State of LLMs: September 16, 2025 — Intelligence Index v3, 80-20-0 Model Picks, and Cost-to-Run Reality
Heres the state of LLMs today: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v3.0 is the scoreboard for September. The market...
Heres the state of LLMs today: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v3.0 is the scoreboard for September. The market...
OpenAI just shipped another Codex. This time, its the model itself. GPT-5-Codex now powers Codex cloud tasks and...
ConfidenceBench does one job most LLM benchmarks skip: it measures whether a model knows how sure it should...
Jake Paul, known for his boxing career and online presence, co-founded Anti Fund and recently invested in Cognition....
Mistral AI just closed a €1.7 billion Series C round. Led by ASML Holding NV with €1.3 billion...
Frontload: the useful bits. Veo3 price cuts change video unit economics today. IconNET makes voice-driven mobile control more...
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B arrives in two clear variants built on the same sparse MoE backbone and long-context stack. The Instruct...
xAI’s new Grok Code Fast 1, codenamed “Sonic,” burst onto the scene in late August 2025 with big...
OpenAI has dropped their Codex IDE extension for VS Code, and it’s actually impressive. Too bad they gave...
Fal.ai does not standardize its API format across image models. Developers cannot hot-swap model IDs without rewriting code...
Anthropic pushed out Claude’s file creation and editing features quicker than planned, now available on mobile and through...
ByteDance released Seedream 4.0, a text-to-image and image-editing model that outputs up to 4K resolution at 4096×4096 pixels....
Google just dropped Stax, an experimental AI evaluation toolkit, and frankly, it’s about time. For too long, developers...
The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v3 has just dropped. Its a big deal, offering the most rigorous, transparent,...
Sonoma Dusk Alpha and Sonoma Sky Alpha appeared suddenly as two new stealth large language models. Each carries...
ChatGPT Plus costs $20/month. In 2026, that includes Agent Mode, Codex access, and advanced reasoning. Here's an honest...
Alibaba’s new Qwen3 Max model is here, and it follows a familiar pattern for their large language models...
Moonshot just dropped Kimi K2 0905, otherwise known as Kimi K2.1, and it’s a serious step up from...
Anthropic just closed a $13 billion Series F funding round, pushing its valuation to $183 billion. Thats nearly...
OpenAI has officially launched its Realtime API into general availability, and with it comes gpt-realtime, a new speech-to-speech...
OpenAI just dropped their Codex IDE extension for VS Code, and if you’re counting, that makes it the...
OmniHuman-1.5 represents a solid advancement in avatar animation, building on systems like the original OmniHuman and Wan 2.2...
Google just released what might be the most widely adopted AI image model of 2024, and everybody’s calling...
Anthropic just dropped Claude for Chrome, and it’s not another AI wrapper. This is a full browser extension...
AI progress isn’t just about making smarter models anymore. The real measure of advancement is how much compute...