The Inference Report

November 10, 2026
AI Labs — News

The lab announcements today reveal a field consolidating around applied infrastructure rather than frontier model capability. OpenAI is threading its models through enterprise procurement channels, AWS Marketplace for ChatGPT Enterprise, and building internal operational systems like Control Room to manage research workloads, a signal that scaling now means managing complexity at the infrastructure layer, not just pushing model size. The real motion is downstream: CodeRabbit shipping 20x more software per engineer, Kuken Industries cutting design search from an hour to 4.5 minutes, Apptio connecting AI spending to business outcomes, and AMD optimizing medical imaging annotation on its hardware. NVIDIA is shifting robot learning from locomotion to manipulation via simulation, a maturation from proof-of-concept to task specificity. Anthropic is testing Claude on electronics design, a domain-specific application rather than a capability announcement. Google's Language Explorer and Hugging Face's work on synthetic datasets for Japan's financial context and team retention signal that the competitive advantage is moving toward localization, data preparation, and vertical integration, not toward who builds the largest general model. The absence of new frontier model announcements across 12 labs, paired with the density of enterprise integration, procurement simplification, and domain-specific tooling, suggests the market has shifted its bet from capability leaps to operational leverage.

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.

usAllenAI
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B Think
    Text66K
usAmazon
Closed Weights
  • Amazon: Nova 2 Lite
    TextVisionVideoFiles1M
Open Weights

None

usAnthropic
Closed Weights
  • Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
    FilesVisionText200K
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 5
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5
    TextVisionFiles1M
Open Weights

None

usArcee AI
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Arcee AI: Trinity Large Thinking
    Text262K
usDeep Cogito
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Deep Cogito: Cogito v2.1 671B
    Text128K
usGoogle
Closed Weights
  • Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
    TextVisionFilesAudioVideo1M
  • Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
  • Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
    AudioFilesVisionTextVideo1M
  • Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
  • Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
  • Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
  • Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
  • Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
  • Google: Gemini 4 Argon
    AudioFilesVisionTextVideo1M
  • 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
Open Weights
  • Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
    VisionTextVideo262K
  • Google: Gemma 4 31B
    VisionTextVideo262K
usIBM
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • IBM: Granite 4.2 8B
    Text131K
usInception
Closed Weights
  • Inception: Mercury 2
    Text128K
  • Inception: Mercury 2.5
    Text260K
  • Inception: Mercury 3
    Text1M
Open Weights

None

usMeta (Muse)
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B
    TextVision131K
  • Meta: Muse Spark Open
    TextVisionVideoFilesAudio1M
usNVIDIA
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
    Text262K
  • NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super
    Text1M
  • NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra
    Text262K
  • NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
    Text262K
  • NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • NVIDIA: Switchyard
    Text1M
usOpenAI
Closed Weights
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.1
    VisionTextFiles400K
  • 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-Codex
    TextVision400K
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.3-Codex
    TextVisionFiles400K
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.4
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • 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-5.6 Luna
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6 Sol Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra
    FilesVisionText1M
  • OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra Pro
    FilesVisionText1M
Open Weights

None

usPerceptron
Closed Weights
  • Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1
    TextVisionVideo33K
  • Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1.5
    TextVisionVideoAudio37K
Open Weights

None

usPoolside
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Poolside: Laguna S 2.1
    Text1M
  • Poolside: Laguna XS 2.1
    Text262K
usReka AI
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Reka Edge
    VisionTextVideo16K
usRelace
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Relace: Relace Search
    Text256K
usThinking Machines
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Thinking Machines: Inkling
    TextVisionAudio524K
  • Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
    TextVisionAudio524K
usxAI
Closed Weights
  • SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20
    TextVisionFiles2M
  • SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent
    TextVisionFiles2M
  • SpaceXAI: Grok 4.3
    TextVisionFiles1M
  • SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5
    TextVisionFiles500K
  • SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6
    TextVisionFiles500K
  • SpaceXAI: Grok 4.7
    TextVisionFiles500K
  • SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
    TextVisionFiles256K
Open Weights

None

caCohere
Closed Weights
  • Cohere: Command A+
    TextVision192K
Open Weights

None

frMistral AI
Closed Weights

None

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 Large 3 2512
    TextVisionFiles262K
  • Mistral: Mistral Large 4
    TextVision1M
  • Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
    TextVisionFiles262K
  • Mistral: Mistral Small 4
    TextVision262K
cnAlibaba (Qwen)
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next
    Text262K
  • 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
  • Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
    Text1M
  • Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
    TextVisionVideo1M
cnByteDance
Closed Weights
  • Seed: Seed 1.6
    VisionTextVideo262K
  • Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash
    VisionTextVideo262K
  • Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo
    TextVisionVideo262K
  • Seed: Seed-2.0-Code
    TextVisionVideo262K
  • Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite
    TextVisionVideo262K
  • Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini
    TextVisionVideo262K
Open Weights

None

cnDeepSeek
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2
    Text164K
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
    Text1M
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
    Text1M
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
    TextVision1M
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423
    Text1M
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
    Text1M
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
    TextVision1M
  • DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
    TextVision1M
cnMiniMax
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5
    Text198K
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7
    Text197K
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M3
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash
    TextVisionVideo1M
cnMoonshot AI
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5
    TextVision262K
  • MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
    TextVision262K
  • MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
    TextVision262K
  • MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro
    TextVisionVideo1M
cnXiaomi
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5
    TextAudioVisionVideo1M
  • Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro
    Text262K
  • Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash
    TextVisionVideoAudio1M
  • Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro
    TextVisionVideoAudio1M
cnZ.ai
Closed Weights

None

Open Weights
  • Z.ai: GLM 4.6V
    VisionTextVideo131K
  • Z.ai: GLM 4.7
    Text205K
  • Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash
    Text200K
  • Z.ai: GLM 5
    Text205K
  • Z.ai: GLM 5 Turbo
    Text203K
  • Z.ai: GLM 5.1
    Text205K
  • Z.ai: GLM 5.2
    Text1M
  • Z.ai: GLM 5.3
    Text1M
  • Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX Legal
    TextVisionVideo1M
  • Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
    VisionTextVideo203K
krUpstage
Closed Weights
  • Upstage: Solar Mini 4
    Text524K
  • Upstage: Solar Pro 4
    Text524K
Open Weights

None