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Google GA'd Gemini 3.6 Flash on July 21 while 3.5 Pro stays partner-only. helloai still tracks Gemini 3.1 Pro — and arena already scores the new Flash near frontier.
Read article →Moonshot's 2.8T Kimi K3 lands on the public API at $3/$15 with 1M context. helloai drops GPT-5.6 Sol and adds Moonshot under the six-model cap.
Read article →OpenAI and Anthropic are no longer fighting only on LMArena — ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork compete for the surface where finished work ships.
Read article →Meta ships Muse Spark 1.1 with a public API at $1.25/$4.25. helloai drops Qwen3.7-Max and adds Meta as its budget agentic pick at 1487 Elo.
Read article →xAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 8 — 83.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 4.2× token efficiency, and $2/$6 pricing. helloai's tracked Grok entry moves from 4.3 to 4.5.
Read article →OpenAI ends the partner-only preview on July 9. GPT-5.6 Sol replaces GPT-5.5 in helloai's tracked set at the same $5/$30 rate — the upgrade path teams waited on since June 26.
Read article →helloai's leaderboard shows nominal per-token rates. Prompt caching and batch APIs stack underneath — turning a $5/MTok flagship into $0.25 on repeated context.
Read article →One command routes a full agent harness to MIT-licensed weights at Ollama Pro prices. That stack does not kill frontier labs, but it is eating their easiest revenue.
Read article →ARC-AGI-3 launched March 25 with humans at 100% and frontier AI at 0.51%. GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 barely move the needle — exposing a gap arena Elo cannot see.
Read article →Fable 5 returns globally July 1 after an 18-day suspension; GPT-5.6 Sol ships only to vetted partners. June 2026 made frontier availability a policy variable, not just an engineering milestone.
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