The Inference Report
The lab announcements today cluster around a single competitive axis: who controls the stack from model weights through end-user applications. OpenAI is seeding academic and professional workflows with GPT-Rosalind and Agreement Analyzer, positioning itself as the foundation layer for domain-specific work in life sciences and legal services. Google DeepMind's antimicrobial peptide search and Microsoft's lecture-catchup agent follow the same pattern, embed capability into workflows where switching costs matter. The real signal is not the individual deployments but the systematic move to own the entry point in high-value verticals before competitors can establish distribution. Anthropic's update on independent evaluators notably lacks specificity about what changed, suggesting the announcement exists primarily to occupy space in coverage rather than communicate substantive policy shifts.
NVIDIA and the automotive sector reveal where actual capital concentration is happening. Mercedes-Benz and Volvo both announced expanded partnerships in the same news cycle, but neither announcement describes new technical breakthroughs, they describe multi-year commitments to NVIDIA's existing infrastructure for autonomous driving systems. This is not competition; it is consolidation. Meanwhile, Hugging Face is distributing open-weight models across multiple scales and modalities, Mistral introduced Timestral, and PrismML released on-device agent models in 2B through 9B parameter ranges. The open-source tier is moving down-market and up-capability simultaneously, fracturing the middle. AI21 Labs' partnership with NVIDIA to post-train specialized models on Nemotron 3.5 Super VL shows how the stack is reorganizing: foundation models become infrastructure, and differentiation shifts to post-training and application layers. The labs are no longer racing to build the largest model. They are racing to own the layer above it.
Sloane Duvall
- Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA Expand Strategic Partnership to Advance Safe Highly Automated Driving in the Next Decade
- Volvo Cars and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Advance Safe Automated Driving
- Be There for the Beginning: Celebrate the Launch of NVIDIA RTX Spark
- Adobe and NVIDIA Expand Collaboration to Speed Agentic Creation
- Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models
- Dial Up the Cloud: NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Controls Arrive on GeForce NOW
- Introducing Ternary Bonsai 2 2B, 4B, and 9B: Bringing Local Agents to Everyday Devices
- PrismML Expands Bonsai 2 Family with 2B, 4B, and 9B Models for On-Device AI
- How the AI Boom Ends
- Anthropic IPO at Risk, Meta’s Muse Pop, Token Prices Fall, Open Source Gains Share, Alignment Fails
- PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses
- Snapdragon Summit 2026 Day 2: Personal AI, Sound, and PC Keynotes | Snapdragon for the Agentic Age
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.
AllenAINone
- AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B ThinkText66K
Amazon- Amazon: Nova 2 LiteTextVisionVideoFiles1M
- Amazon: Nova Premier 1.0TextVision1M
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Anthropic- Anthropic: Claude Fable 5TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5FilesVisionText200K
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 5TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5TextVisionFiles1M
- Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5TextVisionFiles1M
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Arcee AINone
- Arcee AI: Trinity Large ThinkingText262K
Deep CogitoNone
- Deep Cogito: Cogito v2.1 671BText128K
Google- Google: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewTextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewAudioFilesVisionTextVideo1M
- Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsTextAudioVisionVideoFiles1M
- Google: Gemini 3.5 FlashTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 3.6 FlashTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 3.7 FlashTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 3.8 FlashTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Google: Gemini 4 ArgonAudioFilesVisionTextVideo1M
- Google: Lyria 3 Clip PreviewTextVision1M
- Google: Lyria 3 Pro PreviewTextVision1M
- Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)VisionText66K
- Google: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)VisionText131K
- Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)VisionText66K
- Google: Nano Banana 2.1VisionText66K
- Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)VisionText66K
- Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)VisionText131K
- Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B VisionTextVideo262K
- Google: Gemma 4 31BVisionTextVideo262K
IBMNone
- IBM: Granite 4.0 MicroText131K
- IBM: Granite 4.2 8BText131K
Inception- Inception: Mercury 2Text128K
- Inception: Mercury 2.5Text260K
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Meta (Muse)- Meta: Muse Spark 1.1TextVisionVideoFiles1M
- Meta: Muse Spark 1.2TextVisionVideoFiles1M
- Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 ContributorTextVisionVideoFiles1M
- Meta: Muse Spark 1.3TextVisionVideoFiles1M
- Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 ContributorTextVisionVideoFiles1M
- Meta: Muse WonderTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
- Meta: Muse Glimmer 30BTextVision131K
- Meta: Muse Spark OpenTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
NVIDIANone
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BText262K
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 SuperText262K
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraText262K
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 LightningText262K
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VLTextVisionVideo1M
- NVIDIA: SwitchyardText1M
OpenAI- OpenAI: GPT AudioTextAudio128K
- OpenAI: GPT Audio MiniTextAudio128K
- OpenAI: GPT-5 Image MiniFilesVisionText400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.1VisionTextFiles400K
- 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-CodexTextVisionFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4TextVisionFiles1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Image 2VisionTextFiles272K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 MiniFilesVisionText400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 NanoFilesVisionText400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ProTextVisionFiles1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.5FilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.5 ProFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.6 LunaFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna ProFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.6 SolFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol ProFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra ProFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6 AstraFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra ProFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6 LunaFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna ProFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6 SolFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol ProFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6.1 SolFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol ProFilesVisionText1M
None
Perceptron- Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1TextVisionVideo33K
- Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5TextVisionVideoAudio37K
None
Perplexity- Perplexity: Sonar Pro SearchTextVision200K
None
PoolsideNone
- Poolside: Laguna S 2.1Text1M
- Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1Text262K
Reka AINone
- Reka EdgeVisionTextVideo16K
RelaceNone
- Relace: Relace SearchText256K
Thinking MachinesNone
- Thinking Machines: InklingTextVisionAudio524K
- Thinking Machines: Inkling SmallTextVisionAudio524K
xAI- SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20TextVisionFiles2M
- SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-AgentTextVisionFiles2M
- SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3TextVisionFiles1M
- SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5TextVisionFiles500K
- SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6TextVisionFiles500K
- SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7TextVisionFiles500K
- SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1TextVisionFiles256K
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Cohere- Cohere: Command A+TextVision192K
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Mistral AINone
- Mistral: Devstral 2 2512TextFiles262K
- Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512TextVision262K
- Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512TextVision131K
- Mistral: Ministral 3 8B 2512TextVision262K
- Mistral: Mistral Large 3 2512TextVisionFiles262K
- Mistral: Mistral Large 4TextVision1M
- Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5TextVisionFiles262K
- Mistral: Mistral Small 4TextVision262K
- Mistral: Voxtral Small 24B 2507TextAudioFiles33K
Alibaba (Qwen)- Qwen: Qwen3.6 FlashTextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.6 PlusTextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.7 FlashTextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.7 MaxText1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.7 PlusTextVision1M
- Qwen: Qwen3 Coder NextText262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-27BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.5-9BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.6 27BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BTextVisionVideo262K
- Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BText1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.8 27BTextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.8 FlashTextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)TextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max PrimeTextVisionVideo1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni FlashTextVisionAudioVideo1M
ByteDance- Seed: Seed 1.6VisionTextVideo262K
- Seed: Seed 1.6 FlashVisionTextVideo262K
- Seed: Seed 2.1 TurboTextVisionVideo262K
- Seed: Seed-2.0-CodeTextVisionVideo262K
- Seed: Seed-2.0-LiteTextVisionVideo262K
- Seed: Seed-2.0-MiniTextVisionVideo262K
None
DeepSeekNone
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2Text164K
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423Text1M
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Text1M
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpTextVision1M
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423Text1M
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Text1M
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 FlashTextVision1M
MiniMax- MiniMax: MiniMax M2-herText66K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2Text205K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1Text205K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5Text205K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7Text205K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M3TextVisionVideo1M
Moonshot AINone
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 ThinkingText262K
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5TextVision262K
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6TextVision262K
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 CodeTextVision262K
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K3TextVisionVideo1M
XiaomiNone
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5TextAudioVisionVideo1M
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-ProText1M
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-FlashTextVisionVideoAudio1M
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-ProTextVisionVideoAudio1M
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeedTextVisionVideoAudio1M
Z.aiNone
- Z.ai: GLM 4.6VVisionTextVideo131K
- Z.ai: GLM 4.7Text205K
- Z.ai: GLM 4.7 FlashText200K
- Z.ai: GLM 5Text205K
- Z.ai: GLM 5 TurboText203K
- Z.ai: GLM 5.1Text205K
- Z.ai: GLM 5.2Text1M
- Z.ai: GLM 5.3Text1M
- Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashTextVisionVideo1M
- Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashXTextVisionVideo1M
- Z.ai: GLM 5.3 PrimeText1M
- Z.ai: GLM 5V TurboVisionTextVideo203K
Upstage- Upstage: Solar Mini 4Text524K
- Upstage: Solar Pro 3Text131K
- Upstage: Solar Pro 4Text524K
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