The Inference Report
The lab announcements today reveal a field bifurcating between two competing visions of where AI value actually lives. OpenAI is consolidating a stack around code and security, acquiring Pierre Computer to deepen Codex, shipping autonomous vulnerability discovery in the Linux kernel, deploying GPT-5.6 Cyber through government cloud infrastructure, and accelerating image generation as a commodity feature. This is a builder's strategy: own the tools that matter to enterprises, make them faster and cheaper, integrate them into workflows where money moves. Google and Anthropic, by contrast, are publishing research on reasoning and document parsing, intellectual contributions that signal depth but do not directly monetize. IBM and Confluent are selling architecture for real-time business context, positioning data infrastructure as the prerequisite for AI decisions. AMD is publishing optimization guides and benchmarks for serving models on its hardware, a play for the inference workload as competition intensifies. AI21 Labs is shipping execution libraries for agents and claiming frontier performance on specific tasks like payroll processing. The pattern is clear: those building products for paying customers are shipping integrated tools and infrastructure; those publishing frameworks and research are playing for mindshare or positioning for acquisition. The money is moving toward integration, speed, and domain specificity, not toward generalized reasoning papers or architectural theory. OpenAI's government cloud deployment of Daybreak Red is the most strategically significant move here; it signals that cybersecurity workloads are now treated as a defensible market segment worth dedicated infrastructure, not a generic application of general-purpose models.
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.
AllenAINone
- AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B ThinkText66K
Amazon- Amazon: Nova 2 LiteTextVisionVideoFiles1M
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Anthropic- 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 Pro PreviewAudioFilesVisionTextVideo1M
- 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: Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)VisionText131K
- Google: Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)VisionText66K
- Google: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)VisionText66K
- Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B VisionTextVideo262K
- Google: Gemma 4 31BVisionTextVideo262K
IBMNone
- IBM: Granite 4.2 8BText131K
Inception- Inception: Mercury 2Text128K
- Inception: Mercury 2.5Text260K
- Inception: Mercury 3Text1M
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Meta (Muse)None
- Meta: Muse Glimmer 30BTextVision131K
- Meta: Muse Spark OpenTextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
NVIDIANone
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BText262K
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 SuperText1M
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 UltraText262K
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 LightningText262K
- NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VLTextVisionVideo1M
- NVIDIA: SwitchyardText1M
OpenAI- 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-CodexTextVision400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.3-CodexTextVisionFiles400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4TextVisionFiles1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 MiniFilesVisionText400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 NanoFilesVisionText400K
- OpenAI: GPT-5.4 ProTextVisionFiles1M
- OpenAI: GPT-5.5FilesVisionText1M
- 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
- OpenAI: GPT-6.1 TerraFilesVisionText1M
- OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra ProFilesVisionText1M
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Perceptron- Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1TextVisionVideo33K
- Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5TextVisionVideoAudio37K
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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
None
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
Alibaba (Qwen)None
- 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
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
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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
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017TextVision1M
MiniMaxNone
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5Text198K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7Text197K
- MiniMax: MiniMax M3TextVisionVideo1M
- MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 FlashTextVisionVideo1M
Moonshot AINone
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5TextVision262K
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6TextVision262K
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 CodeTextVision262K
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K3TextVisionVideo1M
- MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 ProTextVisionVideo1M
XiaomiNone
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5TextAudioVisionVideo1M
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-ProText262K
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-FlashTextVisionVideoAudio1M
- Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-ProTextVisionVideoAudio1M
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 FlashX LegalTextVisionVideo1M
- Z.ai: GLM 5V TurboVisionTextVideo203K
Upstage- Upstage: Solar Mini 4Text524K
- Upstage: Solar Pro 4Text524K
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