendors announced, what it means for your calls, and what Zabio did about it. en https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-14-xai-xai-deprecates-grok-voice-2-0-upgrade-to-grok-voice-3-0-at-the/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-14-xai-xai-deprecates-grok-voice-2-0-upgrade-to-grok-voice-3-0-at-the/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:33:17 GMT xai xAI deprecated grok-voice-2.0 and directs developers to grok-voice-3.0 or grok-voice-latest at the same price. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-14-xai-xai-grok-voice-3-0-is-available-with-speech-to-speech/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-14-xai-xai-grok-voice-3-0-is-available-with-speech-to-speech/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:32:13 GMT xai 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. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-14-xai-grok-voice-1-0-is-available-with-the-speech-to-speech-api/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-14-xai-grok-voice-1-0-is-available-with-the-speech-to-speech-api/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:30:35 GMT xai xAI's Grok Voice 1.0 is now available with the Speech to Speech API. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-13-google-gemini-4-argon-gemini-4-argon-is-generally-available-in-the/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-13-google-gemini-4-argon-gemini-4-argon-is-generally-available-in-the/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:05:53 GMT google Google released its most capable model, Gemini 4 Argon (gemini-4-argon), as generally available for complex coding, agentic, math, and science tasks. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-07-openai-openai-updates-chat-latest-snapshot/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-07-openai-openai-updates-chat-latest-snapshot/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:26 GMT openai OpenAI updated the chat-latest snapshot to point to the latest model in ChatGPT for paid tiers. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-07-anthropic-anthropic-lowers-prompt-cache-read-price-for-claude-sonnet/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-07-anthropic-anthropic-lowers-prompt-cache-read-price-for-claude-sonnet/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:19 GMT anthropic Anthropic reduced prompt cache read pricing on Claude Sonnet 5.5 to $0.10 USD per million tokens. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-07-anthropic-anthropic-launches-claude-haiku-5-5/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-07-anthropic-anthropic-launches-claude-haiku-5-5/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:55:14 GMT anthropic Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5 with a 1M token context window and 128k max output tokens. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-07-google-google-deprecates-gemini-3-1-flash-image/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-07-google-google-deprecates-gemini-3-1-flash-image/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:40:12 GMT google Google has deprecated the gemini-3.1-flash-image model and recommends migrating to gemini-nano-banana-2.1. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-anthropic-anthropic-adds-thinking-types-disabled-parameter-to-models/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-anthropic-anthropic-adds-thinking-types-disabled-parameter-to-models/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:10:12 GMT anthropic Anthropic updated its Models API endpoints to report whether each model accepts disabling thinking mode. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-openai-openai-releases-decisions-api-in-beta-with-gpt-6-luna/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-openai-openai-releases-decisions-api-in-beta-with-gpt-6-luna/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:35:13 GMT openai OpenAI introduced the Decisions API in beta with gpt-6-luna to convert text and images into typed answers. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-anthropic-anthropic-expands-the-cyber-verification-program/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-anthropic-anthropic-expands-the-cyber-verification-program/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:00:17 GMT anthropic Anthropic launched an expanded Cyber Verification Program with three access tiers for security teams. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-google-google-releases-gemini-nano-banana-2-1-and-deprecates-older/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-google-google-releases-gemini-nano-banana-2-1-and-deprecates-older/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:55:13 GMT google 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. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-mistral-mistral-launches-mistral-large-4-public-preview/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-06-mistral-mistral-launches-mistral-large-4-public-preview/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:25:14 GMT mistral 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. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-05-together-together-ai-launches-together-link-for-coding-agents/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-05-together-together-ai-launches-together-link-for-coding-agents/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:35:09 GMT together Together AI introduced Together Link, a tool connecting coding agents to models like GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 using an API key. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-02-xai-xai-deprecates-grok-voice-transcribe-1-0/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-10-02-xai-xai-deprecates-grok-voice-transcribe-1-0/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:27:45 GMT xai 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. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-30-anthropic-anthropic-deprecates-claude-sonnet-4-5/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-30-anthropic-anthropic-deprecates-claude-sonnet-4-5/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:40:15 GMT anthropic Anthropic announced the deprecation of Claude Sonnet 4.5, with retirement on November 30, 2026. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-29-openai-openai-adds-computer-use-to-the-agents-api/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-29-openai-openai-adds-computer-use-to-the-agents-api/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:05:36 GMT openai OpenAI added computer use to the Agents API, allowing agents to complete tasks in a hosted browser. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-29-openai-openai-adds-ultrafast-mode-for-gpt-6-astra/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-29-openai-openai-adds-ultrafast-mode-for-gpt-6-astra/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:05:15 GMT openai OpenAI added Ultrafast mode for GPT-6 Astra in the Responses API to lower output token latency. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-29-openai-openai-simplifies-api-usage-tiers-from-five-to-three/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-29-openai-openai-simplifies-api-usage-tiers-from-five-to-three/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:00:21 GMT openai OpenAI simplified its API usage tiers to three tiers: Build, Launch, and Grow. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-29-openai-openai-releases-gpt-6-1-sol/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-29-openai-openai-releases-gpt-6-1-sol/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:00:14 GMT openai OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol (gpt-6.1-sol) for complex coding and professional work at a lower cost than GPT-6 Astra. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-28-anthropic-anthropic-launches-claude-sonnet-5-5/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-28-anthropic-anthropic-launches-claude-sonnet-5-5/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:00:13 GMT anthropic Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 across multiple cloud platforms and the Claude API. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-26-openai-openai-fixes-image-encoding-bug-in-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-26-openai-openai-fixes-image-encoding-bug-in-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:40:26 GMT openai The update improves results on visual tasks in the API and Codex, including computer use. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-24-anthropic-anthropic-resumes-billing-for-specific-api-refusals/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-24-anthropic-anthropic-resumes-billing-for-specific-api-refusals/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:00:34 GMT anthropic Anthropic now bills for API requests that are refused before any output when the refusal category is bio, frontier_llm, or reasoning_extraction. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-together-together-ai-launches-together-tev1-4b-experimental/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-together-together-ai-launches-together-tev1-4b-experimental/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:25:39 GMT together Together AI released together/Tev1-4B-experimental, a classification model built on top of Qwen3.5 4B and available on its serverless platform. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-google-gemini-3-8-flash-tts-and-gemini-3-8-flash-lite-tts-are/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-google-gemini-3-8-flash-tts-and-gemini-3-8-flash-lite-tts-are/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:15:22 GMT google Google released two text-to-speech models in the Gemini API as GA, plus a new Voices endpoint at /v1beta/voices. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-together-together-ai-deprecates-four-models-on-serverless/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-together-together-ai-deprecates-four-models-on-serverless/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:26:55 GMT together Together AI has deprecated openai/gpt-oss-20b, google/gemma-4-31B-it, thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small, and intfloat/multilingual-e5-large-instruct on serverless. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-mistral-ocr-4-1-from-mistral-is-now-generally-available/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-mistral-ocr-4-1-from-mistral-is-now-generally-available/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:07:01 GMT mistral Mistral has made the OCR 4.1 model generally available. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-xai-grok-4-7-is-now-available-on-the-xai-api/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-xai-grok-4-7-is-now-available-on-the-xai-api/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:06:59 GMT xai xAI launched Grok 4.7 on its API with a 500k context window and dynamic pricing based on prompt size. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-deepseek-deepseek-releases-v4-1-flash-model/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-deepseek-deepseek-releases-v4-1-flash-model/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:06:57 GMT deepseek DeepSeek launched its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model with native multimodal visual understanding and retired its V4 Flash models. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-google-google-restricts-gemini-2-5-api-access-to-existing-active/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-google-google-restricts-gemini-2-5-api-access-to-existing-active/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:06:55 GMT google 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. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-openai-openai-releases-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna-reasoning-models/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-openai-openai-releases-gpt-6-sol-and-gpt-6-luna-reasoning-models/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:06:52 GMT openai OpenAI released two reasoning models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, in the Responses and Chat Completions APIs. https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-anthropic-anthropic-launches-claude-opus-5-5/ https://zabio.ai/news/2026-09-23-anthropic-anthropic-launches-claude-opus-5-5/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:39:25 GMT anthropic Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5.5 with a 1M token context window and new API requirements for thinking and tool use.