BREAKING
AI 'Model Explosion' Hits Summer 2026
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new models
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major labs
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summer
GPT-5.6 Ships in Three Tiers
Sol
Flagship
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Hardest tasks
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$5 / $30
Terra
Everyday
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Balanced default
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$2.50 / $15
Luna
High volume
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Fast, low cost
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$1 / $6
Output Price Per Million Tokens
Fable 5
50
Sol
30
Terra
15
Grok 4.5
6
Luna
6
Chinese Labs Add Open-Weight Pressure
LongCat-2.0
Meituan
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1.6T-param MoE
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1M-token context
Hunyuan Hy3
Tencent
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295B / 21B MoE
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Apache 2.0 license
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AI NEWS BLITZ
Roughly a dozen new frontier AI models shipped in just a few weeks.