
Grok Build 0.1
Grok Build 0.1 is xAI's first model built specifically for agentic coding workflows, with a 256K context window, native MCP support, and always-on reasoning at $1/M input tokens.
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Grok Build 0.1 is xAI's first model built specifically for agentic coding workflows, with a 256K context window, native MCP support, and always-on reasoning at $1/M input tokens.

Mistral AI's largest Ministral 3 model - 14B parameters, 256K context, Apache 2.0 license, multimodal, built for local deployment and agentic workflows.

OpenAI's life sciences reasoning model gets a June update with global access and new NGS plugins - strong benchmarks, but still locked behind a Trusted Access Program with no public pricing.

MiniMax M3 uses sparse attention to cut long-context inference cost 20x, topping GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the price.

NVIDIA's 550B open-weight MoE model with 55B active parameters, hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture, and 1M token context - the top-scoring US open model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

NVIDIA's 550B Nemotron 3 Ultra, released June 4, tops the US open-weight leaderboard with a hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture and 300-plus tokens per second throughput.

MiniMax M3 arrives as the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, 1M-token context, and native multimodality - at a fraction of proprietary pricing - but every benchmark figure is self-reported and the weights weren't even shipped at launch.

Three new papers tackle how routine AI use quietly rewires emotional habits, how to spend compute where failures cost most, and why agentic RAG errors compound before anyone notices.

MiniMax M3 is an open-weight frontier model with a 1M-token context window, native multimodal input, and strong agentic coding at $0.60/M input tokens.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite still leads the Vectara hallucination leaderboard at 3.3%, while two new entries - Gemini 3.5 Flash and Mistral Large 3 at $0.50/M - shift the value picture considerably since March.

Meta's Llama 3.3 70B Instruct matches Llama 3.1 405B on instruction following and math while running at 4-5x lower cost, with the lowest hallucination rate of any open-weight model on the Vectara summarization leaderboard.

Three new papers show that AI agents fail not by doing the wrong thing, but by doing things when they should have stopped.