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Two weeks after Qwen 3.7 Max, Alibaba shipped WebWorld: an Apache 2.0 web world model series that simulates browsers for agent training. Sizes, benchmarks, code, gotchas.

xAI launched Grok Imagine Agent Mode on May 1, 2026 — an infinite-canvas creative agent that plans, generates, edits, and stitches 6-second video clips into longer films. Features, four templates, vs Sora and Veo, pricing, and API examples.

Gemini 3.5 Pro was announced at Google I/O 2026 with a June general-availability target. Here's what's confirmed, what's likely, and how to prepare your stack.

DeepSeek made its 75% V4-Pro discount permanent on May 22, 2026. Standing rates: $0.435/M input, $0.87/M output. Here is what changed, the new cost-per-quality math vs Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5, and the migration code.

GPT-5.5 Instant replaced GPT-5.3 as ChatGPT's default, Codex shipped Goal Mode and richer MCP, and a GPT-5.6 entry briefly surfaced in OpenAI's Codex logs. Here is the complete May 2026 OpenAI changelog and what it means for developers.

Cohere released Command A+ on May 20, 2026: a 218B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 25B active parameters, Apache 2.0 licensed, that runs on as few as 2 H100 GPUs. Built for sovereign, on-prem enterprise agents with native citations.

xAI's Grok 4.3 lands with a 1M token context window, native video input, and aggressive pricing at $1.25 input / $2.50 output per million tokens. Here is what changed from Grok 4.20, how it benchmarks against Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro, and when it is the right tool to reach for.

Anthropic Mythos is the frontier preview model unveiled April 7, 2026: stronger than Opus 4.7 on math and security, withheld from public release, shipped only via Project Glasswing to ~50 defensive-security partners.

Claude Mythos, Opus 4.7, and GPT-5.5 shipped within three weeks of each other in April 2026. We break down which frontier model wins on coding, reasoning, vision, cost, and which one your team should actually pick.

Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max launched May 20, 2026 with a 1M-token context, native extended-thinking mode, and benchmark wins on SWE-Pro and Terminal-Bench. Here's how it compares to Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash and DeepSeek V4, what it costs on DashScope, and when to pick it.

Google dropped Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark at I/O 2026. A frontier-grade Flash model that outruns 3.1 Pro, and a persistent personal agent built on top of it. Here's what shipped, what's rumored, and where it fits next to Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5.

A practitioner's roundup of every AI model release that mattered in May 2026 — Anthropic Mythos, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Max, Mistral Medium 3.5, ERNIE 5.1, and Subquadratic's 12M-token SubQ. Benchmarks, pricing, availability, and what to actually use.

Baidu's ERNIE 5.1, released May 8 2026, became the first Chinese LLM in the global Search Arena top 5. Here's what it does, how it compares to DeepSeek V4 and Qwen, and when teams outside China should actually use it.

Mistral Medium 3.5 is a 128B dense model with built-in reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities. Le Chat Work Mode turns it into a multi-tool agent. Here's what's new, what it costs, and when to actually pick Mistral over Claude or GPT.

Manus AI in May 2026: the Meta $2B acquisition was blocked by China's state planner on April 27, the Desktop app's My Computer feature puts the agent on your local machine, and pricing, access, and the autonomous-agent landscape sit where they sit.

Subquadratic, a Miami startup, launched SubQ on May 5, 2026 — the first frontier LLM with a 12-million-token context window, built on a new Subquadratic Selective Attention (SSA) architecture. Here's what's verified, what's plausible, and what to actually do with it.

DeepWiki turns any public GitHub repo into an AI-generated wiki at deepwiki.com. The URL swap, Fast vs Deep Research, private repos via Devin, MCP for Cursor and Claude Code, vs GitHub and Cursor.

What LM Studio is, how to install it on Mac, Windows and Linux, how the OpenAI-compatible server works, MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple Silicon, document chat (RAG), the lms CLI, and where it beats Ollama and llama.cpp.

What a 4x RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell rig actually buys you for DeepSeek V4 Flash: throughput, VRAM headroom, the SM120 vLLM compile bug, and break-even vs the DeepSeek API.

An honest 2026 guide to llms.txt: what the spec actually says, what adoption looks like in server logs (the SERanking 300k-domain study), real annotated examples from Stripe and Anthropic, the robots.txt + AI-bot User-Agent stack that actually works, and a copy-pasteable template.

Kimi K2.6 ties GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro at 58.6% — and runs roughly 3x cheaper, with open weights. Where each model wins, with the cost math.

Kimi K2.6 ties Opus 4.7 on multilingual SWE-bench but trails by 7 points on Verified — at 1/5th the cost. The honest, benchmark-by-benchmark breakdown.

Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 Pro are the two best open-weights coding models in 2026. K2.6 wins long-horizon agents and swarms; DeepSeek V4 wins on raw price.

DeepSeek V4 Flash is the under-covered story of the V4 release. 1M context, 47 on the AA Intelligence Index, $0.14 input / $0.28 output per million tokens, and it fits on a Mac Studio. Here is the full practical guide.