Frontier AI, as of 7 Oct 2026

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  • GPT-6 with Intelligent UI in ChatGPT OpenAI · 7 October 2026
    OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, which lets answers include charts, forms, buttons and small tools, running on Sol for paid tiers and Luna for free users.
  • SynthID Detector Google · 7 October 2026
    Google opened a public SynthID Detector website that checks images, video and audio for SynthID watermarks from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao, with Apple support promised soon.
  • RTX Spark NVIDIA · 7 October 2026
    NVIDIA and Microsoft announced RTX Spark, an Arm-based Windows PC platform for local AI agents with up to 128GB unified memory. Laptop preorders opened October 7 for October 16…
  • Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic · 7 October 2026
    Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its smallest model, with a 1M token context window at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 output, about 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 on…
  • Mistral Large 4 Mistral AI · 6 October 2026
    Mistral launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4 (le Chonk), a 1 trillion parameter multimodal model with 49 billion active parameters, with open weights due by the end of…
  • Decisions API OpenAI · 6 October 2026
    OpenAI released the Decisions API in public beta, powered by gpt-6-luna, which returns typed answers from text and images about 10x faster than the Responses API.
  • Advancing computer use with Ironclad OpenAI · 6 October 2026
    OpenAI describes a partnership with Ironclad to train and evaluate agents on contracting workflows, and GPT-6 Astra scored 55.0% against 41.6% for GPT-5.6 Sol on 11 research tasks.
  • Gemini free tier change Google · 6 October 2026
    Google will limit free Gemini users to the Flash Lite model from October 9, and the $4.99 AI Plus plan will lose Gemini Pro access.

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