AI Models & LLM News: Releases, Benchmarks, Comparisons
New models, benchmarks and our tests
openrouter top 5 by token volume. every model gaining share on openrouter this week is either chinese or free
Alina Fomine
1 min read
meta is paying developers to build on it: its top model at up to 80% off and $2m in prizes
Vladimir Arustamov
2 min read
opus 5.5 vs fable 5.1 vs gpt-6 astra – three post-apocalyptic films, one html file each
Nick Trenkler
3 min read
gpt-6 sol vs grok 4.7 vs gpt-6 astra vs muse spark 1.3 – three star wars worlds each, one html file per world
Nick Trenkler
3 min read
trending models on hugging face: qwen 3.8 lost 622k downloads this week, its 9x-compressed fork gained 480k
Alina Fomine
1 min read
grok 4.7 vs gpt-6 astra in 3d scenes
Max Rabinov
1 min read
qwen3.8-omni-flash vs gemini3.8-flash we asked to explain the memes: rickroll, distracted boyfriend, disaster girl. gemini won 2 to 1
Vladimir Arustamov
2 min read
openrouter top 5 by token volume this week: openai is back at #1
Alina Fomine
1 min read
union alpha (unbiased pareto) vs deepseek v4.1 flash vs muse spark 1.3 – three paintings in three.js
Nick Trenkler
2 min read
openrouter top 5 by token volume this week
Alina Fomine
1 min read
google gemma introduced a tool that turned a budget android phone into an offline sign language translator – for 2.5 million deaf indonesians who don't have reliable internet
Alina Fomine
1 min read
new ai models and llm news
Every notable model release in one feed: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama and the open-weight models that follow them. For each new AI model we cover what changed, benchmark results, pricing and context window – and whether it is worth switching.
our llm comparisons and tests
Benchmarks tell only part of the story, so we run models head to head on the same real tasks – coding a three.js scene, building a playable world in one HTML file, writing and editing – and publish the prompts and outputs so you can check the results yourself. The most useful AI model comparisons are pinned at the top of this page.
open-weight models and weekly rankings
Open-source LLMs from DeepSeek, Qwen and others keep closing the gap with closed models at a fraction of the price. We track which open-weight models are worth running, and every week we publish rankings of the most-used models on OpenRouter and the trending models on Hugging Face.