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Tool tag: Language Model

GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI's flagship since September 4, 2026. A 1,050,000-token reasoning model for long-horizon agentic work, with native computer use.

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, GA September 2, 2026. 1M-token context, $0.75/$3.75 per 1M introductory, plus a gated Flash Cyber variant.

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic's most capable widely released model: same $10/$50 pricing as Fable 5, cache reads cut 75%, 1M context and always-on adaptive thinking.

Tencent Hy4 preview

Tencent's open-weight flagship, released August 28, 2026. A 770B MoE with 49B active, a 1M-token context, Apache 2.0 — and explicitly a preview.

GLM-5.3

Zhipu AI's current line: GLM-5.3, a post-trained coding and security flagship, and GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B/18B multimodal MoE with hybrid attention.

Grok 4.6

xAI's agent-focused flagship. 500K context at $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M — but a prompt of 200K tokens doubles the rate on the entire request.

Muse Glimmer

Meta's Apache 2.0 open-weight 30B multimodal agent model, distilled from Muse Spark and built to run offline on a single 24 GB consumer GPU.

Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba's flagship Qwen model, released August 3, 2026. A 2.4T-parameter MoE with 95B active, 1M token context, text/image/video input — and open weights.

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic's Opus-tier flagship — near-Fable capability at half the price, with adaptive thinking on by default and a 1M token context window.

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI's flagship: a 2.8T-parameter MoE with 104B active, 1M context and native vision. Open weights shipped July 27, 2026.