Week ending 23 Sept 2026
Top 10
- Claude Opus 5.5 ships: Opus-tier quality at a 20% lower price 23 Sept 2026
- Claude Opus 5.5 reaches AWS Bedrock in Mumbai (ap-south-1), preview 23 Sept 2026
- Colibrì runs the 744B GLM-5.2 on 16–25 GB of RAM with no GPU, slowly 23 Sept 2026
- OpenAI Frontier 2 (demo) in preview on Azure Central India 22 Sept 2026
- Gemini Pro 4 (demo) announced for 1 October with 2M context 22 Sept 2026
- Claude API: per-message effort control (beta) without a prompt-cache reset 23 Sept 2026
- LangGraph (demo release) renames checkpointer interfaces — breaking for custom savers 23 Sept 2026
- MCP spec revision (demo) adds resumable streams 22 Sept 2026
- vLLM (demo release) adds speculative decoding for open-weight 70B models 22 Sept 2026
- Llama open-weight 2 70B (demo) lands on Bedrock in preview 23 Sept 2026
Weekly roundup (Tier 3)
Research, minor versions and tools, batched weekly.
- Minor releases: Ollama, CrewAI and pgvector patch versions (demo) — Bug fixes only. Upgrade on your normal schedule.