The Inference Report

May 28, 2026
AI Labs — News

The lab announcements today pivot decisively toward agentic systems deployed in enterprise workflows, with the economics of inference, power consumption, token cost, and real-time performance, emerging as the central competitive battleground. OpenAI is positioning Codex as the connective tissue for agent orchestration across engineering, tax compliance, and open-source development, signaling that the near-term value capture lies not in foundation models themselves but in the infrastructure that coordinates multiple agents across fragmented enterprise systems. NVIDIA's framing of AI factories as token factories converting power into intelligence is the most candid articulation of this shift: as always-on autonomous agents become the deployment model, the unit economics of inference, cost per token, performance per watt, displace traditional model capability metrics as the actual competitive moat. Google and AMD are both publishing deep technical work on inference optimization and privacy-preserving aggregation, suggesting they recognize the infrastructure play is where margin lives. Hugging Face's ITBench benchmark revealing frontier models scoring below 50 percent on agentic enterprise IT tasks is the honest counterweight here: capability benchmarks on static tasks have decoupled from actual agent performance in production workflows, which means labs are racing to solve a different problem than the one they've been publicly measured against. Anthropic's work on coding agents for social science research and Hugging Face's local-first robotics deployment indicate the market is already fragmenting by use case and deployment constraint. What's conspicuously absent is any lab claiming general superiority in agentic reasoning or agent coordination, the announcements are instead about embedding agents into specific workflows where the friction is highest and the switching cost is real.

Sloane Duvall

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
    TextVisionFiles200K
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1
    VisionTextFiles200K
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
    FilesVisionText200K
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
    TextVisionFiles1M
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 06-05
    FilesVisionTextAudio1M
  • Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
    TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
  • Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
  • 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: Gemini 3.5 Flash
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
  • 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)
    VisionText131K
  • Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)
    VisionText66K
Open Weights
  • Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
    VisionTextVideo262K
  • Google: Gemma 4 31B
    VisionTextVideo262K
usMicrosoft
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Microsoft: Phi 4 Mini Instruct
    Text131K
usOpenAI
Closed Weights
  • OpenAI: GPT Audio
    TextAudio128K
  • OpenAI: GPT Audio Mini
    TextAudio128K
  • OpenAI: GPT Chat Latest
    TextVisionFiles400K
  • 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 4.20
    TextVisionFiles2M
  • xAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
    TextVisionFiles2M
  • xAI: Grok 4.3
    TextVision1M
  • xAI: Grok Build 0.1
    TextVision256K
Open Weights

None

frMistral AI
Closed Weights
  • Mistral: Codestral 2508
    TextFiles256K
  • Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512
    TextVisionFiles262K
  • Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1
    TextVisionFiles131K
  • Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
    TextVisionFiles262K
Open Weights
  • Mistral: Devstral 2 2512
    TextFiles262K
  • 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
    TextAudioFiles32K
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
  • Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max
    Text1M
Open Weights
  • Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
    Text262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
    Text262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
    Text131K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
    Text131K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
    Text160K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
    Text1M
  • Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next
    Text262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
    Text262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
    Text262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
    TextVision262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
    TextVision131K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
    TextVision262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
    TextVision131K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
    TextVision262K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
    VisionText256K
  • Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
    VisionText256K
  • 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
    Text164K
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
    Text164K
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2
    Text131K
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
    Text164K
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash
    Text1M
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
    Text1M
cnMiniMax
Closed Weights
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M1
    Text1M
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her
    Text66K
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M3
    TextVisionVideo1M
Open Weights
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M2
    Text205K
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1
    Text205K
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5
    Text205K
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7
    Text205K