The Inference Report
The lab announcements today reveal a hardening focus on the operational layer of AI deployment: security, observability, and cost reduction in production environments. OpenAI's acquisition of Promptfoo signals that vulnerability testing during development is now a table-stakes capability worth acquiring rather than building, suggesting the market for security tooling has matured enough to justify M&A. Across the stack, the dominant theme is not new model capability but friction reduction in getting models to work at scale. NVIDIA positions Omniverse as a factory-floor tool that cuts deployment costs by 40 percent, framing simulation as a cost control mechanism rather than a research amenity. GitHub's security architecture for agentic workflows and AMD's observability stack for training both address the unglamorous but critical problem of knowing what your systems are doing when they fail. Hugging Face's announcements span the full spectrum: reinforcement learning infrastructure, edge speech models, million-token training parallelism, and robotics frameworks. The pattern suggests labs are no longer competing primarily on headline model releases but on the scaffolding that makes models usable at different scales and in different contexts. IBM's engagement with SEI on enterprise transformation through agentic AI and AWS's regional expansion underscore that the money is flowing to whoever can make these systems operationally reliable and cost-justified to enterprises. Security, observability, and cost reduction are now the differentiators. The model itself is becoming a commodity input.
Sloane Duvall
A curated reference of models from major AI labs, with open/closed weight status, input modalities, and context window size. American labs tend towards closed weights models and Chinese labs tend toward open weights models.
Amazon- Amazon: Nova 2 LiteTextVisionVideoFiles1M
- Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0TextVision1M
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Anthropic- Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5VisionText200K
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4VisionTextFiles200K
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1VisionTextFiles200K
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5FilesVisionText200K
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6TextVision1M
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4VisionTextFiles200K
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6TextVision1M
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Google DeepMind- Google: Gemini 2.5 FlashFilesVisionTextAudioVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteTextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 2.5 ProTextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05FilesVisionTextAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewTextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 3 Pro PreviewTextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewAudioFilesVisionTextVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsTextAudioVisionVideoFiles1M
- Google: Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)VisionText33K
- Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)VisionText66K
- Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)VisionText66K
- Google: Gemma 3n 4BText33K
MetaNone
- Meta: Llama 4 MaverickTextVision1M
- Meta: Llama 4 ScoutTextVision328K
- Meta: Llama Guard 4 12BVisionText164K
OpenAI- OpenAI: GPT AudioTextAudio128K
- OpenAI: GPT Audio MiniTextAudio128K
- OpenAI: GPT-4.1VisionTextFiles1M
- OpenAI: GPT-4.1 MiniVisionTextFiles1M
- OpenAI: GPT-4.1 NanoVisionTextFiles1M
- OpenAI: GPT-4o AudioAudioText128K
- OpenAI: GPT-5TextVisionFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5 ChatFilesVisionText128K
- OpenAI: GPT-5 CodexTextVision400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5 ImageVisionTextFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5 Image MiniFilesVisionText400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5 MiniTextVisionFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5 NanoTextVisionFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5 ProVisionTextFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.1VisionTextFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.1 ChatFilesVisionText128K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.1-CodexTextVision400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-MaxTextVision400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniVisionText400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.2FilesVisionText400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.2 ChatFilesVisionText128K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.2 ProVisionTextFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.2-CodexTextVision400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.3 ChatTextVisionFiles128K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.3-CodexTextVision400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4TextVisionFiles1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ProTextVisionFiles1M
- OpenAI: o1-proTextVisionFiles200K
- OpenAI: o3VisionTextFiles200K
- OpenAI: o3 Deep ResearchVisionTextFiles200K
- OpenAI: o3 ProTextFilesVision200K
- OpenAI: o4 MiniVisionTextFiles200K
- OpenAI: o4 Mini Deep ResearchFilesVisionText200K
- OpenAI: o4 Mini HighVisionTextFiles200K
- OpenAI: gpt-oss-120bText131K
- OpenAI: gpt-oss-20bText131K
- OpenAI: gpt-oss-safeguard-20bText131K
xAI- xAI: Grok 3Text131K
- xAI: Grok 3 BetaText131K
- xAI: Grok 3 MiniText131K
- xAI: Grok 3 Mini BetaText131K
- xAI: Grok 4VisionText256K
- xAI: Grok 4 FastTextVision2M
- xAI: Grok 4.1 FastTextVision2M
- xAI: Grok 4.20 BetaTextVision2M
- xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent BetaTextVision2M
- xAI: Grok Code Fast 1Text256K
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Mistral AI- Mistral: Codestral 2508Text256K
- Mistral: Devstral MediumText131K
- Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512TextVision262K
- Mistral: Mistral Medium 3TextVision131K
- Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1TextVision131K
- Mistral: Mistral Small CreativeText33K
- Mistral: Devstral 2 2512Text262K
- Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1Text131K
- Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512TextVision262K
- Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512TextVision131K
- Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512TextVision262K
- Mistral: Mistral Small 3.1 24BTextVision128K
- Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24BVisionText131K
- Mistral: Voxtral Small 24B 2507TextAudio32K
AI21 LabsNone
- AI21: Jamba Large 1.7Text256K
Alibaba (Qwen)- Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728Text1M
- Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)Text1M
- Qwen: Qwen3 Coder FlashText1M
- Qwen: Qwen3 Coder PlusText1M
- Qwen: Qwen3 MaxText262K
- Qwen: Qwen3 Max ThinkingText262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15TextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-FlashTextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen2.5 Coder 7B InstructText33K
- Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 32B InstructTextVision128K
- Qwen: Qwen3 14BText41K
- Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22BText131K
- Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Text262K
- Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Text262K
- Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3BText41K
- Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Text262K
- Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507Text33K
- Qwen: Qwen3 32BText41K
- Qwen: Qwen3 8BText41K
- Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructText160K
- Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BText262K
- Qwen: Qwen3 Coder NextText262K
- Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructText131K
- Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingText131K
- Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructTextVision262K
- Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingTextVision131K
- Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructTextVision131K
- Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingTextVision131K
- Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B InstructTextVision131K
- Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B InstructVisionText131K
- Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingVisionText131K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-27BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BTextVisionVideo256K
ByteDance- Seed: Seed 1.6VisionTextVideo262K
- Seed: Seed 1.6 FlashVisionTextVideo262K
- Seed: Seed-2.0-LiteTextVisionVideo262K
- Seed: Seed-2.0-MiniTextVisionVideo262K
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DeepSeekNone
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324Text164K
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1Text33K
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusText164K
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2Text164K
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 ExpText164K
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeText164K
- DeepSeek: R1 0528Text164K
MiniMax- MiniMax: MiniMax M1Text1M
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2-herText66K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2Text197K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1Text197K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5Text197K