Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 shipped with open weights and enough capability to restart the DeepSeek argument: if a model you can download keeps pace with the frontier, what were the export controls buying?
From July 20, Claude Fable 5 is included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard stay on usage credits at $10/$50 per million tokens, softened by a one-time $100 credit.
Kimi K3 hit #1 on the Frontend Code Arena on July 16, beating Claude Fable 5. David Sacks calls it concerning, five weeks after backing the order that benched that same model.
Claude's 5-hour and weekly limits got a clean-slate reset for all paid tiers this week, and included Fable 5 access was extended from July 7 to July 12 after subscriber backlash.
Before the public launch, GPT-5.6 sat in a preview limited to about 20 government-vetted partners under the new US frontier-AI oversight process. The White House disputes calling the release an approval.
GPT-5.6 hit general availability July 9 in three sizes, priced $1 to $5 per million input tokens, with a 1M context and tool calling that writes its own orchestration code.
Two weeks after lvl30 called Grok 4.5's private-beta claims unverifiable, there are checkable numbers: $2 per million input tokens, behind Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 on coding, far fewer tokens burned.
Muse Spark 1.1 shipped July 9 alongside the first public Meta Model API, a US preview at $1.25/$4.25 per million tokens, putting Meta in the same paid-API business as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 shipped under an MIT license and beats GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks. It's also a 744B model that needs a server rack, not a desk.
Elon Musk says Grok 4.5 rivals Claude Opus. Nobody outside SpaceX and Tesla can test it, it's on no public benchmark, and there's no release date.
Mistral's CEO confirmed a new open-weight model with early access this month, as the company reportedly raises $3.5B on around $400M in annual revenue.
