The Inference Report

April 22, 2026

AI Labs — News

OpenAI's move to productize Codex through enterprise partnerships signals a shift in how coding assistants generate revenue: not through API calls to individual developers, but through systems integrators and consulting firms that can bundle the tool into larger transformation contracts. The 4M weekly active users figure matters less than the distribution channel, Accenture, PwC, and Infosys now have financial incentive to embed Codex into customer engagements, which changes the competitive dynamic away from direct adoption and toward enterprise sales infrastructure. Google and IBM are following similar playbooks, with IBM pairing AI tools alongside Adobe for "experience orchestration" in ways that lock the technology into existing consulting relationships and software stacks. Hugging Face's positioning on cybersecurity and openness reads as a counterweight to this consolidation, staking a claim that open models provide an alternative to closed vendor relationships, though the announcement provides no specifics on product or adoption. The pattern across today's announcements is less about capability and more about distribution: labs are racing to embed their models into the workflows of firms that already have direct relationships with enterprise customers, turning AI into a line item in consulting budgets rather than a standalone purchase decision.

Sloane Duvall

Google

ReasoningBank: Enabling agents to learn from experience

Hugging Face

AI and the Future of Cybersecurity: Why Openness Matters

IBM

IBM Introduces Industry Solutions for AI Powered Experience Orchestration with Adobe

OpenAI

Scaling Codex to enterprises worldwide

AI Labs — Models

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

Closed Weights

Amazon: Nova 2 Lite
TextVisionVideoFiles1M
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0
TextVision1M

Open Weights

None

Anthropic

Closed Weights

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5
VisionText200K
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4
VisionTextFiles200K
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1
VisionTextFiles200K
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
FilesVisionText200K
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
TextVision1M
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
TextVision1M
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
TextVision1M
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4
VisionTextFiles1M
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5
TextVisionFiles1M
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
TextVision1M

Open Weights

None

Google DeepMind

Closed Weights

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash
FilesVisionTextAudioVideo1M
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025
TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro
TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06
TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
FilesVisionTextAudio1M
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
AudioFilesVisionTextVideo1M
Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom Tools
TextAudioVisionVideoFiles1M
Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview
TextVision1M
Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview
TextVision1M
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

Open Weights

Google: Gemma 3n 4B
Text33K
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
VisionTextVideo262K
Google: Gemma 4 31B
VisionTextVideo262K

Meta

Closed Weights

None

Open Weights

Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B
VisionText164K

OpenAI

Closed Weights

OpenAI: GPT Audio
TextAudio128K
OpenAI: GPT Audio Mini
TextAudio128K
OpenAI: GPT-4o Audio
AudioText128K
OpenAI: GPT-5
TextVisionFiles400K
OpenAI: GPT-5 Chat
FilesVisionText128K
OpenAI: GPT-5 Codex
TextVision400K
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image
VisionTextFiles400K
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image Mini
FilesVisionText400K
OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini
TextVisionFiles400K
OpenAI: GPT-5 Nano
TextVisionFiles400K
OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro
VisionTextFiles400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.1
VisionTextFiles400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.1 Chat
FilesVisionText128K
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex
TextVision400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
TextVision400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
VisionText400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.2
FilesVisionText400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat
FilesVisionText128K
OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Pro
VisionTextFiles400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex
TextVision400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.3 Chat
TextVisionFiles128K
OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex
TextVisionFiles400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.4
TextVisionFiles1M
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Image 2
VisionTextFiles272K
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
FilesVisionText400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
FilesVisionText400K
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Pro
TextVisionFiles1M
OpenAI: o3 Deep Research
VisionTextFiles200K
OpenAI: o3 Pro
TextFilesVision200K
OpenAI: o4 Mini Deep Research
FilesVisionText200K

Open Weights

OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Text131K
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b
Text131K
OpenAI: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
Text131K

xAI

Closed Weights

xAI: Grok 3
Text131K
xAI: Grok 3 Mini
Text131K
xAI: Grok 4
VisionTextFiles256K
xAI: Grok 4 Fast
TextVisionFiles2M
xAI: Grok 4.1 Fast
TextVisionFiles2M
xAI: Grok 4.20
TextVisionFiles2M
xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
TextVisionFiles2M
xAI: Grok Code Fast 1
Text256K

Open Weights

None

Mistral AI

Closed Weights

Mistral: Codestral 2508
Text256K
Mistral: Devstral Medium
Text131K
Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512
TextVision262K
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3
TextVision131K
Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1
TextVision131K
Mistral: Mistral Small Creative
Text33K

Open Weights

Mistral: Devstral 2 2512
Text262K
Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1
Text131K
Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512
TextVision262K
Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512
TextVision131K
Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512
TextVision262K
Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B
VisionText128K
Mistral: Mistral Small 4
TextVision262K
Mistral: Voxtral Small 24B 2507
TextAudio32K

AI21 Labs

Closed Weights

None

Open Weights

AI21: Jamba Large 1.7
Text256K

Alibaba (Qwen)

Closed Weights

Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728
Text1M
Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728 (thinking)
Text1M
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Flash
Text1M
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus
Text1M
Qwen: Qwen3 Max
Text262K
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Text262K
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15
TextVisionVideo1M
Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash
TextVisionVideo1M
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
TextVisionVideo1M

Open Weights

Qwen: Qwen3 14B
Text41K
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B
Text131K
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Text262K
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Text131K
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B
Text41K
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Text262K
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
Text131K
Qwen: Qwen3 32B
Text41K
Qwen: Qwen3 8B
Text41K
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Text160K
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Text262K
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next
Text262K
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Text262K
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Text131K
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
TextVision262K
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
TextVision131K
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
TextVision131K
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
TextVision131K
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
TextVision131K
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
VisionText131K
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
VisionText131K
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
TextVisionVideo262K
Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
TextVisionVideo262K
Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
TextVisionVideo262K
Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
TextVisionVideo262K
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
TextVisionVideo262K

ByteDance

Closed Weights

Seed: Seed 1.6
VisionTextVideo262K
Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash
VisionTextVideo262K
Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
TextVisionVideo262K
Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
TextVisionVideo262K

Open Weights

None

DeepSeek

Closed Weights

None

Open Weights

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1
Text33K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
Text164K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2
Text131K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Text164K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
Text164K
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash
Text1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Text1M
DeepSeek: R1 0528
Text164K

MiniMax

Closed Weights

MiniMax: MiniMax M1
Text1M
MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her
Text66K

Open Weights

MiniMax: MiniMax M2
Text197K
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1
Text197K
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5
Text197K
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7
Text197K