FrontierThinking Machines open-sourced a frontier-class modelOn 15 July the lab led by Mira Murati - OpenAI's former CTO - showed Inkling, its first public model, and released it with open weights. It's not a small demo model: a large mixture-of-experts class, multimodal, with a long context window, that anyone can download and run themselves.FrontierOpen models went from 11 to 29 percent of traffic in two monthsVercel released the numbers from its own gateway, through which tens of trillions of tokens pass. Open models now carry 29 percent of volume, up from 11 in April. Another number is quieter. The price per token stopped falling.FrontierxAI released Grok 4.5, trained together with the Cursor editorThe model was announced on July 8, publicly available from the 9th - in Grok Build, in Cursor and through the API console of xAI. The unusual part isn't another version number. The unusual part is that the model was trained together with the editor you'll use it in. In the EU - nothing yet.FrontierMeta opened its own API for its models with an upgrade to agentic Muse SparkOn July 9, Meta Superintelligence Labs announced Muse Spark 1.1 - a reasoning model for agentic tasks, available for the first time through its own public API. According to media reports, the price is about a quarter of comparable models. The third Muse in a week. Time to sort out the names.FrontierGPT-5.6 landed in Copilot, Figma Make and Framer on the same dayOn 9 July GPT-5.6 showed up at once in three work environments - the coder's, the designer's, and the site builder's - in three versions: Sol, Terra, Luna. What matters is the speed of the rollout, and the choice now runs through price too.FrontierNVIDIA: its open model runs 10 times cheaper than closed ones on the same taskNVIDIA claims its open model Nemotron 3 Ultra beats closed ones on price: about 10 times cheaper to run, with the highest accuracy among open models. LangChain has already tuned its agent framework Deep Agents specifically for it.FrontierMeta's new generator doesn't draw - it works like an agentMeta introduced Muse Image and Muse Video. Muse Image doesn't translate a prompt straight into a picture - it calls search and coding tools, self-improves its own generations, and gains from more compute spent at request time.
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