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AI Model Brief
Once a week: the AI models that shipped, how they score on independent benchmarks, what they cost and which ones were deprecated. It is built from the data behind our AI model benchmarks, so every number links to a page with its source.
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In every issue
New models
Each release of the week, with its provider, its price per million tokens and its context window.
Independent scores
The model leading language, image, video and speech, each on the broadest independent benchmark for its task.
Deprecations
The models their providers deprecated that week, and what replaces each one.
Our analysis
The week’s articles on what the launches mean for teams building with AI.
This week’s brief
Releases from October 24, 2026 to October 30, 2026
New models
- GPT-6.1 Terra
OpenAI · Released
- Price
- $1 in, $5 out per 1M tokens
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
Leading each task
Language
Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle · Arena Text: 1525 Elo
Image
GPT Image 2.5 SunburstOpenAI · Arena Text-to-Image: 1425 Elo
Video
Dreamina Seedance 2.5ByteDance Seed · Artificial Analysis Video Arena (text to video): 1143 Elo
Speech and audio
Eleven v4 TurboElevenLabs · Artificial Analysis Speech Arena: 1330 Elo
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