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LLM Model Families at a Glance
Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama & co. — who builds what, where each family shines, and how to pick the right model for your own use case.
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An overview of specific AI models and model families — who builds them, how they differ in reasoning, coding, multimodality, and price, and what each line is best suited for day to day. Organized by vendor families (GPT, Claude, Gemini …) and cross-cutting use cases such as security, image & video, and open-weight.
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Comparing AI models — who builds what and how to choose
The major model families in 2026 at a glance. Who builds Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen — and which model to pick when.
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Anthropic: Claude Writes Over 80% of Its Own Code — and Calls for a Pause Button
Anthropic discloses the numbers: Claude writes >80% of its production code. At the same time, the company argues for the option to pause frontier development.
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: faster, half the token usage
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1. Base price holds, but cache reads are 75% cheaper and token usage drops by half.
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Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-Level Performance at an Opus Price, and boostN Already Runs It
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5: $4 / $20 per million tokens, about 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5 and ahead of Fable 5.1 on coding benchmarks.
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Claude Opus 5: Anthropic's New Flagship Bets on Efficiency, Not a Price Cut
Anthropic shipped Opus 5 — same token price as 4.8, and per the vendor near-Fable performance at roughly half the cost per task.
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Release: Claude Sonnet 5.5 – everything on pricing, benchmarks and how it compares
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2 / $10 per million tokens, Opus-level benchmarks, but only at max effort. AA index 56 beats Astra.
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Release: GPT-6.1 Sol – everything on pricing, benchmarks and how it compares
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol: $2 / $10 per million tokens, near-Astra coding performance, but behind Anthropic's models on the overall index.
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GPT-6 Astra Found Questions My First Security Review Missed
I used GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 as independent reviewers for RLS, API and tenant-isolation checks. The useful part was the structured cross-review.
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AI in Review — August 2026: A Price U-Turn, the Open-Weight Wave and an Enforceable EU AI Act
August 2026 in AI: Sonnet 5 price freeze, Qwen3.8-Max, the open-weight wave, Google AI Mode on Gemini Flash and the enforceable EU AI Act — sorted out.
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Astra Blocked My Security Request — Now I'm Verified for Daybreak
First Astra blocked my cybersecurity request. The hint led me to Trusted Access, identity verification and into OpenAI's Daybreak program.
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GPT-6.1 Sol's First Hard Test: A Clean Merge, Too Little Scope Discipline
Sol 6.1 resolves a merge with 12 conflicting files cleanly, Opus 5.5 reviews. Then it spends two hours fixing failures outside its task.
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AI Recap July 2026: Two Anthropic Models, a Government Review and the Open-Weight Pressure
July 2026 in AI: Sonnet 5 and Opus 5 from Anthropic, GPT-5.6 after a US review, Kimi K3 as open weights, and new GEO controls in Search Console.
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GPT-6.1 Sol: Faster, Smarter, More Reliable — My First Impression
I wired GPT-6.1 Sol into boostN right after release. Early tasks run reliably. My first take, with a comparison chart. Detailed tests still running.
From the encyclopedia
AI Pricing Made Simple Claude Sonnet 5.5 Release September 2026 - All the Info Daybreak Blue: Security access to GPT-5.6 Sol explained DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Release September 2026 - All the Info GPT-6.1 Sol Release September 2026 - All the Info GPT-6 Astra Release September 2026 - All the Info Meta Muse Spark April 2026 - All the Info Claude Fable: Anthropic's Top Reasoning Line Claude Haiku: Anthropic's Fast, Low-Cost Line Claude Opus: Anthropic's Pro Tier Explained Claude Sonnet: Anthropic's Balanced Line Codestral — Mistral's code model line explained DeepSeek V — the open model line at a glance FLUX.2 Gemini Flash — Google's fast model line Gemini Pro — Google's reasoning spearhead GLM (Zhipu AI / Z.ai) — the open model line at a glance GPT Luna — the fast GPT-5.6 entry tier GPT Sol — OpenAI's top-tier line GPT Terra — the balanced GPT-5.6 tier Grok (xAI) — the model line at a glance Kimi (Moonshot AI) — the open model line at a glance Magistral — Mistral's reasoning line explained Qwen (Alibaba) — the model line at a glance Nano Banana
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AssemblyAI Universal-2 Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude Mythos 5.1 Claude Opus 5 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 Codestral DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek V4.1-Flash DeepSeek V4-Pro ElevenLabs v3 FLUX.2 Gemini 3.7 Flash Gemini 3.8 Flash GLM-5.3 GPT-6.1 Sol GPT Astra GPT Image 2 GPT Luna GPT Sol GPT Terra Grok 4.6 Kimi K3 Magistral MiniMax Muse Spark Pixtral Qwen 3.8-Max Microsoft TRELLIS.2 Tripo AI Veo 3.1 Chatterbox Claude Fable 5 Claude Opus 4.8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude Sonnet 4.6 $/MTok (Cost per Million Tokens) Deepgram Nova-3 DeepSeek V4-Flash Fish Audio S2 Foundation-Sec-8B Gemini 3 Flash GLM-5 GLM-5.2 GPT-Live-1 Grok 4.5 Hunyuan3D 2.0 Google Imagen Input Token Kling 3.0 Kokoro Meshy Midjourney v8 NVIDIA Canary Output Token Qwen 3.7-Max Qwen3-Max Hyper3D Rodin Runway Gen-4.5 Sec-Gemini v1 Seedream 4.0 Whisper Batch API Claude Mythos Claude Mythos 5 Claude Opus 4.5 Code Llama DeepSeek Janus-Pro-7B DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek V4 Devstral Gemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 3.6 Flash Gemini 3 Pro Gemma 3 Gemma 3n Gemma 4 GLM-4.5 GLM-4.6 GLM-4.7 GLM-5.1 GPT-4o GPT-4o mini GPT-5.2 GPT-5.3 GPT-5.3-Codex GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark GPT-5.4 GPT-5.5 Grok 3 Grok 4 Grok 4.1 Grok 4.3 Kimi K2 Kimi K2.5 Kimi K2.6 Kimi K2 Thinking Llama 2 Llama 3 Llama 3.1 Llama 3.2 Llama 3.3 Llama-3-SauerkrautLM-70b Llama 4 Maverick Llama 4 Scout Mistral 7B Mistral Large 3 Mistral Medium 3 Mistral Small 4 Mixtral 8x7B Opus 4.6 Opus 4.7 Prompt Caching Qwen 2.5 Qwen 3 Qwen 3.5 Qwen 3.6 Rate Limit (AI) SauerkrautLM Tier Pricing