The Inference Report

April 27, 2026
AI Labs — News

OpenAI is broadcasting mission language about AGI benefiting humanity while simultaneously emphasizing Codex as a practical tool for automating workflows and producing tangible outputs, a split messaging strategy that separates philosophical positioning from commercial application. The Codex framing bypasses the chat-interface bottleneck entirely, positioning AI not as a conversational layer but as a systems integrator that connects to existing enterprise tools and generates actionable artifacts. Google DeepMind's announcement of a partnership with South Korea signals a shift toward anchoring frontier AI capability within geopolitical relationships and state-level scientific infrastructure, moving the competitive arena beyond private lab benchmarks into bilateral agreements and government-backed research programs. The three announcements collectively reveal labs pivoting from pure capability announcements toward embedding themselves in either product workflows or state institutions, a recognition that raw model performance alone no longer drives differentiation or defensibility.

Sloane Duvall

Google DeepMind
OpenAI
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.

usAmazon
Closed Weights
  • Amazon: Nova 2 Lite
    TextVisionVideoFiles1M
  • Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0
    TextVision1M
Open Weights

None

usAnthropic
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

usGoogle 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
usMeta
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Meta: Llama Guard 4 12B
    VisionText164K
usOpenAI
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: GPT-5.5
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
  • 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
usxAI
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

frMistral 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
ilAI21 Labs
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • AI21: Jamba Large 1.7
    Text256K
cnAlibaba (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 Plus 2026-04-20
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
    Text262K
  • 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
  • Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
    TextVisionVideo262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
    TextVisionVideo262K
cnByteDance
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

cnDeepSeek
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
cnMiniMax
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