New Models

• OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing for three months

  GPT-5.6 Sol input falls to $4 and output to $20 per million tokens on AWS through at least November 21, materially changing frontier-model workload economics.

• DeepSeek adds vision to V4 Flash for multimodal agents

  DeepSeek's V4 Flash Vision Exp adds image understanding and reusable file input to its API, expanding low-cost multimodal agent options while remaining experimental.

• Grok 4.6 lands in Google’s enterprise model catalog

  Google adds Grok 4.6 to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in Preview, with 524K context, reasoning, function calling and fixed launch quotas.

• Ant Ling opens six Ling 3.0 checkpoints for custom LLM training

  Ant Ling releases six Ling 3.0 base checkpoints across two model sizes and three training stages for continued pretraining and specialized LLM work.

• Qwen3.8-Max raises the bar for open-weight coding models

  Alibaba's Qwen team says Qwen3.8-Max sets a new bar for coding and cowork tasks and marks its first open-weight Qwen-Max-class release.