AI this week: Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
3 new models, 30 price changes and 315 articles from the sources we follow.
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Bring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that run frequently.
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels, reachable…
How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation
Algorithms & Theory
Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
DevDay 2026 Recap
Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.
Hallo, Deutschland!
Mistral opens a Munich hub for Physics AI and Industrial AI research, partnering with German industry.
Trump re-indicts AI as "super intelligence" by decree and accuses the impact of protests against data centers on Republican vote
US President Keeps Lunch with All Technoligarches to Address AI Challenges, Amid Security Gaps and a Wave of Protests Against Data-Cands Threatening Republican Vote…
ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says
OpenAI's annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3. Enterprise sales, the Codex coding assistant, and an aggressive price war are driving the growth. Anthropic is right on…
AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including…
New models this week
| Model | Inputi | Outputi | Contexti |
|---|---|---|---|
GPT-6.1 Sol ProOpenAI | $2 | $10 | 1.1M |
GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | $2 | $10 | 1.1M |
Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $2 | $10 | 1M |