AI RELEASES

5 AI Models That Launched in October 2026

From a cheaper Claude to open-weight giants, here is what actually shipped this month.

ANTHROPIC · OCT 7

Claude Haiku 5.5

Anthropic's new low-cost model runs about 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, built for summarization, classification, and high-volume tasks.

LIQUID AI · OCT 13

LFM2.5-24B-A2B

An open-weight 24B mixture-of-experts model with a 128K context window, tuned for agentic tasks under the LFM Open License.

MBZUAI & INCEPTION42 · OCT 15

Jais 3

Six open Arabic-native models up to 375B parameters, plus a speech-recognition model, each with a 512K-token context window.

NVIDIA · OCT 15

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

An open 120B vision-and-text model with a 1M-token context window, built for agents that read charts, web pages, and documents.

XAI · OCT 14

Grok Voice 3.0

A speech-to-speech voice agent model with under-one-second latency, replacing Grok Voice 2.0 at the same per-minute price.