Weekly models review: 2026-06-29

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Weekly models review (2026-06-29)

Automated check from scripts/weekly-models-check.mjs. Triage and either:

• Update data/pricing.json if a new flagship dropped, a model was deprecated, or pricing changed, then close this issue, OR
• Comment noop and close if nothing actionable surfaced.

Current state of data/pricing.json

• lastUpdated: 2026-06-09 (20 days ago)

• Providers tracked: 12

• Total models: 28

• Flagship models: 13

• Models released within last 90 days: 13

  • 2026-06 | Anthropic | Claude Fable 5 | $10/$50 | flagship
  • 2026-05 | Anthropic | Claude Opus 4.8 | $5/$25 | flagship
  • 2026-04 | Anthropic | Claude Opus 4.7 | $15/$75 | flagship
  • 2026-04 | OpenAI | GPT-5.5 | $5/$30 | flagship
  • 2026-05 | Google | Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | $0.25/$1.5 | budget
  • 2026-05 | Google | Gemini 3.5 Flash | $1.5/$9 | mid
  • 2026-04 | DeepSeek | DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.435/$0.87 | flagship
  • 2026-04 | DeepSeek | DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.14/$0.28 | budget
  • 2026-05 | Alibaba | Qwen3.7-Max | $2.5/$7.5 | flagship
  • 2026-04 | xAI | Grok 4.3 | $1.25/$2.5 | flagship

Model-release-flavored news, last 7 days

Matched 13 articles (keyword scan; not all will be real releases).

Date	Source	Title
2026-06-29	Hacker News AI	Argus for Claude Code: run repetitive AI workflows with 80% fewer tokens
2026-06-29	Hacker News AI	Low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek gain traction in the U.S.
2026-06-29	NVIDIA AI Blog	Open Models, Closed Environments: Palantir Brings Secure AI to US Agencies With NVIDIA Nemotron
2026-06-28	The Verge AI	China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity
2026-06-28	The Verge AI	Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine
2026-06-28	ZDNet AI	Use Android Auto? How to limit what information Gemini learns about you
2026-06-26	WIRED AI	OpenAI Has New AI Models. Here’s Why You Can’t Use Them
2026-06-26	The Verge AI	OpenAI unveils GPT-5.6 amid US AI regulatory drama
2026-06-26	Hugging Face Blog	Run a vLLM Server on HF Jobs in One Command
2026-06-25	The Verge AI	OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request
2026-06-24	Hugging Face Blog	Introducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real World
2026-06-23	NVIDIA AI Blog	How Businesses Are Building Specialized AI They Can Trust
2026-06-23	NVIDIA AI Blog	NVIDIA Powers Over 400 of the World’s 500 Fastest Supercomputers

Sources: The Verge AI (4), NVIDIA AI Blog (3), Hacker News AI (2), Hugging Face Blog (2), ZDNet AI (1), WIRED AI (1)

Provider model counts

Provider	Model count
Anthropic	6
OpenAI	5
Google	4
Meta	2
Mistral	2
Cohere	2
DeepSeek	2
Alibaba	1
xAI	1
NVIDIA	1
Microsoft	1
MiniMax	1

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What "needs update" usually means

1. A new flagship model shipped from a tracked provider. Add it to that provider's models[].
2. A tracked model was deprecated or sunset. Either remove the entry or mark its tier appropriately.
3. A provider changed pricing for a tracked model. Update inputPrice / outputPrice.
4. A new provider has become noteworthy enough to add. Add a new providers[] entry.

What it usually does NOT mean

• Research papers about models (those land on /research).
• Beta or preview models that are not generally available.
• Open-source model fine-tunes (those belong in /best-open-source-llms if anywhere).

Bump lastUpdated in data/pricing.json whenever you change anything else in the file. Also bump last_reviewed for /models in data/page-freshness.json.