#Frontier models
10 articles tagged Frontier models. Past halfway to the twelve-article threshold.
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Mistral Large 4 open weights — free to run 1T parameters, but API resale needs a license
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Gemini 4 Carbon launch — Google tops an independent AI index, then gives the model to cyber defenders first
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What is recursive self-improvement — AI building better AI, and why Anthropic's Jack Clark moved his forecast to 2027
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Gemini 4 Argon launched — an 11-hour overnight coding run, and $2 per million tokens until November 30
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Tech · 5 min readMistral Large 4 open weights — free to run 1T parameters, but API resale needs a license
Release — weights on Hugging Face on October 29; about 1 trillion total and 52 billion active parameters, no download approval
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Tech · 6 min readGemini 4 Carbon launch — Google tops an independent AI index, then gives the model to cyber defenders first
Launch — October 28 (US time), two weeks after Argon; Google calls it its strongest model, built for security and long-horizon engineering
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is recursive self-improvement — AI building better AI, and why Anthropic's Jack Clark moved his forecast to 2027
Meaning — AI builds better AI without humans, then repeats; rooted in I.J. Good's 1965 'intelligence explosion'
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Tech · 2 min readGemini 4 Argon launched — an 11-hour overnight coding run, and $2 per million tokens until November 30
Launch — October 13, 2026; API, AI Studio, Gemini app (Pro/Ultra), AI Mode in Search, Antigravity
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Tech · 3 min readMeta Muse Wonder launched — same $4 API price as Claude Opus 5.5, six points lower on an independent index
Launch — Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, 2026; multimodal input, 1 million-token context, closed weights
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Tech · 2 min readOpenAI rates Astra 'Critical' on cyber — the model found two zero-days by itself
Rating — OpenAI calls Astra the first model to reach Critical cyber capability in its framework
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Tech · 3 min readOpenAI hit the brakes on its own model — Astra and the first "critical" cyber rating
On August 7 OpenAI said it had halted Astra activities that do not yet meet strengthened security requirements
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World · 1 min readThirty days before launch, the government looks first
The White House convened OpenAI, Anthropic and Google on a new testing framework
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Tech · 1 min readWhat 'frontier model' means — a line that moves every year
'Frontier model' means the moving boundary of best AI capability, not a fixed spec
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Tech · 1 min readA frontier model every two weeks: July's AI race
Google, Anthropic and DeepSeek all shipped new models within ten late-July days