AI news.
The launches that matter from the last two months, dated by each company's own announcement. Each links to a short explainer of the idea behind it.
Anthropic
Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s 2026 Opus model, positioned for demanding coding, research, and professional work with stronger efficiency than the previous Opus generation.
Understand Claude Opus 5.5xAI
Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7 is xAI’s 2026 model release for reasoning, coding, information synthesis, and tool-using tasks across the Grok product and developer platform.
Understand Grok 4.7OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence
GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI’s 2026 frontier model for advanced reasoning, coding, computer use, scientific work, and long-running agentic tasks across ChatGPT and the API.
Understand GPT-6 Astra